32 - Why Nothing Changes

In this episode of the series “Foundation Series (1/8)”, we explore a foundational truth.
Many believers want change, but remain stuck.
This message reveals why.

The Word of God is like a seed.
Without sowing it into your heart, there can be no transformation.

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SPEAKER_00 0:01

Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained. Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ. Ready to take notes? Let's open the Bible.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Hi there, I'm Johan Tut, and this is One Gospel Broadcast. Welcome at the new episode. And I'm really excited about the teaching that I'm gonna start. I don't know how many episodes I'm gonna use to share this teaching, but I think it's really gonna be a blessing. And you know, I I'm super excited to share this with you. And uh we have been starting to build on the foundation, you know, that there is no other gospel, that there is no other truth, and that's the word of truth, etc. and so on. And you know, just to continue in that same flow, you know, I want to talk with you about the importance of the word of God, the importance of the word of God. And so without further ado, let us just dive in and see where we end up, and I really believe it's gonna be a blessing for you, amen. So, um what we first need to understand is that the word of God uh is it works like a seed. The word of God works like a seed. The word of God is a seed. You know, I always tell my friends, you know, I've got a bag full of seed. Now, if I'm having this bag full of seed, which is the word of God, this is a bag full of seed, it's got it's full with potential, you know, to transform, to set free, to heal, you know, to deliver and you know, to do all these amazing things, you know, it's got the potential to completely revolutionize and transform my life inside out and outside in, amen. And so, but if I'm leaving that bag with seed on the shelf, you know, it doesn't do anything for me, it doesn't change me. You know, I've been um I I I watched a documentary once about some seeds that they found in Egypt, you know, they were like thousands of years old. And so they took those seeds and they planted them and it bore fruit. And so the seed is full of potential, it's full with potential to bring forth in the soil where it is sowing, you know, what his DNA is. But if you do not sow that seed, then it also doesn't bear fruit. You know, a farmer, you know, he sows after what he wants to reap. So, what do you want to reap? What do you want to be, what you want to have as a harvest? Because if you do not sow the seed, the word of God, into your heart, you won't reap any harvest from it. Amen. And so it's really, really important. Zero seed is zero harvest. It's a very simple math, amen. And so the Bible says in Galatians 6 7 that, you know, do not be deceived, God has not been mocked, you know, that what a man sows, that's also what he reaps, you know, and so it confirms what I just said, you know, that you know, you need to sow according to what you want to reap. And so we need to sow the good seed of the word of God in our hearts so that we may bear much fruit. And when we bear much fruit, this will glorify our Father. John 15, 8 says, you know, that herein therein is my father being glorified if you bear much fruit and be my disciples, which is a very beautiful verse, by the way. And so the whole process of sowing and reaping is uh there are biblical principles. Now, as I said before, the word of God is the good seed. The word of God is the good seed. There are no other good seeds. The word of God is the good seed, it's the truth, and the truth will set you free. Amen. And so everything that is not in line with the word of God, you can consider as weeds, you can consider as thorns and pistols. And the only thing that those seeds do or do in your life, in your heart, is that it will overgrow the good plants and it will suffocate so you won't bear any fruit in your life. It's just it just uh causes noise and distraction and just kills the harvest, if I could say it like that. All the other seeds that are not from the word of God, you know, um you can consider them as trash and it really will harm your soil. And so we need to make sure that the good word of God is the only seed that we sow in our hearts. Now, if I can just try to paint a small little picture of that, you know, um, and I'm just testifying from my own personal experience so I know it's true. You know, I had phases, you know, when I started to walk with the Lord that I still was watching a lot of world television. You know, I never watched the news because I never liked the news because it was all bad, you know, but I did like to watch a lot of series, you know, and films and all that kind of stuff on those platforms, you know, um, that were violent, you know. But um I had nightmares, I I had paranoia, you know, I was anxious, uh fearful, and unease, and you know, and um I just didn't feel right, you know, and I didn't know what was causing that until I realized and I got a revelation about you know what you sow is what you reap. And so I have been feeding myself with all that poison that's in the world. I've been feeding myself with everything that you can see on television, and so one day I decided to stop watching those kinds of that kind of stuff, and I only watched Christian movies, documentaries, nature, and that kind of stuff, happy, happy things. And you know, I had no more nightmares, there was no more anxiety, there was no more fear, you know, there was no more stress. Why? Because I was sowing good seeds in my life and in my heart, and I was reaping good fruits in my life and in my heart, you know, because that is what the word of God does. But all the other stuff was poison. When I got rid of those weeds, when I got rid of those thorns and thistles, I got rid of the problem, and now I got a beautiful garden. I don't say that there's never any weeds coming in, there's never any thorns or thistles, sure there are, you know, but I get them out as as quick as possible, radically pluck them out and just burn them, you know, because you know it just I don't want my garden to be suffocated, I want it to blossom and bloom, amen. And I can only do that when I sow good seeds in my heart from the word of God. And so, how do you process, you know, the word of God uh sown in your life? The Bible says in Joshua 1.8 that we should meditate on it day and night and it shouldn't depart from our mouths, and we should act accordingly to it so that we will be wise and we will prosperous in all our ways. And so, you know, you need to meditate on that thing that you have sown in your heart. Now you can't force it to grow, but to keep it alive, to meditate on it, you know, and think it over, you know, and just confess it and you know, just be aware of it, you know. Finally, there is this process, you know, where the seed will start to produce blade, head, and then full grain in the head, which is a beautiful process, and I will get into that also later on. And so, you know, it's important that we not only hear the word, but that we that we also act accordingly to it, you know. Jesus says in Luke 6 46, he says, Why are you calling me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? Well, what do you say, Lord? Well, let me see. You know, I've got this whole Bible to see what God says, and then He asks me, He He expects from me that I'm not only gonna read it, but I'm also gonna act on it, amen. And so I'm gonna do it, and so I will be wise. And so, you know, if we do that, we will bear much fruit. And as I quoted in John 15, 8, you know, herein is my Father glorified, you know, when you bear much fruit and be my disciples, and so that's what I want. I want to glorify God. I don't know about you, but I want to glorify God in my life, amen. And so we glorify him by bearing fruit, and we bear fruit when we sow good seeds in our hearts. We don't bear fruit by just doing what we think that's good and that's okay and all that kind of stuff. No, we bear fruit when we sow the word of God in our lives, then automatically fruit will come forth. I'm not producing that fruit. It's Jesus who produces that fruit within me, but he can only produce within me what I have sown into my life because if there's no seed, zero seed, then there is zero harvest. It's a very simple mathematic, amen. And so, good fruit comes forth by good seed from good soil. Now, the word of God is the absolute truth. Now, let me say that again. The word of God is the absolute truth. There is no other truth than this truth, the word of God. It's the only truth that can set you free, and it's the only truth that is true.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

So I don't say that if you don't tell a lie to a person, then that it's not true when you tell somebody something that is true, you know, but I mean the truth, like about who you are, where you're coming from, what your purpose is, who God is, who Jesus is, what he has done for you, you know, about your uh, you know, your your your worth, about, you know, uh, you know, the the salvation plan, you know, about you know the hopeful future that he has for us and all that stuff, you know, the truth about God and about you, you can find in the Bible and only in the Bible and nowhere else. This is the truth, and the truth will set you free, amen. Because that's what Jesus says, you know, in John 8, 31, 32, he says, you know, if you abide in my words, you will be truly my disciples, and you will know the word, and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. So abide in the word, abide in Christ, you will know the truth. When you know the truth, then that truth will make you free. There is no other truth that can make you free. Hallelujah. And so the word of God is true, and you and I both have believed God for something. We have believed his word for something. I mean, it was his word, you know, the word of truth, you know, that made you a child of God, that cost you your salvation. You know, you believe that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but ever have have everlasting life. John 3 16. And because you believed that, you know, you became born again and you became a son of God, and you can now see and enter the kingdom of God, and you are now holy, pure, and righteous, you are blameless for his sight. You know, it's just like you know, because you believed what the word of God says, that a crushed spirit and a broken heart you will not deny, that anybody who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved, that if you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth, you know that you will be saved, for with your heart you believe unto righteousness, and with your mouth you confess unto salvation. You believed that, you confessed that, and when you did, it turned you into something that you were never before. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, Jesus is a new creation, all things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. You became something completely new, you became something that you were never before because you believed this word, you believed this truth, and then that truth had set you free. Man, I'm telling you, it's it's like it's really, really powerful. It's really powerful. I mean, if you just think about it, you know, because you believe that, you know, you were a slave, but now you're a son. You were lost, but now you're found. You know, you were blind, but now you can see. You were darkness, but you're now placed into his lovely light. You know, you were an orphan but and rejected, but now you're accepted and chosen by the living God. And you were guilty, but now you're a righteous. Man, you were a sinner, but now you're a son of God. And powerful, only because you decided to believe this little bit of word. Now, if you decided to believe this little bit of word, this little bit of seed, and you decided to believe that, and because you did it, caused this tremendous transformation in your life that just changed the whole course of your future, that gave you hope, that gave you future. You had no hope, you were without God in this world. But now you are with God and you got hope, which is an anchor for our soul. Now we suddenly have life and that in abundance, suddenly we have purpose, and suddenly, you know, we become what we always were intended to be. Children of the living God and being restored and everything. Many of that little bit of word, you know, that already caused that in your life. Now, how much more? Come on now, I said, how much more than will the rest of his word cause in your life, bring forth in your life, will produce in your life? How much more? I mean, it was just like a few Bible verses that I've mentioned that caused all that transformation in you and through you and for you. How much more? Amen. And so it's very powerful, and that's why it's so important to take the word of God and take it very seriously. You gotta get a relationship with the word, which is Jesus. You gotta get a revelation, you know, about you know, your identity, your authority, who he is, who you are, you know, what your position is in Christ Jesus. You know, you need to you can find every answer on every question you can ever have, you can find it in the Bible. I'm telling you, man. I remember when I was reading the Bible in the beginning, you know, of my uh when I accepted Jesus, I didn't understand anything. I had a Bible that didn't have like chapters and verses, it was just one title, John, the book of John, and then it was the whole book was like all connected. There was no there were no verses and stuff like that. I read it like a story, which is the original way of the how the Bible was written. Later on, people added these verses and stuff like that to help us to understand it better. But uh, you know, I had no clue. It said that if you look wrong at a woman, you have to pluck out your eye. Did you ever think about that, my brother? The Bible said if you look wrong at a woman and lost with your eye, you have to pluck out your eye because it's better to go without eyes into heaven than with eyes into hell. And I was like, How am I gonna do that? I only got two eyes, you know. I didn't understand it, I couldn't understand it, but by sowing that word in my heart and meditate on and pondering it, you know, it became alive, and God gave me revelation upon revelation, and I started to understand the word, and so it started to bear fruit in my life, amen. And so I don't need to pluck out my eyes anymore, I just don't need to watch other people, you know. Hallelujah. Praise Jesus. And so, you know, the word of God is amazing, and you will never be the same, you know. You will never be the same. Now, Colossians 3.16 says, let the word of God, uh, you know, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. That means that you need to overflow with the word of God. You need to let the word of God become abundant in you. And uh, you know, it's a command, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. So you have to immerse yourself in the word of God so that you and the word of God will become one, that it becomes part of you, that you start to think it, then you start to speak it, and you start to act on it, you start to, you start to be it, you know, and just like the word of, you know, the word of God became flesh embodiment, you know, in Jesus, you know, the same way the word of God became flesh in you when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, because Galatians 2.20 says that I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer I live, but it's Christ now who lives within me. You know, and so the word of God, Jesus is the word of God, the word of God became flesh in you, you know, and you can make you know this whole Bible become flesh in you, you know, if you approach it from the grace and the goodness of God, of course. And so you have to immerse yourself and you can bear bear much fruit. You know, you don't produce the fruit, it's Christ producing it in you. But what you have to do is you have to sow you, you have to sow the good seed in you, and so then it will bear good fruit. Let me ask you a question. You know, how many of you are just let me make it personal, are you able, you know, to watch like you know, um some how you call that benchworthy um uh series on uh some of those famous platforms and just watch like if they have eight episodes, you watch them in just in one row. Maybe you just had a little break to go to the toilet, but you can't wait to get back on your sofa and watch the rest of it. You know, how you got sucked into that story and it just, you know, and you can tell everybody what the story was about, you know, and how everybody else should watch it, etc. etc. etc. And you didn't was tired, you didn't fell asleep, nothing. Man, I'm telling you, if if I'm laying on my sofa in the past I could do that, but if I'm laying on my sofa and I'm gonna look if I'm gonna watch a movie, by the time I found the movie that I want to watch and I put it on, as soon as the title starts, you know, I fall asleep. Hallelujah. I just changed it around. But you know, um, I'm sure that there are many people listening that can just watch those things hours and hours and hours and can tell exactly what they have seen. They can tell the whole story. But the time that you're gonna read the Bible, you cannot even finish a chapter and you feel your eyes become heavy, and then you read, but then you get out of the door, and if somebody asks you what you have been reading about, you can't you can't repeat it, you can't record it, you can't bring it back, you cannot recount, you know, what you have been reading. How many of you know that that's for true for a lot of people? I mean, and it's a serious thing, you know. Why is that so that you can watch series and have no problems with it, and then when you read the Bible, you suddenly have all these problems? First of all, it's a spiritual thing because the word of God is spiritual, and Satan doesn't want you to focus and just receive it, just ponder on it, just meditate on it. He doesn't want you to be filled with it. He doesn't want you to be filled with the word of God. He doesn't want you to be filled with all the tiltiness that's on television, on the news, newspapers, and all the trash that you can listen everywhere and all those platforms, and you just scroll through a million little shorts. You know, I can I can bake a steak in a million different ways by all those stupid videos about baking steaks. You know, you just fill your temple with that trash, which is it's useless. That's fine by the devil, because you know, baking uh you know uh uh a steak doesn't pull somebody out of the darkness and places into the wondrous light, doesn't make you want to walk in your full potential and make you able to walk in your full potential. But when you start to put the word of God in, when you start to get these little nuggets all the time, you know, just scrolling through the Bible and just get the word in and get the word in and get the word, and then you come to walk in your full potential in the fullness of God, then you really start to make an impact and a difference. Satan doesn't want that. So he comes with this spirit of deviation, with this spirit of noise, deception. He wants to distract you. That's his whole that's his whole game, that's his whole aim, to distract you. So it really commits a coup, you know, on your thought life, on your attention, on your focus. It tries to turn you away from it so you can't walk in the things that God has established for you in Christ Jesus. And so you gotta be very aware of it. You gotta make sure that you really give your time to the word of God and choose this over watching stupid television. Now, there's no condemnation, you know, if you watch some television or you spend a little bit of time, you know, online, but you got to guard your heart. You got to guard your time, you have to make priorities, you know. What are you gonna do? You know, are you gonna are you gonna make time to read the word or are you gonna make time to do to sit on the internet and just I mean, sometimes I understand, you know, my wife always says, you know, I don't think about anything, I don't watch anything, it doesn't get in. I'm just you know, I'm just watching a little bit online to get my mind empty, you know. But I'm thinking, you know, I find peace in my God. I find peace in his word, and I'm telling you the truth. The moment that I start to read the word, you know, I get so encouraged. It there comes a peace over me, there comes a joy over me, and sometimes it's so difficult to read the word, and you know that Satan is trying to pull you away from it. And when you recognize that you can counter that in the name of Jesus, and you say, get away from me, Satan, you know, let's read it out loud, put it in your ears and listen to it or whatever. But get that in because his words are so comfortable, his words are so peaceful, his words are so transforming. Man, it enriches your whole soul, your body, your your mind, you, you know, your spirit. You know, it just you know, the things that God wants for you, they are so amazing, and how he is is so amazing, he's so good. You know, this is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Man, only that little verse, you know, it just bam! My day starts happy. So we got to get the word in, you know. Do not be distracted. So, anyway, but I'm telling you, there's a lot of people that don't give priority to reading the Bible. They give priority to all kinds of stuff, you know. I've got my kids, I got my family, I got my birthday visits, you know, I got visits for coffee, you know, and I gotta do grocery and clean the house and jobs. I understand all that stuff. Everybody wants to have a social life. But man, you really got to give the word of God priority in your life. Because if you do not give the word of God priority in your life, you're gonna miss out on a lot that God has established for you. You're gonna you're not gonna walk in the fullness that God has for you. It's impossible because all the other things are just they're just overruling and they're overshadowing, you know, what you know, uh the still small voice of the Lord, you know. The anointing of the Holy Spirit that, you know, He speaks through you through revelation because the Bible says, you know, that we have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And that it teaches us. And the way that it stays in us, we also have to stay in him. Man, that's powerful, you know. If you put him in the very first place and you put his word in the very first place, you get your priorities straight. You know, there is a difference between life and victory or life and defeat. I mean, if I'm gonna live with my circumstances, if I'm gonna live and all the challenges that this life, you know, throws at me, if I'm just gonna, you know, live by what I feel and what I see, and I don't say that I never dwell there, I do, and then I repent immediately and run back to my father and you know take my hiding place in him. You know, he's my hiding place. You know, but you know, um, when you focus on all that and you're busy with that and let that overrule your life, then that would be a life of defeat, because you can't walk in victory if you are disconnected from God and his word. You really are disconnected. He loves you, he's with you, he dwells in you, and never leaves you nor forsakes you. He who is in me is greater than who is in the world. You know, so that's not the thing that I'm trying to say to you. I'm just trying to say that if you are not connected, you know, you you are not expected. And if you're not expect, you know, you cannot, you know, have this flow, you know. If you if you if you rejoice in the Lord and you are putting the word of God within you, you know, that's that's uh evidence, you know, of your faith. It's your evidence, you know, it's like you know, it's an action on your expectation and your revelation that you have of the word of God. You did you just you just put that seed inside of you and then you know you just expect it to bear fruit in you, and you're focused on that and only on that. Just to think of the things of above, you know, whatever is good and whatever is you know noble and all that kind of stuff, you know, think on that and the peace of God and the God of peace will be with you, you know. And so um it's a choke, it's a choice between, you know, living in defeat, disconnected from the word of God and relationship and intimacy with the Father, you know, or a life in victory, dwelling in him, in his word, and let his word dwell richly in you also, so that that seed that you are sowing into your life can bear much fruit. Man, it's a food, it's very, very important. I think I'm gonna leave it like this, and I'm gonna continue in the next episode, you know, uh, about the word of God because I've got so much to share about it, and I've got some amazing tools and tips, I believe, that can really help you to apply the word in your life and you know, and how you can take the word, you know. Um, and so I just want to say to you, you know, whoever you are, you know, if you thought that the Bible itself, you know, um is not one of the most important things in your Christian life, then you're absolutely wrong. You are wrong. I mean, I had a lot of supernatural grace and revelation by the Holy Spirit without the knowledge of the Bible, but I couldn't tell anybody the truth about what God says in his word without knowing what the word of God says. Jesus says that the Holy Spirit comes and that he will bring you into remembrance the things that he has taught you. But how can he bring it in remembrance if you didn't read it and if you don't know it, if you didn't meditate on it, if you didn't have studied it? You know, and so I really want to encourage you, you know, to gonna see this Bible as a living book, the Word of God that can be sharper than a two-edged sword and can change and transform your life and those of others. You know, it really gives you all the answers, you know, it can fill you, it can cleanse you, it can, it can give you supernatural strength, you know, it just man, it can encourage you in all kinds of ways, you know. It it will bring forth healing and will bring forth prosperity and peace and joy and all that good things, man. I'm telling you, you got to get into the word of God and make it your own. You gotta know it by heart, and then it will really, really will revolutionize and transform your life. You know, so Father God, thank you so much for this study and thank you for this word, thank you for your word, Father. And I pray that your words, you know, will be like fiery darts on their hearts, not an attack from the enemy, but you will that you will lit those words on fire so they will bear fruit in their lives, Father, in the name of Jesus. Thank you so much. Well, I guess this is it. My time is up. I'm hoping to see you in the next episode of One Gospel. I love you. God bless you, and I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.

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