Gbile Akanni teaches that believers are called to be the good seed sown by Jesus into the world to bear lasting fruit for God's kingdom in their lifetime.
In 'The Reason For Rehoboth,' Gbile Akanni explores the biblical call for believers to be fruitful in their lifetime by becoming the good seed sown by Jesus into the world. Drawing from Matthew 13 and Genesis 26, he explains how God provides a special season and space for Christians to multiply the life of Christ on earth. This sermon challenges listeners to understand their purpose in God's kingdom and to actively produce lasting fruit that honors God before the final judgment.
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Telephone number 0703-0363659, 0703-7681198. Email address lsmedia at livingfeed.org or visit our website at www.livingfeed.org. Let us sit back and listen as the servant of God brings forth the Word of Life. Our Father, we thank you for this time.
Thank you for your wisdom that you are emitting to us. We thank you for Rehoboth. Thank you that you are the one making room for us to be fruitful in the land.
To bring forth fruit that abides, fruit that abounds, and fruit that are abundant. Holy Spirit, we pray that within this short space of time we have, again you will convey and unveil your heart to us. As regards, what is it that you want to replenish the earth with? You started speaking to us that the seed to sow is first of all a life.
We ask Lord that as we have gone through the songs, this will be a fruitful day. And that the life of Christ must flow through us. Thank you for this time.
Please undertake for us as we go on now. In Jesus Christ name we have prayed. Amen.
Amen. Thank you very much. I was looking at what to sow for your Rehoboth and in this season of Rehoboth.
And I want to kick off again from the passage that I left off on speaking. You know I took a bit of time looking at the Genesis 26 but we quickly moved. We were looking at what to sow and I noted that it was not just giving corn.
It was not just some plants that are external to our lives that God disposed as people. And we saw that Isaac sowed in the land. Isaac invested his life.
And so what God was blessing, what God was increasing was Isaac. The kind of specie of man that he was, was the man that God was increasing. So we are going to pick up again the scripture that I stopped reading with.
And we will combine it back with Genesis 26. So I would like to start from Matthew chapter 13. You know Matthew 13, I was coming from that Hollywood that the Lord himself gave.
I said there are so many issues about the Kingdom of God. And it looks to me as if the Kingdom of God has to do with sowing. The Kingdom of God has to do with sowing and reaping and bringing fruits that multiply.
But what was more deliberate for me as we were looking at that scripture and as we were looking at what to sow was the wisdom that came from that particular parable that the Lord Jesus brought. And I want to build on it because there are several issues that are coming out and I just pray that God will give us understanding particularly again now. Go with me to Matthew chapter 13.
I will read verse 24 again. And I would like you to please note that as we read from verse 24 we will get to verse 30 and we will take one more of those parables that is verse 31 and 32 just to tie together what we are dealing with. Another parable put it forth unto them saying The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sows good seed in his field.
But when men slept, his enemy came and sowed fields among the wheat and went his way. But when the blades were sprung up and brought forth fruit, there appeared the tears also. So the servant of the upholder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in your field? From whence then are these tears? And he said to them, An enemy hath done this.
The servant said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, No. Let while you gather up the tears, you root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until they have it.
And in the time of harvest, I will say to the reaper, Gather ye it together, fetch the tears, and bind them in bundles to pound them, but gather the wheat into my hand. That was the parable. But we would have let this if it was just read as a parable, and we would have been imagining what would it mean.
We would have been talking maybe it was a psalm, and we were just planting some agronomic seeds, and someone else brought a stranger's hand and was putting it. But when the Lord Jesus Christ gave the meaning to the parable he gave, it becomes a very critical issue that we cannot bypass. We need to understand that, because we are talking about the kingdom of God, and we are talking about level box, room for us to multiply, to be fruitful in the land.
As a continuation of the commission that God gave us and said be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it. Now, as we talk to that scripture, there are a few things that are very critical that I will be pointing to you, because if we are going to maximize and engage our level box, if level box itself is a room to be fruitful, a space to be fruitful, a space to bring forth something for the kingdom of God in our own generation, if God is giving us a space to overrun what has been on for years, then it is very important for us to understand what is it that God is asking us to be fruitful about. What is the fruit that God is asking us to produce? And we are going to again trust God to give us simple understanding of where we are going and what we need to do with it.
Now, from that particular passage, let me jump so that I can again tie together with the meaning that Jesus gave. In verse 36, Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the chairs of the field. They were very specific.
They needed an understanding. They came to him when he had dismissed the multitude, and he said, they asked him, Sir, declare unto us the parable of the chairs of the field. What do you mean by that? There are many things that only these disciples could have access to.
And I thank God that God is giving me and you an understanding. And it is because we have come to that space in which God wants to do something in this generation. That's why we are beginning to understand what is God asking for us to do.
Look at that again. And he answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the son of man. So let's take note of that.
That is very important. He that soweth the good seed is the son of man. And know that you now know who the son of man is, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who himself has laid down his life in order to redeem us to himself and to make us children of the kingdom. The Bible says as many as received him to them gave him the power, the authority to become the children of God. So I want you to note now that he that soweth the good seed is the son of man, is the sower.
But now, the field is the world. Oh my brothers and sisters, I hope you are following the word of God. If any of you is going to be fruitful and multiply, permit me to say to you, it must be in this world, not in heaven.
Whatever fruit you did not bring forth while you are in this world is no longer necessary. Whatever you did not produce for God while you are in life and when you have the life, it is of no use anymore. The Bible says it is given unto man once to die and after that there is judgment.
There is no device, there is no wisdom, there is no activity, there is no knowledge, there is nothing else you can do once death finishes with you. If you are a child of God born again, you are going to sleep until the resurrection morning. But you see, as I read this scripture, in the book of Daniel chapter 12, let me ask you to read Daniel chapter 12 very briefly before I continue there.
Now this is very important because the field where our little robot is located, excuse me, is not in heaven, it is here on earth. So when we are talking about little robots has come to you, my friend, let me inform you that it is now and it is in this world that you are going to be fruitful. It is in your lifetime that God is intending for you to be fruitful.
It is now that you have strength, that you have grace, that heaven wants to see fruits, abiding, abounding and abundant fruit in your life, each one of you. None of you will be barren in the name of Jesus Christ. Now in the book of Daniel chapter 12, verse 1, 2 and verse 3, And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of thy people.
And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation. People took that same time, and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting content.
And they that be white shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. And they that turn many to righteousness at the start, forever and ever. Now why am I bringing this? I want you to know that if you are ever going to be fruitful, if you are going to multiply, and the Lord your God is declaring to me and to you at this time, a room for you to be fruitful, that room for you to be fruitful is not just a slogan.
Number one, it is a time. It is a space in your lifetime that God is calling for your life to produce results. It is a space while you are still in this world for you to bring forth fruits the kind that will make Jesus to be fulfilled and to be happy and to find a will of God in our lives bringing results to him.
Now, he said, but many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. And you know as I start to read scriptures I found that every time God wants to describe the death of the righteous or the death of his children, he says they sleep. So I want to say to you that your level board must be activated before you sleep.
You are going to pray and say, Father don't let me sleep until I have brought the fruit I ought to bring. He said many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. He's talking about the resurrection of the saints.
But something that was very touching which Jesus again repeated when you go to Matthew 25 which I'm not going to talk about now. He also repeated it. He said many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.
Some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting content. I do pray that you will not be waking up with all the opportunities that God is giving you on to everlasting content and shame. That the things that you are given opportunities to do while you have life, you didn't do it.
Souls of men that you are supposed to reach and they will be crying and say but you saw me on your streets you didn't tell me anything about this. Now I have missed it. I'm now in hell but you did not tell me.
Everlasting shame and everlasting content. But then look at how the Bible now ended in verse 3 and there that the wives shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. So what are you noting there now? The only way to be wise because if you now go to the book of Proverbs chapter 11 and verse 13 it says those that winneth a soul is wise.
So they that shall be wise they that are producing fruit of this life that we are going to be looking at they are the ones that will shine as the brightness of the firmament and they are the ones that turn many to righteousness they are the ones that will shine as the stars forever and ever. So go back to the passage that I have been trying to deal with. In that passage it says he answered and said unto them he that soweth the good seed is the son of man.
The fields is the world. So I just wanted to explain that the fields is the world. The fields is not in heaven.
The fields is not in the grave. The fields is the world and it's only in the world that God is saying I'm giving you a level up where you are going to be fruitful and where you are going to multiply. Now it says the fields is the world.
The good seeds are the children of the kingdom I will spend time on that God will forgive me. The good seeds are the children of the kingdom but the thefts are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tears are gathered and burning the fire so shall it be in the end of this world. The son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and then that do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their fathers who act ear to ear less in fear.
Now I say this product will be to engage us for today. Engaging us because we need to have an understanding of where we are in the purpose of God. We need to have an understanding of what is God calling us into at this time from different nations from different contexts from different peoples different professional calling and all that we may be engaged in.
We need to have an understanding also Why is God deliberately opening a window onto our lives which he has had left open. Why is God creating this special time this special season for us to be fruitful in the light. Why is God doing that? And this variable captures what we need to say if we spend a little time to look through what God is saying to us.
First and foremost I want you to note that as far as the word of God is concerned he that sows the good seed is the son of man. So permit me to say to you that every one of us that Jesus himself had purchased for himself by his blood. It's one of us that when he died on the cross we were brought to become sons and daughters in the kingdom of God.
I want you to know that you were so saved you were so purchased by the blood of the Lamb you were so delivered and you were so brought to become children of the kingdom so that you might become the good seed in the hand of Jesus. Please my brothers and sisters take note of this this is the first issue I want to raise. That the good seed that Jesus is ready to sow into the world are those men and women that the bible refers to here as the children of the kingdom.
So permit me to say to you have you been saved? Have you been delivered? Have you experienced the salvation of the Lord? Do you have a song of redemption in your mouth to say oh yes I've been redeemed. May I now say to you you were redeemed actually not to be a decoration. You were redeemed actually not to gather I don't know whatever you were redeemed in order to become a seed a good seed in the hand of the Son of Man.
This one of you hearing me if you are hearing the word of God clearly the only reason why when you were redeemed and you were saved and you were brought to share to carry the life of Christ is that you might become a good seed in his hand to be sown into the world in order to multiply the kind the species of life that he has been wanting to multiply on the face of the earth. You remember that Jesus Christ said in John chapter 15 he said I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser you are branches. So if you know God to be the father and is the vine dresser what is the vine dresser growing? Is growing the true vine.
So which means the kind of life and the kind of fruit that God wants to multiply on the face of the earth is the life of Jesus. And so when Jesus Christ comes into a man's life and delivers him from the life of the flesh it is for him to become a seed a good seed in the hand of God to be sown into the world. My friends please hear me if you are not a good seed in God's hand to be sown into the world to repopulate the kingdom of God and to bring the kind of increase that God is looking for then you have missed the reason for your redemption.
Then you have not understood why God had purchased you in the first place. The good seeds are the children of the kingdom. The good seeds they are the children of the kingdom.
And Jesus sowing the good seed is the son of man. It was being very explicit. And I am just saying oh God Look at me here.
I am a seed in the hand of the son of man. And the plan is that he will sow me he will plant me into the world in order to reproduce in order to bring forth fruits of that same kind. You see you cannot plant a particular seed and it will produce a different kind of fruit.
Is it possible? It is not possible. That which a man sows is what he is going to reap. So you see I am beginning to understand that when God takes time to cultivate my life and deliver me from the life of the flesh and take away the power of sin that was controlling my life before and set me free to live the right kind of life and he put this life inside of me in his heart he is looking for a multiplication.
He is looking for a man like me that he will sow into the world to produce the kind of life the species of life that he is looking for. Whether it is in the teaching profession he decided to plough me it is because he now wanted teachers who carry this kind of life into that system that can bring a change. Whether he decided to plough and plant my life in the midst of the medical people medical profession it is so that this kind of man this kind of species of life might be the one that is cropping or recropping that things in the world system are you following me at all? Now it means if at all when he has redeemed you and filled you with his own life and he decides to let plough this one let sow him into the world among the business people the plan is not that you should get lost there the plan is not that the devourer will eat you up the plan is that when you begin to shoot for when as we read in that picture when the blade was strung up and brought forth fruit the plan is that the kind of fruit that should come out should be the fruit of Christ's kind of life that should fill that space that should dominate the world that should bring the world to become as the kingdom of our God.
Now because I am spending time on this I wanted to teach a second aspect he said but the thieves are the children of the wicked one so are you following that? which means what we refer to as thieves they are also persons they are also people but the issue is that they are the children of the wicked one and it is so difficult to know who is the children of the wicked one 1 John chapter 3 says whosoever is committing sin is of the devil is of the wicked one for the wicked one for the devil sinned from the beginning and for this cause the Son of God was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil indeed the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest he who practices righteousness is of God and whosoever does not love his brother is of the devil so we know that the thieves as Jesus is also talking about it are people, are men are women that has been sown also into the world into the fields he said the enemy that sows them is the devil so what am I dealing with here now? when the man came and said so let us do another project something that Jesus said that was very critical before we come back here he said so the servants of the householder came and said to him sir, this not thou so good seed in your fields from whence then I take care and he said to them an enemy has done this it is the enemy that has done this and it is very important for you to know how Jesus called him he said he is an enemy the devil is an enemy the devil is the enemy of the kingdom of God is the enemy of souls is the enemy of mankind is the enemy of anything that is good but then the servant said unto him will you then want that we go and gather them up? he said no no let while you gather up the calves you root up also the wheat with them what is the wisdom in this now? he said let both grow together so where my challenge is that we are dealing with in this meeting is the fact that the Lord Jesus was very very deliberate and very concerned that the seed, the good seed must take root as if he knows that if the good seed should take root there is a way in which the good seed is going to uplift and at last the test so by God's grace when we come next and I will be dealing with taking root in order to bring forth the kind of fruit that will be abiding that will be abounding and that will be abundant and the reason why this fruit has to be abiding has to be abounding has to be abundant is because it has to overwhelm the test it has to subdue the test it must not be choked up by the test so he said no let while you gather up the calves you root up also the wheat with them let both grow together until they harvest and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers gather ye together face the test bind them in bundles to bond them or gather ye wheat into my barn now what is the wisdom there? what it means is that the good seed have capacity to grow roots but the two matter that is challenging me here today when they say let both grow together that's where the challenge of this meeting is coming in my spirit what is the growth rate of the good seed in our generation? what is happening to the good seed that they are not able to grow and up grow the test as if he who planted them does not have what it takes to advance them so when God begins to announce and say now this is the hope the hope we shall be fruitful now as I look at the story of Isaac and as we began to study this morning when Rodinus came in with the matter of the famine we saw that all those that God was bringing to their level he grows them in the midst of famine he grows them in the midst of conflict he developed them they are like roots that are growing in dry ground it is because the seed the good seed the seed that Jesus has cast into our lives has capacity has capacity to overcome in fact he said little children don't fear them you have done what? you have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world so what it means is that the good seed that God is deliberately wanting to plant has capacity to take roots that much to overcome tears yes the air has come to sow tears but the Master said don't worry don't worry about that don't worry about that don't struggle to go and gather the tears let both of them grow one will outgrow the other one will shoot forth the kind of roots that will overcome and so when time comes the tears will be dancing like this and you can easily just gather them up and burn them off there will be nothing about them now I want to ask you if the Lord's intention is that the son of man should have seeds to sow good seeds and he said these good seeds are the children of the kingdom wow that God's strategy of establishing his kingdom on the face of the earth in the midst of tears and everything is to sow the good seeds and these good seeds are men women whom the Bible refers to as what? the children of the kingdom the children of the kingdom and when the enemy came he came to sow tears and the tears Jesus Christ called them the children of the wicked one but it is in that same atmosphere that Jesus said allow them to grow together allow them to grow together when the time of harvest comes I will not miss the good seeds I will not miss the harvest of what I want to gather in and you will say oh this world will be better there are no tears at all no actually tears that produces the over commerce that we are going on to be and so while we are looking at level the good seed that God wants to multiply if I now take you back to look at the story of Isaac that has been our illustration you now see that here was an Isaac that will have ordinarily gone down down the valley the valley of compromise the life of sin and God said do not go down to Egypt stay in this land and he sowed into that land and God said in one year he received a hundred hundredfold he was great he went forward until he became very great and he kept growing until he became very great and all the philistines that envied him they quickly said you are mightier than us we can't withstand you we block your way that's no problem to you we took your water that's no problem to you the water we see from you we drank and drank and drank it and it has not made us anything and here we see you progressing we see you living on a supernatural resource that we don't know where it is coming from we see you demonstrating a kind of lifestyle that is far far beyond what we have that is the testimony that Isaac had in that land that made them after fighting and struggling they came and surrendered and said we are not a match to you at all it appears as if in fact they said we know the Lord is with you they confessed and said the Lord is with you the Lord almighty is with you so you are mightier than us we know that if we don't form an alliance with you we will soon be finished they knew it and they knew also that there is a covenant upon the life of this man to take over you see every time God came and said all this country I will give them to you that good seed has capacity to overcome it has capacity to overtake it has capacity to fill the place even though presently it looks as if oh no no no we are just a minority we are not able to do anything simply because you are taking for granted the power of the seed and the one that is sowing your life into the world system that's it with the son of man's souls we are told they are the children of the kingdom and I wish to ask you that you have not yet fulfilled the destiny for with Jesus purchased you and delivered you until you become the seed in his hand that he can use again to plant and extend the kingdom in this world some of you I know you have rejoiced and said and said and said and so you go every time all you are looking for is some more blessing something to add to you and that's all about you no the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the field where to sow them is the world and the fruit that God is expecting is the fruit of the life that they have been blessed with the life of the son and so when the choir was singing and said it is a fruitful day when the life of Christ must flow through us and fill everywhere and produce abiding and abounding and abundant fruit to the glory of God but how do we get that the seed, the good seed has to be cut, has to be sown and the son of man is standing here again and say yes can I sow you into the world can I infest you because I sowed that way we are not afraid of tears tears yes the enemy did it but what the enemy did is nothing nothing forget that don't go about saying I want to gather the tears we will gather the tears at their point the time the strong one will gather them and bound them up and there will be nothing again but let them grow let them grow together so within the short moment that we have to pray with him take this dreadful thought that God is announcing and I can see in my spirit that God is saying and give me a space a space to be fruitful I am creating a room for you I am planting you afresh into the world I am planting you into different segments I want to plant you into the media community so that you can take over I want to plant you into the educational sector so that you can take over I am going to replant you people on the field on the field of research it is not the tears that the devil is sowing that ought to fill that place and the reason why the master said leave them, leave them is because I don't intend for you to uproot the good seed because you are fighting the child allow them to be there unfortunately I found that for several of us we have actually continuously uprooted the good seed because we are running away from the child to such an extent that believers are now kept inside the seed sack can you imagine a farmer that has all the seeds inside a sack and is afraid to plant them and they say why do you not plant it there there are too much weeds on the field even if you throw them now is that what a good farmer does the seed in the sack is a useless thing and the seed that you did not plant is the seed that you have wasted and yet for one seed that you plant nobody can predict what it will produce and that is what is taking me to that verse 31 and 32 that I read briefly but before I will end with that permit me to remind you a few other things that Jesus said in that parable he said yes the harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels and therefore the tares that are gathered and borne in the fire so shall it be in the end of this world so we already can see the end of the tares we can see that they are here for temporary time we can see that all that the devil is doing is not going to be forever we can see all the principles, all the philosophies all the men that the devil has introduced into the system they are not going to be here forever and they are not supposed to scare you from this planet as God is demanding that yes this is your reward that you might be fruitful and multiply in the land now we can see the son of man shall send forth in ages and he shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend all things that offend and then which do iniquity so for you to note now that the tares we are talking about they are those that do iniquity they are those that bring offenses all things that offend and things and then which do iniquity and they are casting them into the furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth because this message itself is not yet talking about the end time and judgment and all of that that's why I am moving out of that but you should note that there is the end of the tares there is the end of everything that offends and everything that do iniquity then shall the righteous shine they will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father and when we read the other passage in darkness of the soil it says then shall the righteous they will shine they will shine forever in the kingdom of their father so these good things we are talking about have an everlasting life have a duration that can never end the kingdom that we have come into is the kingdom that cannot be shaken and the kingdom that lasts forever and ever but my question is will you be a seed in God's hand will you be a seed in the hand of Jesus in the morning I anger by saying yes we need to check is that seed viable does it have the correct life is it the kind that wants to plant does it carry the new creation life has it been delivered from the flesh or is it the one that is sown into iniquity is it the one that is still living in hypocrisy and waiting to reap or eat the fruit of life is it the one that is investing into corruption or that which has received Christ's life the everlasting life the life that never fades out the life that doubles in the life that lives on the pedestal of life that is far beyond the natural the one that can survive even when others are drying out the one that can walk in the reality of the power of God and demonstrate the glory of our God in this world and so I'm asking will you offer your life as the seed in the hand of the sower, the son of man can God say yes I've got this brother now I've got this young lady now let me plant her out there I'm not planting her out there so that she can shrink and die and perish it is so that she can multiply that we can have more of this kind multiplying and filling the earth so that we can have more of this kind of brothers one of this kind of pastors that are filling the earth with the species of life of the kingdom would you like to be a seed in God's hand when we finish about the challenge of those that we can send can you imagine that God is looking for men and women that he has given Christ life they have been saved, they have been born again and they are living the new life the life that is void of the flesh and God says can I plant them into the traditional institution can this one become an author or a royal majesty or a prince whatever you call it in your own different countries who will be there sitting on the throne and yet representing the throne of heaven God is looking for such things it is not here that us to claim the thrones of our people it is not here that us to become principals of our schools it is not here that you be the business tycoon of our generation God is asking can I have you as a seed that I can plant and this will be the challenge I want to leave you here this will be the question I want you to look at and I want you to pray about that this is rare about but the seed that will be fruitful in the land is this good seed that the sober man has got in his hand has captured, has redeemed, has delivered and has passed from everything that offends and everything that do iniquity then he can plant them they are the ones that can confirm the tears they are the ones that can subdue the tears they are the ones that can make the tears to be dry as they ought to be and to say oh no no no these are tears this is not the right kind of person we are seeing the right species of man that God is looking for why is this man like this? that is the plan of God and so that future end it says the kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field which indeed is the least of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becomes the tree so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof that I want to say to you any one of you that is born of God you may look tiny like a mustard seed but inside that seed as small as it is it carries the capacity it says indeed is the least of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs I want to ask you will you release your life into the hand of Jesus and become that good seed in the hand of the son of man will you allow Christ's life that he went to Calvary in order to release so that it can multiply if you cannot wait fall to the ground and die it multiplies it brings forth more fruit and that was what Jesus did so that his life can be multiplied in many people like me and yourself and it is not so that we can just die it is such that we can become seeds if you become converted in the course of this meeting I can tell you what will happen you become a seed in the hand of God because God's intention is that each one of you you will be fruitful you will multiply you will increase you will see the face of the earth with the right vision of men and women it is a time to deliver you and I know he wants to save you it is so that your life will not end in the cooking pot your life will become a seed that is reproducing and bringing many more to glory when Jesus took some of our own life and I was wondering what can God do with a life like mine that seems to have no sign, nothing and you know when he would be saying to me he would be bringing some promises that I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument you will thresh my thing I was wondering how can a worm become like that but a worm like a small seed in the hand of Jesus has capacity to fill the earth to affect many and to multiply I want to leave that with you as I ask you to join us in prayer I want to ask you to look at that particularly will you be the good seed that the Son of Man is intending to cast again into this world particularly in this season of Level Up the end of the world is very close and the end of your opportunity to become useful in the hand of God is also very short and if everything I am talking to you about has to happen in this world because the field is the world what again would you like for your life to be useful will you be that seed that God can release so that the life of Christ can flow everywhere you cannot say you are doing well until you have become a good seed in the hand of God if God is sending you to a village it is so that you will become his good seed to re-crop that village to multiply and release the kind of life of Christ in all others that you are going to affect it is so that the character and the features of Christ's life will begin to fill the place that is why he is sending you out there will you be a seed, a good seed in his hand but while I am saying this don't forget that the enemy while men slept this is my last point to raise with you when did the enemy normally find chance to walk excuse me, when? when men slept which means even the tears that we are seeing everywhere is because men are sleeping if we will wake up now with the grace of God with the capacity of the Holy Spirit that is working in you you will soon discover that even the enemy will not have space to sow the tears anymore you will be so ashamed because we are awake we are awake, we are active we are filling the place the good seed is being planted here and there and there and there and the land is waking up to the reality of its creator in schools you know why the tears have been sown because men slept some of you, you were supposed to be sown into the curriculum development of your educational system and your capacity to have brought out the correct curriculum but what did you do? you slept until the enemy sowed tears and they are the ones now designing curriculum and now for age 3, age 4 they are beginning to bring a curriculum a very dangerous wicked curriculum that is beginning to train small children in the matter of explicit sex and they are giving them an orientation that is dangerous for the future why men slept? that you are writing books while you are sleeping when you wake up you say Lord make me the good seed in your hand at least Lord sow me into your words sow me into the tears and cause me to be active actively engaged never to sleep, never to sleep because why men slept? even now as I am talking to you Satan cannot walk in the daylight he needs darkness he needs people to sleep before he can walk if you wake up now you will soon see that the man that sowed tears will begin to withdraw and say these people are waking up I want to pray here with you I want to ask may God find in you and in myself good seeds in this present opportunity of our level body in this present situation that God is saying now is the time he is making room for us to be fruitful he is giving us space to be fruitful if we stand now you will soon see that he who sowed tears will begin to withdraw begin to say we normally sow tears when they are sleeping now that they are waking up now that there is a reviver now that they are up and doing now that they are asking questions how can we sow tears again in their midst they will not allow even the tears to settle down before they throw it away may you pray with me and say God first first I seek soul he sowed his body he sowed his life into that land and if there is anything that we are talking about today as the inheritance of Abraham about Isaac, about Jacob was because that body was fell out the only reason why we don't know anything about this all is that he sowed out his own background so it could not be part of what we are talking about in the morning as we were dealing with the prayer opera he came up to remind us of the nearer kinsman that will have become useful that will have perpetrated the lineage of the Savior he said no, I don't want to marry my own inheritance so he removed his shoes you should have been wearing that shoe then he removed it, he was talking about Biafutende, a man of irresponsibility don't accept to walk Biafutende away from this meeting the shoe that God is placing before you stand up and wear it it is your responsibility to become that good seed that we stalk and call you see when you have not planted a good seed and you are not letting it grow and you are beating, whoring yourself by chairs there can be no blessing in nature if the good seeds are not planted if they are not growing every time I go on the field once the good seeds are not planted there is nothing that sucks wind and chair from growing there wherever you are whether you are in the village or you are in the city whether you are in the shop of academics or you are in business or you are a student or you are just one that is dealing with small children in the primary school can I remind you, you are a seed and you must be a good seed in the hand of the Savior in order to fill the field the field of this world tears have come along because we slept if we wake up now and begin to do what we need to do we will recover all may I ask you to please join me in prayer may I ask you to show God you are redefining what is the reason for me being here and a seed in God's hand Lord, show me into the world some of you are already hearing me and you are retirees and you are asking, I say but we are already retired, what can I do? I want to inform you there is a world of the retirees many of your age mates and colleagues they are looking with gloom in their eyes they don't know what they spend all their years and now they are retired into nothing I'm going to say, can you go and arrest them? can you start a retiree kind of outreach and see many of them that they are only waiting for death they will have a different reason for living and even if they are going to heaven they will go to heaven with a hope can you because they see that God can sow into the field and the field is the world it's not heaven yet, it's the world and if they are not going to be relevant here what else? what will you be remembered for? and what will be your reward in eternity? only those that are wise will shine in the kingdom of their Father will you be wise? will you be wise? will you take a wise decision and say Lord, I have only one life to live I want to lay it in your hands sow me, plant me make me a good seed in your hands may God answer our prayer the other quote that my brother gave that God said, I've come down I've come down to deliver the people but come now let me send you I know that if you didn't respond to that you need to respond even now but much more than all of this that we've said God is saying, the good seed that the Son of Man is sowing into the field of the world and the children of the kingdom will you be a seed in God's hands and say God, ah, a correct seed never dies alone when a correct seed is planted it comes out with multitude of fruits Lord, make me a good seed in your hands cause my life to begin to multiply don't let me be satisfied for being alone don't let me begin to say, oh yes I was saved 20 years ago that's not the plan, the plan of God is that the children of the kingdom they will be the seed that he sows into the world in order to bring in the harvest for the kingdom I just want you to take one minute or two to pray for yourself and just say Lord the devil is sowing tears everywhere once upon a time I was one of such but your word came to me I'm now delivered make me a seed in your hand I want to be that good seed that the Son of Man has in his hand to sow in order to bring a change and to bring a level up will you pray like that and if you still realize that things that offend things that walk iniquity are still actively walking in your heart things that anytime anybody was to hear that you are the one who did it you bow your head in shame you don't want people to know that's why you are pretending you cannot end at ordinary tears there is the grace that is appearing to you in order to deliver you from everything that offends everything that brings iniquity you can be saved you can be delivered this moment Jesus actually died in order to redeem people like yourself so that they can become a seed for the kingdom of God Jesus is standing and saying but this is one of the people I would have used but he has fallen into the hand of the enemy who is pushing her up and down come unto me I will give you rest you may have heard Jesus speaking to you can you be a seed in God's hand or you want to be a tear in the hand of his enemy you must make a choice on this those of you that have given your life to Christ and Christ has redeemed you from the power of sin the grace of God has appeared unto you he has taught you to live only there and soberly and make you a peculiar people not to deserve he wants you to be a seed can you offer it and say now Lord make me your seed make me your seed plant me anywhere in your field I will bring results to you my life will not waste away I am not just going to die off like that make me a seed in your hand if you are doing that I want you to lift up your hand and say God I am putting this life now in your hand it must be your seed your good seed it cannot be wasted it is not the sound of the air that will eat me up it is not the world system that will overuse my life and it will end with nothing my life will be a seed in your hand Lord I put it in your hand and I put it in your hand when it is still viable I put my life in your hand when you can use it and make it what you want it to be Lord take this life and use it that is the first request I am making I am going to make requests for the other but this first request and I want anywhere you are to say God now I am realizing that I have a small space available for my life to become fruitful make me your good seed plant me anywhere you want to plant me here am I I tell people like that please stand where you are lift up your hands unto God and if you want you can step out and say Lord today today it is clear to me that I am not just supposed to just live and die I am supposed to be a seed that multiplies for you it may look like a moonstar tree today but it can become a mighty tree in the hand of God joining more to the kingdom of God where are you please stand where you are draw before God and say Lord take this life now let me be your seed Lord Jesus please make my life your seed and use it whenever you desire plant me out so that I can multiply this life Christ life that you are releasing to this generation God bless you God bless you please do that as I want to pray if your heart is desire and say yes that's what I want to be let me see your right hand lifted before God let me see you take a step and say Lord make me your seed thank you brother thank you sister thank you my friend do that right away do that right away and God who understands who is sending this message particularly to you is going to watch over this until you break forth everywhere until your life becomes that crop that is re-cropping the generation re-cropping the environment re-cropping the schools re-cropping the villages and re-cropping the different different professions where you are and it's possible that you say but I want to take you into the field of pooping ministry and you are saying Lord if that's it I'm here for you plant me anywhere you want me to be God bless you if you are stepping before God I know that the cows might be much as your altar but find a space there just find a space and say Lord here am I now but while we are doing that while all those that are saying make me your seed while we are doing that are you standing there you wanted to pray and say Lord use me but the voice of iniquity is there but but but that but Jesus wants to overrule it that entrance in your life Jesus wants to finish it today that thing that is making you as if you are going to be down there and tears in the hand of the enemy causing offense Jesus has come because the enemy did not create you the enemy only and whatever he was doing in your life it cannot last the owner has come for you the blood of Jesus was shed for your deliverance if you only say Lord take my life take my life today and use me for your glory take my story and make me a gesture in your hand thank you my brother thank you my dear sister as you stand before God as you stretch out your hand to him heaven is going to respond to you thank you my brother thank you my dear sister thank you the Holy Spirit is doing this because he actually means to walk with you this meeting is turning you apart for his own glory thank you thank you with your hands lifted to heaven just lift it above your head and I will pray with you right now let me pray together with you Father you have come again even though the enemy have done something you the Lord the owner of your fields and the owner of every heart every life you have confessed to save and to redeem and all those oh God who are saying I can no longer be an instrument of offense I will no longer be a tear to be cut into what God is doing in my generation and they are saying Lord change my life Lord Jesus please take over from them and give them a new testimony give them a new story do a deep walk in their lives give them a new heart oh God the seed of the kingdom come let it be cut into their soul from this moment and give them a new beginning as many as are taking that step Lord I am asking that the blood of Jesus will speak on their behalf the blood of spring tree will cleanse them from all iniquity it will redeem them from all sin and it will resettle them in the kingdom of God they will become seeds good seeds in the hand of God good seed amongst students good seed amongst teachers good seed amongst lecturers good seed amongst the aid workers good seed everywhere good seed amongst traditional rulers good seed everywhere Lord I am asking that you will do that miracle here today in the name of Jesus and all those oh God who set their hands and they are saying Lord make me your seed I have seen I have seen the reason why I am alive now I have seen that the good seed are the children of the kingdom Lord so I am asking you sow my life out so that this realm of that you are declaring there will be abounding fruits abounding fruits and abundant fruits for the kingdom of God Lord let it be so thank you for hearing us thank you because you will do much more than we could ask or imagine Lord some people have come to you with a cry in their heart and their cry is Lord I have been tossed to and fro for too long I have struggled with different things in my life I have struggled with invisible forces that will not let me rest and I hear you saying come I will give you rest but when I give you rest and I deliver you from all the yokes you become my seed to multiply some kind of species of life so Lord I pray for all those that are oppressed and if in any sense anywhere you are any force of darkness has suppressed your life please stretch your hand to go right away and we receive your deliverance in the name of Jesus the power of God knows no distance the Lord the omnipresent God is there where you are standing every barrenness in your life whether spiritual or physical we address it here you will not be barren in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord will visit you particularly the season of fruitfulness is opening up to your life you will be fruitful you will be multiplied in the land of the living in the name of Jesus Christ and every force, every concentration called against any of you we stand in the word of God today and by the authority of the Lord Jesus we dismount your self-concentration we scatter their influence and we release you to be free and to live for God to bring forth fruit we declare to you a level God all that troubles your life we bring it to an end you walk into your level God to the glory and praise of his name thank you for hearing our prayer in Jesus Christ name we have prayed amen
Sermon Outline
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I
- Introduction to the concept of Rehoboth as a place of fruitfulness
- Review of Genesis 26 and Isaac's example of sowing life
- Transition to Matthew 13 parables about the Kingdom of God
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II
- Explanation of the parable of the wheat and tares
- Identification of the sower as the Son of Man and the field as the world
- The call to bear fruit in this lifetime on earth
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III
- The significance of being the good seed - children of the kingdom
- The purpose of redemption is to become fruitful seed sown by Jesus
- The necessity of producing fruit that reflects the life of Christ
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IV
- The harvest and final judgment as motivation for fruitfulness
- The reward of shining as stars for those who turn many to righteousness
- Encouragement to activate one's 'level box' to be fruitful now
Key Quotes
“The good seeds are the children of the kingdom; Jesus sowing the good seed is the Son of Man.” — Gbile Akanni
“Whatever fruit you did not bring forth while you are in this world is no longer necessary.” — Gbile Akanni
“You were redeemed not to be a decoration but to become a seed, a good seed in the hand of the Son of Man.” — Gbile Akanni
Application Points
- Recognize that your life is meant to be a seed sown by Jesus to produce lasting fruit in the world.
- Engage actively in your God-given 'level box' or sphere of influence to multiply the life of Christ.
- Prioritize bearing fruit now, knowing that opportunities to serve and multiply will not continue after this life.
