The Word of God Is Planted in the Heart
1.Read Mark 4:3-8
Contents
Four kinds of ground.
2.With what does the construction of the Temple of God commence?
The planting of the living Word in the heart of the one who accepts Christ as Lord and Saviour.
3.What must be done for the Divine Seed?
The Seed must be nourished and cared for and have opportunity to grow and develop.
4.What will be brought forth if the new life is cared for properly?
A new personality of the same Substance and in the image of God from whom it came.
5.Of what does the fourth kind of ground consist?
People who take good care of the Word that has come to them.</div>
6.Read Mark 4:8.
Thirty, sixty, and a hundred.
7.Do the Scriptures speak of three major levels of attainment in Christ?
Yes.
8.What are the three levels of bearing fruit in Christ?
The level of justification through the blood of the Lord Jesus. The level of ministry and holiness brought about by the operations of the Holy Spirit. The throne level of dwelling and ruling in the fullness of the abiding of the Father and the Son.
9.What is the new Jerusalem?
The Temple of God, the Lamb’s Wife.
10.Read Genesis 22:17-18; Galatians 3:16.
The magnifying of Christ in us.
11.What is the Seed that is sown in us?
The living Word of God; Christ.
The Seed and the Temple of God.
12.Who is the Temple of God?
Christ Head and Body.
13.Who inherits the promises of God?
Christ Himself.
14.Read Galatians 3:16; James 1:21
A seed brings forth after its kind.=
15.What law of nature governs seeds?
Each seed brings forth a duplicate of the parent from which it came.
16.Read Genesis 1:11.
17.How can the outside environment affect the growth of a seed?
The outside environment can hinder or help the growth of the plant but it cannot affect its nature.
18.What alone determines the kind of plant that will be brought forth?
The seed.
19.What determines the program of growth and development of a maturing plant or animal?
The parent plant from which the seed came.
20.Can our humanity add virtue to our new born-again nature?
No.
21.Into what can the Divine Seed develop?
If the Divine Seed is nourished and cared for properly it will develop into a creature who is of God, from God, of the Nature of God, in God’s image—altogether a son of God in every sense of the word.
22.Why must we be born again?
The personality that is born of earthly parents cannot enter the Kingdom of God, it cannot become the dwelling place of God. Only Christ is suitable as the habitation of God. Christ must be formed in us if we would be the temple of God.
23.Read 2 Corinthians 5:17-18.
24.In the Divine redemption, how much of our personality is re-created?
All things of our personality have been created a new and all things now are of God.
25.What is the new creation?
The Body of Christ, the Servant of the Lord, the eternal habitation of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit?