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Hello, friend, chaplain Terry Warner here.
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This will be the measure of faith, part 3.
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In the image of God is the subtitle, series 4, episode 41.
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It will air on October 7, 2024.
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Your foundation scripture is Matthew 13, 1 through 23.
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I'm going to read quite a little bit of Matthew 13 because it sets the foundation for everything that's starting in Matthew, chapter 13.
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That same day, jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.
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Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it while all the people stood on the shore.
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Then he told them many things in parables, saying A farmer went out to sow his seed.
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As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path and the birds came and ate it up.
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Some fell in rocky places where it did not have much soil.
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It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow, but when the sun came up the plants were scorched and they withered because they had no root.
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Other seed fell among thorns which grew up and choked the plants.
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Still others seed fell on good soil where it produced a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
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He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Well, they all had ears, so we'll get into that a little bit.
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The disciples came, start picking up in verse 10.
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The disciples came to him and asked why do you speak to the people in parables?
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He replied the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
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Whoever has will be given more and he who will have an abundance and he will have an abundance Whoever does not have even what he has, will still be taken from him.
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That is why I speak to them in parables, him.
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That is why I speak to them in parables.
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Though seeing, they do not see.
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Though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
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In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah you will be ever hearing but never understanding.
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You will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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For these people's heart has become callous.
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They hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes.
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Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.
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We get the idea of listening to this that God refused to heal them, and that's just a mistranslation.
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God is love and he's not going to refuse anybody who comes to him in repentance.
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If you look in the Greek.
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What they were saying was say you've been in a dark movie theater and you come out of the movie theater and the light is real bright.
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The first thing you do is squint.
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And that's what the Jewish people were doing.
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When the light came into the world, jesus Christ, they squinted and because they squinted, with the devil's help, it knocked enough light out of them that they could not comprehend and receive Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
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I am the way, the truth and the life, he said, but all they could see was his carpenter occupation as carpenter's son.
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He could fix the life, he said, but all they could see was his carpenter occupation, his carpenter's son.
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He could fix the roof, build him a barn, maybe even do furniture, but they could not see him as the Savior of the world.
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So I want to ask you today how do you see him?
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Do you see him as God come down to earth?
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Well, that's good that you see him that way.
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Do you see him as the sower?
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No, he is the seed, we are the sowers.
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So let's back up to the parable of sowing.
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Hang on just a second.
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Here we go.
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The seed is going to determine.
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Let me back up a little further.
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The sower, that would be the farmer or us.
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The seed, that would be the word of God.
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The soil would be your heart or your spirit, man.
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Let's look at the seed first.
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The seed is going to determine what is going to grow.
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In the seed there is enough spiritual energy to produce the desired result.
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If you plant a watermelon seed, there's enough energy in there that you cannot see, to produce watermelons.
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The rind, the red heart, the sweetness, the taste.
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There's enough energy in that one seed to produce several watermelons.
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Now let's switch this over to a spiritual seed.
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Let's say we need more money to meet our needs.
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This is a spiritual problem requiring a physical result.
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With the watermelon, we had a physical problem and we were looking for a physical result.
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In other words, we planted the seed.
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Once we planted the seed, the seed's going to determine what we're going to get.
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If we plant watermelon, we get watermelon.
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If we plant squash, we get squash.
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We don't mingle the seed.
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The same is true in the spiritual realm, where you can't see.
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You plant a seed that you need money.
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So you sow $5 into something, you give it to somebody and you sow that seed and you plant it in the soil.
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Now God's Word says in Philippians 4.19, and my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
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Now we have, as a believer, who have received this prosperity message needs money.
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We need money, but we have no seed to plant.
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What are we going to do?
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Don't be so money focused that you give up and quit because you have no money to plant.
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If you'll notice, your needs are met according to the surplus that Jesus has.
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Let me read this again Philippians 4.19 needs according to his glories riches in Christ Jesus.
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You can't plant all your needs in a physical garden, but you can plant your spiritual seeds in a physical garden and they will produce according to the seed that you plant.
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Now, if you plant the seed say you planted five dollars, like we were saying, and you need $100 to pay a bill, or you need to at least get in the method of operating you plant the seed.
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If you dig the seed up with your words or go out there and take the $5 back, well, you've killed the seed If you go out there and dig it up.
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In other words, run over there and ask the person what are you going to do with the five dollars.
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What are you doing?
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You got any more.
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We're going to plant seed.
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We're going to plant seed and you just slings the seed all over the place.
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A lot of it's going to go waste.
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A lot of it's going to die, a lot of it's going to quit.
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You can't do that.
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So you plant your $5 seed.
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How do you water it?
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You water it with the word of God.
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You call that thing.
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That be not the money you're wanting as though it was.
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You confess that you get a return on that $5.
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How much return can you get?
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You can get return as much as you want and as long as you want.
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If you'll keep planting the seeds, it can be a perpetual thing.
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It doesn't have to be a season now.
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There are seasons and giving and seasons and receiving, but you can give and receive seed time and harvest cold and winter, cold and summer, springtime and harvest and you can plant seeds continually and continually get a harvest all year long.
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But let's look at some things that mess you up.
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One of it is unforgiveness.
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Why?
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Unforgiveness takes you off of your mindset of love and being a fruit into the world of spreading Christ.
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Unforgiveness will get you sidetracked off that and will get you focusing on the negative things.
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The negative things will produce spiritual weeds.
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When they produce spiritual weeds and you wind up coming up short and you lose your harvest, a lot of us need to pray for a crop failure.
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Your words, if they're not in line with the word of God, are not teaching you how to reap a harvest.
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Everything is a seed, including your life.
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Everything is a seed.
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Jesus is the incorruptible seed.
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Raised incorruptible, he was the seed of god.
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He became a corruptible seed when he together with him in heavenly places, far above all principality, and that every and we were given the mind of christ.
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Let this mind be in you.
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Who was in christ jesus, who thought it not robbery to be called robbery to be called equal to god, but instead became a servant.
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And he was given a name above every name that at the name of jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, things in earth, things under the earth.
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He's the head, we're the body, we were the seed that he planted.
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We need to go bear fruit and we do that by planting our own seeds, harvesting our own fruit and giving it to god so he can multiply it even more.
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Stop about these things, think about these things, and I see I'm running a little long, so we'll pick up next week where we left off.
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You have a blessed day In Jesus' name, amen.
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I hope you're enjoying our podcast.
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We also write an article for the newspaper and I've been publishing articles and teaching tapes to India, pakistan, bangladesh, south Africa, slovakia and other parts of the world.
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The podcasts go out every Monday morning.
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I make little PowerPoint presentations for those people because they have to speak to an interpreter or I have to give them just a little bit of the word and then their pastor will interpret them and teach them and everything.
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You can't send money to buy Bibles for them because of so many scams and stuff going on.
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So the best way to do it is like with a PowerPoint presentation or a podcast to where the pastor can interpret, and I have done a few WhatsApp meetings where I teach a little bit and the pastor translates.
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The trouble with that is lining up everybody for the time, because when it's daytime here, it's nighttime there and there's a lot going on.
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And then in some countries I won't say which ones they have a lot of violence and stuff going on and they're persecuted.
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The pictures and stuff I get, the faces are covered so you can't identify them because of persecution and things like that.
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The Lord bless you and keep you.
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The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
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The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace In Jesus' name.
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Amen, I pray for you right now.
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I pray for you.
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