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[farouk]

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: (Colossians 1:6)

K:

Reminds me of the Parable of the Sower, which speaks of good ground receiving the seed of the Word and bringing forth fruit.

[Keifer]

K:

Reminds me of the Parable of the Sower, which speaks of good ground receiving the seed of the Word and bringing forth fruit.

Amen Farouk, it certainly does. And today's offering tells how we partake of that seed...

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)

[farouk]

Amen Farouk, it certainly does. And today's offering tells how we partake of that seed...

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)

Keifer:

My wife and I were reading in Luke 8: 'Take heed how ye hear'.

[Keifer]

Correct Farouk, what we hear depends on how we hear; that is, our attention and honesty of God's Word. Here's today's offering...

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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. (Hebrews 4:12)

[farouk]

Correct Farouk, what we hear depends on how we hear; that is, our attention and honesty of God's Word. Here's today's offering...

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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. (Hebrews 4:12)

Keifer:

Great verse.

Reminds me of Psalm 119.105

Blessings.

[Keifer]

Praise the Lord Farouk. Here's today's...

And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. (1 Corinthians 14:25)

[farouk]

Keifer:

Reminds me of the stipulation: 'a good report of them which are without' (1 Timothy 3.7).

[Keifer]

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. (Psalms 72:11)

[farouk]

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. (Psalms 72:11)

Yes, He is gloriously King of kings and Lord of lords.

[Keifer]

Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. (Isaiah 49:22)

[Keifer]

And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. (Luke 13:29)

[Keifer]

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. (Acts 28:28)

[farouk]

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. (Acts 28:28)

K:

The Gospel is indeed 'to every creature'.

[Keifer]

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. (Luke 2:32)

[farouk]

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. (Luke 6:35)

Keifer:

Hi. They say that in the days of communism in Russia when Christians tried to love their enemies, they authorities just couldn't understand it and sometimes tried to put them in a mental institution in order to 'cure' them from an idea which for the world is so strange!

When we were enemies, Christ died for us; glory be to His name!