Preparing Hearts: Hearing God's Word and Bearing Fruit
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "One of the things I recognize is God is our provider. He provides. And one of the things that we try to recognize is when tough times come, I believe God continues to bless his people. And that can come in different ways. That can come in creative ways. That doesn't necessarily mean loads of cash, right? But what it does mean is God continues to provide." [33:20](
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2. "Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. I want to suggest through these, each of the different seeds, each of the different soils, he presents three enemies of hearing. Rejection, hardness, and distraction. Rejection, hardness, and distraction. And of course, he also gives the key to learning to hear." [46:51](
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3. "If you desire to grow in your ability to hear God's voice, this scripture is really good news. And it gives us a powerful biblical principle that I want you to write down this morning. It's the main point of the message, but I want you to take it, and I want you to let it kind of be an underlying theme on all these parables. What Jesus tells us today is hearing the word begins with preparing the soil." [45:28](
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4. "The consistent teaching of scripture is that God designed sexuality, sex, as a gift to be enjoyed by a man and woman in the covenant, the commitment of marriage. That's what he did and it was good. He looked and he saw the man and his wife and he said, it's good. That's as followers of Jesus, we know that the path to real life is found in humbling ourselves before our creator and receiving his gift of life made available through his son, Jesus Christ." [01:04:19](
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5. "I want to challenge you today if something in your heart is stirring, something in your heart is stirring, if there's something in your spirit and you're like, you know what, that makes sense. And I think I've heard God's voice calling me. I think I've seen God's hand moving and doing things. I want to challenge you today. Today, that's the voice of the spirit. You can say yes." [53:46](
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### Quotes for Members
1. "What I want to point out is this whole parable, we sometimes call it the parable of the sower, we sometimes call it the parable of the soils. Jesus is talking about hearing. He's talking about hearing, and understanding and discerning what God has said. That key verse is verse nine, he who has ears to hear, let him hear." [42:29](
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2. "Some can't hear because they're choosing not to. Some can't hear because they are choosing not to. The first enemy I mentioned is the enemy of rejection. The enemy of rejection. The seed along the path, I think that's significant where it's placed. The seed along the path isn't even in the field. It's not in the field. It's outside the field. The word is rejected because it contradicts, I want to suggest, when we are living in that place outside, and there's that sense of living outside and not being outside the field, we're not even in the field. We're not open." [46:51]( | | )
3. "The rocky soil. It's like you want the good news, but you're not willing to alter or change your life at all. Oh, I want salvation. Oh, I love the thought that God is love. I love the thought that Jesus is love. You, there's a lot of people filling up a lot of churches in this condition. The West today. It's just like, I want the gospel. I want it, but I don't really want to change. Man, I just want to know God loves me. I want to know I'm good in eternity, but I want to do what I want to do right now. That is what's called a hard heart." [55:13](
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4. "The word warns over and over against sexual immorality, which is any sex outside of marriage. Look in Romans 1, the passage we just read goes on and talks about in detail. First Corinthians 6 lists a whole list, including sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7 lays it out very clearly. Galatians 5 lays it out. Hebrews 13, 4. All these passages talk about this. You wonder, well, where does it say that? All throughout the scriptures. Don't get me into the New Testament, I mean in the Old Testament." [01:04:19]( | | )
5. "The secret to hearing the word is preparing the soil. And last thing, I'll wrap up with this. Those who do hear, this is the good news. Those who do hear, open their hearts to receive his word. And in that passage of scripture, he gives us the answer to how that happens. He gives the answer to three different things that happen to the good soil. He says, they hear, they understand, and they bear fruit." [01:08:50](
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1. "One of the things I recognize is God is our provider. He provides. And one of the things that we try to recognize is when tough times come, I believe God continues to bless his people. And that can come in different ways. That can come in creative ways. That doesn't necessarily mean loads of cash, right? But what it does mean is God continues to provide." [33:20](
| | )2. "Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. Hearing the word begins with preparing the soil. I want to suggest through these, each of the different seeds, each of the different soils, he presents three enemies of hearing. Rejection, hardness, and distraction. Rejection, hardness, and distraction. And of course, he also gives the key to learning to hear." [46:51](
| | )3. "If you desire to grow in your ability to hear God's voice, this scripture is really good news. And it gives us a powerful biblical principle that I want you to write down this morning. It's the main point of the message, but I want you to take it, and I want you to let it kind of be an underlying theme on all these parables. What Jesus tells us today is hearing the word begins with preparing the soil." [45:28](
| | )4. "The consistent teaching of scripture is that God designed sexuality, sex, as a gift to be enjoyed by a man and woman in the covenant, the commitment of marriage. That's what he did and it was good. He looked and he saw the man and his wife and he said, it's good. That's as followers of Jesus, we know that the path to real life is found in humbling ourselves before our creator and receiving his gift of life made available through his son, Jesus Christ." [01:04:19](
| | )5. "I want to challenge you today if something in your heart is stirring, something in your heart is stirring, if there's something in your spirit and you're like, you know what, that makes sense. And I think I've heard God's voice calling me. I think I've seen God's hand moving and doing things. I want to challenge you today. Today, that's the voice of the spirit. You can say yes." [53:46](
| | )### Quotes for Members
1. "What I want to point out is this whole parable, we sometimes call it the parable of the sower, we sometimes call it the parable of the soils. Jesus is talking about hearing. He's talking about hearing, and understanding and discerning what God has said. That key verse is verse nine, he who has ears to hear, let him hear." [42:29](
| | )2. "Some can't hear because they're choosing not to. Some can't hear because they are choosing not to. The first enemy I mentioned is the enemy of rejection. The enemy of rejection. The seed along the path, I think that's significant where it's placed. The seed along the path isn't even in the field. It's not in the field. It's outside the field. The word is rejected because it contradicts, I want to suggest, when we are living in that place outside, and there's that sense of living outside and not being outside the field, we're not even in the field. We're not open." [46:51](
| | )3. "The rocky soil. It's like you want the good news, but you're not willing to alter or change your life at all. Oh, I want salvation. Oh, I love the thought that God is love. I love the thought that Jesus is love. You, there's a lot of people filling up a lot of churches in this condition. The West today. It's just like, I want the gospel. I want it, but I don't really want to change. Man, I just want to know God loves me. I want to know I'm good in eternity, but I want to do what I want to do right now. That is what's called a hard heart." [55:13](
| | )4. "The word warns over and over against sexual immorality, which is any sex outside of marriage. Look in Romans 1, the passage we just read goes on and talks about in detail. First Corinthians 6 lists a whole list, including sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7 lays it out very clearly. Galatians 5 lays it out. Hebrews 13, 4. All these passages talk about this. You wonder, well, where does it say that? All throughout the scriptures. Don't get me into the New Testament, I mean in the Old Testament." [01:04:19](
| | )5. "The secret to hearing the word is preparing the soil. And last thing, I'll wrap up with this. Those who do hear, this is the good news. Those who do hear, open their hearts to receive his word. And in that passage of scripture, he gives us the answer to how that happens. He gives the answer to three different things that happen to the good soil. He says, they hear, they understand, and they bear fruit." [01:08:50](
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