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00:19 >>John Bradshaw: This is "It Is Written." 00:21 I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. 00:23 Some things take time. 00:26 That pie you put in the oven? 00:28 That's going to take 30-40 minutes to bake. 00:30 No matter what you do, you need to give it half an hour or so 00:34 or it's not going to be what you want it to be. 00:37 There's a process you have to follow. 00:39 You make the pie, you put it in a hot oven, and you wait. 00:44 These things take time. There's a process. 00:48 You hurt your knee; you have to have surgery. 00:50 The doctor tells you it's going to be six months to a year 00:53 before you can get back to normal. 00:55 You might be jogging in nine months, say, maybe six. 00:59 But you're not going to be running six or eight weeks 01:02 after damaging your ACL. That's just not going to happen. 01:06 You wish it would, but it won't. 01:08 These things take time. There's a process. 01:12 The married couple who want to have a baby 01:14 know how long they'll have to wait after conception. 01:17 Since the dawn of time, this has taken nine months. 01:22 And wishing that process could be sped up 01:25 won't change a single thing. 01:27 These things take time. There's a process. 01:32 Now, Jesus said the same thing about spiritual growth. 01:36 And understanding that is critical in a life of faith. 01:41 Look with me at Mark 4, starting in verse 26. 01:44 He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed 01:49 "on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, 01:54 "and the seed should sprout and grow, 01:56 "he himself does not know how. 01:58 "For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, 02:03 "then the head, [and] after that the full grain in the head. 02:07 "But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in 02:10 the sickle, because the harvest has come." 02:14 Jesus is talking about spiritual growth, 02:17 and He describes that process. 02:20 A man sows seed. 02:21 The kingdom of heaven getting into you and becoming 02:24 more and more a part of you and transforming you 02:27 is like seed being planted in the ground. 02:30 Now, every year my wife and I grow a garden. 02:34 It's not going to win any prizes. 02:36 Sometimes "garden" might be too grand a word, to be honest. 02:41 We're going to get some tomatoes planted, a few other things. 02:44 We'll have sunflowers, just because we love them. 02:47 And we'll get some seeds in the ground in little starter pots, 02:50 and then we...wait. 02:53 The seed packet will typically tell you: 30 days to harvest, 02:57 60 days to harvest, 90 days to harvest. 03:01 And there are times along the way that you have 03:02 to remind yourself that, yes, one day these little things 03:06 will actually end up on your dinner table. 03:09 But you cannot speed up the process. 03:12 A tomato's probably going to take you from 60-100 days. 03:16 Jalapeños will be about 80 days. 03:18 You're not going to change that. 03:19 Now, radishes you'll get in 20-25 days, but eggplant, 03:24 more likely 120, maybe longer. 03:27 It'll depend a little bit on where you live, 03:29 but what we know is that these things take time. 03:33 There's a process. 03:35 In the Bible, Jesus spoke a lot about seeds. 03:38 And wanting to find out more about seeds, 03:40 I came to southern Missouri, 03:43 incidentally about 10 minutes or so 03:45 from where Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband, Almanzo, 03:48 lived for 60 years after moving here from South Dakota. 03:52 I wondered if I could get some insights 03:55 into the little miracles that are seeds. 03:59 All right, Weston, so tell me something interesting 04:02 about seeds that most of us don't know. 04:06 >>Weston Adams: A lot of people don't know that a coconut 04:08 is a seed. >>John: It's a seed? 04:09 >>Weston: It's one big seed. 04:11 Another thing that people don't know is that some seeds 04:14 actually have, um, they measure temperature, 04:17 and they won't germinate 04:19 until they've had a period of cold weather 04:21 because that seed wants to know that it's going through winter 04:24 before it will sprout. 04:25 >>John: Do you notice much variation between seeds? 04:29 Perhaps the question's obvious. 04:31 This seed will function this way; 04:33 that seed will function that way. 04:35 They're not all exactly the same. 04:37 >>Weston: No, they're not. 04:38 >>John: My question, I suppose, really is, 04:40 they've been programmed differently, right? 04:42 >>Weston: Yes, very different genes, very different, um, 04:45 product when you grow-- you know, you get this 04:48 out of one seed; you get this out of another seed-- 04:51 huge variation. 04:53 And even, even within cabbages or even within this species, 04:57 you'll have large seeds; you'll have small seeds; you'll have, 05:00 you'll have red cabbages; you'll have pointed ones; 05:03 you'll have round ones; you'll have flat ones. 05:05 It's all in the, the genes that are locked in that seed 05:09 ready to, ready to burst out. 05:11 >>John: So, this cabbage, it's a magnificent thing. 05:15 What did it start off as? 05:18 >>Weston: This cabbage started this past late fall 05:24 as one of these. 05:26 This is the seed that actually grows 05:27 this specific variety of cabbage. 05:30 >>John: So that little thing there, 05:31 one of those tiny seeds-- >>Weston: Yup. 05:34 >>John: ...grows into that? >>Weston: Yup. 05:35 >>John: All itself produces more seeds-- 05:37 >>Weston: Correct. 05:39 >>John: ...starts like a seed in the ground, and grows up-- 05:43 it's a great object lesson, isn't it? 05:45 >>Weston: It is. You know, we were talking about 05:47 how you can't speed up the process, 05:49 but you can delay the process. 05:51 If you don't give the right conditions, 05:53 this isn't going to turn into this, 05:54 or it's going to take a lot longer. 05:56 >>John: There's a process. 05:58 Jesus said, "For the earth yields crops by itself: 06:03 "first the blade, then the head, 06:06 "after that the full grain in the head. 06:09 "But when the grain ripens, 06:11 "immediately he puts in the sickle, 06:13 because the harvest has come." 06:15 And it's that process that causes some people to stumble-- 06:19 two ways. One, you get some people who feel like 06:22 all they have to do is come to Jesus, 06:23 and that's kind of everything. 06:25 But that's not kind of everything, 06:26 because Jesus wants to prepare you for the harvest. 06:30 He wants you to grow and become the most complete reflection 06:34 of Jesus that heaven can transform you into. 06:37 Now, the other person who stumbles is the person 06:40 who feels like they're not good enough for heaven 06:43 and they never will be. 06:45 Now, I'm going to shock you. 06:47 There's some truth in that statement, 06:49 in fact, a lot of truth. 06:51 We'll look at it together in just a moment. 06:53 ♪[upbeat music swells and ends]♪♪ 07:02 >>Announcer: Today's free offer is 07:04 "Victorious: Living a New Life in Jesus." 07:06 You'll learn how to move beyond the mistakes of yesterday 07:09 to experience victory today. 07:10 To receive "Victorious: Living a New Life in Jesus," 07:13 call 800-253-3000 right now. 07:16 That's 800-253-3000 07:19 or visit us online at iiwoffer.com. 07:22 Get this free resource now 07:24 and enter into the life of victory God wants for you: 07:27 800-253-3000 07:29 or iiwoffer.com. 07:33 >>John Bradshaw: Thanks for joining me on "It Is Written." 07:35 Did you ever meet someone who thought 07:37 they could never be good enough for eternal life? 07:40 You might have been one of those people. 07:42 You might still be one. 07:43 If that's the case, then this is a divine appointment. 07:48 Notice what Jesus said in Mark, chapter 4. 07:51 He compared the kingdom of heaven, 07:54 the work of God's saving grace, to a man planting seeds. 07:59 Somehow--the man doesn't know how--the seed grows. 08:03 Jesus said, "The earth yields crops by itself: 08:08 first the blade [appears]"-- a little ribbon of green 08:11 that pokes its head up out of the ground. 08:14 At first you can hardly see it, then it grows, 08:18 and the head of grain appears. 08:20 Then the fully formed grain is in the head of the plant, 08:23 and then it goes on to ripen and is ready for the harvest. 08:28 And Jesus said this is an illustration 08:31 of how the kingdom of heaven works in a life. 08:35 So here's what you've got to know, 08:37 and you can learn this from horticulture. 08:40 When you plant a seed in the ground, what happens? 08:44 Well, usually what happens is completely invisible 08:47 to the eye, but something is happening, 08:51 something transformational. 08:53 Now, let's apply this to somebody's life--maybe yours. 08:57 You come to faith in Jesus, and you're expecting what? 09:00 Well, you have the absolute assurance of salvation 09:03 through Jesus because of what He did for you 09:06 when He died on the cross for your sins. 09:08 You can have peace in your heart. 09:11 But when you come to Jesus and you start to grow, 09:16 what was it Jesus said? "First the blade." 09:20 It's believed that the largest tree in the entire world 09:23 right now, by volume, is the General Sherman, 09:27 a giant sequoia growing in Sequoia National Park 09:30 in California, just 25 miles or so, as the crow flies, 09:34 from Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48. 09:38 The General Sherman is 275 feet tall, 09:42 three-quarters of the length of a football field. 09:45 It's 36 feet across at the base. 09:49 The General Sherman has a volume 09:51 of 52,500 cubic feet. 09:55 By comparison, an 80-feet tall spruce tree is going to have 09:59 a volume of around 100 feet. 10:02 The General Sherman is gigantic. 10:06 It's also 2,500 years old or maybe older. 10:12 It was growing when Jesus was on the earth. 10:15 It may have been growing when Nebuchadnezzar invaded 10:18 Jerusalem and took Daniel captive in 605 BC. 10:23 It's really big, 10:25 but it's been growing a long time. 10:29 They say the tallest tree in the world 10:31 is a tree called Hyperion, 10:33 growing somewhere in Redwood National Park 10:35 in northeastern California. 10:37 At 380 feet tall, it's taller than the tallest building 10:41 in Amarillo, Texas, and that's 31 stories. 10:45 This is a really tall tree. 10:49 And...it's 800 years old. 10:52 See, growth takes time. 10:56 Both of those trees started really small 11:00 but just kept growing. 11:03 And that's what you're to do. 11:04 I don't know where you are as a tree or maybe as a wheat plant. 11:08 Maybe you're the blade, the ear, something else. 11:11 But that's not what's most important. 11:13 What's most important is that you keep on growing. 11:18 Now, there are several things you want to do 11:20 to ensure that you grow spiritually. 11:22 First, put down roots into the Word of God. 11:26 God's Word is alive, and if you get it into your mind, 11:30 if you get it into your heart, it'll not only change you, 11:34 but it will go on changing you. 11:37 Trying to live a genuine Christian life 11:39 without reading the Bible 11:40 is like trying to make water run uphill. 11:44 You just can't do it. 11:45 You've got to get the Word of God into your mind. 11:48 Read it. Memorize it. 11:50 Read it some more-- and believe it. 11:52 Put a seed in the ground, and it'll grow. 11:55 Immerse yourself in the Word of God, and you'll grow. 11:59 No, you won't become Enoch overnight, 12:01 but you'll be saved in Christ, and you'll grow. 12:04 Now, some people are frustrated by the fact 12:06 that they make the same spiritual mistakes 12:08 over and over again. 12:10 Yes, that can be frustrating, 12:12 but here's what you're going to do. 12:13 You're going to read the promises of God 12:16 and bring them to Jesus and claim them. 12:20 Peter wrote this, 2 Peter 1, verse 4: 12:23 "By which have been given to us 12:25 "exceeding great and precious promises, 12:28 "that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, 12:32 "having escaped the corruption 12:34 that is in the world through lust." 12:36 And keep in mind, this was written by a man 12:39 who had failed Jesus spectacularly. 12:43 So, you have an anger problem? 12:45 You find a promise or a principle in the Bible 12:47 that deals with that, 12:49 and you bring it to God, and you claim it. 12:52 Start with Proverbs 15, verse 1: 12:54 "A soft answer turns away wrath, 12:57 but a harsh word stirs up anger." 13:01 You tell God you want that promise, 13:03 that principle carried out in your life. 13:06 Tell God you're tired of losing your temper. 13:09 Tell Him you don't want to. 13:10 Tell Him that in your humanity you are too weak to change, 13:14 and tell Him you expect to see Proverbs 15:1 13:19 play out in your experience. 13:20 And bring it to Him again and again. 13:23 You are planting seeds when you do that, 13:26 and you're preparing for the harvest. 13:28 Or you could bring to God Ephesians 4:31 and 32-- 13:32 "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking 13:36 "be put away from you, with all malice. 13:39 "And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, 13:42 forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." 13:47 Tell God you're willing for that to be done in your life. 13:51 James 1, verse 20: 13:53 "For the wrath of man 13:54 does not produce the righteousness of God." 13:57 Same again. 13:58 "Lord, I see that; I want that. 14:01 Through Your presence in my life I believe I have that." 14:06 Now, you're weak? Philippians 4:13 is for you: 14:09 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 14:13 You're struggling to hold it together? 14:15 Isaiah 40, verse 31: 14:17 "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; 14:21 "they shall mount up with wings as eagles; 14:24 "they shall run, and not be weary; 14:27 and they shall walk, and not faint." 14:30 You are planting seeds and preparing for the harvest. 14:34 You're bringing God His Word and telling Him you believe 14:38 there's power in His Word to do what it says it can do 14:41 and that you're expecting to see 14:43 that power unleashed in your life. 14:46 And now you're going to start getting over 14:47 some of those humps in your Christian experience. 14:50 This idea, "I'm not good enough," 14:54 the fact is that's true; no one is good enough, only Jesus, 15:00 which is why you claim Him as your Savior 15:03 and believe in His goodness. 15:05 You do that every day, every day. 15:09 Christ is your righteousness. 15:11 Believe that, and you'll never be the same again. 15:16 And if the devil ever tells you again 15:18 that you're not good enough, 15:20 just ignore him and thank God for the gift of Jesus. 15:26 You don't want to be good enough. 15:28 You want to be a Christian, 15:30 trusting in Jesus to live His life in you. 15:34 Look at these two verses. 15:35 They are life changing. 15:38 First, Galatians 2 in verse 20: 15:40 "I have been crucified with Christ; 15:42 "it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; 15:47 "and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith 15:50 in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." 15:54 You see that? 15:55 Jesus lives in you, and you live by faith in Him. 16:01 And Philippians 2:13, 16:03 "It is God who works in you 16:05 both to will and to do for His good pleasure." 16:09 There it is again: 16:10 Jesus works in you to do His will in your life. 16:16 So what else can you do 16:17 to ensure your continued spiritual growth? 16:20 We are going to be practical. 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Prayer takes time. 20:17 If you're going to pray a one- or two-minute prayer, 20:19 you're going to be a one- or two-minute Christian. 20:22 You're just stunting your spiritual growth. 20:25 You've got so much to talk to God about. 20:28 So, take as much time as you reasonably can 20:31 and communicate with God. 20:34 Spend time in His presence. 20:36 Then your spiritual life will take off 20:40 because you've begun to pray like you should. 20:43 Since the pandemic, 20:45 more and more people are staying away from church. 20:48 Now, if you have to, you have to. 20:50 But if you don't have to, you don't want to. 20:53 Attending church is an important part of spiritual growth. 20:57 Now, if church for you is just a show, 20:59 you enjoy a performance by the musicians, 21:01 then another performance by the preacher, 21:03 yeah, that's not healthy. 21:04 But if you're going to worship God, to grow your faith, 21:08 to be part of a body of believers that has a mission, 21:11 a purpose, if you're a producer rather than a consumer, 21:15 you're going to experience growth. 21:18 Sharing your faith is a vital part of spiritual growth. 21:21 When you get involved in service and in witnessing, 21:23 when your faith is stretched a little, and when, 21:27 as a disciple of Jesus, you look at making other disciples, 21:30 that's another important aspect of spiritual growth. 21:34 Also, if you grow plants, 21:37 you know you've got to protect them from pests. 21:40 Sometimes Bambi thinks your garden is for her. 21:44 Groundhogs and raccoons and rabbits and chipmunks and bears 21:47 will all come along looking for what you're growing, 21:51 along with Japanese beetles and moths and caterpillars 21:54 and hornworms. 21:56 It can be a battlefield out there. 21:59 Same in your spiritual life, there are pests. 22:03 Sometimes it's TV or the internet or certain people 22:08 or any number of things. 22:10 You know the devil wants to keep you from growing, 22:13 so he sends pests to distract you and slow down your progress. 22:19 Guard against the pests. 22:22 There's another place Jesus spoke about seeds. 22:25 It's John, chapter 12. 22:27 I had to ask somebody about this. 22:29 >>Weston: So, a couple things, uh, people often deal with 22:32 in their own garden is deer. 22:33 A lot of people plant a beautiful garden, 22:35 and then one day, oh no! 22:37 You know, the deer have wiped it out. 22:39 So, there are things you can do for that. 22:41 Um, obviously staking a dog [laughing] out by the garden 22:44 is a, is one good option. 22:46 Another option is you can get lightweight deer netting 22:49 that, um, it's easy to put up; it's easy to take down. 22:52 But the way it works is it's, 22:54 it's, since it's almost see-through, 22:56 the deer can't really tell where it starts and, and ends. 22:59 And so they walk up, and they brush up against it, 23:01 and they're like, "Whoa, whoa," and they'll jump back. 23:02 And even though it's really fine, it actually, 23:05 it's pretty effective. 23:06 Another thing people deal with is aphids. 23:09 And aphids are something that can be helped 23:12 with beneficial insects, 23:14 like, in our greenhouses, works really well in a greenhouse. 23:17 You've got a closed-in environment. 23:19 We release thousands of ladybugs. 23:22 And the ladybugs feed on the aphids. 23:24 That helps to reduce the aphid population. 23:27 And there are other beneficials we use, 23:29 such as predatory wasps that, that parasitize the aphids. 23:34 So all these things work together to put pressure 23:39 on the diseases, put pressure on the pests, 23:41 and hopefully suppress them enough 23:43 that they don't cause an issue. 23:45 >>John: Which is consistent with Jesus' teaching when He said, 23:48 "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat 23:53 "falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; 23:57 but if it dies, it produces much grain." 24:01 Now, where's He going with this? 24:03 "He who loves his life will lose it, 24:07 "and he who hates his life in this world 24:10 "will keep it for eternal life. 24:13 If anyone serves me, let him follow me." 24:17 I wonder if we might not be missing something 24:19 in our Christian experience. 24:21 The call to follow Jesus is a call to something radical. 24:27 It's not some kind of modification. 24:29 It's not a cultural shift. 24:32 A life of following Jesus is described by Jesus as a death, 24:38 followed by living a productive, growing life. 24:43 Takes nothing to carry a Bible, call yourself a believer, 24:46 attend a church. 24:48 What Jesus is looking for is someone who will stand for Him, 24:53 though the heavens fall, someone who will be true, 24:57 no matter what the world around them is doing. 25:00 It's easy to be swept along by society. 25:04 And what we're seeing in the world today 25:06 is preparing people to be caught up in the last great deceptions 25:11 before Jesus returns. 25:13 I'm not talking about being political. That's easy, too. 25:16 Jesus is talking about being a Christian. 25:19 That's someone who puts God first in their life 25:23 and in their lifestyle. 25:26 Jesus said, "He who finds his life will lose it, 25:30 and he who loses his life for my sake will find it." 25:34 He calls you to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, 25:36 with all your soul, and with all your mind." 25:39 If you'll let Jesus have your heart, 25:43 if you'll let the old you die 25:45 and allow Jesus to make you a new creation, 25:48 you'll experience spiritual growth, 25:52 and you won't stop growing. 25:54 You'll grow all the way until the harvest-- 25:59 seedtime, hiding God's Word in your heart, 26:02 and harvest, ready for eternity with Jesus. 26:07 You ask God to do that work in your life, 26:10 and He will, completely. 26:14 >>Announcer: Today's free offer is 26:16 "Victorious: Living a New Life in Jesus." 26:19 You'll learn how to move beyond the mistakes of yesterday 26:21 to experience victory today. 26:23 To receive "Victorious: Living a New Life in Jesus," 26:25 call 800-253-3000 right now. 26:29 That's 800-253-3000 26:31 or visit us online at iiwoffer.com. 26:34 Get this free resource now 26:36 and enter into the life of victory God wants for you: 26:39 800-253-3000 26:41 or iiwoffer.com. 26:45 >>John: Let me pray for you now. Let's pray together. 26:48 Our Father in heaven, we thank You for spiritual growth, 26:52 and we want to grow and keep on growing until the harvest. 26:58 There's something in your life, friend, 27:01 that is preventing you from growing spiritually. 27:03 Why don't we surrender that to Jesus now? 27:06 Could be a thing, a habit, an addiction, a person. 27:10 Whatever it is, Jesus can take it away 27:14 and clear your path to victory. 27:17 Let our heart be Yours only. 27:19 Friend, would you surrender your heart to Jesus now? 27:22 Would you like to say, 27:23 "Take my heart and make it Yours completely"? 27:28 We don't have much time before Jesus returns. 27:30 Father, would You see our hearts, take them, 27:34 make them Yours, and defend them, keep them as Your own 27:39 until Jesus returns. 27:41 We thank You, and we pray in Jesus' name, 27:45 amen. 27:47 Thanks so much for joining me. 27:48 I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time. 27:50 Until then, remember: 27:52 "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, 27:56 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" 28:00 ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪ 28:26 ♪[music ends]♪♪ |
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