BROKEN GROUND

Evangelist Chris Miller

HOSEA 10:12-13

I. THE PROBLEM OF THE FALLOW GROUND

The fallow ground is dry, hardened ground that has been used in the past and then left alone to harden. The heart can become fallow ground just by doing nothing. [Heb. 3:13, 15]

II. THE PREPARATION OF THE FALLOW GROUND [v. 12]

Ps. 51
-a thorough confession. Confess private sins to God only, confess personal sin to the person offended, confess public sin to the church. "Where there is brokenness there is openness" [v. 2]
-without excuses [v. 3]
-specifically [v. 2-3, Heb. 4:12]
-accurately

II. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR THE PREPARED GROUND? [v. 12]

-to prepare for the rain
-personal revival precedes corporate revival [Heb. 3:13]