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I can correctly say you and I both plant seeds then and we may never know what took, and numbers really don't count, right? (as it should be)

Cindy , can we talk about seeds?

Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Mar 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Mar 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables:

Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them.

Mar 4:13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Mar 4:14 The sower soweth the word.

The only seed that has value is the word of God. That is what brings faith unto salvation . All the rest is chaff that will be blown away .

Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive

Any seed other than the word of God bears no fruit, all the rest are idle words to God.

I just want you to note who it is that determines who has ears to hear

I know you said Gods word is boring to you ... but the Bible is clear. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God

I know you said Gods word is boring to you ...

Taking to lying are ya, you had seemed to found your stride a while back, you were dead on on what you believed and pounding home your message with out the slander and mean streak and I agreed with most of what you said and believed except the tulip, now you have fallen back into your old ways and frankly no body cares what you have to say as long as your acting this way, do you wittiness like this in real life? I doubt it. I'm really disappointed in you.

BigMack

It's always good to keep this in mind:

Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

And conversely, the evidence that one is not being fruitful is:

Gal 5:19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Gal 5:20 idolatry, sorcery,enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
Gal 5:21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Jam 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
Jam 3:18 And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Do not confuse these fruits of the spirit with a willingness to compromise belief, or as a sign that one is weak in faith. Indeed it seems to be the exact opposite.