God has big plans for you today – if you are His child. He wants to “yield a crop” in you and in me.
Three words in Mark 4 forever changed my attitude about what I am here to do. I knew I was saved and called by God for a purpose, and I knew it had something to do with fruit-bearing.
But it wasn’t until I asked the Lord to show me in His Word — what He wanted from us as believers that the words on the page began to jump at me. Look again at Mark 4.8 and let the words God chose rise with freshness and newness in your mind.
Mark 4:8 But other seed fell on good ground (a believer’s heart) and yielded a crop (that’s fruit) that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
Remember last week we learned that the theme of the first 20 verses of Mark 4 is — that God expects one thing from those who accept His Word and are born again – they “yield a crop,” or we can call it — fruitfulness. So we saw –
Fruitfulness expected Mark 4.1-20
Now, look more closely at God’s three words to describe the crop we will yield if we are His.
• “…yielded a crop that — sprang up”: anabaino (Strong’s-305 used 87 x N.T.) Whenever Jesus said this word, it was for when He went up or “ascended” to Heaven. So it speaks of something rising in a special and visible, and intentional way.
• “…(yielded a crop that) – increased”: auxano (Strong’s-837 used 22 x N.T.) is a very descriptive word. It described how the early church grew (Acts 6.7) from 12 to 3,000 on the day of Pentecost and beyond. It also describes the multiplication of the children of Israel in Egypt (Acts 7.17) from 70 to three million. Both are truly showing something that “increased” in a dramatic way.
• “…(yielded a crop that) – produced”: phero (Strong’s-5342 used 64 x N.T.) This descriptive word is used for dragging in the full net of fish (John 21.10); of being bound and carried (John 21.18); of the paralyzed man carried by four (Mark 2.3); and of the wind driving the boat of Paul in the sailing to Rome (Acts 27.15, 17). All of these speak of strength and direction and accomplishment.
Here’s the message: God wants His workings in our lives to SPRING UP, INCREASE, and PRODUCE.
How? That’s point two.
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