Acts 18:8-11

UNEXPECTEDFERTILE GROUND

Sick people need a physician.Sinners need the Savior.•Jesus came to save the unrighteous (Matthew 9:10-13).•Imitate a hypocritical Pharisee or soul-saving Jesus?

•All men need saving (Romans 3:9-10).

Who knows the hearts of men?•The Father, the Son and the Spirit (Matthew 9:4; Luke 16:15; John 2:25; Acts 1:24; 1 Corinthians 2:10).

•The Lord knew that there were many souls still to be saved in Corinth (Acts 18:8, 10).•Faith comes from hearing Christ, and Corinthians needed to hear the gospel (Romans 10:14, 17).• God opens (Matthew 7:7-8).

We do not know what kind of soul a man’s heart is until after we sow God’s seed.• Beware of judging unrighteously like the world.• Simon the Zealot (Luke 6:15)?• Simon the sorcerer (Acts 8:13)?• Sergius Paulus the proconsul (Acts 13:12)?• Saul the persecutor (Acts 9:1, 18)?• A fornicator, a homosexual, a thief or a drunkard (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)?

We do not know what kind of soul a man’s heart is until after we sow God’s seed.• There are different kinds of hearts, but all still need seed sown in them (Luke 8:11-15).

• “Beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Luke 10:1-2).• “…the workers are few”• Paul planted; Apollos watered (1 Corinthians 3:6).• All are called to work – cultivators, sowers, waterers, tenders or pruners.