Stones in the Soil
/He’s not making another Solomon. He’s going to enhance the call of Matt Hebert. Whatever God does in me, it will be what God wants it to be in preparation for what He’s calling me to be and do. The days are getting dark. It’s not going to be what you want it to be. It’s going to be what He wants it to be. Let me let you in on a little secret I’m not preaching in a stadium in Costa Rica tonight. I’m preaching at 113 Lydia St. Patterson, La. And God was already moving before Solomon showed up, and if we keep plowing in prayer, hallelujah, Oh glory! There is literally no telling what He will do.
So I started praying God give me the mouth of a prophet, the zeal of an evangelist, the heart of a Pastor, the mind of a teacher, and the second day, I added and I don’t know what to do with the word Apostle, but it means sent one ambassador.
Yes, it’s true that the written word can remain letters on a page and lie there dormant, but they were inspired by the Spirit. The Spirit of the living word moved through the hand of the man with the quill in his hand, and there he scratched out on papyrus the written word of God for man to behold with his terrestrial eyes because while he is a spirit, he is in a physical body, and while he is in Christ in heavenly places, he is right here at 113 Lydia St. in Patterson, La and someone says I want to live up there all the time. You’ll get your chance, but right now you’re here. The lost souls are here they need to be saved and God have you the inspired written word and without it you don’t even know the living word. Solomon said it. “You search the scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life but they testify of me and you won’t have me ( )
I’ll have you Lord! Once the living word hit the written word and the written word came to life. It’s called the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Without it, the written word stays on the page.
But I heard what my Lord said to me. Present my word for the way that it’s written. When it’s presented for the way it’s written it’s presented with life, because it’s written that the words that He has spoken, they are Spirit and they are life.
The living word illuminates the written word and the written word validates the Living word. Without the written word, you don’t know the Living word. Without the written word, you’re left with another Jesus, another Spirit, and another gospel.
Stones in the soil—
A harvest starts with what? …Plowing. The Jeremiah 4:3-4
3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Sometimes it’s not just breaking up fallow ground it’s removing stones in the soil. Well, what are the stones. I don’t know it doesn’t say, but what it does say is that the end result is that it fruit withers. When the sun hits it (persecution) it withers— no root: withered fruit,
Matthew 13:21
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
He didn’t know the word. Had he known the word, he would have been prepared. He would have known that believers are going to be persecuted. You see we have to have the instruction of the word of God.
1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
And if we can’t instruct people in doctrine here. Then where are we supposed to do that? Are we supposed to do that when we carry the cross in the streets amongst worldlings? No, but
This is the place where we speak for God— when they come here, they receive it for the way it’s written. Here, we sing to God, we pray to Him, we worship Him. This is the place we tell the truth, and we believe God that the conviction power of the Holy Spirit knows what He’s doing. He calls a man to preach, and he gives him a message. He becomes the message. The message is the same…. My people err for they do not know my ways.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:because thou hast rejected knowledge,I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,I will also forget thy children.
Right now The Crossway Minsitry should not continue to believe that we will always have to keep delivering the same old people. And we have to learn the difference, between manifestation of a demon and repentance from sin. Remember that one? Repentance of sin?
it’s not supposed to be like a Greg Locke service. I mean come on, hold on a second. We are a sanctuary full of blood bought, Spirit filled Christians. We are Christians that
You go out there and bring ‘em in. Or you come here on Tuesday and Friday nights, before services and you pray em in. But once you get them in here, I can promise you that there will be plenty of deliverances. I imagine that it may look like a snake nest sometimes. But it’s not supposed to be like that with true believers.
When we’re considering deliverance let’s not get things confused with conviction and repentance.
Let us reverse engineer this thought: deliverance…
Deliverance in unbelievers
Deliverance in believers
Rooted and grounded?
No roots in the soil because there are rocks in there— well, what are the rocks ? I reckon anything, maybe excuses, but whatever they are, it prevents root and that results in withered fruit… no root, withered fruit. What is Christianity?
What happened to good old fashioned preach the Bible? Let the Holy Spirit convict of sin, a man repents, he gets filled with the Holy Spirit and gets into the word, and the fire of the Holy Spirit burns in his belly towards holiness. Man, you say you’re filled with the Holy Spirit and all you do is speak
In tongues and you don’t have a desire to obey God and let Him burn out your chaff. You better go get a different baptism of the Holy Spirit or you better start praying.”I pray, he shouts from the back,” No! I’m not talking about no outer prayer, I’m talking at least a Holy Place prayer, but I hope you’ve entered into the Holy of Holies before.
I’m talking about entering into a place where God grabs a heart and deals with it.