Cell Wednesday Word given by Malachi Date: 11/05/2022

1. Protecting your Seed
Malachi Aina

2. What is a Weed?
• Luke 8:14
• ‘The seed that fell amongst Thorns stands for those who hear but as they
go on their way are choked by life’s worries riches and pleasures and they
do not mature
• Matthew 13:38
• The weeds are the people of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is
the devil.

3. How can we identify them?
• Galatians 5:22 ‘But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy peace, forbearance, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control
• Matthew 7:15-16
• Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly
they are ferocious wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits, do people pick
grapes from Thornbushes?
• 1 kings 13: 8-22
• Jonah 1:4-5
• Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea and such a violent storm arose that
the ship threatened to break up.
• Place: Your location and assignment in Christ.

4. Why is this necessary?
• Psalm 1:1
• ‘Blessed is the one who does not walk in the step with the wicked or
stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of Mockers
• Ephesians 6:12 ‘For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against…powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of
evil…’
• Amos 3:3 ‘Can two people walk together without agreeing on the
direction?’

5. • Overcrowding
• Influence
• Proverbs 13:20
• ‘Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.’
• Matthew 13: 29
• Let both grow together until the harvest, at that time I will tell the harvesters:
collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned.
• Hebrews 12:11
• ‘No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however it produces a
harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
• Psalm 24:7 ‘ Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord.. He that has clean hands and
apure heart.

6. What is the process-Fortify your Mind!
• Matthew 5:29-30 ‘If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and
throw it away…if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away.
• Genesis 1:3-4 ‘And God said let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
form the darkness.
• Jonah 1:15 ‘Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the
raging sea grew calm.

7. How is this compatible with the instruction
God has given us?
• John 13:24-35
• A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you
are my disciples, if you love one another
• Matthew 22:39-40
• Love Your Neighbour as yourself. All the Law and Prophets hang on
these two commandments.
• Luke 8:10- The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has
been given to you, but to others I speak in parables so they might
understand
• Galatians 6:1
• If someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the spirit should
restore that person gently. But watch yourselves that you are not
also tempted.

8. Be humble like Paul!
• 1 Corinthians 9:19-21
• Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a
slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I
became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I
became like one under the law (though I myself am not under
the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having
the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not
free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win
those not having the law.

9. The Company
You keep will
determine who
you are