1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,720 It doesn't mean that the person who hears the word and receives. 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,760 It is a good. Person This. 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,640 Is the work of the sower. Sows the seed, and he plows it 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:07,960 up. He. 5 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,880 Sows the seed, and he plows it up year over year. 6 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,040 Morning, everybody. Wow, it's. 7 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,960 It's different to be up. Here in front of you, because 8 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,200 99% of the time I'm sitting out there and just taking and 9 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,370 preaching and. I kind of finished up with going 10 00:00:25,370 --> 00:00:27,770 through the preaching. Lab stuff, a little over a year. 11 00:00:27,770 --> 00:00:32,170 Ago and then I had all this homework and set before me to 12 00:00:32,170 --> 00:00:35,010 complete and Cole's like, no pressure, just keep going 13 00:00:35,010 --> 00:00:38,690 through it and then. As little Jack was. 14 00:00:38,690 --> 00:00:40,610 Approaching to be born, the pressure was starting to build a 15 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:41,810 little. Bit Cole's like, hey, where you 16 00:00:41,810 --> 00:00:43,330 at? Have you turned everything in 17 00:00:43,330 --> 00:00:44,690 yet? Are you coming in right? 18 00:00:44,690 --> 00:00:48,890 Because thankfully, what a. Blessing our churches. 19 00:00:48,890 --> 00:00:50,730 To be able to give him a little time away. 20 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,840 But then too, I just want to brag on all of you. 21 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,000 Who have just stepped. Forward and encouraged me this 22 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,880 morning. Thank you so much. 23 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,760 It's just such a. Blessing to be a part of 24 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,840 Frontier Church and I think part of the reason that my wife and 25 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,600 I, when we moved to Des Moines three years ago to be here and 26 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,600 the reason. Why others of you? 27 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:13,360 Stick around is because it ends up being a place where we really 28 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,240 want to. Be it's we, it's. 29 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,200 It's a. People we want to be with and a 30 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,560 a people we want to be around and. 31 00:01:21,010 --> 00:01:23,770 To get put in this position too. I'm, you know, I'm kind of 32 00:01:23,770 --> 00:01:25,890 frantic this morning rereading through everything. 33 00:01:25,890 --> 00:01:27,810 Oh, I want to plug this in here maybe. 34 00:01:27,810 --> 00:01:29,730 Pull this out. My wife. 35 00:01:29,730 --> 00:01:31,370 Christian just looks at. Me and she goes, no, it's. 36 00:01:31,370 --> 00:01:32,930 Just. It's just really. 37 00:01:32,930 --> 00:01:36,490 Apparent God's grace in your life from from where you were to 38 00:01:36,490 --> 00:01:38,050 where you're at now to be able to preach. 39 00:01:38,050 --> 00:01:41,490 And I'm just extremely grateful to be up here and just thank you 40 00:01:41,490 --> 00:01:46,650 all so much for being here this morning and kind of I felt like 41 00:01:46,650 --> 00:01:48,970 it would maybe be fitting since I kind of went through some 42 00:01:48,970 --> 00:01:51,470 tests to. Start this morning. 43 00:01:51,470 --> 00:01:53,390 Off with a test, right? It's a. 44 00:01:53,590 --> 00:01:59,550 It's a pretty easy one. OK, so by a show of hands, who's 45 00:01:59,550 --> 00:02:02,710 seen a cornfield, right? Right. 46 00:02:02,750 --> 00:02:04,430 OK. Yeah, obviously all of us. 47 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:07,550 You can't miss one driving into Des Moines, right? 48 00:02:07,550 --> 00:02:09,750 And that's the case. And what we're used to kind of 49 00:02:09,750 --> 00:02:12,470 seeing now is this time of year is it's the corn shooting up, 50 00:02:12,470 --> 00:02:14,070 right? It's growing taller and taller 51 00:02:14,070 --> 00:02:17,430 and it's looking green. Everything's in nice straight 52 00:02:17,510 --> 00:02:23,000 lines, nice straight rows from. Our modern tailors and planters 53 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,520 and then when the harvest comes the combines come up and. 54 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,800 They work the field. All those things. 55 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,520 And So what we're used to kind of seeing is, right, that's 56 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,840 modern day farming that's today. Okay, but in Jesus. 57 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,640 Time. We're going to be in Mark 4 58 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:41,440 today in Jesus time. All the people. 59 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,640 Hearing him. Give this first parable. 60 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,650 This first little lesson. They didn't live with modern day 61 00:02:49,650 --> 00:02:52,690 farming. They didn't drive out well. 62 00:02:52,690 --> 00:02:55,170 In their case they've been maybe ride a donkey or walk out of 63 00:02:55,170 --> 00:02:58,010 town and see all look at the corn it's in a. 64 00:02:58,010 --> 00:03:01,450 Perfectly straight row for. 4 1/2 miles because the. 65 00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:04,730 G PS:. Directed it to be there. 66 00:03:04,730 --> 00:03:06,770 Right. And so we need to. 67 00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:10,050 Forget that. And put ourselves in the ancient 68 00:03:10,050 --> 00:03:12,770 person's. Shoes, because that's how they 69 00:03:12,770 --> 00:03:15,330 would have heard it. So a little bit about. 70 00:03:15,330 --> 00:03:19,720 Ancient farming. It's different. 71 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,760 So you have the. You have the. 72 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,560 Sewer, right? And the sewer, a lot of times 73 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,400 maybe they would take their oxen and they'd go maybe 2 miles from 74 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,400 where they live at times and. That's actually how light. 75 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Their plow, even, was they could. 76 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,960 Have carried it that far. It was kind of. 77 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,840 It's pretty, it's like a stick. That just kind of goes in the 78 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,960 ground, okay, That's not the John Deere plow. 79 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,920 Of today or 100. Years ago even, it was It was 80 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,460 much more crude than that. And you'd go around and. 81 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:51,420 Just throw the seed. All over and keep walking, 82 00:03:51,580 --> 00:03:54,420 walking through his field, all over the place, and there'd be 83 00:03:54,420 --> 00:03:56,860 paths going through it. There'd be. 84 00:03:56,860 --> 00:03:59,060 Different spots where there would be some thorns and the 85 00:03:59,060 --> 00:04:02,900 hard soil and the the ancient listener. 86 00:04:02,980 --> 00:04:04,580 To Jesus. They knew all. 87 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:06,820 About this because it was a part of their everyday life, their 88 00:04:06,820 --> 00:04:09,540 culture in a lot of ways was surrounded by. 89 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:12,780 This grain farming, right? And so they knew all about. 90 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:15,900 The good. Soil and the hard soil. 91 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:19,839 And the thorny soil and the rocky soil, they knew about all 92 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,840 those things. And we have to kind of sit in 93 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,520 that to maybe grasp more of what Jesus is saying because again, 94 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,520 it's hard to imagine what. That that yield like a good. 95 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,240 Year for them was like a tenfold yield and what that means is for 96 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,320 like so every one pound of seed that he would have sown out. 97 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,640 He would have took. Took in only £10, that was like 98 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,360 an amazing year on average was more like 6 or £7.00 to the one 99 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,240 pound, so. Just to kind of put. 100 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,000 That in perspective? Think about that. 101 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,840 As we see. The type. 102 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:54,360 Of yield Jesus is. Talking about So if you'd all 103 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,080 stand with me as you read God's word, we're going to be in Mark. 104 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,680 Chapter 4. We're going to go be reading 105 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:12,680 through versus one through 20, mark four, one through 20 again, 106 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,520 he began to. Teach beside the sea. 107 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,040 And a very. Large crowd gathered about. 108 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,600 Him so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea and the 109 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:22,720 whole. Crowd was beside the. 110 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,480 Sea on the land. And he was teaching them many 111 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,400 things and parables. And in his teaching he just said 112 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,680 to them, listen, just a quick note and listen, it's this. 113 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,400 Cool word. It's a it's a couette. 114 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,800 It means. Literally have hyper hearing. 115 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,880 Don't just let this reverberate in your eardrum and bounce. 116 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,160 Back out, Let it. Come inside you, let it get into 117 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,830 your heart, a Couette, listen. Behold a sower. 118 00:05:46,830 --> 00:05:51,270 Went out to sow, and as he was sow as he sowed, some seed fell 119 00:05:51,270 --> 00:05:54,350 along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 120 00:05:55,270 --> 00:05:58,910 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil, 121 00:05:59,470 --> 00:06:02,750 and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil 122 00:06:03,270 --> 00:06:04,310 and when the sun. Rose. 123 00:06:04,310 --> 00:06:06,110 It was scorched. And since it had no. 124 00:06:06,110 --> 00:06:09,710 Root it withered away. Other seed fell among the 125 00:06:09,710 --> 00:06:13,870 thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no 126 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:16,510 grain. And other seeds fell into good 127 00:06:16,510 --> 00:06:20,470 soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding 128 00:06:20,470 --> 00:06:25,230 30 fold and 60 fold and 100 fold and he. 129 00:06:25,230 --> 00:06:29,150 Said he who has ears to hear. Let him hear. 130 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:33,510 And when he was alone, those around him with the 12 asked him 131 00:06:33,510 --> 00:06:37,590 about the parables, and he said to them to you, has been given 132 00:06:37,590 --> 00:06:39,590 the secret of the Kingdom of God. 133 00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:42,510 But for those outside. Everything is in parables. 134 00:06:43,290 --> 00:06:46,810 So that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed 135 00:06:46,810 --> 00:06:49,970 hear, but not understand, lest they should turn and be 136 00:06:50,010 --> 00:06:53,610 forgiven. And he said to them, Do you not 137 00:06:53,610 --> 00:06:56,610 understand this parable? How, then will you understand? 138 00:06:56,610 --> 00:06:59,050 All the parables, the sower sows. 139 00:06:59,050 --> 00:07:02,050 The word and these are the ones along the path where the word is 140 00:07:02,050 --> 00:07:04,370 sown. When they hear, Satan 141 00:07:04,370 --> 00:07:07,130 immediately comes and takes. Away the word that. 142 00:07:07,130 --> 00:07:09,760 Is sown in them. And these are the ones sewn on 143 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,920 rocky ground. They're ones who when they hear 144 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,280 the word, immediately. Receive it with joy. 145 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,200 And they have no root in themselves, but endure. 146 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,240 It for a while. Then when tribulation or 147 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,400 persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall 148 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:30,400 away, and other and others are the ones sewn among thorns. 149 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,920 They are those who hear the word but the cares of the world. 150 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,790 And the deceitfulness of riches. And the desires for other things 151 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:40,470 enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 152 00:07:41,550 --> 00:07:44,750 But those that were. Sown on the good soil are the 153 00:07:44,750 --> 00:07:46,110 ones who. Hear the word. 154 00:07:46,670 --> 00:07:51,910 And accept it, and bear fruit thirtyfold and sixtyfold, and a 155 00:07:51,910 --> 00:07:54,830 hundredfold. He who has ears to hear. 156 00:07:54,910 --> 00:07:56,470 Let him hear. He may be seated. 157 00:08:01,870 --> 00:08:04,780 Thank you. You'll pray with me before we 158 00:08:04,780 --> 00:08:07,100 start and ask for God's help to understand His Word. 159 00:08:10,460 --> 00:08:13,740 Heavenly Father, we are gathered here together. 160 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:21,580 On a beautiful sunny morning and you invite us in to soak in your 161 00:08:21,580 --> 00:08:24,780 word to have hyper hearing ears. That. 162 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:27,740 Don't just let it come in and bounce out. 163 00:08:27,740 --> 00:08:29,420 But you would allow. Us to enter it in. 164 00:08:29,420 --> 00:08:31,300 I just pray God this morning that. 165 00:08:32,049 --> 00:08:35,049 Whoever feels like all the. Different things going in life 166 00:08:36,530 --> 00:08:39,049 are taking their attention away from hearing from you. 167 00:08:39,250 --> 00:08:41,850 That you would. Allow them to focus and listen. 168 00:08:41,850 --> 00:08:43,970 Allow me to focus and listen to you. 169 00:08:46,410 --> 00:08:49,810 That no part. Of your word would be able to be 170 00:08:50,330 --> 00:08:52,730 scooped up by the birds to be scooped away by. 171 00:08:52,730 --> 00:08:55,370 Satan so that we may not. Bear fruit, but that. 172 00:08:55,570 --> 00:08:59,380 God, we may bear fruit. I need your help this morning, 173 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:03,660 Lord, just to humbly be before. You to preach faithfully. 174 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:09,260 To not have any people pleasing. That you would allow. 175 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:11,500 Us to look inside. To our hearts. 176 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:19,700 And seek the one who sews. The word to us. 177 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:27,900 Amen. All right so so far. 178 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,280 We're going through slowly in the book of Mark and we've seen 179 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,040 Jesus bring God's Kingdom on earth, right? 180 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,520 He's He's healed the lame, sick people are being made, well, 181 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,840 blind can. See Tax Collector. 182 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:49,600 In the Sinner are redeemed before him, the promise of the 183 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,040 Garden of Eden is being fulfilled. 184 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,240 Jesus is undoing the effects of sin and making all things new 185 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,400 and part of this newness. Comes through as well in his 186 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:03,360 teaching as he seeks to make people new as well through his 187 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,960 teaching and in. Chapter 4 We're. 188 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,480 Beginning a new section in the book and it's called The 189 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,200 Parables. And usually with parables. 190 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,320 The one point is being made and is if you were to go in and 191 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,600 study Mark. 4 You could see all over the place. 192 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,560 You could grab one point from all the different kind of. 193 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,880 Characters, so or the seed. And the soils you could look 194 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,320 into it. But really? 195 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,280 The main point is that listen, it's that. 196 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,600 Akuate. It's how we listen. 197 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,480 To God undeniably matters. For our lives. 198 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,440 Undeniably matters. And what's different about how? 199 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,080 Jesus shares his parables. Is that he knows not everyone on 200 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,200 that beach would really hear him, you know? 201 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,840 You know what I'm saying? They'd hear him, but they 202 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,200 wouldn't really hear him. It's like when my wife is 203 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,280 talking to me and I hear and I'm nodding. 204 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:56,700 And then she says, what are you going to the store to get? 205 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:58,620 And I'm like. You got to text. 206 00:10:58,620 --> 00:10:59,860 Me, right. I didn't hear her. 207 00:11:01,820 --> 00:11:03,540 Yeah, yeah, who? Who knows what? 208 00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:05,860 That's like right. Good for you. 209 00:11:05,860 --> 00:11:07,300 If you're not like that, that's awesome. 210 00:11:11,140 --> 00:11:15,700 And he knew that people would nod their head and the words 211 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:18,260 would come right through one here and. 212 00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:20,740 Shoot out the other side without. 213 00:11:20,860 --> 00:11:23,860 Kind of coming down and hitting the heart, hitting the inner 214 00:11:23,860 --> 00:11:27,350 man. It's listening without listening 215 00:11:27,390 --> 00:11:36,470 and hearing, without hearing. And his teaching style, he he 216 00:11:36,470 --> 00:11:40,950 knows that this is going on. For others, the. 217 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:44,110 Hearing wasn't as dull though, and he mentions it, but let's 218 00:11:44,110 --> 00:11:48,550 kind of start in the middle in verses 10 through. 12 I'll just 219 00:11:48,630 --> 00:11:50,750 reread. Them again, and then let's kind 220 00:11:50,750 --> 00:11:55,570 of look at them. And when he was alone, those 221 00:11:55,570 --> 00:11:59,170 around him with the 12. Asked Jesus about the parables. 222 00:11:59,690 --> 00:12:02,650 And he said to them, to you, has been given the secret of the 223 00:12:02,650 --> 00:12:05,450 Kingdom of God. But for those outside. 224 00:12:05,530 --> 00:12:09,210 Everything is in parables, so that they may indeed see but not 225 00:12:09,210 --> 00:12:12,690 perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they 226 00:12:12,690 --> 00:12:19,930 should turn and be forgiven. So to understand this, it's 227 00:12:19,930 --> 00:12:23,560 important to kind of grab. From the context, that's kind of 228 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:27,400 around Jesus ministry getting to this point and we kind of see 229 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,840 that in the previous chapters, especially in verse or in 230 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:37,360 chapter 3, in verses 6 and 22, the situation going on there is 231 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,720 there is direct opposition to Jesus on purpose. 232 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,640 Where the religious leaders. They hold counsel against Jesus 233 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:49,160 to destroy him and then in verse 22 they are attribulating his 234 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,160 power to being demonic. And it's with this kind of 235 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,480 context and mind that Jesus makes the distinction between 236 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,320 right, he said. There's the insiders. 237 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,320 Who are the disciples? Who? 238 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,240 Have been given the secret of the Kingdom of God, and then the 239 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,920 unbelieving multitude. Where the. 240 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:14,400 Truth seems concealed the the ones purposely choosing that 241 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,400 harm. But we kind of get that, don't 242 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,120 we? Whenever. 243 00:13:18,770 --> 00:13:20,530 The message of Jesus is. Proclaimed. 244 00:13:20,530 --> 00:13:21,810 There's always kind of two sides. 245 00:13:21,810 --> 00:13:24,650 There's an opposition side and there's a receiving side. 246 00:13:26,170 --> 00:13:30,490 There's always some who accept and some who reject believers 247 00:13:30,650 --> 00:13:33,490 and unbelievers and just like Jesus. 248 00:13:33,490 --> 00:13:36,810 Says he who has ears to hear. Let him hear. 249 00:13:36,970 --> 00:13:40,250 The Bible regularly talks about those who hear. 250 00:13:40,450 --> 00:13:43,210 And those who don't, Not everyone who. 251 00:13:43,210 --> 00:13:45,330 Hears the gospel. Really hears the. 252 00:13:45,330 --> 00:13:49,150 Gospel, and it doesn't sink in. 1st Corinthians 214 says the 253 00:13:49,150 --> 00:13:51,790 natural person does not accept the things of the. 254 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:54,110 Spirit of God, for they are folly. 255 00:13:54,110 --> 00:13:56,190 To him, and he's not able to understand them. 256 00:13:56,190 --> 00:13:57,710 Because they're spiritually discerned. 257 00:13:58,710 --> 00:14:01,270 Only those who have. Here years to hear. 258 00:14:01,390 --> 00:14:05,550 Will understand the story. Otherwise, otherwise every 259 00:14:05,550 --> 00:14:07,230 aspect. Of it is just alien. 260 00:14:07,270 --> 00:14:12,870 It just doesn't make sense. And he even throws a quote in 261 00:14:12,870 --> 00:14:16,580 from the Old Testament out of. Isaiah 6 and verse 12 where 262 00:14:16,580 --> 00:14:17,820 it's. That they may indeed see, but 263 00:14:17,820 --> 00:14:20,380 not perceive, and may indeed hear, but not understand. 264 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:22,900 Lest they should. Turn and be forgiven. 265 00:14:24,220 --> 00:14:26,340 And that's from the the. Great story where? 266 00:14:26,460 --> 00:14:28,820 God is going to. Prepare Isaiah the prophet to 267 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:31,820 go. Proclaim his Kingdom. 268 00:14:32,180 --> 00:14:35,060 To the heart hearted Israel he goes through. 269 00:14:35,060 --> 00:14:37,940 This process of cleansing his mouth and it's just this amazing 270 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:39,820 scene where God opens up the heavens and. 271 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,520 Isaiah is able to. Just see the foothold. 272 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,520 And he's he can't even talk. He's undone. 273 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,720 He's just laying on the ground and he quotes that as kind of 274 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,200 like a commentary showing. How what God had prophesied 275 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,440 through Isaiah was. Happening now? 276 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,320 That as their hearts. Were getting harder, they'd be. 277 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,800 Less likely to hear. And receive God's word and and 278 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,600 that doesn't mean that those. Who are outside? 279 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,690 Can never enter. But rather. 280 00:15:07,690 --> 00:15:11,130 They just won't receive further instructions until belief. 281 00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:15,730 Occurs. As long as they're alive, they 282 00:15:15,730 --> 00:15:18,130 have an opportunity to repent and believe, because that's why 283 00:15:18,170 --> 00:15:23,330 Jesus came. So the parables themselves are 284 00:15:23,330 --> 00:15:25,450 not meant to blame. For the lack. 285 00:15:25,730 --> 00:15:29,010 Of understanding this listeners. But rather the parables. 286 00:15:29,010 --> 00:15:31,770 Are meant to reveal the condition of the listener's 287 00:15:31,770 --> 00:15:34,370 heart again the. Parables are not to. 288 00:15:34,370 --> 00:15:36,210 Blame for the lack of their understanding. 289 00:15:36,530 --> 00:15:38,890 But rather the parables. Are meant to reveal the 290 00:15:38,890 --> 00:15:41,930 condition. Of the listener's heart, the 291 00:15:41,930 --> 00:15:48,570 parables help sort out. Where everyone is at and there's 292 00:15:48,770 --> 00:15:51,410 kind of different players in this parable. 293 00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:54,610 That we read right. There's the sower and. 294 00:15:54,690 --> 00:15:56,370 There is the seed. And there's. 295 00:15:56,370 --> 00:16:01,570 The soil, So let's. Kind of jump through each one of 296 00:16:01,570 --> 00:16:04,930 those and verse 3. Says Behold the sower. 297 00:16:04,930 --> 00:16:07,080 Went out to sow. And what's? 298 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,360 Cool about this parable. Right. 299 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Is it? We kind of get a glimpse into 300 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,840 Jesus teaching it and then explaining it. 301 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,640 We don't really get that with a lot of other ones, but in SO in 302 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,840 force 1st 14. It says the sower. 303 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,480 So is the word so the sower. Really. 304 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,760 Could be. Anyway, it's me right now. 305 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,600 I'm sowing out God's word. I'm I'm seeking to. 306 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:25,640 Preach his word. It's. 307 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,400 It's any of you when you're sharing your. 308 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,920 Faith with your. Friends, it's anytime there's a 309 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,160 proclamation of. Of God's Word, but really at 310 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,600 the. At the more deep level. 311 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,120 In this text. Like at the at the base of it, 312 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:46,520 the sower is Jesus. And as the sower, he's seeking 313 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:47,440 to spread. Out. 314 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,240 The seed of his Kingdom to come the good news. 315 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:59,120 That he's here to. Redeem God's people and he's 316 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,520 seeking. To spread the seeds of his. 317 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,000 Salvation bringing in God's Kingdom. 318 00:17:06,349 --> 00:17:08,430 And through it. He reveals. 319 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:12,589 Four different kinds of hearts, 4 different kinds of people who 320 00:17:13,069 --> 00:17:18,190 may or may not bring in His word as as he's sewing it. 321 00:17:19,430 --> 00:17:23,349 The first one. The first heart is like the 322 00:17:23,349 --> 00:17:24,990 seeds. Along the path. 323 00:17:26,230 --> 00:17:27,869 Verse 4. And 15. 324 00:17:27,869 --> 00:17:30,950 Respectively so as he. As he sewed, some seed fell 325 00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:33,830 along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 326 00:17:34,690 --> 00:17:37,090 And these are the ones along the path where the word is sown. 327 00:17:37,730 --> 00:17:40,410 When they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes. 328 00:17:40,410 --> 00:17:41,970 Away the word. That is sown in them. 329 00:17:43,370 --> 00:17:46,770 So these people are. Along the hardened path, it's a 330 00:17:46,770 --> 00:17:49,810 picture of someone who's. Close to the world with a lot of 331 00:17:49,810 --> 00:17:52,410 worldly traffic. Inside, it's meant to show a 332 00:17:52,410 --> 00:17:55,850 heart that has been hardened. By by worldly traffic, all of 333 00:17:55,850 --> 00:17:58,090 the. Stomping on right It's a path. 334 00:17:58,090 --> 00:18:01,290 People are walking along it. It gets harder and harder. 335 00:18:01,730 --> 00:18:04,130 The more the world tramples on it and steps. 336 00:18:04,130 --> 00:18:07,850 Through it. And some of us have too much 337 00:18:07,850 --> 00:18:10,250 traffic in the world and it makes it extremely hard. 338 00:18:10,530 --> 00:18:14,170 For the seed of life, the word. Of God to penetrate our heart 339 00:18:14,610 --> 00:18:18,010 since it's so. Hard, it says the birds. 340 00:18:18,090 --> 00:18:21,530 Come and devoured it, and it's meant to represent how. 341 00:18:21,570 --> 00:18:23,250 Easy it is. For Satan to take the word. 342 00:18:23,250 --> 00:18:26,950 Away. Like if you if you go online and 343 00:18:26,950 --> 00:18:29,870 you read about taking a tour. Through Galilee like they. 344 00:18:29,870 --> 00:18:32,510 Even mentioned like, oh come and sit along where he's done. 345 00:18:32,510 --> 00:18:34,470 You just can't help but. See all the birds. 346 00:18:34,590 --> 00:18:37,990 That come around and especially along the path and they they're 347 00:18:37,990 --> 00:18:40,670 just all over the place eating the seed as they're still sowing 348 00:18:40,670 --> 00:18:47,670 to this day in that area and and and in this case you may even 349 00:18:47,670 --> 00:18:51,510 listen to the word but it never enters in as there might not be 350 00:18:51,510 --> 00:18:53,830 an opening. For it because of your hard 351 00:18:53,830 --> 00:18:55,470 heart. So the the. 352 00:18:56,270 --> 00:18:58,150 Filters. Put up to not believe, Just 353 00:18:58,150 --> 00:19:00,390 shoot the word down. Of course if. 354 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:04,750 This is the case. Life doesn't grow here on the 355 00:19:04,750 --> 00:19:08,630 hard ground. Because this the word the seed. 356 00:19:08,630 --> 00:19:10,150 It can't penetrate. Through the word. 357 00:19:10,550 --> 00:19:12,670 Cannot penetrate through. To our hard heart. 358 00:19:12,710 --> 00:19:19,310 It just bounces right off and then the second seed. 359 00:19:19,990 --> 00:19:22,910 Is. The seed on the rocky soil. 360 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,200 And verse five and six it says. Other seed. 361 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,680 Fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil and 362 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:34,120 immediately it sprang up since it had no depth of soil and when 363 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:34,840 the sun. Rose. 364 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,840 It was scorched. And since it had no. 365 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,480 It weathered away. These are the ones sewn on rocky 366 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,720 ground, the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately 367 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,760 receive it with. Joy. 368 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,680 And they have no written themselves, but endure for a 369 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,830 while. Then, when tribulation or 370 00:19:49,830 --> 00:19:53,270 persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall 371 00:19:53,270 --> 00:19:55,590 away. So this is supposed to be like 372 00:19:55,630 --> 00:19:57,590 the seed. Is kind of on like the topsoil 373 00:19:57,590 --> 00:20:03,190 up here and it just it can get blown away by the wind there 374 00:20:03,350 --> 00:20:07,390 there's like limestone underneath it usually and and 375 00:20:07,390 --> 00:20:09,110 the sower. Would you as he's? 376 00:20:09,110 --> 00:20:11,870 Spreading his seed wasn't always worried about it, if there was 377 00:20:11,870 --> 00:20:13,950 some there, because he would end up falling. 378 00:20:14,870 --> 00:20:17,110 Up with the plow to. Turn up the soil anyways. 379 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:21,300 But it's it's meant to to. To show us that. 380 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:23,500 Potentially that seed would fall there, right. 381 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:25,100 And we we kind of know I think what that. 382 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:27,540 Looks like it. It's a might shoot. 383 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:29,300 Up a little bit, we'll see a little fruit. 384 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:30,820 Come up out. Of the seed. 385 00:20:32,060 --> 00:20:36,460 But then on a really hot. Day it just dies. 386 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:42,740 And and this is like when we're we're coming to church, we're 387 00:20:42,740 --> 00:20:45,540 hearing God's word preached, we're reading our Bible. 388 00:20:46,090 --> 00:20:47,370 And we're kind of like in on it like. 389 00:20:47,450 --> 00:20:49,850 OK, yeah, this is good. These people are pretty cool. 390 00:20:50,010 --> 00:20:54,450 I'm going to come around and then something hard happens. 391 00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:57,610 Like. Maybe you lose somebody. 392 00:20:57,730 --> 00:21:02,370 In your life or. Maybe somebody tempts you and 393 00:21:02,370 --> 00:21:04,490 you just follow along with them and never look back. 394 00:21:06,090 --> 00:21:09,250 Because the the hardship. The the sin of life. 395 00:21:09,250 --> 00:21:12,090 Just, absolutely just scorched. It and it died. 396 00:21:15,070 --> 00:21:17,590 There's no. Real fruit. 397 00:21:18,150 --> 00:21:23,710 For someone in the topsoil, it only ends up dying, being death 398 00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:28,550 and then. There is the other. 399 00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:34,670 Type of soil, and that's the seed in the thorny soil in verse 400 00:21:34,670 --> 00:21:36,310 7. Other seeds. 401 00:21:36,390 --> 00:21:40,230 Fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and 402 00:21:40,230 --> 00:21:43,070 it yielded no grain and Jesus says. 403 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:46,140 The others are the ones sewn among thorns. 404 00:21:46,140 --> 00:21:47,980 They are. Those who hear the word but the 405 00:21:47,980 --> 00:21:49,060 cares. Of the world and the 406 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:51,060 deceitfulness of. Riches and the. 407 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:54,700 Desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it 408 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:59,220 proves unfruitful. Thorns or anything that grabs 409 00:21:59,220 --> 00:22:01,620 hold of us and pulls us, and distraction from God. 410 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:06,260 And really. It's like this is where we're 411 00:22:06,260 --> 00:22:07,740 at. In the time of our lives, I 412 00:22:07,740 --> 00:22:11,220 think. As I was. 413 00:22:11,610 --> 00:22:14,610 Really ruminating on it and seeking to. 414 00:22:14,610 --> 00:22:21,410 Let the the tech. Center me, I I find myself. 415 00:22:21,410 --> 00:22:27,410 Here a lot. It's it's this picture where 416 00:22:27,410 --> 00:22:29,610 okay, we're we're. Hearing the word and we're 417 00:22:29,610 --> 00:22:31,770 receiving it, we're starting to grow and then all these other 418 00:22:31,770 --> 00:22:34,890 things kind of enter in and they just take life away from us that 419 00:22:34,890 --> 00:22:36,130 might. Be like. 420 00:22:36,610 --> 00:22:40,210 The Netflix or entertainment or it literally might be money for 421 00:22:40,210 --> 00:22:41,330 you. It might be clothes. 422 00:22:41,330 --> 00:22:43,050 It's Amazon. It's just all these other 423 00:22:43,050 --> 00:22:44,610 things. That we just push. 424 00:22:44,770 --> 00:22:46,570 Our attention. Towards right like. 425 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:53,530 Yeah, we need clothes, but like how many we need to work. 426 00:22:54,930 --> 00:22:59,250 But how much it's it's all the things that attach to it and 427 00:22:59,250 --> 00:23:03,770 take away from the life, from from God's word, from entering 428 00:23:03,770 --> 00:23:07,600 and getting into our hearts. And this could be some of you, 429 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,440 right? You're hearing the word and 430 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,480 maybe your heart's being pricked and you're realizing, I've got 431 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,280 this. That's just. 432 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:23,160 Taking my time, like personally, like when I'm, you know, I've 433 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,760 been on YouTube for. Six hours a week. 434 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,560 And I've read my Bible for six minutes. 435 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,040 It's. Like it's pretty. 436 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:40,370 Apparent where Thorn is. And then finally we have the 437 00:23:40,370 --> 00:23:43,650 good soil. Other seeds. 438 00:23:43,650 --> 00:23:46,410 Fell into the good soil, and produced grain, growing up and 439 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:50,050 increasing and yielding, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a 440 00:23:50,050 --> 00:23:52,850 hundredfold. And those on the good soil, 441 00:23:52,850 --> 00:23:55,810 they're ones who hear the word and accept it, and bear fruit. 442 00:23:57,570 --> 00:23:59,850 These people are the ones who hear the message, and it 443 00:23:59,850 --> 00:24:01,690 multiplies. They take a message, and they 444 00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:04,010 thank Lord I need help, And then by God's. 445 00:24:04,010 --> 00:24:07,300 Grace, they do it. Because fruit in this is about 446 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:10,620 doing it so. It's like take care how you hear 447 00:24:10,620 --> 00:24:11,700 you're saying take. Care how you hear? 448 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,620 Don't just come to church and hear messages. 449 00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:14,420 Think, oh, I. Got it. 450 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:17,740 I got. It and then nothing happens. 451 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,260 Jesus says those that hear the word. 452 00:24:21,260 --> 00:24:26,020 They accept it and bear fruit. Remember, an average farmer was 453 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:27,580 like. Six fold yield. 454 00:24:27,580 --> 00:24:28,620 He's. Saying that when we. 455 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:30,910 Hear the word. In the good. 456 00:24:30,910 --> 00:24:34,590 Soil it's 30 fold 60. Fold and 100 fold it will just 457 00:24:34,590 --> 00:24:37,670 multiply and grow and grow and grow and and this. 458 00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:40,070 Is a process too. Right. 459 00:24:40,070 --> 00:24:43,870 Even in in good soil, even in modern day farming farmers have. 460 00:24:43,870 --> 00:24:50,990 High yield years. And low yield years, even. 461 00:24:51,110 --> 00:24:54,350 Even in the good soil, right? The sun scorches and it comes 462 00:24:54,350 --> 00:24:56,830 down hot and there's not as much growth in one day. 463 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:01,230 But with. With patience and perseverance 464 00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:04,310 in this spot, what just keeps happening is. 465 00:25:04,990 --> 00:25:07,390 That little wheat just. Keeps kind of growing up. 466 00:25:07,510 --> 00:25:09,830 Just like us. Through patience. 467 00:25:09,830 --> 00:25:12,270 Through perseverance. By God's grace. 468 00:25:12,510 --> 00:25:16,070 We take in the word and we examine it, and we try to hear 469 00:25:16,070 --> 00:25:18,070 it and let it come in and have that again A. 470 00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:20,910 Cootate the hyper. Hearing come in into the heart 471 00:25:22,310 --> 00:25:26,510 and enter in and fruit. Will be. 472 00:25:27,650 --> 00:25:28,730 Bearing in our life. And if you. 473 00:25:28,730 --> 00:25:30,890 Have a hard time seeing it. This is where community. 474 00:25:30,890 --> 00:25:33,410 Is great you share with a brother and sister. 475 00:25:34,290 --> 00:25:36,210 Man, I'm just. I'm just not seeing it. 476 00:25:36,210 --> 00:25:39,690 Like you might just be even blind to God's grace in your own 477 00:25:39,690 --> 00:25:48,130 life within that and kind of what butts us in the face as we 478 00:25:48,130 --> 00:25:50,210 start talking about the good soil. 479 00:25:52,070 --> 00:25:53,790 Is it's. It's really. 480 00:25:53,790 --> 00:25:56,430 Easy to hear that and just be like yeah I'm in the I'm I'm the 481 00:25:56,430 --> 00:25:58,710 good soil I'm I'm doing this and this and this. 482 00:25:58,990 --> 00:26:04,830 You know it's it's really easy to come along but don't just 483 00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:06,470 assume your good. Soil. 484 00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:14,990 That's really what just struck me so hard this week is. 485 00:26:15,190 --> 00:26:18,910 I'm reading through this and I'm like, yeah, and I'm coming from 486 00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:21,190 the assumption like, you know, I'm in the good soil. 487 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:23,200 That. That we're all in the good. 488 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,000 Soil. But really. 489 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,960 Like maybe one of the other ones is describing where you're at. 490 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,840 Maybe there is all these other thorns just pulling distractions 491 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:38,640 in your life and it's reaching out to God and asking. 492 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,440 For help to grow. Out from under those and be part 493 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,440 of the good soil and I hope you're not getting the wrong 494 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,160 idea. About the good soil because. 495 00:26:50,660 --> 00:26:54,780 Have to be careful about this. We have to be careful about it 496 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,740 because. It doesn't mean that the person 497 00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:58,700 who hears the word and receives. It is a good. 498 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:01,340 Person. It's this kind of leads to the 499 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:03,140 temptation to say I'm a Christian, right? 500 00:27:03,140 --> 00:27:06,860 Because I believe the word. Because I'm a good man, and if 501 00:27:06,860 --> 00:27:08,900 that's what I think, I've. I had actually. 502 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:11,020 Haven't even received this. Parable I. 503 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:12,580 Haven't even received this. Parable if that's. 504 00:27:12,580 --> 00:27:16,180 What we think So what makes a good soil? 505 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:21,140 It's. Why does one person receive the 506 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:22,780 word another doesn't? Is there something more 507 00:27:22,780 --> 00:27:25,380 righteous than the one who rejects it? 508 00:27:25,380 --> 00:27:27,780 No. Scripture tells us. 509 00:27:27,780 --> 00:27:30,620 That unless a man is born again, he can't even see the Kingdom of 510 00:27:30,620 --> 00:27:33,340 God and much less hear it. And when you were dead in your. 511 00:27:33,340 --> 00:27:37,780 Trespasses, Christ died for you. This is the work of the sower. 512 00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:39,540 Sow is the. Seed, and he plows it. 513 00:27:39,540 --> 00:27:43,260 Up and he sows the seed and he plows it up year over year in 514 00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:45,300 our hearts, Just like year. Over year in our. 515 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:47,940 Life as we are. Sitting in the church. 516 00:27:47,940 --> 00:27:49,260 Pulpit. We hear the word. 517 00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:55,220 And it's amazing because if if we're hearing the word and 518 00:27:55,220 --> 00:27:57,620 taking it in. It's 30 fold 60. 519 00:27:57,620 --> 00:28:00,300 Fold and 100 fold return on the fruits in our life. 520 00:28:01,060 --> 00:28:06,340 It's it's almost like a promise saying that if we're seeking the 521 00:28:06,340 --> 00:28:08,340 Lord and we're in this. Spot he will. 522 00:28:08,740 --> 00:28:11,580 It just can't be helped. That we'll be bearing fruit in 523 00:28:11,580 --> 00:28:14,020 other seasons will be more than others, and that is. 524 00:28:14,180 --> 00:28:17,100 Part of life, but it's that. Perseverance and that continual. 525 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:22,030 Pressing through as we're. In a dry week, we're just 526 00:28:22,030 --> 00:28:25,150 praying to God and asking for the rain to fall so that we can 527 00:28:25,150 --> 00:28:32,550 keep growing. So our hope within this is that. 528 00:28:34,350 --> 00:28:38,070 As we look at the different soils, the different places that 529 00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:40,910 our heart could be at. That if you are being pricked. 530 00:28:41,070 --> 00:28:43,510 If you are. Seeing maybe? 531 00:28:45,230 --> 00:28:47,050 Maybe. Maybe you're stuck in the same 532 00:28:47,050 --> 00:28:51,490 spot in your face for the last 5-10 years because there's too 533 00:28:51,490 --> 00:28:56,370 many thorns. Or maybe right now you're in 534 00:28:56,370 --> 00:28:57,890 that. Topsoil where you're just. 535 00:28:57,890 --> 00:28:59,610 Trying to get a rip but you can't because. 536 00:28:59,610 --> 00:29:05,250 There's a rock there, but the sewer, like, he cares about his 537 00:29:05,250 --> 00:29:09,050 field, right? He cares about all of the wheat. 538 00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:11,810 That's going to grow. He wants wants it to. 539 00:29:11,810 --> 00:29:14,970 Grow. And he'll come along and. 540 00:29:15,810 --> 00:29:19,050 Through his. Plow some of that some of that 541 00:29:19,050 --> 00:29:22,450 grain on the on the rocky soil. His plow will hit it. 542 00:29:22,450 --> 00:29:23,930 It'll kind of skid across the top. 543 00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:25,610 It'll it could get pushes to the good. 544 00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:28,290 Soil and grow. As the plow goes. 545 00:29:28,290 --> 00:29:31,170 Through the thorny. Soil it'll pull. 546 00:29:31,170 --> 00:29:34,850 Some of those weeds out and look. 547 00:29:35,250 --> 00:29:38,170 OK, the weeds are pulled out. It's it's in good soil. 548 00:29:38,370 --> 00:29:40,770 It's growing. It's the same for you and me. 549 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:52,800 Good news of it is that if you confess with your mouth. 550 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,280 That Jesus is Lord. And believe in your heart that 551 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,600 God raised him from the. Dead. 552 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,280 You'll be saved. For with the heart, 1 believes 553 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,560 and is justified, and with the mouth, 1 confesses and is saved. 554 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,600 We're made right with God and just like. 555 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,520 How a sower? Keeps coming back to the same 556 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,840 field again and again. He'll continue to come back to 557 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:16,690 us. We just have to have by His 558 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:18,930 grace. A heart that's willing to 559 00:30:18,930 --> 00:30:19,930 receive. His word? 560 00:30:21,690 --> 00:30:22,850 A heart. In the good soil. 561 00:30:23,810 --> 00:30:25,770 So I leave. You with this question, friends. 562 00:30:27,130 --> 00:30:34,810 What kind of soil are you in? Would you pray with me, Heavenly 563 00:30:34,810 --> 00:30:36,890 Father thank. You So much for your word and 564 00:30:36,890 --> 00:30:40,890 just how good it is and how it makes us think about our lives. 565 00:30:40,890 --> 00:30:44,360 And it makes us. Look inward that we would not, 566 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,880 that there would not be anybody here. 567 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,440 Who has ears to? Hear that? 568 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,400 Wouldn't hear that. Your word is meant to fall on 569 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,560 soil that is looking to grow and bear. 570 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,200 Fruit in our lives. And. 571 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,040 You go before us. And you prepare our hearts and 572 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,320 just continue to prepare our hearts even as we go into this 573 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,520 community time it is. We could be quiet, loud with 574 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,280 others just. Praising you and seeking. 575 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:11,900 Seeking to have a. Heart that is like the good 576 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:13,540 soil. Receiving the word and then 577 00:31:13,540 --> 00:31:17,500 bearing fruit that say would have no, nothing, no. 578 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:19,060 Ability to pluck. Any. 579 00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:21,900 Of the word out. Away from any of us. 580 00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:23,060 Amen.