A Threat to the Enemy

As the Israelites became more and more blessed while they were in Egypt, more and more sons and daughters were born to them and the word says they filled the whole land. This increase threatened the new Pharoah and he put the Israelites into slavery and determined to kill all the new sons born to Israelite women.

That is just the way it is, when we begin to experience God's favor and blessing, as the church begins to grow and more and more families are added to our ranks, the enemy rises us and tries to stop what God is doing. Trials and troubles come our way and try to steal the blessings of God. Some people leave the church and we become discouraged because of it, but Jesus talked about this in Matthew 13 when he talked about seed being sown and how it fell on different types of soil.

Matthew 13: "He hs the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."


Jesus makes it clear that there are different types of people in the Kingdom of God. Some people are have no real grounding in the Word and are spiritually immature and they don't last long. Because they have no strong roots in the Kingdom, when trials and troubles come, they get discouraged and quidkly fall away.

 

Others are way too concerned about the things of this world and the worries of life and the allurement of this worlds wealth keeps them from getting a strong footing and the Word of God does not take hold in their life because they are too attatched to this world and they are unfruitful.

But others, the hear the Word and they understand it and they apply it to theif life and they gain a strong footing in Jesus and they are blessed and they are fruitful and they multiply.

So what do we do, we keep throwing seed. We keep planting the Word into peoples lives and they choose how they want to accept it. The people choose if they want to grow in Christ or not. They choose if they want one foot in the world and the other in the Word. But eventually, the Word will continue to fall on good soil and the church will continue to grow and mnultiply and we'll keep trowing seeds.