GOD’S SECRET PLAN OF SALVATION
“God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.”
John 3:16
“God’s plan was to make me a servant of his church and to send me to preach his complete message to you. For ages and ages this message was kept secret from everyone, but now it has been explained to God’s people. God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ […]
YOU ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE
“You were saved by faith in God, who treats us much better than we deserve. This is God’s gift to you, and not anything you have done on your own. It isn’t something you have earned, so there is nothing you can brag about. God planned for us to do good things and to live as he has always wanted us to live. This is why he sent Christ to make us what we are.” Ephesians 2:8-10
“You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God’s Spirit, who lives in you. People who don’t have […]
THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM
“As I continued to watch the vision that night, I saw what looked like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven, and he was presented to the Eternal God. He was crowned king and given power and glory, so that all people of every nation and race would serve him. He will rule forever, and his kingdom is eternal, never to be destroyed.”
Daniel 7:13-14
Throughout Jesus’ ministry, everywhere he went he spent a lot of time preaching and teaching about the Kingdom of God. Spreading the gospel about the coming kingdom was Jesus’ […]
THE PLAN
“The disciples led the donkey to Jesus. They put some of their clothes on its back, and Jesus got on. Many people spread clothes on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields. In front of Jesus and behind him, people went along shouting, “Hooray!. God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the coming kingdom of our ancestor David. Hooray for God in heaven above!”
Mark 11:7-10
If you look at the life of Jesus, you get a picture of what this faith walk is all […]
THE MESSAGE AND THE MISSION
“Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news about God’s kingdom. “Matthew 4:23a
“The next morning Jesus went out to a place where he could be alone, and crowds came looking for him. When they found him, they tried to stop him from leaving. But Jesus said, “People in other towns must hear the good news about God’s kingdom. This is why I was sent.” So, he kept on preaching in the synagogues in Judea.”
Luke 4:42-44
Everywhere that Jesus went, he talked about the coming kingdom. It was the […]
THE TRIGGER
“This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14
The message about the coming kingdom is at the top of God’s list of priorities for the church. Every Christian is called to evangelize and share the good news that Jesus is coming back soon with everyone we can. The disciples were sent as witnesses by Jesus into all the world. Believers today are commissioned by Jesus Christ to do the same thing today. (Matthew 28:19-20) Preaching and teaching others about […]
THE KINGDOM SECRETS
“And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to understand it, and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.” Mark 33-34
The central focus of Jesus throughout his ministry was the gospel of the coming kingdom. Getting the good news out there that he came to rule on earth as King was his top priority. One day soon, Jesus will return with His saints and rule the earth for one thousand years in the promised coming […]
SECRETS ARE FOR FRIENDS AND NOT FOR ENEMIES
“The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.” Matthew 13:10-13
If you are shocked so far about the kingdom secrets, […]
SECRETS ARE SPIRITUALLY KNOWN
“But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.”
Matthew 13:16
We have learned that the parables that Jesus used to teach and preach to the crowd contained secrets about the kingdom of God. The meaning of the parables was hidden by the Lord on purpose because people did not care enough to listen when Jesus was teaching them. The only way to understand the kingdom secrets is God must reveal them to you. There is no way around it. You cannot learn the kingdom secrets using your natural mind or methods. […]
THERE IS GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
“Every word we speak was taught to us by God’s Spirit, not by human wisdom. And this same Spirit helps us teach spiritual things to spiritual people. This is why only someone who has God’s Spirit can understand spiritual blessings. Anyone who doesn’t have God’s Spirit thinks these blessings are foolish. People who are guided by the Spirit can make all kinds of judgments, but they cannot be judged by others.”
1 Corinthians 2: 13-14
If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, the secrets pertaining to the kingdom of God are hidden from you by […]
ARE YOU LISTENING?
When a large crowd from several towns had gathered around Jesus, he told them this story:
A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. While the farmer was doing this, some of the seeds fell along the road and were stepped on or eaten by birds. Other seeds fell on rocky ground and started growing. But the plants did not have enough water and soon dried up. Some other seeds fell where thornbushes grew up and choked the plants. The rest of the seeds fell on good ground where they grew and produced a […]
DISCIPLES ASK QUESTIONS
Later, when Jesus was alone with the twelve disciples and with the others who were gathered around, they asked him what the parables meant.
He replied, “You are permitted to understand the secret of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables for everything I say to outsiders.”
Mark 4:10-11
Friends let me tell you something, when it comes to Kingdom secrets, the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask. When looking at the parable of the sower, we learn that Jesus’ disciples had no idea what he was talking about in the parable. That can be […]
THE FARMER
“A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.” Luke 8:4a CEV
“The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.” Mark 4:14 NLT
When we look closer at the parable of the sower, we will find that all of us have a part to play in building God’s Kingdom. When you sign up to become a follower of Christ, it is not okay to just watch the game from the sideline. God the Father wants you playing, because Christianity is not a spectator sport. As a Christian, you were bought at a price. […]
THE SEED
When a large crowd from several towns had gathered around Jesus, he told them this story:
A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. Luke 8:4
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11 CSB
We are living in the Church Age. In these last days, Jesus is building His Kingdom by calling people out of the world and into the church. That’s right friends, this is what the church age is all about. Jesus is calling sinners to come out of this […]
THE SOIL
“This is what the story means: The seed is God’s message, and the seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But the devil comes and snatches the message out of their hearts, so they will not believe and be saved. Luke 8:11
The soil mentioned in the parable of the sower represents the human heart. Just like the heart is seen as the center or the controlling organ that sustains physical life, the Bible describes the heart as a person’s total spiritual being. In this sense, faith is always a matter […]
THE HARD HEARTED
“This is what the story means: The seed is God’s message, and the seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But the devil comes and snatches the message out of their hearts, so they will not believe and be saved.”
Luke 8:11-12
In the parable of the sower, Jesus likened the condition of the human heart to four different types of soil. Each type of soil determined whether a scattered seed was able to be deeply rooted and produce fruit for a farmer. One of the things that we learn […]
THE ROCKY HEARTED
“The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.”
Luke 4:16-17
Jesus explained the mystery of the church in His Kingdom parables, which are recorded in Matthew 13. These parables are prophecies with hidden meaning. They reveal to believers how the world will be in the last days, and it is through the eyes of the church. That’s right. The […]
THE THORNY HEARTED
“The seeds that fell among the thornbushes are also people who hear the message. But they are so eager for riches and pleasures that they never produce anything.”
Luke 8:14
1 John 2:15, states, “Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you”. You see friends, worldliness chokes out God’s Word from people who have a thorny heart, causing them to seek success in the world. That is another example that Jesus used […]
THE GOOD HEARTED
“Those seeds that fell on good ground are the people who listen to the message and keep it in good and honest hearts. They last and produce a harvest.”
Luke 8:15
Although most people reject Jesus and His Word, it does not mean everybody will. Hallelujah! God has some true Christians in this world who receives His Word and truly believes on His Son Jesus Christ. That’s the fourth soil that Jesus talks about in the parable of the sower, and it represents people with a good heart. These people are spiritually productive because God’s Word […]
THE TRUE CHURCH
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”
John 15:1-4
Friends, God judges your life through the eyes of the […]