The Parable of the Sower

If you have your Bibles open there in Luke's Gospel and you can be ready at times to turn to Matthew and Mark, but they are all repetitions very, very closely of the same story that the Lord Jesus Christ preached three times. It's recorded three times and it's one of those parables where we don't have any doubt what the meaning of the parable is.

And the prayer that I pray for all of us that accompanies us is that the Lord might cause us to hear his word. That's how Song of Solomon finishes. Song of Solomon is the most beautiful interaction between the Lord Jesus Christ and his bride. And I love how it finishes. We've seen all of the joys that she's had in the presence of God as he draws her into his banqueting house and he's banner over her is love and we've seen her fall and fall and fall and the Lord comes back and he restores her and he restores her and it's wonderful. And at the end of it, She says, thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice.

All the companions listen to your voice of this great God and saviour. And then she prays this wonderful prayer, Song of Solomon 8 verse 13, calls me to hear it. What a great prayer that is. What a great prayer that is. This is the prayer of someone. This is the prayer of the church. This is the prayer of the bride of Christ to her husband. And so here we have this amazing declaration and as someone who's been preaching the gospel for some considerable time to people in several continents and to many, many, many people over the years. These parables of the soils are both incredibly challenging and incredibly comforting.

And we have no doubt about what the seed is. The seed is the living word of God. And the remarkable thing about the seed, the remarkable thing, next time you have a slice of toast, just think about it. That bread, that wheat, is made into that bread in 2026 because life went back and back and back. There's a continual chain of life all the way back to when God said, let there be. Isn't that remarkable? And the same with us, isn't it? There's a continual chain of life. What a lovely picture of how God begins.

The life is in the seed, and it's the life's in the seed from creation. And the gospel is the seed, is the word of God. It's the truth. It's the word of the truth of the gospel. And where there is no gospel, there is no Christ. And where there is no Christ, there is no life. There is no light, there's no growing, there's no producing, despite what men want to do. God begins life, a life in his people that reminds them and reveals to them the life that began before the foundation of the world, just as with the seed. Listen to how James describes it. Of his own will, Begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Blessed eyes and blessed ears, who has ears to hear, let him hear. Let's hear.

Now I want to deal relatively briefly with the three unproductive ones and I want to spend most of my time looking at what it is for the good soil to be good and to be made good and then what then is able to grow in that soil and what's the fruit of it. So that's where I want to go. But let's look first at these parables. The seed fell by the wayside.

I'm reading from Matthew's Gospel. We can turn to Luke as well occasionally. Therefore, in verse 18 of Matthew chapter 13, when anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is the wayside hearer. And don't forget, the word that's being proclaimed is the gospel.

God is the sower. Christ is the seed. God sows, Christ is the seed, and the Holy Spirit makes a good ground. And the seed falls and is lost. almost immediately as it falls to the ground. No doubt these people walked past these fields where seed was being sown. In India, one of the wonderful things about being in India, in the rural parts of India where we were, all of the Old Testament was just alive as it ever was. You saw the oxen ploughing, you saw the fields, you saw the people out there scattering the seed. And the past, because the soil is precious, The paths were actually quite narrow. They're not big, broad highways. They're paths that will allow for people to walk on them, but they're well-trodden paths and they're in the midst...

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We'll tend to it before next week, I'm so sorry. We were looking, if you come back with me, we were looking at the seed that fell by the wayside. It fell on this path and it had no possibility of penetrating the soil. And the gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ said that Satan comes immediately and he takes away the word. And listen to where it was. The Lord had actually summoned in the hearts of these people and it was taken away. It's remarkable, isn't it? It was taken away. The seed falls and it's lost. And it's taken away by the fowls of the air. And Satan is the prince of the power of the air, the fowls of the air. Air's everywhere. As we walk, the air is all around. And I love Spurgeon's comment on this, and I just want to be brief about it.

But he said, notice how zealous the devil is. We may be careless about ourselves, but he never is. Although the seed lay on the surface and not in the soil and it was trodden on, Satan was not satisfied. He said, there might be life in it and if there is, it's dangerous to have it lying there because it might possibly grow. So he comes and he takes it away altogether.

Now I want to say right at the very beginning that In all of these four soils, the child of God sees himself as all four. The children of this world are one of the three, and they don't see themselves as one of the three. They see themselves as the good soil all the time. That's the mystery of the kingdom of God, that God has to reveal the truth of it.

So they're the wayside hearers, and it was an immediate taking away. immediately, and the seed that fell on the stony places." Mark 4, verse 16. And these are they likewise, which are sown on the stony ground, who when they have heard the word immediately, they receive it with gladness. If I had a dollar for everyone that I've ever shared the gospel with or preached to who have been excited about it, immediately excited about it, and they've gone away because they're offended by the word of God. So this Stony Ground here has no root. They have, verse 17 of Mark chapter four, they have no root in themselves. They have no root.

I love what Job said. We want to know what the root is. Let's turn back with me to Job chapter 19. You might recall that this is at the heart of this remarkable passage of scripture where Job speaks, that Job said, why are you persecuting me seeing, verse 28, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? And what's the root of the matter? Verse 25, for I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me." Job. Job went through trial after trial, the most extraordinary trials, from Satan, from his wife, from his friends. And yet the root of the matter was in him. These people, according to the Lord Jesus Christ, have no root in them.

There is this immediate response of how wonderful it is. It's wonderful to think that there's a heaven. It's wonderful to think that there's a savior. It's wonderful to think that salvation is by free and sovereign grace. It's wonderful to think that. But God says there's no root in them. There's no depth. They're just shallow. There's no conviction of sin, there's no repentance, there's no faith. There is no counting the cost. It's immediate.

Stony places obviously are a reflection of the stony hearts that we all have. And only the Lord's people know the stoniness of their hearts. Only the Lord's people know the waywardness of themselves. I find myself on the wayside so often where you have some beautiful word from God and then almost immediately you've forgotten what it was. It's been lost. And sometimes, so often, All the time, in reality, I find my heart just stone.

And I'm so thankful that God promises in Ezekiel 11 and Ezekiel 36 that he comes and he takes away a heart of stone. And what's he put in there? He puts a heart of flesh in his people. He does a hard work in the hearts of his people. That's the only way the stony heart is removed.

And listen to what it says. They have no root in themselves, and so endure for but a time, and afterwards, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake, Immediately they are offended. They immediately receive with great joy and they are immediately offended. That word offended is scandal. The word we have, scandal. The gospel is a scandal to the natural people of this world.

That's happened in John chapter six. You can go back and look at it in John six. The Lord Jesus Christ performed the most remarkable miracle, feeding thousands and thousands of people with a couple of fish and a few loaves. And then he declared who God is. He declared who he is as God. And he declared how God saves sinners.

No man can come to me. No man can. No man will. He speaks of the depravity of man and the sovereign saving grace of God Almighty. And a crowd of thousands left. And he turned to Peter and the apostles and said, there's the door. And they said, what did they say? You alone have the words of eternal life. The children of God have nowhere else to go to.

You know the story of Luke chapter four, the Lord Jesus Christ back in Nazareth preaching. and doing wonders around that whole part of Galilee and preaching the gospel. And he came and preached the gospel in the most wonderful way. And those people in that synagogue, in church, heard the Lord Jesus Christ preaching. And in Luke chapter four, they wondered at the gracious words that he preached.

And then he declared what it is for God to have mercy on whom he'll have mercy. And what happened? Immediately, they immediately rejoiced and they immediately were offended because he declared himself to be God. He will save who he will, when he will, how he will, according to his will. The great issue, isn't it?

The great issue that offends mankind is that Satan told us in the garden, you shall be as gods. And religion and man comes into this world thinking that we have God under our control in some way or another and we can entice him to do something or move him to do something by our activities. And the gospel, the word of God declares that you're in God's hands. All of humanity's in God's hands.

And he can do with you as he sees fit. And whatever he sees fit to do is good and right because he is good and righteous. And that's offensive. That's offensive to man. And there's a trial that comes, and the trial comes because of the Word of God. The trial comes because of the Word of God. Do you think of the trials that we have had because of the Word of God? This is what God says. We're not here to give our opinions about God's Word, we're here to say this is what God says. and the word naturally offends man, and the word exposes the stony hearts of men."

They're offended, they're scandalized. And the third category of these three soils is, these are they which are sown among the thorns, such as hear the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in. And Luke goes on to talk about the pleasures of life, the deceitfulness of riches and the pleasures of life. And they come and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. The cares of this world. Why do we have cares about this world? Unbelief. Unbelief. Whose world is it?

He has the right to do as he sees fit with this world. The sun shines because the Lord Jesus Christ is making it shine. He upholds all things by the power of his word. Why should we be troubled about what happens in this world? I know there are troubles in this world, and I know we don't want to be contemptuous of the pains and the difficulties that others have, but it's unbelief. This is God's world. This is God's world. He's set this world in slippery places. It can fall by its own weight at its own time of God's choosing.

We think that mankind has built something, And we think that because we live in this particular time in this world where we're the first generation that's lived for 80 years without any serious troubles whatsoever. It's remarkable. I did economics. I'm embarrassed about having done economics, but anyway, they said that, what was the story? They said that economics was created to make, Astrology, same reasonable. Because what they're trying to do is predict what the future is. Who holds the future? Who holds the future? They're trying to understand what happens in this world.

You can't understand it. But the longer, one of the things I learned is that the longer things go on without a major correction in the world, it's like a balloon that puffs up, and the more air you put into the balloon, the more amazing it looks, and from a distance, the more impressive it looks, and the more wonderful it looks. and the bigger it gets, the more fragile it is. This world, this world is falling. This is not our home, brothers and sisters. We don't belong here. We don't belong. This is no place to build our nest.

I'm thankful for the things the Lord brings to his people in this world. But there's the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches. Riches are so incredibly deceitful, aren't they? Because we actually have something in our hands that we can hold on to, which we think we can manipulate things with and gain things with and control things with. The deceitfulness of riches is you shall be as gods with your riches.

I can do as I like. Anyway, the pleasures of this life. So this here, a bit like the stony ground here, he ascends to the gospel and he begins well and they go a long way in their religion. They approve of the gospel, they are moved by the gospel, they have experienced a lot and they've done much and they seem to know much and they appear very spiritual.

His problem lies hidden for a while. All of God's children, are aware of the fact that they are wayside hearers. They are hearers with hearts that are so stony and they live amongst the thorns of their flesh in this world. And in all three of them, the word has been choked out.

But as I said at the beginning, I wanted to spend most of my time, if the Lord would allow, on looking at what the good ground is. I love all the farming stories in the scriptures because I spent a whole bunch of time being a farmer and we live in what In the old days, when people relied on the natural resources of the soil and didn't have much that came from outside, where we live in Tarrera was considered to be the best soil in the Commonwealth. And I don't know how you measure that. I wouldn't have a clue how they measured it. And the particular bit that we live in, in Tarrera, used to be called the Golden Circle. And so it goes, the best soil goes along Millbank Road, down Groomham Point Road. back to the river and then back up to our place and it was a swamp in the middle and all around was this amazing soil. My point simply is that the good soil, the good soil initially and fundamentally is good by creation. God makes it good. God made man upright. When God looked over his creation, he said it's good. And man, by his iniquity, fell.

And so what's involved in making that good soil, even where we live, something that produces something other than trees and thorns and briars and other things that just grows them bigger and better than other places? That's all, isn't it? It's good, but for it to receive the living word of God, all that grows there naturally must be killed. You think about it.

I grew some pumpkins there a couple of years ago and I had to plough that paddock up. We ploughed up with a thing called a rotary hoe. You know what a rotary hoe is. They've got these incredibly sharp blades that are polished and sharpened by the soil and they rotate at great speed and they just chop everything to pieces.

If you ever fell in it, you would just come out the other end as little bits and pieces. The point is that all that goes naturally must be killed such that it no longer lives And that same soil must be dug deep so that all the roots are dug out of it.

And then that same soil has the sun beating down on it, and it has the water of God coming upon it to soften the clods and things. And even the westerly wind, which none of us like at all, but the old farmers, when they didn't have fancy fertiliser or anything, they used to say that the westerly wind sweetens the soil. It's a lovely picture of what God does to the soil. The issue, of course, in all of this is that for the soil to be made good, the natural soil has to have an operation from outside of it. While it is passive, God has to do something and it's a violent and powerful force, must be applied to it while it lies there passive. an overwhelming force applied to a chosen and set apart selected place, the good soil.

The Lord likens his church to a garden, a garden enclosed. He's dug it and he's ploughed it and he's planted it. It's a garden enclosed. And you think, you think, of the work of God in producing a soil which is receptive to this particular word of God.

Paul called it a crucifixion. I'm crucified with Christ. It's called a circumcision of the heart. A cutting around our heart. A circumcision which removes our flesh You think of what it is for there to be a grafting into Christ. There is a wound in the stem and there is a wound in the graft and the two are joined together.

There has to be a deep cutting of God for the soil to be made good. There has to be a deep cutting of the law. There has to be the heavy harrow of conviction and the rain, the clods have to be beaten down by the heavy rain. Man, coming out of the garden, thought he was God. Satan preached a three-point message to all of us in the garden. Did God say, Yes, did he say.

You will not die. You're too good to die. You will not die. And the third point of Satan's message was, you're a fine, upstanding piece of work. You can have a will, you can have access, you can eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and you'll be like God. You'll be able to share his glory. Who gets all the glory? You can have some of the glory.

That threefold message has to be borne and broken out of people by a heavy, heavy conviction of God Almighty. Men think that they can manipulate God. And God says, I'm not going to be manipulated by men like you. People think that they can obey the law of God.

There's my friend Colin. And if my friend Colin fell into dire straits and he had to borrow $1,000 from me, and he could keep coming back to me and say, well, look, I'm going to pay it back. I'm sorry. Things got bad. I can't pay it back. I can't pay it back. I can't pay it back. Finally, and because I'm nice, I let him go on for a long time. But finally, I need my $1,000. And I go to Colin. And I say, I want it right now, or your life.

See, people can go to the law of God and think that they can obey the law of God and think that they can get something from the law of God. It's a different matter altogether when the law of God comes to you. What did Paul say in Romans 7? When the law of God came to him in all of its power and all of its holiness and all of its spirituality and says, you owe me perfection. You owe me holiness. You owe me perfect obedience from your heart forever. What did Paul say? I died. I died. I died. All that he had built up was considered manure on the side of the road. There's a deep cutting.

If you turn with me to Isaiah 28, it's a really poignant verse in Isaiah 28 that speaks of those people. And this overwhelming flood will come either in this life or it will come when people leave this life and meet the Lord Jesus Christ. But he speaks of these people that have made a covenant with death and in hell we're in agreement, Isaiah 28.15, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through which shall not come unto us for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hid ourselves. sayeth the Lord God. Behold, I lay in Zion a foundation stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment This is when this conviction comes. Judgment will I lay to the lion and righteousness to the plummet. A plummet has one point. There is only one righteousness and that is the righteousness of God. There's only one righteousness. It's not the righteousness of man. And listen to it.

And hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. What's required to sweep away the refuge of lies? The hail from God Almighty. And water shall overflow the hiding place, and your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, and you'll be trodden down by it." It's going to happen in one or two places. It happens here in Holy Spirit conviction, or it happens when people leave this earth. That's why the Beatitudes are so wonderful, aren't they?

Blessed, blessed are the poor. What's the blessing? To be poor in spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Why are they hungering and thirsting after righteousness? They don't have any of their own. Otherwise they'd be fat and happy, wouldn't they? Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall The blessing is all of those things that God works in the hearts of his people. That's the good soil that he creates in the hearts of his people.

I love what he describes himself. He says, he's the Lord of the vineyard. Don't you love that? He's the Lord of the vineyard. And the time of love. He comes. There is just one sower and there is just one seed. That one seed is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the seed himself just as he is the gospel. And any gospel which denies the gospel in any way is no gospel whatsoever. There is just one gospel. There's one life. There is one way to God and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. And this seed, this sower, plants this seed into the hearts of his people.

Listen to what he says in Matthew chapter 13, speaking of this parable. Why do you speak in parables? He answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. What a wonder it is. God gives his people. How do you know the mysteries of the kingdom of God? The mystery of godliness. Christ was manifest in the flesh. To know Christ and to see Christ and to hear Christ. is a blessing from God Almighty. It's given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. How precious, how precious is the gospel. How precious are eyes to see, how precious are ears to hear.

So the living seed is buried in this prepared soil. It's the seed of regeneration. This preaching of the gospel is the sowing of seed. We're sowing seed, we've been sowing seed for years and years and years. And the Lord Jesus Christ sowed seed for three years.

And you would say, well, for God Almighty to walk on this earth amongst the most religious people that this earth has ever seen, three and a half years, and there didn't seem a whole lot of fruit, did there? Not a whole lot. 120 on the day of Pentecost. 500 gathered at one time.

The seed is always sown exactly and perfectly where it is purposed of God to be sown, and it's always going to bring forth the fruit. And the Lord Jesus Christ will have a great and glorious victory. We need... to have stony hearts removed. We need to be taken from off the wayside. And the good shepherd come over hill and dale and find us where we are lost. And he's got to bring us, and he's got to bring us through all the thorns and the thistles and the things of this world. And he's got to bring us out of all that. We are preaching the gospel. I planted, says Paul. Apollos watered this gospel. And who gave the increase? The only increase that matters, God gave the increase. Is the increase perfect? Is it absolutely perfect? It is perfect.

Gospel preaching, that's why this parable is so poignant, isn't it? Gospel preaching just seems so particularly random. We're just throwing out seeds. We throw out seeds, and it goes on the internet, and it goes all over the world. I'm not sure I don't like looking up the statistics that I'm speaking to the people in front of me, but I think there was, last year, 92 countries and 4,000 people listened to messages from this church.

It's remarkable, isn't it? Listening to me, a pumpkin farmer from Tarrera, fiddling with dirt. But we have to see the treasures in earthen vessels. It's very earthen. It's very earthen from your perspective. It's very earthen from my perspective. But the treasure's in the seed.

It's in the gospel, isn't it? And it comes from faith to faith. God calls it good. God's the only one that judges whether it's good. You call me good. God alone is good. God declares what is good. It's good. It's good because this soil is the soil that is cut so deeply that God's people are caused to live by faith alone. It's good because God purposed it. God created it. It's good because God gets all the glory. It's good because God causes its fruitfulness. The fruit comes from the life that's in the seed. and is brought by faith in God.

When all of that tilling of that soil has gone on, and it's a painful process. If you've been ploughed by God, you know what Holy Spirit conviction is like. And God must do it. Saul of Tarsus experienced it on the Damascus Road. Peter experienced it. He saw the Lord Jesus Christ in a way which you'd never seen him before. And he said, depart from me, Lord, because I'm an evil man. I'm a sinful man. The good soil is ploughed and the fruit which comes from the life of the seed is brought. God gets all the glory. He gives faith. So let's look at this fruitfulness. The first fruits.

I'll turn with me to John chapter 12. We're running out of time and I don't want to be too long, I'm sorry. But I just think this is so wonderfully significant. In John chapter 12, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks in verse 24 of John 12. Where is it here? He says, the hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. And I love this passage of scripture because it's written on our pulpit and it's been here for a long, long time. So we should see Jesus. We would see Jesus. Verse 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is the glorification of the Son of Man.

Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die and abideth alone. It abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. I've planted a lot of seeds. If you plant a wheat seed, what do you get? Wheat, all the time, all the time. You'll never get apples or pumpkins or oranges. You get wheat all the time. They're all after their kind, according to Genesis chapter one. They produce after their kind.

He's sown into the ground. This speaks of his death and his resurrection. What's the good seed? The good seed is a declaration of the death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That good seed, it falls into that ground And in my waywardness, the good shepherd gathered me to himself, and he put to death my waywardness on the cross of Calvary. On the cross of Calvary, he dealt with all of the sins of my stony heart, and he circumcised it, and he put away my sins, and the thorns The thorns of the curse that came upon this world and came into this world because of my sin against God, those thorns were pressed into his head on the cross of Calvary. And that blood flowed from those poisonous thorns and he took away all the poison of them and it's gone forever and ever. He bore our sins in his own body on the tree.

I just want to trouble you for a couple more minutes and I want to look at what the fruitfulness is according to the scriptures. But I love what Song of Solomon talks about in terms of fruitfulness. He said, that my before, you can read it in Song of Solomon chapter four, verses 12 to 16, but it culminates by saying, my beloved came into his garden to eat his pleasant fruits. Don't you love that? The Lord Jesus Christ comes into his garden, the church, and he rejoices in his pleasant fruits. I just want to close with just a few verses and you can look them up in more detail at your leisure, but I trust you will find them a cause of rejoicing.

In Isaiah chapter 57, it talks about this fruit. We're talking about the fruitfulness that comes from this ploughed soil, this soil that's had God do a work on it. In Isaiah 57, verse 19, he says, I create the fruit of lips. Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord, and I will heal him. The blessed man of Psalm 1. the blessed man of someone, and he shall be like a tree planted by rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. This is a description of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He cannot fail, brothers and sisters. He's gonna bring forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Amen. We sing, don't we? His fruit, as Shulamite said in Song of Solomon chapter two, verse 22, 23, his fruit was sweet to my taste. Just a couple more and I'll be done. In Romans chapter seven, people talk about fruitfulness.

And he's talking about the fruitfulness that comes from our marriage to the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. We were in union with him when he lived under the law, but listen to what he says. Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ. I was crucified with Christ. I was crucified with Christ. The law put me to death on the cross of Calvary. The law exacted all of the infinite wrath of God against all of those sins. He magnified the law and honoured it. But listen to what he says.

You become dead to the law by the body of Christ that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead. that we should bring forth fruit unto God. That fruit is the fruit of this marriage. That fruit is the fruit of faith. The fruit is the fruit of looking to Him and rejoicing in who He is and what He has done.

Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 13. It speaks to the fact that those who go to an earthly tabernacle and go back to the law don't have this altar. We have an altar. In verse 13 it says, bearing his reproach. Don't forget the stony ground here is when the reproach of the word of God came, they fell away, we bear his reproach. For we're here, we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

By him, listen to it, by him, he creates the fruit of lips. By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to our God continually. That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. We give thanks to all the name of God, his sovereignty, his holiness, his justice, his righteousness, his wisdom, his power, his love. We give thanks. That's the fruit of lips.

Thank you. Lord, thank you, Lord, for saving me. Cause me to hear your voice. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we do thank you for your word. We thank you for your promise of what you do in the hearts of your people. And we praise you, Heavenly Father, that our Great Shepherd This word comes from heaven, does a work like the rain on this earth, Heavenly Father, and returns to you always perfectly achieving your purpose, your will, your work for your glory. Oh, glorify your Son in us, Heavenly Father. Cause us just to have the fruit of lips that give thanks. to your name, thanks to who you are, thanks to who you are, revealed in your dear and precious son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Bless our time, bless your word to our hearts, and may we now eat and drink in the simplicity of faith that looks to him and him alone for absolutely everything. Fulfil your word in our hearts, Heavenly Father, for the glory of your dear and precious Son, and the rejoicing and the thankfulness in the hearts of your people. We pray these things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ of His glory.

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