"This is Big"
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"This is Big"
"This is Big"
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“It’s Like This...”
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He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.
As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”
Wheat Field
Wheat Field
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Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
There is a Time for Growth
There is a Time for Growth
We are part of the growth, but God is essential to the growth.
There is a Time for Harvest
There is a Time for Harvest
The Big Idea: God’s Kingdom Grows
The Big Idea: God’s Kingdom Grows
The power for the growth comes from God.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
The design for growth comes from God.
The seed is the good news of the Gospel given by God.
The soil is created by God, the sun provided by God, the nutrients given by God.
Kingdom growth is for our benefit, but it is ALL About God.
We are part of the growth, but God is essential to the growth.
Man is the harvest.
The kingdom grows as we grow, but it also grows despite us.
"This is Big"
"This is Big"
How big?
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
hebrews
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
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“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
luke14.
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
hebrews
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Wheat Field
Wheat Field
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
"This is Big"
"This is Big"
hebrews
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?
hebrews12.
It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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"This is Big"
"This is Big"
The Kingdom grows despite us, but also with us a part of kingdom growth.
The kingdom started with a motley crew of 12. It started despite the fact they were the least likely revolutionary heroes on the planet. It started with them because they, but one, learned the art of surrender. They learned how to become salt within their culture.
The kingdom grew, despite the fact they were like most folk, content with the status quo, lacking in passion for those too different from themselves.
The kingdom grew despite the human tendency to disagree. The kingdom grows despite 45,000 denominations, variations, sects and divisions.
There is a harvest as well. You are either wheat - or weeds. Either salt - or saltless,. either sheep - or goats. Either in the game, or off the field - there is no bench, no sideline, no observation deck.
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