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5/22/22 | Jeremiah 17:5-10 | Spiritual Growth | Jesus Saves Bible Church | Jim Mudge |
Scripture Reading
Jeremiah 17:5-10
“Spiritual Growth”
Jeremiah 17:5-10
1. A fruitful garden.
What is needed for a fruitful garden?
Good seed
Good soil
Regular water
Sunlight
A farmer.
2. The Lord planted a garden
Genesis 2:8-9
Genesis 3:17-19
The Lord cursed the ground.
3. No one grows without feeding the spirit and the mind.
Like a plant must be planted in nourishing soil,
blessed are those who delight in God’s word.
Psalm 1:1-6
but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law, he meditates day and night.
4. The Lord plants and replants the vineyard.
Isaiah 37:30-32
The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
5. The parable of the sower.
Mark 4:10-20
The good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
He uses messengers who preach Jesus.
6. Spiritual growth comes as we learn to trust the Lord fully.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
7. A tree is known by its fruit.
 Matthew 12:33-37
The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good
whose trust is the LORD.
He is like a tree planted by water
He does not cease to bear fruit.
8. Spiritual Growth comes from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:5-9
Paul planted, Apollos watered but God gave the growth.
Isaiah 27:2-6
The Lord rejoices over his fruitful vineyard.
9. So what does what do we need for good spiritual growth?
John 15:1-5
We need to be connected to the vine and abide in Him.
Conclusions:
No one grows without feeding the spirit and the mind from the Word of God.
The Lord is the one who plants the garden.
We are the garden of the Lord because we believed the Good News of Jesus and have entered the kingdom of God.
Conclusions:
All of us who are called the good soil are learning to trust the Lord fully.
The Lord causes us to grow spiritually.
We are being transformed into his image and as we abide in Him he causes us to bear fruit.