Test The Spirits And The Soils

[Daniel Rush]

Brothers and Sisters,

 

     The word of the LORD; Mark 4:26-29…” And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.”

 

     A young man earning his degree in farming at Clemson University did a study with tomato plants. He planted three seeds in three separate pots.

 

    In the first pot he placed common dirt, the kind you’d find out in a baseball diamond. Dirt that was baked day after day by the sun. He took common tap water, ran it over and over through filtrations and degaussed it so as to reduce both its acid and ion content.

 

   In the second pot he put the soil you’d find at Walmart or Home Depot, soil specifically made for gardens with all the nutrients the makers promised. To this he added grocery store sold spring water.

 

   In the last pot he put soil he dug from a nearby forest park and to that he added water flowing from a nearby stream. Months went by before he gauged the results…

 

   The first pot produced a weak tomato plant with no tomatoes. It had obviously germinated but had starved due to the sterile environment it grew in.

 

   The second pot produced a plant with tomatoes but on examination the tomatoes were not very big. They were dull in their color and their taste was very acidic..more than the sweetness promised on the seed packing.

 

     The last one however, produced a robust plant. The tomatoes were large, full of vibrant color and tasted sweet.

 

    Why did the last pot grow better than the second? The result of the first was predictable but why did the third grow so much better than the first? The secret was found in the packaging of the second pots soil. In all the work to promise that the soil would produce a tomato of fine quality, there was just no replacing what nature and God could provide.

 

    Take this to the word of GOD and how so many confuse the word “Christian” to mean that any doctrine infused with the selfish thoughts of man will do.

 

   Take the first plant. Some churches have so made the word of GOD a sterile abomination of sinless salvation that people may think they will grow as Christians but in reality they will never come to full bloom. When you teach an empty sinless caring Christ who will not judge sins and does not call the lost to repentance? You stoke people’s feelings and stroke their feet but let them walk on right to hell.

 

  Then we have the second plant. These are the false churches, the churches of apostasy, the churches of blasphemy, the Catholics, the Mormons, The Witnesses, many Methodists, scores of Baptists and the New Age occult deceivers who add to GOD’s word and change it just enough that a person may appear to be growing and may look to be on their way but there’s just enough lie and error to discolor the work and produce a false Christian full of the acid of satan’s 1 percent lie. This is the homosexual who thinks they are saved, the pot smoker who thinks they can keep on smoking and the person falling for the prosperity gospel of wicked lies.

 

   Then there’s the third pot. This is the true Christian. The one who follows the only true word given once to all men, the 1611 King James Bible. This is the person who not only knows they are wicked vile sinner; they profess it. They rebuke the world, they preach the gospel, they don’t care what people think and they stand for GOD’s word and GOD’s gospel and they refuse to bend to the whims of men. They are Christians who love with authority, who care with authority and who speak with authority as Christ loved, cared and spoke. They speak the truth of GOD’s word and they speak it as it is written not as man adds or takes from it.

 

    What pot do you grow in? What spirit do you serve? Do you test the soil and the water to make sure your growth is not stunted nor weak? You do know that Christians are commanded to test the spirits and the soils and the waters if they be from GOD or from satan. We must always keep in mind that satan is always at war with the believers, just by blurting out the salvation message doesn’t make you saved...it makes you a bigger target.

 

   Salvation comes from knowing you’re a filthy sinner deserving of hell and damnation. Salvation comes from you realizing your lost condition, accepting Christ and doing what the LORD commands you to do. Remember that Christ said “You call me LORD...yet...why do you not do that which I told you to do? Why do you rebel?”

 

   You can not live in rebellion and be saved. You can’t be a member of a lying church drowning in apostasy and blasphemy and call yourself saved. Churches are taking their whole congregations right to hell on that 1 percent error that satan craves. Ask yourself again…”What spirit do you serve?”

 

   Christian...you are a seed among the seeds set in soil and watered; why would you not be concerned with what nourishes your growth? Test those spirits, test always what your church teaches, what your pastor preaches and test them to the word of GOD both for you and for those around you.

   Blessed be the word of GOD...Amen.

[AVBibleBeliever]

Daniel what is up with this double post you already posted this in what is a true Christian thread.

[Daniel Rush]

I forgot to pull the other one as I figured it was not the correct location for it. I will correct that.

[Salyan]

We actually have a sermons thread this might fit better in.