You’d think the receiving the message of the kingdom would multiply naturally. But we have three enemies: the devil, our flesh and the world. Overcoming these leads to multiplication.

God created us to multiply

• 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. – Matthew 13
• 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply…” – Genesis 1
• 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations – Matthew 28
• 1 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah!” – Revelation 19

Multiplication in the Bible

• Adam – God blessed them: be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
• Noah – Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
• Abraham – I will surely multiply your offspring so they cannot be numbered
• Isaac – I will multiply your offspring and give your offspring all these lands
• Jacob – Be fruitful and multiply; I will give the land to your offspring
• Israel – I will make you fruitful and multiply you and confirm my covenant
• Moses – the people were fruitful and multiplied greatly; they filled the land
• Joshua – Every place that the sole of your foot will tread I have given to you
• David  – I will multiply the offspring of David my servant
• Psalms – By his blessing they multiply greatly
• Solomon – your great people, too many to be numbered or counted
• Isaiah – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy
• Jeremiah – I will bring them back, and they shall be fruitful and multiply
• Ezekiel – I will multiply them; they shall multiply and be fruitful
• Zechariah – Jerusalem shall be inhabited with a multitude of people
• Nehemiah – You multiplied their children and brought them into the land
• Jesus – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations
• Acts – the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem
• Church – So the church throughout all Judea and Samaria multiplied
• Word – But the word of God increased and multipliedRevelation – a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation

God blesses us to multiply

• God blesses us to multiply
• Verses in Genesis:
• God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply” – 1:28
• God blessed Noah and his sons, “Be fruitful and multiply” – 9:1
• I will bless her, and she shall become nations – 17:16
• I have blessed him and multiply him greatly – 17:20
• I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring – 22:17
• blessed Rebekah “may you become thousands of ten thousands” – 24:60
• Isaac reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him. – 26:12
• I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring – 26:24
• God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you – 28:3
• bless the boys… and let them grow into a multitude – 48:16 

We Multiply through Faith

Abraham, the father of our faith, believed a promise for multiplication when it looked impossible, and it was credited to him as righteousness. The same offer is available to us.

• 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit – John 15
• 18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead…. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. – Romans 4

We Multiply through Love

• 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” – Matthew 22
• 22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. – 1 Peter

Multiply through faith and love

• 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that [works] is faith expressing itself through love. – Galatians 5