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It Is Written

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John Bradshaw

Three Important Steps

The Coronavirus Conspirator

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Five Steps to Spiritual Victory

We'll be blessed because it's God's Word and we're always blessed from God's Word and because we'll pray and ask God to specially bless us with His Holy Spirit.

Let me begin first by saying this, I hope you're okay.

I hope that whatever your circumstances are, your trust in God is strong.

We're kind of in uncharted waters, aren't we?

This is a strange new world in which we find ourselves.

I've said to people, I think I've posted online, if it seems like you're in stormy seas right now and the wind is blowing and the rain is pelting down and the boat is filling with water.

He's going to get both you and me through.

And today we'll find courage in God's word and we'll go behind the scenes, see a little bit of what's taking place.

Come on, let's pray together and expect God's blessing.

Our Father in heaven, we're grateful we can come to you today in the name of Jesus, as we open the pages of your sacred word, speak and be heard, we pray.

Bless us for your honour and glory, for our edification, encouragement and spiritual growth.

We ask and we thank you in Jesus' name and we said together, Amen.

Many discoveries are made by people standing on the shoulders of those who went before them.

It seems that the gaining of knowledge is a progressive thing.

In science, in medicine, that is definitely the case.

It was the 1860s and a Frenchman named Louis Pasteur was working.

He did so much in developing the science of vaccination.

He was the 1 who popularized, you might say invented, pasteurization.

In the 1860s he was conducting a series of experiments on the relationship between germs and disease.

As a microbiologist, he believed that many diseases were spread by tiny organisms, invisible to the naked eye.

He disproved the theory of spontaneous generation.

Spontaneous generation was the idea that little creatures such as fleas or maggots just simply came into existence out of dust or out of dead flesh just like that.

Now It's no surprise people used to believe things like that.

As unlikely as today they sound, without microscopes, who could know otherwise?

And if you're not looking for something, you're not going to find it.

But Louis Pasteur looked and he found and he's recognized today as 1 of the fathers of germ theory.

He was not the first to propose the idea, far from it, but he developed the idea, really brought it into the public eye and brought it into general acceptance.

Pasteur was convinced that there were little things present that we couldn't see.

That we couldn't see them didn't mean they weren't there.

He believed that microorganisms caused things such as milk and wine and beer to spoil.

And he believed that microorganisms caused people to spoil.

Pasteur believed and proved that something you cannot see could do great damage.

Pastor the scientist believed and proved that something you cannot see could do great damage.

Something you could not see could spread disease.

That's why we don't appreciate people coughing or sneezing in our space.

That's why we're shocked even by those videos that show how far droplets spread.

We've come to believe that our health is affected by things that we cannot see.

Could it be that our spiritual health is affected by things that we cannot see?

Could it be that there are things that we cannot see, forces that we do not readily witness, things taking place behind the scenes that affect us spiritually, manifestly, in a direct way.

Oh, we believe that to be true, and we're going to see it from the Bible in a well-known parable.

Please turn with me in your Bible to Matthew chapter 13.

Matthew chapter 13, and the Bible says this, and we're starting, I need to be able to tell you exactly what verse, in verse 24.

It says in Matthew 13, verse 24, Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field.

But while men slept, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

I'm going to read through this parable and then I'll go back and we'll amble slowly through it.

But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared tares also.

So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in thy field?

The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

But he said, Nay, no, lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them." And then verse 30, Jesus relaying the parable says these words, "...let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn." Let's go back now, I told you I would.

Some sowed by the wayside, Some sprang up but had no depth of earth.

Some sprang up but then it was choked by what Jesus explained was the cares of this life.

And then the good seed that sprang up and it was fruitful and brought forth much with it.

So first, the seed was sown and the seed responded differently to certain conditions.

Now the seed is sown and somebody comes and messes with, meddles with the seed.

"'The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man who sowed good seed in his field.'" God has sown good seed.

But while people were sleeping, notice that, While people slept, you know something, in Matthew chapter 24, Jesus says, watch and be ready.

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