I say a Word of God and that Word falls into the darkness of your heart, two inches, or three … it doesn’t penetrate too deeply. And what happens? Nothing, absolutely nothing … just like with that grain of wheat. Why? It was not watered. The moment that Word of God is watered, it breaks up and Life begins to grow. Now that water is what? That water is faith! That water is faith. Unless faith reaches down to that Word of God it shall remain there dead! But when faith comes, like that water, behold, this Word of God, which seemed so dry and dead and hard to understand, breaks, and a new life begins to grow out of It. And that new life never grows down but up.
As the new life of that grain always grew up against the power of gravity, so this new life starts growing against the power of your earthly old nature! This new life that springs from that Word of God begins to grow immediately against all the power of our old earthly creation, until it reaches the Light. It always searches for Light, and it has to get more water and more Light so that it can grow and become a plant, and that plant in turn can produce other grains and fruits.
Hebrews 4:2, underline this verse: “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word (of God) preached did not profit them, [it did not break up into new life, did not begin to grow] not being mixed with faith [watered] in them that heard it.” The Word of God, not being watered by faith, remains dead and means nothing to anybody. However, when the faith is there, meaning that you are “buying” this Word by your faith (Proverbs 23:23), then that Word breaks up and new life begins to grow out of it, against all your nature, which typifies gravity, and begins to grow into a plant.
Let us go into a few parts of the Word of God. John 3:5, Jesus speaks: “Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” Now what is that water there? That water is simply and purely our faith. A man must be born of his own faith which he received from God on his birthday, or before, whenever he was created. 1John 5:4-6: “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”… or our own water, or our own “spiritual money”… “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” but he that bought the reality and embraced it and cherished it?
“This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” Now we know that the Lord came by blood… but He also came by water, which means His faith, and the salvation was executed by the faith of the Lord and His blood. Not only by His faith but by His faith and His blood, which means His sacrifice.
Now let us go to John 7:38, the Lord says: “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said” (he who has embraced this faith and this reality about Me as it was given to him by God — because this was corresponding to the Scriptures. In fact, the Scriptures were written reflecting this reality), “out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.” Out of his innermost being… out of the darkness of his own heart, shall grow plants of faith producing new grains and the cycle of multiplication will come into being. Just as there is a cycle of life of plants on the earth, the cycle of water, the cycle of seed, the cycle of growth, so it is in our hearts. Rivers of living water means the abundance of faith which was not only embraced but then lived, and so it produced a fruit. The reality which is discovered and neglected does not produce living water!
We also know from James that there is such a thing as a dead faith. Dead faith means that the Lord shows you, reveals something to you, some reality, which means He gives you faith, and you neglect it. You forget it, you reject it — this is dead faith. But when you act on it, which means you buy it and you act on it, this produces new life, and this new life, in fact, is living water because this is water which is in action, which is living, which is usually moving — moving water is called living water. Dead water is a stagnant, stale little puddle somewhere. It is water too, but it is not living.
So “he that believeth on Me, he who has seen the reality of Me, accepted it, bought it, and acted on it, lived it — living faith will flow from him.” That is the meaning of this verse. So that such a man who embraced this reality before and produces living water, in other words he knows what he is saying, because he lived that… he not only has seen it, read it, heard about it, but he has lived it. That’s what it means.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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