Entrusting: Part V

Entrust (verb):

• To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance.
• To give as a trust to (someone).
• To charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust.
• To commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance.

Here are the previous posts on this study:

• Entrusting: Part IV
• Entrusting: Part III
• Entrusting: Part II
• Entrusting: Part I

Entrusting

• Inspired by Prayer (Luke 6:12)
• Self Sacrifice
• Purposeful
• Unconditional
• Inspired by God
• One Poured Out
• Oblivious
• Intention Development
• Vision Led and Long Term

Entrustment is Faith
Definition: Firm belief in something or someone for which there is no proof.

Even at Jesus’ Death there was no proof!

Jesus’ Death was like a Single Seed.

Unless You Die!

John 12:24 says: I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

When a seed Dies it is not Guaranteed to Multiply.

Luke 8:11-15

"This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop."

Apostolic Soils:

• Those heard and never responded (Path)
• Those who followed with joy, time of testing will fall away, had no root. ‘Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’ (Matt 26:31)
• Those who where choked by riches of Life (Judas).

There is no Fruit until you Die!

Am I entrusting in others? Am I willing to go as far as death for others? These are great questions... and I often tell myself it would be easier to die for someone physically than to be consistent spiritually. I do not know if that makes sense, but my wife agreed with me that it does. I think the idea is dying to self... and that it so much harder than simply loosing my physical life. Johnny Out.

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