Change Your World

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Change Your World

• Listen to God

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• The sower went out to sow his seed and as he
  sowed, some fell beside the road and it was
  trampled under foot, and the birds of the air ate
  it up. And other seed fell on rocky soil, and as
  soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it
  had no moisture. And other seed fell among the
  thorns and the thorns grew up with it, and
  choked it out. And other seed fell into the good
  soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred
  times as great. As He said these things, He
  would call out, "He who has ears to hear, let him
  hear." And His disciples began questioning Him as
  to what this parable might be.

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• And He said, "To you it has been granted to know
  the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the
  rest it is in parables, in order that seeing they
  may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
  Now the parable is this the seed is the word of
  God. And those beside the road are those who have
  heard then the devil comes and takes away the
  word from their heart, so that they may not
  believe and be saved. And those on the rocky soil
  are those who, when they hear, receive the word
  with joy and these have no firm root they
  believe for a while, and in time of temptation
  fall away.

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• And the seed which fell among the thorns, these
  are the ones who have heard, and as they go on
  their way they are choked with worries and riches
  and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to
  maturity. And the seed in the good soil, these
  are the ones who have heard the word in an honest
  and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit
  with perseverance. (Luke 85-15 NAS)

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Types of Soil

• 1. Roadside
• 2. Rocky
• 3. Thorny
• 4. Good Soil

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Six Ways God Speaks 1. Nature The heavens
declare His righteousness, And all the peoples
have seen His glory. (Psalms 976 NAS) For since
the creation of the world His invisible
attributes, His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly seen, being understood through
what has been made, so that they are without
excuse. (Romans 120 NAS)
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Six Ways God Speaks 2. Scripture All Scripture
is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, for training in
righteousness. (2 Timothy 316 NAS) 3.
Circumstances And it was so. When he arose early
the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he
drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of
water. (Judges 638 NAS)
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Six Ways God Speaks 4. Other People And it
came about that for an entire year they met with
the church, and taught considerable numbers and
the disciples were first called Christians in
Antioch. (Acts 1126 NAS) 5. Prayer Then the
LORD God called to the man, and said to him,
"Where are you?" (Genesis 39 NAS)
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Six Ways God Speaks 6. Rightness But when He,
the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you
into all the truth for He will not speak on His
own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will
speak and He will disclose to you what is to
come. (John 1613 NAS)
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Improving Our Hearing Seek out truth.
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Improving Our Hearing Work through the hard
times.
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Improving Our Hearing Look beyond this
life. The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure
hidden in the field, which a man found and hid
and from joy over it he goes and sells all that
he has, and buys that field. (Matthew 1344 NAS)
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Change Your World

• Listen to God