Sowing Seeds: "Pulling Back The Curtain"

All this talk about planting seeds...what about the ones we plant in our own lives? How much or how often do we really take a hard look at the value (or lack) of what we let in? In this episode, we're all getting a real gut check. Listen as we discuss the ripple effects of letting the Word of God penetrate us and lead us.

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Sowing Seeds: "Pulling Back The Curtain"

All this talk about planting seeds...what about the ones we plant in our own lives? How much or how often do we really take a hard look at the value (or lack) of what we let in? In this episode, we're all getting a real gut check. Listen as we discuss the ripple effects of letting the Word of God penetrate us and lead us.

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What's up everybody! Welcome back to another episode of the Churchosity Podcast.

If you're looking for the place to have a conversation about church culture but through the

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Coming atcha! Coming atcha! I'm in a good mood today. Awesome! Yeah! Can you tell? I can tell. I can hear it

in your voice. Yeah. I don't sound all knowing, call you or you need to press on this episode. No.

I'm pretty fired up for this episode. Good! We're gonna have a good time. All right. How you doing over

there Andy? You're doing okay. Yeah. Yeah. What's going on? Same old, same old. Yeah. Yeah. How about a

little Oscar update? Oh, our little puppy. Yeah. He's getting really big. Yeah. And he's so good.

Even when he's naughty he's good. I mean how could you not love this cute little face? I know. He's

really sweet. Yeah. Yeah. He's definitely a lovey. He's got me wrapped. Yeah. He sure does.

He's teething right now. Poor guy. Got those little teeth coming in. You can hear him whimpering when

he's chewing and stuff. It's cute but at the same time it's kind of like when your kids have the flu. You

can't really fix it for him. I know. It's rough. I know. Really rough. It's rough. Are you FF? But I'm

psh. Good one. Sorry. I'm so punny. Yep. You are. Well obviously we fared well during the Arctic blast

of 2024 for the greater Salam Oregon area. Yeah. We did okay. Although it was it was it was pretty

intense. Yeah. I was scary. Yeah. Some serious snow but even more serious ice. Yeah. Like inches of ice.

It looks like snow but it's not snow. It's ice. Yeah. So you can't go out and play in it. No.

It's kind of lame. Can't even walk out the front door. No. And poor the poor puppies. You know

whenever they have to go out to go to the bathroom. Yeah. They're like what are you doing to us?

Can't get traction. Yeah. I just leave it. I'll just leave it there. But I do have to say

that I have about had it with Oscar’s “Dung Sui”. Yeah. Oh gosh. And for those of you who are not dog owners

or are dog owners and are not familiar with the term “Dung Sui”. This is the process by which your

pet animal decides where they're going to go to the bathroom. Yeah. They take their own sweet time

doing it. That's to be just right. Yeah. And like especially during that Arctic blast. Like it's 12

degrees outside. It's like we were here. And I'm like bro. Yeah. I'm going to turn into an ice

sculpture out here. And then you're going to have to come thaw me off. Yeah. So yeah. I'm thankful

that that's coming gone. The Arctic blast and it's starting to warm up and things have melted or

starting to they're almost done melting. And there's a lot of green grass out there. So the Dung Shwee

doesn't last as long. Oh gosh. Another quick update. I'm very proud of us. We got all the Christmas

stuff done. Yeah. And finally put away everything. All the boxes and everything. We are officially

undecorated. Yeah. I don't even think there's a towel or a place map. I know. Left lingering. So we're

pretty. I'm pretty happy about that. I went out in the yard to take care of some things and I came

back in and I was like, where'd everything go? Yeah. And you were up there next to the closet. And I

was like dang girl. Yep. And it makes you want to spring clean now. Once you get all those

decorations down and all the boxes put away. It's like, oh, now we get a spring clean. It's

some dusting. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. It was funny. I was taking down the red and white lights out in

the yard and one of the neighbors walked by and he was like, you could just leave him up. They could

be Valentine's Day decorations. And it's funny because I had just said the same thing to you before

I went outside. Can't we just leave him up? Because it was cold. I didn't want to go out there but

it had to be done. Had to be done. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, as I said, I'm really looking forward to this

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So look for us at patreon.com/ChurchosityPod. Do it. All right, Andy. Yes. Business handled. Let's

get into this. All right. So we've been having this conversation about planting seeds that we as

followers of Jesus Christ are constantly casting seeds in the direction of others, whether we like it

or not. And not all of those seeds are good seeds. Some of them are bad seeds. And the goal is to

cast as many good seeds as we possibly can. Remember how we discussed on our previous episodes that

it's like we have these two bags one on each hip. And the one on one side which represents the

good seed is constantly full because we're saved by grace alone through faith alone. And so we have

constant unending access to that bag of good seeds. And then we also have the bag that is for bad

seeds which is empty most of the time. And then we have to work to go find those seeds. Remember

Romans 623 the wages of sin is death. We have to work at it. How ironic that it takes a lot more work

to do the things that we shouldn't do. Yeah. What do I always like to say that Christianity is simple

but Christians make it hard? That's true. Yeah. So along those lines of this rather wonderful and

lengthy conversation about seeds and seed planting and seed casting and all of that stuff.

I thought we'd shift gears a little bit maybe go in a bit of a different direction in this

conversation. Still talking about seed planting. But from the vantage point of the seeds that we

plant in our own lives. Okay. You know like let's let's take a hard look in the mirror here ladies and

gentlemen. Gut check. This is your gut check episode ladies and gentlemen. I just want to warn everybody

that on this episode you're going to be in for a treat because you're going to experience something

that rarely ever happens on this show. What? I'm going to get a little preachy and opinionated. Yeah.

Because that never happens. Great. Well I like to say that if I wasn't occasionally preachy

and opinionated we wouldn't even have a podcast would we? No. No. It'd be instead of the church

Ossity Podcast it would be the Christian Ees Ossity Podcast. Yeah exactly. I wouldn't be on it either. Wow.

You go start your own show. Yeah. We want to just kind of look within ourselves and not in like the

naval gazing new age kind of way. But from the through the lens of scripture and the high calling

that we have placed before us as followers of Jesus Christ. Because it is a high calling. And yet

you know we we talk a lot on our show Andy about proper theology you know having having the

proper view the correct view of who God is and how a person is saved. Right. We talk about that a

lot. We also talk about secondary issues you know doctrinal differences. You know

eschatological differences hermeneutical differences things like that. And how 99% of those things are fun

conversations around the water cooler but certainly not anything to like split hairs or split company

over. Right. We also mentioned tertiary things things that just like you know who really cares like

do they really matter like whether you go to church on Sunday or Saturday you know for an example.

Or do angels have wings. Yeah. Yeah. Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

There and then there's all these other levels of conversation in between that for the sake of time

I won't thoroughly go into right now. But I I mentioned that now I bring that up here because

part of this conversation about the self seed planting is kind of needing to do an inventory of

the things that make us tick in our walk. And how we relate to others when we are walking in our walk

when we are working out our own salvation with fear and trembling. You know Paul wrote that it was

for freedom that we were set free. Yeah. That we were released from the bondage of sin and death that

we were released from the bondage of religion that we were set free from being captive to feeling like

we have to do or say things or not do or not say things in order to get God to accept us or like us

more. Right. That Christ because of his salvific payment on the cross we have been released from all of

that. And there is so much to say about that liberty that we have because while on the one hand Paul

would say that it's for freedom that we are set free. On the other hand he would also say what then

should we send up a storm so that grace may abound may it never be so. Right. So when it comes to

what I'm getting at here is that looking at the inventory the spiritual inventory the religious

inventory of our own lives. Looking at the shelves of seeds and plants that we have in our own lives if you

will. Those different convictions that we have those different beliefs that we have those different

doctrinal views that the the theology etc etc. How much do they not only impact our closeness with God

but the ripple effect also of our closeness or how we relate with others. Because there is a fine line you

can get yourself into trouble here when you're constantly feeding yourself the same seed over and

over and over again especially when it's a secondary or tertiary issue and you can run into legalism.

Right. Because you start feeling like you have you know all the boxes checked off in your religious views

and everybody else should tell the line and do as you do and if they don't then they're not worthy

of your time or they're not as good as you are. You know thank you Lord that I'm not like that tax

collector over there you know that that kind of an attitude. On the flip side you can get yourself

into a lot of trouble when you start feeling like you can do whatever you want to because you're saved

by grace alone through faith alone. So there's there's this fine line between legalism and liberty

is what I'm trying to get out here and that's where the freedom lies and I feel like

Paul does a really good job of addressing this in the book of Romans. Okay. Specifically in Romans chapter 14

and I wanted to read several verses here. This is a letter that Paul is writing to the church in Rome

depending on the Bible or Bible app that you are using there might be a header at the top of this

chapter. From mine it says principles of conscience. Normally I'm not much of a plug for man's

effort to summarize what scripture is about and print it in the Bible but I feel like they kind of nailed

it with this one because this section of scripture in Romans 14 deals with your conscience the things

that you are convicted or not convicted to worry about or not worry about. And I think Paul does

a really good job handling this. So I just want to read through it and address a couple of things and

then we'll move on. Is that cool? Sure. Yeah. All right. So Romans chapter 14 starting in verse 1.

Now accept the one who is weak. That's ACCEPT. Accept like accept receive.

Accept the one who is weak in faith but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.

We just preach a whole sermon on that verse. One person has faith that he may eat all things

but he who is weak gets vegetables only. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one

who does not eat and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats. For God has accepted

him. Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls and he will

stand for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person regards one day above another,

another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

He who observes the day observes for the Lord and he who eats does so for the Lord for he gives

thanks to God and he who eats not for the Lord he does not eat and gives thanks to God.

For not one of us lives for himself and not one dies for himself. For if we live we live for the Lord

or if we die we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live or die we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ died and lived again that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Verse 10. But you why do you judge your brother or you again why do you regard your brother with

contempt for we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written, as I live says the

Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall give praise to God. Verse 12. So then each one

of us will give an account of himself to God and then he drives it out of the park in verse 13.

Therefore let us not judge one another anymore but rather determine this not to put an obstacle

or a stumbling block in a brother's way. I know that's a lot of scripture but I'm a context

Christian and I could have just read verse 13 and then we would have sat here for the next 20 minutes

with me trying to explain what Paul was getting at. So the best way to have scripture be explained

is to let scripture explain scripture. Yeah in context. Exactly. So Paul is addressing some issues that

some some literal issues that the church in Rome is struggling with things about eating and things

about what days to worship on and etc. And he uses this conversation as an example to say that not

every single follower of Christ has the same level of convictions about things. And that depends on

so many different factors. And the obvious go to one that everybody likes to references like the

example of drinking wine or alcohol. Right. Right. There are some people believe that drinking alcohol

is fine. Some people believe that alcohol is the devil's drink and then there's everybody in between.

That's not the focus of the conversation. The focus of the conversation is verse 13 that we

should not judge one another but determine this not to put an obstacle or stumbling block in a

brother's way. So for instance, if if person A doesn't think that drinking alcohol is bad,

but invites person B over to their house for dinner who does believe that alcohol is not good for

them. They're not going to have wine laying around the house to upset them or cause a problem.

Not like they're going to hide it from them. That's not what I'm getting at here. But to respect

one another's convictions is what I'm getting at. What does this have to do with the seed planting

conversation? Well, I feel like we in the church run into a lot of trouble casting negative

seeds that look like this where we're passing judgment on other people because we don't see eye to

eye on secondary and God forbid tertiary things especially. Even theologically, maybe our hermeneutic

is different. Maybe one person is a dispensationalist and the other person is covenantal but they can't go

out and get a coffee because their systematic theology is different. So rather than be unified in the

fact that whether you are covenantal or dispensational, Christ has died for your sins and you are saved by

grace alone through faith alone. We would rather cast those negative seeds into our own lives

by saying that person isn't as good of a Christian as I am because of XYZ. Well, that's pride.

That's the root of it. Sure. I would imagine. Yeah. What are your thoughts on that Andy?

Well, yeah, I mean, that seems very judgy and I know that we have to try not to be judgy all the time.

I think as Christians it's easy to fall into that trap of being judgy but that's just because we lose

sight of our like I say the eternal divine perspective that God saved us. Christ saved us. We're not

knee better than anybody else. We're all in the same boat and without him we're nothing. Amen.

And those negative seeds in that area is just pride of you thinking that you're better and that

you've got it all figured out and somebody else they just aren't as far along in their Christian

walk as you are or whatever you want to say but when you're when you catch yourself doing that you

really need to repent and go to the Lord and ask for forgiveness and be full of praise and thank

thank the Lord for the relationship that you have with him. Exactly. Be thankful and praise Jesus

for your convictions for the things that you that he shows you and it's between you and him.

Right. And when you start thinking that you need to be

Jiminy cricket and somebody else's life that's the that's a problem. Yeah, I think Jesus said

something in regards to that about uh specs and planks in eyes. Yeah. Yeah, you do have to be careful.

I mean we're not supposed to turn a blind eye when your your brother is in sin but yeah,

we really need to examine ourselves before we take any steps to try to show their brother your

brother sister in Christ what what's wrong. Right. It's a fine line and we have to be careful because we

can fall right into that sin or into the sin of pride. Mm hmm. Yeah. That's all part that's such good

stuff. Andy, that's all part of that freedom that we were set free for the freedom to worship Christ,

the freedom to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Mm hmm.

Everyone's path of sanctification looks different. And even if you're a Christian for 50 years,

you're still not going to agree on everything with another Christian that's been a Christian for 50

years. There's so many factoring things that go into convictions and and things that you regard as

quote unquote right or wrong. Like you mentioned pride, Andy, that's that that's that fine you know

that fine line between legalism and liberty. You know, either you're stuck in the pride of doing

whatever you want to do or you're stuck in the pride of making sure that nobody else gets to do what

they want to do. Mm hmm. They all have to do what you're doing, right? Mm hmm. Or think how you think

or talk how you talk. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, when I was a baby Christian,

I walked that line of being judgy kind of and wanting everyone to

try to see things the way I saw them at the time. But I didn't realize that

some of the things that people were you know that they were liberal about are we're actually

them displaying their maturity. And I was the one that was actually the baby.

You know, because I had such hard nose, black and white views of every single thing. And I thought

everybody else should feel that way too. It doesn't that kind of rob the Christian of Christ-like love

when they're operating from that attitude. Mm hmm. It's kind of like the difference between say being

a John the Baptist versus being a noisy gong. Right. Because who's I mean who's not to say that the

things that you were communicating in that situation weren't right, it's just like we were we fall

into the trap of being so judgmental. And those those judgmental those loveless seeds that we plant in

our own lives, man, those things grow. And the more we do it, the more we act like that, the more

holier than now we can get. And it's so dangerous. And the freedom that we were set free for is the

freedom to be one in the body of Christ. And yet we just find so many different ways to cut off

fingers and toes in the body. Because oh, you know, that person that person's a cessation list and

that person's a continuation-ist or that person thinks that you should eat fish on Friday or that

you know what I'm saying? Mm hmm. You know, and I'm I'm being kind of flippant just trying to pull

examples out of the out of thin air for things that people divide over. Mm hmm. But that's not freedom.

That's another version of slavery. Mm hmm. That's much like the the church of the Galatians

who Paul was shocked that they had returned to this works oriented religion because at the end of

the day, that's what legalism is. Right. It's you know, all the boxes I got to check off. You know what I mean?

Yeah. In that spiritually immature attitude with that attitude that I had that was spiritually

immature, I feel like at the moment I thought I was casting good seeds, but really I was casting bad

seeds. Mm hmm. And it was in my pride that I felt like I was I must have been blinded by my pride.

In the moment to continue casting those kinds of seeds around. Right. And you know, I feel bad about

that looking back. I mean, there's nothing I can do about it. Now I've just grown a lot and I can see

that kind of stuff in my all the way. Sure. Which is good. But but but being able to recall that because

because we've all what's that the the the cage stage. Yeah. Of Christianity. We've all been there.

And it's healthy to look back at that and remember like Paul says, remember the things that were

before. You know, Paul says as were some of you formerly like these are things that that we've

all wrestled with to one degree or another. That's part of the pruning process. Yeah. Like to see the

unfruitfulness that we put on display, even in ignorance. You mentioned fruit and really the

source of all of your seeds should be love your good seeds. If you're casting a bunch of seeds

that don't have love in them, they're really from the bad seed bag. Yeah. Like when we talked about

the fruits of the spirit, the very first one is love. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul says these three

remain faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Jesus said that the world will know that

we are his disciples in that we love each other. Right. So is it or is it not loving one another

in the church when we divide over and fight over things like this. That's not loving. No, it's not.

It's not. And you know, I dare say that it can lead down the path of

becoming a self-deputized sin police. And that's not fun. Talk about hard work at sinning.

There you go. I had another thought about this in this conversation about the seeds that we

plant in our own lives. You know, we have we do have to take responsibility for the things that we do

and do not allow in our lives because let's face it, even as Christians, especially as Christians,

because we do know the difference between righteousness and unrighteousness. We have this tendency to

have garbage in, garbage out mentality. But along those same lines of legalism, as we were discussing,

we also have to be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking that things that bring us joy,

things that we enjoy in our life as being quote unquote, worldly. What do you mean? Well, you know,

there's this view in Christianity that when you become a Christian, that when you become a

follower of Jesus Christ, that you know, you shouldn't do things that are worldly. Like go to the

movies or listen to music or watch certain TV shows or you know what I'm saying? Right. And a lot of

times, Scripture can be weaponized in that regard. True. But we also have to make sure that we're

guarding our heart. Yes. Because I mean, honestly, it starts small. You can just think, Oh, this is fine.

And you know, I'm not going to worry about this. And it's maybe a little questionable. Maybe it

rubs you a little bit the wrong way. And it's a, you're sowing a negative seed or a bad seed in your

life. And that grows and grows and grows. And all of a sudden, you realize your desensitized.

Yeah. There's one particular verse that speaks to this Psalm 101 verse three. And it's funny to me

because I've heard this verse misquoted and misappropriated so many times. It's I will set no

worthless thing before my eyes. Now I have heard this quoted as I will put no unclean image before

my eyes. I have heard this quoted. I will put no unclean thing before my eyes. I've been in people's

houses where they have made a sign or bought a poster and hung that phrase above their television.

Well, now playing devil's advocate, no pun intended. Okay. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

No, I don't because it tells me that that person has a certain level of conviction about the type of

programming that they watch. What I want to get at here is that that is not what this verse says.

It says, I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. What I'm getting at here is that when we think

about the things that are unclean, let's just use that improper rendering of this verse as an

example. I will set no unclean image before my eyes. Okay. It's fair. I mean unclean worthless

whatever. Right. But what is it about the thing that makes it unclean? It has no eternal value.

And that's what this word here in the Hebrew actually means. I will set no worthless thing before

my eyes. It is of no value. It's utterly worthless. It is completely unprofitable. Which makes it wicked.

It leads to destruction. So you were talking about those bad seeds that we water and cultivate that

over time, they sprout up and they can become a huge problem that we are responsible for guarding

our own hearts. That starts with how much value we put on the thing.

Looking at all things through the lens of the eternal perspective, is this thing that I'm doing,

is this thing that I'm involved in, is this activity, this people group, whatever, is their eternal

value to this? Is it for my eternal good or is it not? Rather than saying, oh, that show contains

such and such. So it's from the devil. True. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. And I want to let you know

that it is not only is it okay to have a high level of conviction for yourself to hang that

sign above your television as an example and be very, very strict about the things that you watch

because I understand that. There's because I have certain levels of conviction about things too

because I don't want stuff in my head. But it's also okay to not have to have that sign hanging

above your television and let the Holy Spirit work on your heart. Right. Both are okay. That's part

of that freedom that we were set free for. And I know that I'm getting myself in the trouble here

by saying this, but go back to Romans 14 about respecting one another's convictions. Remember,

where Paul says that we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. It's like you said earlier,

Andy, our walk is between us and Jesus. Right. It's not we're not responsible for somebody else's walk

outside the extent that we don't create a stumbling block for them to trip up and fail.

Oh, right. So if something isn't worthless to us, it doesn't mean it's not worthless to the next guy

or go. And so when we're thinking about in context of planting seeds in our own lives,

how many worthless seeds are we planting in our own lives? A better way of looking at that is

because you mentioned on a previous episode, Andy, about time, talent and treasure. Yeah.

How much of our time, talent and treasure is being wasted on things that are eternally worthless?

A lot.

Eternally unprofitable. A lot.

That lead to wickedness. That could lead down the path of everyone or destruction.

I don't know. Yeah. And I want to be careful here because I don't want to come across this sounding

like I'm legalistic or I'm trying to sound trying to be legalistic here because trust me,

ladies and gentlemen, I am not legalistic. I know that. That's for sure. Wow. Sorry.

But at the same time, the words of Paul once again resonate with me personally.

Why is it that I do the things I don't want to do? Read that worthless things.

And why is it that I don't do the things that I know I should be doing? The things that are actually

profitable, right? Yeah. Whatsoever things are wholly pure just, if there be any virtue or any

praise, think on these things. Well, those are the good seeds that we should be planting in our lives.

And I don't ever like to speak for anybody else. So I'm going to speak for myself only right now.

I'm not very good at this all the time. Yeah. I waste so much time, talent and treasure

on things that have no eternal worth or value whatsoever. Doesn't necessarily mean that they're

all bad for me, but it also doesn't necessarily mean that they have value. And that's why I've been

excited to have this conversation because it's kind of me pulling back the curtain and showing you

the wizard behind the microphone. I mean, I think if we could have a time machine and actually go

back and experience life in the first century church and see what the first century Christians,

how they lived their life and the things that they occupied their time with, the things that they

thought about and the things that drove them and motivated them and excited them, the things that

they pursued on a daily basis and the ways that they loved each other, helped each other, loved God,

spread the good news, we would be in shock. Yeah. Because in today's society and culture,

I mean, we just have so many distractions. We have so many things, ways to entertain ourselves, ways to

I don't know, waste our time, talent and treasure, distractions that will render us in effective

over and over and over again all day long. Yeah. And it's a constant battle and struggle. And

may not to be legalistic about it, but I just think honestly we would be in shock. If we went back and

saw what things were like back then, I agree. I don't even think, I mean, it just because of who we are

and how we live and in our society, we can't even fathom what life would be like.

Not to mention the fact that some of the heaviest church persecution

Yeah, took place in the first century. Yeah. And yet that's when the church exploded in Europe and Asia.

And we don't even have the first clue of what real persecution for your faith looks like in this country.

We are so blessed. Happy, fortunate, lucky in the United States of America to, I mean, think about it

this way, Andy. And I don't mean to sound like sarcastic or or flippant here, but just imagine the

first century Christians trying to have a church-osity podcast. Okay. You see what I'm getting at? Yeah.

Like we have so much freedom and and I find us wasting so much of that freedom.

So the question therefore comes up. How do we shift gears? Yeah.

You know that phrase, the youth is wasted on the youth. I was thinking the same exact thing.

I mean, freedom is wasted on the free. Yeah. Yeah. I literally was bouncing around my head. I'm just

I'm thankful that God loves me despite and He saved me and He chose me and He is working on me despite

everything. Well, and that's grace, right? Yeah. All of life is grace. You know, I mean, I know that

this is kind of a heavy episode, but it shouldn't be. It's a reality check. Yeah. This is really the nuts

and bolts of the Christian faith here, ladies and gentlemen. You know, are you saved by grace alone or not?

Are you saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone or not? Absolutely. And

therefore, what do you do about it? Right? Mm-hmm. Or rather, how do you find out what to do about it?

Spend time in the Word. Exactly. My my tie offer is suggestion. Hmm.

Psalm 119 verse 11. Your Word, I have treasured in my heart that I might not sin against you.

We've probably heard that verse millions of times. Mm-hmm.

That verse is so convicting for me. Your Word, I have treasured in my heart, literally hidden,

literally treasured, stored up, like stacked to the rafters. So we ask the question, how do we change

focus? Where do we start? Where do we even begin? And you mentioned Andy, spending time in the Word,

spending time with the Lord. I dare say that that's where our good seed bag gets full.

I mean, it doesn't, you just don't wake up every day and it's full. Right. I mean, in some ways,

God gives you the wisdom in the moment to spread a good seed. Sure. But, you know, I think spending time

in the Word really fills up your good seed bag. Hey, the Israelites had to go get their mana.

That's true. They did, didn't they? Just imagine if God had let it fall where they were sleeping.

Mm-hmm. Well, that'd be like the quail. Yeah. And yet, they still complained. Well, at least we had

fish back in Egypt. Well, they had so much quail. It was coming out their nose. I know. Not funny.

Yeah. So funny. Your Word, I have treasured in my heart. I have stored up. I have hidden

so that I might not sin against you. I love Psalm 119 because every single verse talks about

God's Word. Mm-hmm. It's beautiful. Yeah, just a few verses down on verse 15, I will meditate on your

precepts and regard your ways. I shall delight in your statutes and shall not forget your Word.

Like it's, I mean, you hit the nail on the head, Andy. Mm-hmm. You know, those things that are deemed

worthless in our lives, what if we took those seeds of worthlessness and cast them away, burn them

and replace them with the good seed of the Word? Yeah. So that we were stored up with the Lord's

precepts, the law of the Lord, the statutes of the Lord, our time with the Lord to the point where

our bounty overflows. Right. Let's look at verses 17 and 18. Okay. Deal bound to flee with your

servant that I may live and keep your Word. Open my eyes that I may be hold wonderful things from your

law. And I think that it just really shows a good relationship with Jesus seeking him, keeping

your eyes on him and knowing that, you know, from him, he'll discipline you, he'll strengthen you,

he'll show you the way to go, he'll help you keep his commandments. And, you know, if there be

any wicked way in me, he'll he'll show it. But you have to keep your eyes on him and seek that truth

from him. 100%. I think that verses 17 and 18 are a beautiful prayer. Deal bound to flee with your

servant. Have your way. You know, I mean, be careful what you pray for. Yeah. But seriously though,

you know, you you want to have a life that produces good seed over and over and over again in your

own life so that you can cast good seed into the lives of others. Let the Lord deal bound to flee with us

so that we can live and keep his Word. Amen. And that's all we have to say about that.

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