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Most folks REACT, and don’t make good choices. The romance

failed. Their expectancy didn’t happen. Things were not good.

So they got disillusioned and divorced.

Truth and good choices are a matter of three things:

(1) Utilizing our God-given temperament (identity),

(2) Inner character (obedience) to the truth we know,

(3) Outer commitment to what is right (what we do).

The Seed, the Root and the Fruit

Let’s return to the seed, the root, and the fruit. Jesus says the

truth in the Parable of the Sower is a most important truth. Unless

we know this, other things don’t make sense. The reason it is so

important is because it shows us how life works — or does NOT

work the way we want.

The Apostle Paul received the gospel truth directly from

Jesus during 3 years in the desert. Then he also had a special

conference with God about it in ‘the third heaven.’ He says the

gospel produces good fruit from us. We are meant to

receive the GOSPEL from God. It is the ‘seed’ of this Parable.

We must live in his power. Paul says God fulfills the work that he

begins in us. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”

Most churches and all religions focus on our behavior: what we

should do good, and what we shouldn’t do bad:

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