How does God work in our lives?
What are some reliable and consistent principles of nature and God’s Kingdom?
- Matthew 6:33
ORIGINAL CREATION (NATURAL LAWS)
Examples:
- Law of gravity
- Law of thrust and lift
NEW CREATION (SPIRITUAL LAWS)
Examples:
- Law of life
- Law of sin and death
- Law of faith
- Romans 3:27
- Romans 10:17 and James 2:26
Genesis 8:22 (NKJV)
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
Galatians 6:7-10 (NKJV)
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Mark 4:26-29 (NKJV)
And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should [a]scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
- The power and potential of seeds and ground
THE MYSTERY OF SEEDS
- They have life in them
- They are dormant until sown
- John 12:24
- They must be sown on good ground
- They must be watered
- They are sown in one form and reaped in another
Examples:
- Our bodies
- 1 Corinthians 15
- An Acorn
- Tree / bat / piano / log cabin / etc
EVERYTHING COMES FROM A SEED
- We came from a seed
- First birth
- Born-again from a seed
- 1 Peter 1:23
- Jesus is the promised seed
- Galatians 3:16 /19
- We are Abraham’s seed
- Galatians 3:29
THE MYSTERY OF GROUND
Mark 4:28 (NKJV)
For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
Mark 4:28 (NLT)
The earth produces the crops on its own. First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens.
Genesis 2:7-9 (NKJV)
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Life in God’s Garden
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:18-19 (NKJV)
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
- All the ground needs is seed
- The earth was created for seeds
- All our hearts need is seed
- The human heart was created for seeds