The Bible says the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich. So what is the meaning of that statement or that word it? When you study the word it in the Hebrew, it's the word who, H -O -O, who. The word who in the Hebrew is the word he. So when you then paraphrase it, the blessing of the Lord, he maketh rich, and he adds no sorrow. So who's the he? The subject is the Lord. Amen. So if the subject is the Lord, then the Lord there is in capital letters, which is Jehovah. So the blessing of the Lord, Jehovah, maketh rich, and he adds no sorrow. Amen.
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So what that means then is that when you get born again, there is absolutely nothing in your spirit that is corrupted. Our flesh is corrupted. Because the Bible says in sin did my mother conceive me. We all have baggage and scripting and so forth and so on. But my spirit man is a brand new creation. And so when you begin to understand that, you begin to understand that you are born of incorruptible seed. Therefore, the blessing that's in you is guaranteed to work.
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Ephesians 1, this is very, very important that we go through some of these things. Ephesians 1, verses 3 and 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. According, verse 4, as he has chosen us in him from before the foundation of the world. So you were not chosen when God created heaven. Remember Genesis 1, verse 1? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Amen? The Bible says you were in him from before. Yeah? So where were you then? You were in the bosom of God.
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So environment creates. Amen? Environment creates. So if you were in the environment of the word, everything about your DNA is based or centered around the word. That's why the Bible says we are living epistles read of men. What must man read when they read our lives? They must read that we are like Jesus, the living word. Amen?
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Obstacles that hinder the blessing from flowing this morning must be removed. Amen? So that we can become all that God would have us be.
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The wisdom of God, when you get born again, regardless of whether you are a fully developed and fully mature Christian, or whether you are just born again today, when you are born again, you immediately receive a download of the wisdom of God. Every ounce of wisdom that's set aside, when you get born again, you have direct access to all the wisdom in this word. The question is this. Are you accessing that wisdom? Are you accessing that wisdom? Are you activating that wisdom? Are you searching for that wisdom? And are you exercising that wisdom? It's given.
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If you can access the wisdom, if you can access the mysteries, if you can access the understanding, and you understand this parable, this parable is a doorway parable. It opens the doors, the main door to every other parable. Meaning that when you understand how to access the mystery or understand the revelation of this parable, which is locked in the wisdom of God or the word of God, which is given to you by Jesus himself, then you can unlock every other parable.
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Now, you have to understand that in life, if you remove the word from your life, you have nothing. You have nothing. You have nothing. Everything, everything about our lives revolve around the word. Everything, whatever you want in life, whatever you desire in life, revolves around the word. The sower sows the word. The word is so important. The word will shape and mold every area of your life. The word will bring life into every area of your life.
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The word is quick and powerful and sharper than any two -edged sword. God, that it can divide, it can cut away the flesh, it can cut away the sin, it can cut away the transgression, it can cut away the scripting, it can cut away the hurt of the past, it can cut away the disappointments and the loss that you experience. The word is quick and powerful.
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Without the word, family, we cannot exist. Without the word, we are existing, not living. Amen? We exist in a world system with no purpose, no depth, and no meaning. We exist in a world system with a great void on the inside of us because your true fulfillment only comes when the word of God is manifested in your heart. Outside that, there is no true fulfillment.
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So if I can, you see, we're so focused on fruit issues that we forget to understand the root issues. The Bible says, if the root be holy, so will the branches. And so what's the root? The root is the Word of God. The Bible says in Psalm 11, 3, if the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? What's the foundation? It's the Word of God.
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So number one, we know the seed is the Word of God. In this context and in this parable, the heart, because the sower or the soil sows the Word, the soil is the heart, is the heart. And your heart, the Bible says, guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the well springs of life. The Bible says, for out of your heart flows the rivers of living water, your spirit. Amen.
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The rivers, it's the grace of God, and the revelation of God, and the understanding of God, and the knowledge of God, and the mercy of God, and the ability of God, and the strength of God. Amen. It flows out of you and gives you the ability that in challenging and difficult seasons, I have the ability to overcome. I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. Amen.
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Wayside ground, the best way to describe it, we have a farm in the Eastern Cape. And when we go, so where my grandfather's farm is, that's the end of the road. All the other farms after that, you have to access by foot. And so there was a farmer that was maybe about four or five Ks away. They would come and park their car at my grandfather's farm. And then they would walk, take their stuff, whatever their goods were, hire a few guys. And they would walk about four Ks. After years and years, decades of walking on the same path, what we found is that no vegetation grew on that path. It was worn out. Even when it rained, because of the ground being so compressed, there was no air in the ground for seed to take root and grow because of the constant traffic, people going to and fro on that pathway. Family, that's a picture of our lives. Sometimes we feel so run down. Sometimes we feel that life is just a railroad in us. And it's almost as though one thing after the next. The devil, his strategy is simple. If I can cause you to go through ongoing and continual circumstances, I will wear you out. I will harden your heart. I will harden your spirit. I will harden your mind that you'll get to a point where the word that is so precious cannot penetrate.
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If you want God to intervene, you have to then allow the Holy Spirit in and give Him permission to deal with the difficult areas in your life. If you can break up the fallow ground and allow the Holy Spirit to deal with those difficult areas, you'll be amazed how the seed will take root in that same ground that's now broken up. Take root, grow, and you will see these supernatural outcomes that God has.
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The enemy is after the word. He's not after anything else. He's after the word that's in your heart. You have your devotions in the morning. You stand on a word or a promise of God in the morning. The enemy is after that word. And if you don't know how to protect that word, that word will never grow and never yield outcomes.
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Everything is held by the word of his power. Everything is held by the word of his power. And if you want God to hold your life and be your foundation, Deuteronomy declares, underneath are the everlasting arms of God. That's the word of God as your foundation. If you want to be withheld and upheld by the word of God, then you need his word.
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Only when you acknowledge those stones can the Holy Spirit then come in and begin to remove those stones and soften your heart so that the soil of your heart can be conducive to receive the seed, to allow the seed to germinate and grow, and so that you can get the peaceable fruits of the harvest. And so you have to acknowledge those areas and then trust God to overcome.
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What you compromise to get, you're going to have to compromise to keep. Family, you must understand, this word, when I say the statement, this word is the highest form of reality. What does that mean? What does that mean? It means that this word must be your standard. And if you're standing, and you're the only one standing on the standard, then it's better to stand alone. But you can't compromise.
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If we don't deal with those grounds, those grounds and those conditions will be transferred to the next generation, and that generation will have to deal with it. How unfair is that? If we can take ownership, and if we can deal with these conditions, the blessing will manifest, will overflow, and bring us into our fullness in Jesus' name.
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