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“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 church. Let [...]

“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 gets inside [...]

“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 in the parable of the [...]

“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 only way [...]

“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 from this [...]

“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 of [...]