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The Parable of the Soil
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Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
“Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.
And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,
so that “ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ”
And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
The sower sows the word.
And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
This parable is very familiar with us, we have read it and as Pastors and Planters we see this on display
But what is interesting to me is how we call it the PARABLE of the sower,
But where is most of the time in the PARABLE SPEND ON? The SOIL
VERY LITTLE TIME IS SPENT ON THE SOWER
We have no idea about the sower
was the sower an amazing sower
could throw it far
NO, WHY NOT?
the power is not in the SOWER but the SEED
The a major determining factor of GROWTH is not THE SOWER but theSEED and SOIL
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
I love what Alister Begg says…the church has misplaced the emphazes of the importance o
THE SEED IS THE WORD OF GOD
I love what Pastor Alistar Begg says: What so amazing in this passage as we will see is little time is shared about the SOWER and who the SOWER…are they an amazing SOWER, world class…not because the POWER is not in the SOWER but in the seed.....Alistar continues to state sometimes we get lost in this and think we need good SOWERS, PROFESSIONAL SEED SOWERS....and when we do this we make the SOWER the most POWERFUL…it is not the SOWER BUT THE SEED that has power....that also gives hope to us SEED sowers of the GOSPEL that the POWER that you do does not rest on you.
YOU COULD SEND A GOOD SOWER TO HARD SOIL AND BEAR LITTLE RESULTS IF THE SOIL IS NOT DEALT WITH
WE SEE THIS WITH D.L. MOODY....HE WAS NOT A ELQUENT SPEAKER, STUDDERD
HOW WE BREAK UP THE SOIL IS BY PRAYER
D.L. MOODY AND OTHERS WOULD WEAP OVER THE LOST SOULS OF CHICAGO
D.L. MOODY COULD NOT BREAK ON HELL WITHOUT CRYING
What breaks up the SOIL?
There is action that needs to happen on the believers hearts…but what can we do as church leaders
1. Prayer
But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.
BILLY GRAHMAN: prayer ministry
2. Sow the See
3. Discipleship…we disciple and walk with someone in…WHICH WE HAVE GROWN AWAY FROM IN THE WEST
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Look how I get rid of the rocks
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Too often in the church growth movement we have made it about the SOWER....and I come from a MEGA church
God is saying where we have