I have a note here that, in fact, there are two reasons for not bringing up any good fruit unto the Lord… two reasons as I believe:
Firstly, what was heard or read or shared was not the Word of God, which alone has the Life in Itself, as we mentioned in the beginning. Maybe it would be good to just read one verse in Hebrews 4:12: “For the word of God is quick, [which means living, the Word of God alone is quick, living] and powerful, [which means able to produce life], and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” So this is the reference in the Word of God where the Word testifies about Itself, and Its own Life.
So, again, what was heard was not really the Word of God but the philosophy of man, talking, talking, discussing… in other words, throwing around plenty of little stones which may look like grains, but they are not grains. And no stone ever produced any life, no matter what topsoil you used and no matter how much water you put on it.
The second reason is: what was heard or read or shared was the Word of God, but there was no water applied, no faith, as we also shared above.
Now, I have another verse here. For a change we go to the Old Testament. Isaiah 55:11, the Lord speaks: “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” This is the intention of God and this is the principle of God. He does not speak and He has not written anything that would bring nothing back, or that would not really fulfil His purposes. So why does God speak and we don’t believe? This means that His Word is put into our hearts and is not mixed with faith, and there It lies, and as we said, what happens is nothing. Now isn’t that void? Will that Word of God, that grain, return to God void? It cannot, but what will happen then?
What we are sharing here is important, you see, because people think, including many Christians, that they can come to Bible meetings for 10-20 years and listen to something and then go home and do nothing without any consequences! Isn’t that so? There are probably millions of such groups, prayer and worship groups, Bible study groups, meditation groups, intercession groups, you name it. And the Word of God is read, or It is shared, or It is preached. Of course, this includes all the churches where the Word of God is preached and men sit in the pews for 10 years, 20 years, 40 years, 50 years. They listen and they haven’t believed a thing. They may have believed mentally but their (lack of) fruit proves that there was no living faith.
Now what happens with all those millions of grains that were sown into the hearts and are sitting there … do you know what happens to them? I was meditating on that: “Lord there must be billions of these Words or tens of billions. The Bible is now preached all over this world. Evangelists preaching day and night on TV, on radio, books published … what happens to all these grains that fall all over the place?” And as we know now, it is only a tiny minority that brought forth fruit. Now do those grains (Words) return void? No! So what happens? Well, the person dies or is raptured before death. In other words he appears before God somehow (we know that everybody will — Rom.14:10), and then the Lord will look into his heart and He will say: “Look at that, there are tons of My Word, what did you do?”
Let us read the Gospel of John chapter 12. You know, the Lord is too wise to omit any important matter. It is only a question of finding it. It is a question of the Lord leading you to it and showing you clearly. This is reality and this reality has become my faith, so I know this is so. Hence, I can share it and the tremendous practical value of this may be that people who will ever listen and buy this word would avoid their own judgment.
John 12:47, the Lord speaks: “And if any man hear my words, and believe not [there is no watering], I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” However, “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words [which means, he does not water them], hath one that judgeth him: the word (Itself) that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” That man will look into his own heart, he will be told to look there, and all those Words which are there will condemn him. So the man will condemn himself. This is the beauty of the Lord.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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