After examining the first three soils we turn in this message to examine the only soil which truly received the sown seed. The good soil was made good not by any doing or merit of its own, but by a Sovereign work of grace. "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you an heart of flesh." (Eze. 36:26)
God does not "rebuild" the heart of a sinner, but He creates a "new" heart. He does not attempt to remove the stones and pull up the thorns and thistles, so He can work with the old heart. But He creates a totally new heart. The soil is good, because God has done a sovereign work of grace within it.
Yet, the evidence of such a Sovereign work will be seen, or manifested, in its "bearing fruit, AND bringing FORTH."
In a generation where there are so many "fruitless and barren professions of faith" this is a most needed and urgent truth. For the first three soils, though all were in some way "touched by the seed sow", yet, none of the first three ever "received the seed and brought forth fruit." All three shall one day be "cast forth and wither: only to be gathered together and burned (John 15:1-6).
May God greatly use this message to bring us all to carefully and humbly examine our own hearts before God. That we might know if the seed sown has truly been received into "good soil."
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Pastor Audey Shepard came to Coleman Baptist Church in May 2007 after spending over 28 years in Germany (17 years as Pastor of Freie Baptisten Gemeinde Heilbronn Germany, an English & German speaking church). Born in Grand Junction Colorado and raised in San Diego California,...