sowing the seed of the word acts 8:
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1. Sowing the seed of the word Acts 8:. 2. Mark 4:26-34(NASB) 26 And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; 27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know. 3. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Sowing the seed of the word
Acts 8:
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Mark 4:26-34(NASB)26 And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the
seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.
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28 The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in
the head. 29 But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the
harvest has come.”
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30 And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or
by what parable shall we present it? 31 It is like a
mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds
that are upon the soil,
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32 yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest
under its shade.”
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33 With many such parables He was speaking the word to
them, so far as they were able to hear it; 34 and He did not
speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining
everything privately to His own disciples.
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The (word) refers to the message of the Kingdom
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Matthew 13:1-9(NASB)13 That day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. 2 And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got
into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing
on the beach.
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3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying,
“Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4 and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them
up.
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5 Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not
have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. 6 But when the sun had
risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root,
they withered away.
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7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out. 8 And others fell on the good
soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and
some thirty.9 He who has ears, let him hear.”
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We need to know the importance of sowing the seed
and spreading the seed
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Matthew 13:18-23(NASB)18 “Hear then the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone
hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it,
the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown
beside the road.
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20 The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word
and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no firm
root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he
falls away.
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22 And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the
word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it
becomes unfruitful.
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23 And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word
and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold,
some sixty, and some thirty.”
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When we eat fruit we find the seed in the center of the fruit
Gods word is the seed it must be sown so it can produce fruit
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We want to look at the book os Acts to see how the seed was
being sown Jesus gave the great commission
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Matthew 28:19-20(NASB)19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them
to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age.”
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Acts 1:8(NASB)8 but you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part
of the earth.”
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Acts 8:12(NASB)12 But when they believed
Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and
women alike.
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13 Even Simon himself believed; and after being
baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed
signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly
amazed.
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14 Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,
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They received the message about the Kingdom of God the
seed which is the word
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Acts 8:25 (NASB)25 So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back
to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many
villages of the Samaritans.
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Acts 4:29(NASB)
29 And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that
Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence,
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Acts 4:31(NASB)31 And when they had prayed,
the place where they had gathered together was shaken,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with
boldness.
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The word of God means the word of the Kingdom
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Acts 6:1-7(NASB)6 Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in
number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were
being overlooked in the daily serving of food.
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2 So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples
and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God
in order to serve tables.
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3 Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of
good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of
the word.”
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5 The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and
Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a
proselyte from Antioch. 6 And these they brought before the
apostles; and after praying, they laid their hands on them.
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7 The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of
the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem,
and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.
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Acts 8:1-8(NASB)8 Saul was in hearty agreement
with putting him to death.And on that day a great
persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout
the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
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2 Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud
lamentation over him. 3 But Saul began ravaging the
church, entering house after house, and dragging off men
and women, he would put them in prison.
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4 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip
went down to the city of Samaria and began
proclaiming Christ to them.
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6 The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what
was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which
he was performing.
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7 For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice; and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed. 8 So there
was much rejoicing in that city.
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Acts 12:22-25(NASB)22 The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!” 23 And immediately
an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God
the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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24 But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be
multiplied.25 And Barnabas and Saul
returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their
[c]mission, taking along with them John, who was also called
Mark.
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Good soil can not be self proclaim the the seed will test
the soil
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Acts 19:14-20(NASB)14 Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing
this. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know
about Paul, but who are you?”
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16 And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and
overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who
lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of
the Lord Jesus was being magnified.
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18 Many also of those who had believed kept coming,
confessing and disclosing their practices. 19 And many of those
who practiced magic brought their books together and began
burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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20 So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and
prevailing.
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Acts 11:1-20(NASB)
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Acts 13:44-48(NASB)44 The next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the word of the Lord. 45 But when the Jews saw the
crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began
contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were
blaspheming.
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46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was
necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge
yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to
the Gentiles.
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47 For so the Lord has commanded us,‘I have placed You as a light for the Gentiles,That You may bring
salvation to the end of the earth.’”48 When the Gentiles heard this,
they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal
life believed.
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Acts 15:35-36(NASB)35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed
in Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others also, the word of the Lord.
36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and
visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
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Acts 17:11-15(NASB)11 Now these were more
noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things
were so.
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12 Therefore many of them believed, along with a number
of prominent Greek women and men. 13 But when the
Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been
proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the
crowds.
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14 Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. 15
Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they
left.