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Billy speaks on how making God the focus of your life bears more fruit.
Message Notes:
1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” 9 And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” – Mark 4v1-9 (ESV)
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. – 1 Corinthians 3v7-9 (ESV)
Your Life is a Field
Field #1 - My life is too busy.
And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. — Mark 4v4 (ESV)
Don’t confuse activity with productivity. It’s easy to be busy being busy. — Unknown
Psalm 27v4 (ESV)
Big miss: the moments that can’t be duplicated
Field #2 - My life has no depth.
Mark 4v5-6 (ESV)
Judges 2v8-10 (ESV)
Big miss: the next generation forgets who God actually is
Field #3 - My life chases the wrong things.
Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. — Mark 4v7 (ESV)
I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind. — Ecclesiastes 1v14 (NLT)
What else is meaningless?
Mark 8v34-36 (ESV)
Big miss: contentment and more focus on what matters
Field #4 - My life is ready to multiply.
And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” — Mark 4v8 (ESV)
