Good Heart Parable

The Good Heart

Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Parable of the Heart Soils

What makes the ‘Good heart’… good?

First, it is incline to understand the message of the kingdom – that it requires surrender to the King of the Kingdom and that for now all who belong to the Kingdom of God will suffer persecution, temptation and hatred.

God offers the Good Heart this understanding because BEFORE the message of the kingdom was planted there it was already worshipping God to the degree that it understood how (consider Cornelius and Lydia).

The other primary attribute of this heart is that even though it knew the cost of entering the kingdom it welcomed the message, clung to the king of the kingdom and through patient endurance it produced the fruit of conformity to Jesus’ likeness over time.

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Saul Paul

Saul sent as Paul to the Gentiles

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While serving the Lord & Fasting, the Spirit spoke

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The Power of fervent prayer

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Where the Spirit led, they followed

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:20:36 — 138.7MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 05/15/21 Message – Where the Spirit led, they followed Share this: Where the Spirit led, they followed Last week we learned of how the Lord directed Peter by the Spirit to go to the house of Cornelius who was an Italian soldier to share with him the truth of salvation.  Our takeaways were: The partnership we have with the Spirit in the work of the ministry That God is still searching the earth for those whose hearts will be loyal to Him, to show Himself strong on their behalf. That […]

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