![]() I want to talk about the mustard seed of faith that falls on the good ground. ![]() I don’t think that any of you in this room will fall into these categories and we have heard enough about those. I won’t deal with the various types of “ground” or heart of those who allow the mustard seed of faith to die in them. And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold." That variable is the “ground”, or the heart of the man who receives the seed of faith! This same allegory of the mustard seed of faith being sown in the heart of men is found in the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13:4-8, " …And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched and because they had no root, they withered away. Deuteronomy 32:4 says, speaking about our God, that, "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." James 1:17 tells us that, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." So then, the seed is perfect and the sower is perfect, so where is the variable that determines whether the seed will grow? Who is the sower of the mustard seed of faith? That sower is God alone. Secondly, the growth of the seed is not determined by the condition, or ability of the one who sows, or plants it. ![]() We read in Acts 10:34, "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons…, and then we read in Romans 12:3 where Paul says that, “…God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." Thus we see that an impartial God gives to every one of us the same small mustard seed of faith. The seed is the same for every man, woman and child who is ever born. It doesn’t depend upon the quality of the seed. Whether that seed of faith begins to grow and develop into a greater faith, or whether it is destroyed and dies, depends upon only one thing. Yet it is an idea that takes root and begins to grow as fast as we will allow it to. That little mustard seed of faith begins as a little glimmer of hope the very smallest of ideas in your heart and mind. When Jesus died on the cross and resurrected from the dead, that little mustard seed of faith, was then broadcast, much like a farmer would broadcast, or spread his seed over the field. That faith gives us the ability to please God and to believe that He is God, and in turn to worship Him and to become a part of His Kingdom. God, in His great love and infinite mercy to fallen man, has given us a mustard seed of faith that is planted in us by hearing the Word of God.
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