Taken from "My Blood in the New Testament"
Gary Carpenter
"And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."
Mark 4:26-29
"The field is our heart."
"I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
Prov 24:30-34
"If you don't do anything; if you just try to remain neutral, you're not gong to stay in a neutral position. Your spirit is going to be all grown over with thorns and nettles. Your wall of protection is going to be broken down, because whether or not you've come to this realization, if you try and remain neutral, you can't because the whole world's system is all going down stream."
"You live in a world that's not neutral. The Bible speaks of Satan being the "god of this world". He's programmed it according to his mind and his darkness. His gospel is the gospel of mammon. Those that operate only by that system, they're not neutral; they're on a downhill slope."
"God has provided His Word. In order to sow into our human spirits, you can have all of the abundance, every promise of God that you want. It only comes by following the instructions of Jesus in Mark chapter 4. Never forget, you cannot remain neutral. If you try, whether you've figured out or not the whole world's system is all going downhill, and it's all headed towards Hell."
"Poverty will come on you if you try and remain neutral."
"If you get in that flow, even though you're a Christian, even though you're born again, you get into that negative flow and you do no resistance, it's like a person jumping into a stream. You just jump in there, and you don't do any paddling yourself. You're going with the flow..."
"...People say "Well, I love God. I don't understand. Why is my life going like this?" Your field is all grown over with thorns. It's all covered with nettles. If you're going towards God and His mind, that's going to require effort. If you just sit there and do nothing, you're not gonna stay neutral."
"With a lot of us, it's not that God doesn't love you, He does. Does He not? It's not that He hasn't already provided for victory in every area of your life... The problem is, who is slothful in this verse? We are!"
"'I went by the field of the (slothful).' It's us. The Bible says that it's by grace that we're saved through faith, and that's not of ourselves. It is the gift of God..."
"When you believe what God the Father already believes, that's called faith. God believes every Word in His book. That's why He sent it to us."
(He's basically saying...)
"...I'm going to send My Word, so you'll know what to believe. Faith comes by hearing My Word. If you'll put My Word into your heart, even one covered by nettles and thorns, if you'll keep putting it in there and by putting it in there, it will start taking that field over. It will start choking the thorns out if you get it in there in abundance. It's out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."
"In the beginning you're going to need to re-sow your crop, because it comes up like corn. You're going to have to keep re-sowing it.. But eventually it's going to start coming like a tree. Then you're going to start producing fruit, not only for yourself, but you'll be producing fruit where other people can come and start eathing the fruit off of your tree. You see how that works?"
(It's work!)
"The problem is, that is the truth, but that has got to become a tree that bears fruit in your spirit. So because your spirit and your soul is all covered over with nettles and thorns... Where did it come from? From watching things in this world. Just from seeing how things work. Making decisions based on what you see, feel, hear, and what happened to your friends; rather than basing decisions on what saith the Lord."
"And if you don't do anything, you just try and remain neutral, you won't stay neutral; your poverty is going to come like an armed man... It will come; nettles and thorns are gong to overgrow your field, and you'll love God and get poor, and go and listen to some flak tell you to give you more money. And you're gonna get poorer yet, because it's not the giving of the money that brings the harvest. The seed produces the tree that produces the fruit..."
"The trouble with most of us, is that there isn't enough Word in us for the Holy Spirit to water that seed and cause it to grow..."
"The tithe is not the seed. The Word is the seed..."
"...Now what's the stone wall? Back then, you'd plant a vineyard or a garden, you'd build a wall to keep the varmints out (That's what we call it in Oklahoma.). The foxes and the racoons, and the rabbits. They'll come in and start eating away at your crops. If you don't give diligence to the Word. If you don't do something with the Word; spend time in it; meditate on it; get it in your mouth like He told Joshua.
"This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth..."
Day and night. Now how often is that to speak the Word? All the time. "Oh, I thought just when I was in church." No, usually it's the preacher speaking the Word in church. When you're sitting there.
When are you gonna start sowing in your own field?
Ps 1 - Well watered garden
Whatsoever he doeth will prosper.
"The little foxes spoil the vine."
"...He's not sending Jesus to the cross again. That part is aleady done. The only part left is our part. To appropriate everything Jesus already did for us at the cross."
"...That Word in your heart in abundance. It is His anointing. He actually lives in you and He is in there for the very purpose of His anointing taking that seed and causing it to grow into a mighty tree. His very life, His essence, who He is, God; I AM, will start flowing up like sap through that tree and it will begin producing fruit in any area of your life; whether you need peace, whether you need joy; whether you need your marriage restored; whether you need prosperity; whether you need healing for your body... The answer is in that book. The answer is God's Word, and you can have any kind of harvest you want. If you won't be slothful, and if you'll start sowing the word in your heart."
"Boy, I'm telling you the flesh pulls hard! Get us off on all of those side trails. LIving busy business. 'Oh, I've got to handle this, and I don't have time to pray, and I've got to handle that'. You know? this is important over here. I was going to pray and spend some time confessing the Word today.' Let that seed, that tree grow up in me, but this is so important,you know?"
"God help us! Your enemy is good at what he does, and if you don't get serious about sowing your field, you'll spend your whole life grown over with nettles and thorns, and the walls are going to be broken down, and you'll die in that condition."
Notes taken from Gary Carpenter
"My Blood in the New Testament"
Gary Carpenter
"And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."
Mark 4:26-29
"The field is our heart."
"I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
Prov 24:30-34
"If you don't do anything; if you just try to remain neutral, you're not gong to stay in a neutral position. Your spirit is going to be all grown over with thorns and nettles. Your wall of protection is going to be broken down, because whether or not you've come to this realization, if you try and remain neutral, you can't because the whole world's system is all going down stream."
"You live in a world that's not neutral. The Bible speaks of Satan being the "god of this world". He's programmed it according to his mind and his darkness. His gospel is the gospel of mammon. Those that operate only by that system, they're not neutral; they're on a downhill slope."
"God has provided His Word. In order to sow into our human spirits, you can have all of the abundance, every promise of God that you want. It only comes by following the instructions of Jesus in Mark chapter 4. Never forget, you cannot remain neutral. If you try, whether you've figured out or not the whole world's system is all going downhill, and it's all headed towards Hell."
"Poverty will come on you if you try and remain neutral."
"If you get in that flow, even though you're a Christian, even though you're born again, you get into that negative flow and you do no resistance, it's like a person jumping into a stream. You just jump in there, and you don't do any paddling yourself. You're going with the flow..."
"...People say "Well, I love God. I don't understand. Why is my life going like this?" Your field is all grown over with thorns. It's all covered with nettles. If you're going towards God and His mind, that's going to require effort. If you just sit there and do nothing, you're not gonna stay neutral."
"With a lot of us, it's not that God doesn't love you, He does. Does He not? It's not that He hasn't already provided for victory in every area of your life... The problem is, who is slothful in this verse? We are!"
"'I went by the field of the (slothful).' It's us. The Bible says that it's by grace that we're saved through faith, and that's not of ourselves. It is the gift of God..."
"When you believe what God the Father already believes, that's called faith. God believes every Word in His book. That's why He sent it to us."
(He's basically saying...)
"...I'm going to send My Word, so you'll know what to believe. Faith comes by hearing My Word. If you'll put My Word into your heart, even one covered by nettles and thorns, if you'll keep putting it in there and by putting it in there, it will start taking that field over. It will start choking the thorns out if you get it in there in abundance. It's out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."
"In the beginning you're going to need to re-sow your crop, because it comes up like corn. You're going to have to keep re-sowing it.. But eventually it's going to start coming like a tree. Then you're going to start producing fruit, not only for yourself, but you'll be producing fruit where other people can come and start eathing the fruit off of your tree. You see how that works?"
(It's work!)
"The problem is, that is the truth, but that has got to become a tree that bears fruit in your spirit. So because your spirit and your soul is all covered over with nettles and thorns... Where did it come from? From watching things in this world. Just from seeing how things work. Making decisions based on what you see, feel, hear, and what happened to your friends; rather than basing decisions on what saith the Lord."
"And if you don't do anything, you just try and remain neutral, you won't stay neutral; your poverty is going to come like an armed man... It will come; nettles and thorns are gong to overgrow your field, and you'll love God and get poor, and go and listen to some flak tell you to give you more money. And you're gonna get poorer yet, because it's not the giving of the money that brings the harvest. The seed produces the tree that produces the fruit..."
"The trouble with most of us, is that there isn't enough Word in us for the Holy Spirit to water that seed and cause it to grow..."
"The tithe is not the seed. The Word is the seed..."
"...Now what's the stone wall? Back then, you'd plant a vineyard or a garden, you'd build a wall to keep the varmints out (That's what we call it in Oklahoma.). The foxes and the racoons, and the rabbits. They'll come in and start eating away at your crops. If you don't give diligence to the Word. If you don't do something with the Word; spend time in it; meditate on it; get it in your mouth like He told Joshua.
"This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth..."
Day and night. Now how often is that to speak the Word? All the time. "Oh, I thought just when I was in church." No, usually it's the preacher speaking the Word in church. When you're sitting there.
When are you gonna start sowing in your own field?
Ps 1 - Well watered garden
Whatsoever he doeth will prosper.
"The little foxes spoil the vine."
"...He's not sending Jesus to the cross again. That part is aleady done. The only part left is our part. To appropriate everything Jesus already did for us at the cross."
"...That Word in your heart in abundance. It is His anointing. He actually lives in you and He is in there for the very purpose of His anointing taking that seed and causing it to grow into a mighty tree. His very life, His essence, who He is, God; I AM, will start flowing up like sap through that tree and it will begin producing fruit in any area of your life; whether you need peace, whether you need joy; whether you need your marriage restored; whether you need prosperity; whether you need healing for your body... The answer is in that book. The answer is God's Word, and you can have any kind of harvest you want. If you won't be slothful, and if you'll start sowing the word in your heart."
"Boy, I'm telling you the flesh pulls hard! Get us off on all of those side trails. LIving busy business. 'Oh, I've got to handle this, and I don't have time to pray, and I've got to handle that'. You know? this is important over here. I was going to pray and spend some time confessing the Word today.' Let that seed, that tree grow up in me, but this is so important,you know?"
"God help us! Your enemy is good at what he does, and if you don't get serious about sowing your field, you'll spend your whole life grown over with nettles and thorns, and the walls are going to be broken down, and you'll die in that condition."
Notes taken from Gary Carpenter
"My Blood in the New Testament"
