“True Repentance & Sincere Religion”
Jeremiah 4:3-4
Background:
1.) The Historical Setting
2.) Definition of “Fallow”
3.) Principle of “Sowing & Reaping”
“True Repentance & Sincere Religion”
Jeremiah 4:3-4
Background:
1.) The Historical Setting
2.) Definition of “Fallow”
3.) Principle of “Sowing & Reaping”
Note also, the “outward forms” of
a.) Circumcision
b.) Baptism
c.) Rending of garments
“True Repentance & Sincere Religion”
Comparison:
Jeremiah 4:3-4
&
Mark 4:3-9
“True Repentance & Sincere Religion”
Mark 4:3-9
Three principle elements:
1. The sower is Christ
2. The seed is the Word of God
3. The soils represent the heart of man
“True Repentance & Sincere Religion”
Mark 4:3-9
Three principle elements (PLUS ONE):
4. The shovel
Six things that
need to take place
to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN:
Psalm 66:18 “If I regard iniquity in my
heart, the Lord will not hear me”
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN
2.) PROTECTION:
Proverbs 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all
diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN
2.) PROTECTION
3.) STEADFASTNESS:
Daniel 1:8 "But Daniel purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself with the portion
of the king’s meat"
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN
2.) PROTECTION
3.) STEADFASTNESS
4.) YIELDING:
Mark 12:30 "And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength: this is the first commandment."
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN:
2.) PROTECTION
3.) STEADFASTNESS
4.) YIELDING
5.) URGENCY:
Psalm 119:57-60 "Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said
that I would keep thy words. I intreated thy favour with my whole
heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. I thought on
my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made
haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments."
Six things that need to
take place to break up the
fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1.) REPENTANCE OF SIN
2.) PROTECTION
3.) STEADFASTNESS
4.) YIELDING
5.) URGENCY
6.) HUMILITY: James 1:21 “Wherefore lay apart
all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive
with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to
save your souls.”
Six things that need to take place to
break up the fallow ground of
YOUR HEART:
1. REPENTANCE
2. PROTECTION
3. STEADFASTNESS
4. YIELDING
5. URGENCY
6. HUMILITY