Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Good evening, good to see everyone.

This good crowd here on a Wednesday night, Drury night to it foggy at my house.

I know that.

So I started to call in sick.

I said, no I'm not working at Duke anymore so I have to go then call in or anything's up, have to go so but it's good to see you and it's Pat has already said, we will be having service on Christmas Day.

I hope you can come just get up extra early and open your gifts and then you come on the church.

I guarantee you, your Christmas will be better if you'll come to church that Sunday, you'll just have a better Christmas.

I can tell you that and do bring someone with you.

We want to, we want to fill this place up, on December 25th, Sunday morning.

So bring someone with you and invite some folks and let him know.

We're going to have a time of singing and praising and fellowship and preaching.

And then we're going to have a good time.

Well tonight, I want you get your Bibles and turn back as we did last week to Matthew chapter 13.

And if you remember last week, we asked the question.

Would God ever withhold truth?

From someone.

And how did we answer that?

Yes.

But let me, let me preface that by saying this.

If someone hadn't has never heard the gospel, God will not withhold truth from them.

He wants everyone to hear the gospel but when we hear the gospel and then we reject the gospel on and on and on.

Well the Bible says that he'll take that truth, what we do have he'll take that from us.

And remember in Matthew Chapter 13, Verse when Jesus, it says started teaching in Parables and he did that to reveal the truth to his disciples even though he had to explain to buy a parable to them, he still revealed the truth to them but he was concealing the truth from those who had rejected the truth, like the Pharisees or the Sadducees or maybe the scribes and the religious leaders.

He was concealing truth from them.

So we know we're in a bad spot that is a good warning.

To us is when we do not love the truth and do not desire the truth, we run the risk of God, pulling that truth away from us and quite possibly never receiving that truth.

Never having another opportunity to hear the truth.

So that was the warning for us last week, but what I want to do tonight and the title of this message is, do you love the truth?

And I want to share with you the parable of the sower which is right after or right before and after what we talked about last week if you remember we were looking in chapter 13 verse 10 through 17 Last Week.

Tonight, we're going to look at verses 3 through 9 and then we're going to look at what the parable means in verses 18 through 23.

Now remember What is a parable?

Well Parable means alongside you put a natural truth, like farming that we're going to talk about tonight.

You put a natural truth beside a spiritual truth and those who do not have the spirit of God who do not have the Holy Spirit living, on the inside of them will not be able to understand the spiritual truth, although they could understand the natural truth.

The natural truth is self-explanatory to me, it's easy to understand but what the hard part is is putting the spiritual truth with it and that's why he started teaching in Parables love the truth tonight.

And last began reading and Matthew chapter 13.

In verse 3 in this is what Jesus is saying, then he spoke many things to them in Parables saying, Behold a sore went out to sow and as he sold some seed, fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them.

Some fell on Stony places where they did not have much are Earth, and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of Earth you ever.

I threw out some winter Rye here the other week.

And I believe it's coming up between my concrete better than it is in the yard.

I mean, you throw went around concrete, need to come up.

It don't need much death.

It will come up almost like most grass seed.

It will come up looking for 6.

They spring up because they had no debt, but then looking for 6, but when the sun was up, they were scorched and because they had no root, they withered away and some fell among thorns and the foreign spring up and choked them.

But others told by other seed fell on good ground and yielded, a crop, some 100 fold some 60, some 30, he who has ears to hear, Let Him hear.

All right.

Now, to me, that's self-explanatory, I mean, when you look at this right here, we know about sores and we know about seed, and we know that if you so stuff in Stony places, it may come up for a little while, but then when the sun comes up, we understand it has no root.

So it's going to Scorch it, it's going to wilt.

And then we understand if you have competing just like some of you have a garden, if you have peas or watermelons or whatever it, maybe corn Tomatoes, you at you know, that sometimes you have to weed your garden, you have to get rid of the weeds if you don't.

I mean the weed will overtake.

Well, that's what happens here with the foreign.

Some fell among thorns and the Thorns sprung up and choked when we understand that.

And then we understand that some fell on good ground, LOL.

Good ground means this moist and it has fertilizer and you probably are rated it and it's ready to go.

Get so little rain gets a little son it's ready to go in so it produced a crop.

So I'm 100 some 60, some 30.

Don't send that the natural store.

But what's the spiritual story of this?

What has this got to do in the spiritual realm?

You got seed, you got a sore?

You got thorns and thistles, you got good ground, you you have Birds coming in and devouring.

Some of the seeds up.

I've seen happen, myself, they'll come and eat to see you or take the seat or whatever.

What is this mean in the spiritual Realm?

If Jesus didn't explain it, how would we think of this in the spiritual realm?

Well, disciples, come to him, and ask him?

Why you speaking in Parables, and then that's what we went over last week, 10, through 17.

And then now look at Verse 18.

Therefore, this is Jesus.

Speaking hear the parable of the sower.

Now, he's going to explain it to the disciples because he's going to reveal spiritual truth to them.

And to the Pharisees, he's doing what he's concealing, this true.

He's not explaining it to them.

But look what he says verse 19, when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it.

Then the wicked one comes and snatches away.

What was sown in his heart?

This is he who receives seed by the wayside.

That tells us something there that tells me that some people are hard-hearted And the word goes out and falls on a hard heart and Satan comes and steals it.

Look at verse 20, but he who receive seed on Stony places.

This is he who hears the word and immediately received it with joy? Remember now, the Stony ground, it don't have a lot roots or anything.

So what happens when it gets hot yet he who has no root in himself but indoors only for a while or when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word immediately.

He stumbles he quits.

I've I've known people like that.

My whole life, they get saved.

They go to church and then three months later, you never see him again.

They just quit why most time something went wrong in their life.

And they said, well, God's not on my side.

I tried this Christianity.

It doesn't work.

They didn't have any route.

and when the heat was turned up, they wilted You see the spiritual truth?

Getting ready to come out here.

All right, then in verse 22, now, he who receives seed among the Thorns, is he who hears the word and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word just like a garden and he becomes unfruitful Verse 23, but he who receives seed on the good ground and I hope, you know.

Now when it says ground, good ground is talkin about a person's heart.

He who receives seed on the goodheart?

Is he who hears the word?

And understand it.

And other words, the one who hears, the word, who loves the truth, who obeys the truth, and who indeed bears fruit and produce has some 160/30.

So ask you tonight, do you love the truth?

I hope you see that.