 Well, good morning friends. Hey, this is a brother Mike back on the podcast Thank you for tuning in. It's Christmas morning And I'm coming to you live from Oceanside, California Hardcore christianity.com I'm from the Arizona Deliverance Center in Phoenix and Yesterday it was my privilege to have been in on a service. I was teaching at the Carlsbad Community Center in the Holy Ghost blew the windows out of the service Literally every person that attended the service got a touch from God It was amazing Everyone at the service except two people got delivered from demons Four people got their gifted tongues So we're grateful for the moving of the spirit and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost the one and only From the broken body of Christ in the blood of Jesus We want another one by God's grace If you need to get ahold of me You can contact me on email Mike at hardcore christianity.com you can Call the Arizona Deliverance Center if you are in need of counseling or deliverance. We have a counseling staff there in Phoenix and you can come for personal prayer and counseling or deliverance There's no charge for born-again Christians also We have two live services every week Thursdays and Friday nights at 7 o'clock both those services are broadcast live on our YouTube teaching channel YouTube comm slash House of healing AZ Also, we have two live Deliverance services on zoom every week Tuesdays and Friday Tuesday and Wednesday night at a 6 p.m. Mountain time The live services Thursday and Friday are at 7 p.m. Mountain time The zoom services you can just send me an email Mike at hardcore christianity.com and I will send you the code and the password for the Services let's take a hard target look at God's word today and Take a look at the most powerful and the most important Parable Jesus ever spoke as you know, it's called the Parable of the sower. It's in the synoptic Gospels Matthew Mark and Luke both all of them have this Parable listed and it's really remarkable because it explains 50% of How the gospel is exposed to humanity It explains 50% of it the parable the sower illustrates the word of God and how it affects different type of people and The parable of the sower assumes that the word of God is presented appropriately and truthfully Just like Jesus would have presented it the flip side of the coin that the parable the sower doesn't illustrate is false teachings false doctrines such as prosperity or word of faith or things like that The parable does not focus on The gospel and how it's presented Inappropriately it only focuses on the gospel on how it's presented appropriately And that's the parable the sower So let's get into it for just a couple of minutes as you know, there's four grounds To the parable the sower One of them is the wayside the other one's a stony ground The other one is thorny ground and the other one is good ground four types of ground four types of listeners four types of receivers and The first ground as you know the wayside That's that is the word of God that's thrown out illustrated by seeds and it lands on you know the street or the road and It has easy accessibility To the devil a person who is a wayside type Listener is someone who hears the word number one and Number two, they don't they don't really understand it on number three. They don't actually get born again The word comes to them and they they see the preacher they hear God's word But it doesn't register enough with them for them to get born again. They never get saved And the fourth thing that happens on the wayside Satan through demons Immediately comes and steals the word from them and where does he steal it from? their heart It says it's stolen out of their heart The word of God goes into the person's mind Auditarily they hear the word of God But the demons steal it Inside from inside they go inside the person and they pull out the word of God and it becomes Useless now the second type of ground as you know is stony ground That is ground where the listener Receives the word of God and they're thrilled about it. They're so happy They can't believe it They see it as good news. They see it as a relief. They see it as an opportunity to have a new life and The person gets saved They turn their life over the Lord to become a born-again Christian, but they don't Believe for very long They never develop a powerful spiritual route into their spirit man and they Get attacked by the devil everybody who first gets saved Has this similar story, you know after I got born again I was so happy for a while and I felt so relieved and I was so thankful But then everything started to go bad Everything started to go wrong and The person that Jesus said they start taking offenses They become offended at other people they become offended at God And it's really the whole thing is a gigantic trick It's the devil pouring persecution on them and trials and tribulations trying to get them to abandon their faith And guess what happens? It works They abandon their faith They take an offense. They collapse under the pressure They don't understand spiritual warfare. They don't have a proper Support group and mentoring group to see them through I will guess what happens It becomes unfruitful it goes to the third ground the word of God then falls on thorny ground Okay, and this is similar to the stony ground in that The person believes the word of God gets down inside them it got inside them going down into the stones It got inside them going down through the thorns and They hear the word of God they believe the word of God and they go forward they start to make progress and they're doing well but But the devil then attacks with fear and anxiety and fear is Satan's Most powerful weapon. It's like a whip on a horse It's how you get the person to Behave it's how you control the person and the devil brings in the big guns of fear and anxiety and They love Pleasure they love the good things in life They are not comfortable about sacrificing anymore They collapse under the delusion of money and material things and the word is choked out and their fruitfulness turns to bad fruit and The bad fruit then becomes they become unfruitful and they give up the backslide they quit and They don't produce anymore fruit But here's the good news and now I'm talking about you hopefully some of the word of God falls on good ground and the person hears it and understands that Jesus said and They open themselves up with a good heart and they start producing good solid honest fruit and they become very productive and every person then where the Seed falls on the good ground produces at a different rate Jesus used an example some 30 some 60 some 100 Different level everybody produces at a different rate, but the bottom line is they're producing You produce at 20 you produce at 30 hey, that's great At least you're producing in the other three grounds the person did not have any long-term continuous fruit and So each person's productivity depends on that person and The Jesus explained that the fruit is generated under Patience and endurance Producing fruit for God is a very difficult thing to do It's very hard and it requires Your greatest skill You know what that is? patience You have to have patience in order to produce holy ghost fruit There isn't any other way to accomplish it. It's not possible It has to be through endurance and Patience the Greek word is who po money. It means endurance see Christianity is not a Sprint it's a long-distance Marathon and The only way to be a marathon runner is you have to learn how to pace yourself You have to learn how to overcome adversity Revelation chapter 2 revelation 3 You have to learn how To stand your ground and survive When the going gets tough You got to be an overcomer You've got to learn that every Christian without an exception has to face enormous adversity You have to face adversity usually It's involving two things relatives close friends and Your health The devil will use these things to attack you your parents your siblings your spouse your health and He will do everything and anything to stop you and Without patience and without endurance You'll never survive You cannot survive most new born-again Christians most of them Backslide at least once and the reason for that is They never developed any Patience they never developed any endurance But the good ground receivers the good ground listeners They do develop patience and in your patience possess you your souls Your patience is the key the good ground and only good ground yields disciples for God Christians are a diamond dozen They're all over the country and most of them are spiritually useless Literally absolutely useless Because God never called you Just to be a Christian. You are always called Matthew 28 To be a disciple Disciples don't collapse under pressure They don't backslide when the going gets tough They don't go back to the pleasures of this world and the pleasures of life. They don't do that What happens is They go on to maturity and they go on to becoming a disciple a Disciple is completely different from a Christian all Disciples are born-again Christians very few born-again Christians are disciples Almost nobody makes it And as Jesus said the reason they don't make it is because they don't have any patience They don't develop patience You have to develop patience in order to be successful at anything in life You have to in develop endurance who put money You got to be able to stand under pressure and that takes trial and error People who are good ground Christians They are individuals that Don't take no for an answer They don't collapse Every time somebody moves the table They don't fall apart They don't turn on other people and most importantly as Jesus said In stony ground, they don't take offenses because offenses are the number one downfall of a born-again Christian But disciples don't take defences because they know who their enemy is The enemy your enemy Ephesians 6 is not other people or your relatives Or your friends or the co-workers No far from it. This is a spiritual war Christians don't see that they don't understand it's a spiritual war That's why they call them carnal Christians the Greek word of sarks a carnal Christian lives out of their emotions a Disciple lives out of their spirit man Their spirit man is the main focus of their life a Carnal Christian lives out of their emotions their soul and they become soul man Christians and that's why they don't survive The wayside the stony ground the thorny ground were all Christians who never went on to become a disciple and They stayed living out of their emotions and they became carnal Christians fearful Christians Christians with anxiety Christians who are scared and they don't go on Revelation 2 and 3 to become Overcomers Overcomers They don't do it once you become a disciple and you're a good ground Christian every good ground Christian knows That this is a war a spiritual war to the end Revelation chapter 2 and Revelation 3 Jesus said several times he that endures to the end will be so too Greek word so so delivered You'll be saved if you can endure to the end and Free of the four grounds Did not endure to the end. They were gone. They were lost The good ground Christians Realized you have to endure to the end and a good ground Christian knows that born-again Christians Can miss the rapture. Oh my gosh, brother Mike's a heretic No, I'm not. I'm just somebody who can read born-again Christians Most of them will be entering the tribulation They will miss the rapture It's gonna be horrible Whether the rapture is at the beginning of the tribulation or the end doesn't matter. They're still gonna miss it Brother Mike, where'd you get that information? How do you know that? Well in Luke chapter 21? Jesus revealed it at the beginning of the chapter he goes through all of the end-time prophecies the prophecies about Jerusalem and the fall the prophecies about The tribulation the antichrist and so on then he says The judgment of God is going to fall on Humanity during the tribulation and then he throws this in check it out Luke chapter 21 verse 34 this is after He explains all the prophetic events that are coming in the future He then says quote Take heed to yourselves Lest at any time your hearts Be overcharged With surfacing drunkenness and the cares of this life Now let's break that down for a second Drunkenness doesn't need to be Broken down right that's the Greek word meth a where we get our English word meth amphetamines Okay, drunkenness is obviously a Sin but the sin of the drunkenness is that it takes you away from the word of God it lowers your defenses and It blocks your sensitivity to the Holy Ghost the Bible says do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God Do not quench the spirit well drunkenness and drug usage obviously Squashes it Surfing is the Greek word for surfing there Crepelle it means to party people who are partying Why do people party they usually party to get away from their miserable life or they're Celebrating the sin of their life. So they're partying and Then Jesus said the cares of this life are the Third leg on the table that collapses Mara now is the Greek word and it means the anxieties and fears of living Beos is the Greek word for life there It means the anxieties and the fears of life living life doing life and Jesus said do not be overcharged with these three pillars So that the day will come upon you and You're unaware He said for as a snare It shall come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth Okay, let's talk about the rapture here the whole planet Peggy's is the Greek word for snare there and it means that stepping on a trap you did not see coming You fall in and you never saw it You didn't see it You dropped and if your hearts are overcharged with partying fears anxiety Drugs alcohol if you're overcome or overcharged with those things you are not going to see this The rapture is going to come and the disciples will go the born-again Christians will be left behind Luke 21 36. Let's go another verse Watch therefore Jesus said and pray always That you may accounted be accounted worthy to escape All these things that are going to come to pass And to stand before the son of man escape what What he just went over in the beginning of Luke chapter 21 First he talks about the fall of Jerusalem and then he goes to the nightmare of the tribulation If you want to escape the tribulation Luke chapter 21 You have got to be good ground Good ground requires you to develop faithfulness patience and endurance You have to do it see a Born-again Christian fears failure They're embarrassed by it. They're humiliated by it. They're shamed by it a Disciple doesn't see failure like that a Disciple embraces their failures as a learning experience They embrace their failures and their losses seeing them Not as pitfalls, but as stepping stones to victory Victory and Jesus warned us listen. Do you want to escape all these things that are going to come you want to hear the trumpet? Do you? Okay Fears of this life anxieties of this life Intoxicants partying revelry All these things Are going to grieve the Holy Ghost They're going to quench the moving of the spirit in your life And you're going to miss the trumpet because you never became an overcomer Not being an overcomer was a characteristic of the first three grounds of the four in the parable the sower Disciples understand that your failures in life Are your best friends? Losing Leads to victory Born-again Christians don't see it that way. They are overcome by it They go with sadness and sorrow misery and shame and humiliation and embarrassment And they just saying Thorns get them Son burns them up The birds the demons steal them God never did call you just to be a Christian. That's that's not the gospel. No, it is not Doesn't say that Matthew 28 says go into all the world and make disciples Disciples are winners Because they can endure hardship Because they have patience and because they don't take no for an answer They don't take no for an answer They go on to win. Yeah, I had a service yesterday and you know, I I knew it was Christmas Eve So I knew that you know, it was risky. Maybe nobody would show up. Thank God some people showed up and 100% of the people that showed up got a touch from God What was I doing there? Well, I was being patient you know, I was being Patient with endurance I did it knowing that, you know, it could have gone bad Hey, I didn't care. I just went forward and The Holy Ghost showed up and man, it was really something special. I've never had a hundred percent of people Touched by God in the service. I'll take that back. I had one about a month ago I went to the Healing Cathedral in Phoenix. We had a hundred percent of the people who showed up there Got a touch by the Holy Ghost 100% of them all of them got delivered. It was quite amazing but in order to accomplish Becoming a disciple you first have to become a born-again Christian and but you can't stay that way You will not stay that way 2023 is almost upon you You can't do 2023 like you did 2022 you can't do that. That's not that's not gonna work There's no way it's just not gonna work and you're not gonna do it You know what you're gonna do this year you're gonna open up a can of whoop ass on the devil You're gonna pour it right down his throat Just like that You're not gonna take his crap anymore No, you're not No, you're not going to be laying around on the road where the demons come pick it off the birds get you that's not gonna happen Not in 2023. I Don't know if you've been watching the news at all. I don't know if you've been keeping up with life at all lately, but The United States is going right straight to hell in a porcelain handbasket The devil's made his move now and he's gonna overrun us And he will overrun the Christians There's no doubt about it many churches have already caved in they caved into the Pandemic and the vaccines and the quarantines and everything that went on they just Folded that's typical for churches loaded with Christians They folded a drop of hat There weren't any disciples that folded during the pandemic They're not gonna fold in the future either They're not gonna lose They meaning you You're not gonna lose That's what's gonna happen to you 2023 is by far gonna be your best year