Good seed, dirt and fruit

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15 But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

 

 

The Fruit is in the ROOT but you still need good soil. 

Is there fruit you want but are not seeing it? Spiritual authority, Joy, finances, wisdom, answered prayer - but you don’t see it. 

What happens if you give that plant fertilizer, water, sunshine… everything it needs… it may look good, but it will not last if there are no deep roots. 

OR

if its getting choked by life.

 

GOOD SOIL

V. 23 Good GK Kalos - quick to listen, DO and share… thats good soil.

 

You read the bible, you hear a sermon, you see a verse online - you listen to it, you do it and you share it.

 

*a kid/boy/man (im not sure what I call him) at the gym who always asks me questions about lifting… never follows it

*The man who asks advice on his marriage… starts to follow it but then gives in

*The lady who wants insight to her problem… but never does it…

 

 

The actual reaping in these times were only 6-7 times… but when you have good soil/supernatural soil it will give far much more 

30 (sanctification and direction), 

60 (repair, rest) 

100 x’s (completion by Gods hand/he does the work)

 

 - Casual listener

 - Active listener

*Isn’t it insightful that the disciples ask to understand this word… practicing the actual meaning of the parable without knowing the parable… as if to say make my heart good soil. 

 

The sower is the sower is the sower… nobody cares. Ever hear someone come back from church and you ask them what the preacher preached on… and they say “I don’t know, something about Ephesians and more love, unending God yadadada….” as if to suggest it was the sowers problem for not making it more deeper. 

 

Mark says if you don’t understand this parable you won’t understand any parable. 

 

It’s your responsibility to prepare your heart, the sower comes in many ways, scattered through words on a billboard, social media, a pastor, friend… 

 

it’s not how it comes - its where it lands!

 

 

Hebrews 3:7,8

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, 8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.…10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ 11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’ ”…

 

Heb. 5:11, 12 11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing. 12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!…

Dull GK No-Throy - sluggish, lazy, haphazard 

 

 

 

Its not that you don’t have the seed, its that you don’t have an open heart to absorb it. 

 

 

Pity the fool who has a plan for his life, a goal to achieve and no plan for his soil! 

 

 

**Here is a world changing thought… You can be the sower!!!

 

 

Soil

Money does not create good soil 

Marriage does not

Happiness does not

Wisdom does not

Great sermons do not

Bible reading do not

 

How to have a soft heart/good soil?

Ephesians 4:32, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted.” 

In other words, we are commanded to be tender — commanded not to be hard. Tenderheartedness is the opposite of hardness of heart, and we are commanded to pursue it and to have it.

 

What is good soil? Listen, DO, share! 

Start immediately!!!

 

THIS WHOLE PARABLE IS PUNCUATED AT THE END IN VERSES 

 18 So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he [k]thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

19 Now His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd. 20 And it was reported to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.” 21 But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”