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Pastors’ response: That is a genuine concern, well there may be many reasons why you keep back sliding probably you are concerned about things outside what the will of God really his for your life. The first thing you have to do is to stop backsliding, set your heart on the Lord. Give him your attention Proverbs 23:26 “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. I want to read something to you from Mark 4, something that Jesus said, you know the verses from 1-20 tells us about a man who went forth to sow, the sower that went forth to sow and he says as the man sowed some seeds fell by the way side and he told us the meaning of that, so fell on a hard ground, stony... Read More Pastors’ response: That is a genuine concern, well there may be many reasons why you keep back sliding probably you are concerned about things outside what the will of God really his for your life. The first thing you have to do is to stop backsliding, set your heart on the Lord. Give him your attention Proverbs 23:26 “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. I want to read something to you from Mark 4, something that Jesus said, you know the verses from 1-20 tells us about a man who went forth to sow, the sower that went forth to sow and he says as the man sowed some seeds fell by the way side and he told us the meaning of that, so fell on a hard ground, stonyund and he told us the meaning of that then the third group he said the seeds fell among thongs and I want to read that to you. He said some seeds fell among thongs and that’s from verse 7, Mark 4:7 “And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and chocked it, and it yielded no fruit”. The seed yielded no fruits because when they grew up the thorns chocked it, from verse 18, Jesus explain this parables to his disciples, I will begin with verse 14 “The sower soweth the word. Vs 15 “And these are they by the way side, so the seed is the word of God. So he says “And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts”. That is for those that fell by the way side, see they didn’t even understand the word and the word didn’t have any time to grow, he said Satan came immediately and stole the word from their hearts but then we go to verse 18 “And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, Vs 19 “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful”. See it becometh unfruitful, so there is a reason why the word of God that has come into you, instead of producing result and keeping you in the way is not happening it’s because you are receiving the word amongst thorns. You are allowing other things, he called them listen to the names he says Mark 4:19 “…the cares of this world,…the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things… All this choke the word of God in your life that’s why you keep backsliding because you have things that are choking the word of God that have been sown into your hearts. Now, you can deal with this things Jesus shows us that it is our responsibility. In Luke 21:34 “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. See you are the one to take charge of your heart, he says lest at any time your heart become over charged, says with surfeiting, drunkenness, cares of this life, cares of this life. He doesn’t want your heart to go after anything outside of the word. So, it’s up to you the bible says Proverb 4:23 “Guard your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”. So this is your responsibility, you are the one to stop yourself from backsliding. The bible says 1 Corinthians 15:58 “…be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye see that your labour is unto him”. So he says here Luke 21:34 “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Vs 35 “For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth”. So because the Lord is coming again he wants us to be steadfast, to be grounded in the word of God. So that’s important. Less