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We're going to continue teaching on the subject called " God's Laws of Faith and Confession."

I just want to quickly go over the few things that we covered last time because it ties and with the rest of the message.

*I) *If you have your Bibles with you turn with me to *Mark 4:14*.

*A) *The seed that the man is sowing is words.

*1) *And we know from this parable that Jesus is talking about the Word of God.

*a) *In (1st Peter 1:23) the Bible refers to the Word of God as being the incorruptible seed.

*b) *If there is an incorruptible seed then there is a corruptible seed.

*(i) *Every negative Word or every word that is and contrary to the Word of God is a corruptible seed.

*(ii) *That means that every word we speak is a seed.

*2) *Look at *Mark 4:15*.

*a) *There's many things that we can get out of this verse, but what I wanted you to see is that the Word is sown in the heart.

*b) *Turn over to *Romans 10:8*.

*(i) *This verse tells us 3 things.

*(ii) *1st it says that the Word of God is in your mouth.

*(iii) *2nd it says that the Word of God is in your mouth and in your heart.

*(iv) *And 3rd it tells me, through this verse and other references we've already covered, of the importance of us putting the Word of God in our mouth so that it will be in our heart.

*II) **Speaking the Word* of God *does several things.*

*A) **When* you *speak the Word *of God out of your mouth, then you are *planting seeds.*

*1) *And the *more you speak the Word, *the *more you believe it.*

The *more you believe it, *the *more you speak it.*

*2) **2COR 4:13*.

*a) *I like it how t *NIV* puts it *(2COR 4:13).

**It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”

With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, *(NIV)

*(i) *Paul said, *“We also believe, and therefore speak;” *(KJV)

*b) *To say it one more time, *“What you believe, **you will speak.

**If you believe the Word, **you will speak it.

**If you speak it, **you will believe it, **and **if you believe it **you’ll speak it.*

*(i) *This is *God’s cycle for producing faith **as well as **planting seed for harvest.*

*(ii) **This is the way* that you *get the process going.

*It’s *in* your *mouth **and* it’s *in* your *heart*.

*B) *Jesus said in *(MAR 4:26)* *That the kingdom of God*, *is as if a man should cast seed into the ground*; (KJV)

*1) *You need to *understand* this that *God* is* **not sowing seed **for you.*

*a) *He said *a man should cast seed* into the ground.

*b) **Your harvest **depends* *on your seeds sown*.

*2) *The *earth does not produce anything good to eat **by itself.

**You have to force it* to produce things good to eat.

*a) **Otherwise*, all you will *get* are *weeds.*

*b) **You* have to *do* the *planting **of good seed.*

*3) **There are times* that *we have* *unwanted seeds.*

*a) **Unwanted seeds **are **statements of doubt and unbelief.*

*b) *Things *like,* *“Everything I do ends up a mess.”*

*(i) *“Everything I do *turns out bad*.” Or, “It’s *flu seasons*.

*I’ll* probably *catch it*.”

*III) **When Adam and Eve **were created* they were *placed **in* the *Garden *of Eden.

*It supplied* them with *everything they needed.*

*A) *But *Adam sold out to Satan,* and *Satan* *became* the *God of This World*.

*1) **Through *the *work of Jesus **we* can *now have **God’s best again*.

*2) *The *born again spirit, **which God has placed on the **inside of **you, **is a garden, **which will produce **everything you need in this life.*

*a) **1COR 3:9*.

*b) *The word *“husbandry”* means *“Field or Garden.”*

*c) **You are God’s garden **and *that *garden* will *produce* *everything* that you will *need*.

*B) **(GEN 2:15) **And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.*

(KJV)

*1) *The words *“dress it” *means *“to work it, **labour over it, **to till it.”*

*2) *And the words *“Keep it”* means to *“guard it, **protect it, **and **to attend to it.”*

*a) *The *Lord* is *telling us **to labour over **and till **our heart, **to keep it, **guard it, **protect it, **and **to attend to it.*

*b) **To speak* out *things like, **“Everything that I do is a failure,”* *is **planting *the *wrong seeds *in that garden.

*3) **PSA 141:3**.*

*a) *We need to *guard our heart*.

*b) **Don’t let* the *things* that are *contrary to the Word* of God *come out of our lips, *but *speak the Word* of God.

*IV) **MARK 4:26-29*.

*A) *In this passage of scripture *Jesus* is *telling *us that *you are t one that is planting t seed.*

*1) *That's why you need to *take God's Word & put it in your mouth.*

*2) *When* you speak it, it becomes a seed, it goes into t heart - t human spirit - & there it begins to grow & produce.*

*B) *Notice that Jesus said, in *(MAR 4:28)* "For the earth (t heart of man) bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear."

*1) *We know that t word *"earth"* in *(V 28) is t heart of man or his spirit because of what Jesus said in **V 15. (Look at it)*.

*a) *The *last part of that V* says that *"The word that was sown in their hearts."*

*b) *So again *Jesus* is *saying in V 28 that, "For the earth (t heart of man) bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear."*

*2) *Sometimes people *give up before t harvest.*

*a) *Probably all of us have done that & don't even know it.

*b) *There is such power in words that you may have said something that *stopped t growth process.*

*c) **(MAR 11:23) *For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

*(i) **This is a law of Faith.*

*(ii) *Let me put that *V.

little clearer to you.

*"Whosoever shall say, shall believe, & shall not doubt in his heart, but believes what he says will come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he says."

*(iii) *That's how it works.

*d) *Some people think, *"It's going to happen just because I say it.*

*(i) *But it won't happen just because you say it.

*(ii) *People get a hold of *(MARK 11:23) and run off *into left field with it.

*3) *It *won't work just because you say it*.

*But saying it is involved in working it.*

(Repeat).

*a) **One* of t *key points* that *(MARK 11:23)* makes is that *when you confess t Word, you must believe it *in your heart & not doubt.

*b) **Faith is very much involved in confessing t Word.*

*V) *Turn to *GEN 1.*

In this chapter we see something that is called t *law of Genesis.

*This is something that God put into existence in t book of Genesis & it is still so today.

*A) *This law that God put into motion is the *law of seed time and harvest.*

*1) **GEN 1:11-12*.

*2) *Now look at *GEN 8:20-22*.

*a) *God says that this is t method He has chosen for this planet, & it will be that way as long as this planet is in existence.

*b) **God's law of Genesis is that everything produces after its kind.*

*(i) *The *seed is in itself*.

*3) *The *seed of strife* is in *strife* itself.

*a) *If you want to *create more strife than sow words of strife.*

*b) *If you *want* to *reap love sow word of love.*

*B) *The Bible has already told us that words are seeds.

Those words will produce whatever they are seeds of.