We decide what kind of soil we have. Just as living plants need fertile, well-watered, sun-kissed soil, we too need to make sure we optimize the soil of our hearts for growth. Have I hardened my heart with excuses for not listening? Maybe our heart soil is crowding out the growth of His word with the cares and responsibilities of our life. Jesus cautions us against all these things that lead to less optimum growth of His word.
His desire is for our hearts to be receptive to Him when He speaks to us. Only we can decide how that happens. He will never force the growth. We have to take the steps to plant His words and carefully tend them. When we do that, the roots strengthen and grow deep in our hearts; easily brought to our minds and thoughts when we need them. What is your condition of your heart soil?
From time to time, we may all grow a few thorns or accumulate a few rocks. The good soil of our hearts may give generously to the poor, but the thorny or rocky patches choke out time for praising Him or the acts of service that come to our attention. A hardened path of intolerance or an unforgiving nature may border the fertile heart soil. If we keep our heart soil well-tilled with His Word, it will be easier to break up the hard-packed areas and root out the thorns and rocks that we find.
The Parable of the Sower is an important lesson in receiving His words and how to apply them to our lives. Jesus Himself thought this was His most important parable. How then will you understand any parable? He was stressing how important it is to understand how we receive His words and the condition of our hearts. Jesus is telling us to take special care of the state of our hearts!
This parable is an important reminder that we have the option of deciding if we are going to pay attention to His words and do what He says or not.
Even when a farmer does his best to prepare it and remove all the impurities, there are imperceptible fibrous roots of weeds waiting for an opportunity to spring to life and take over. These weeds grow up and suck the moisture and nutrients from the intended crop—eventually choking them out. The heart of the thorny soil is enthusiastic about the gospel, but it's too easily distracted by the what the world has to offer.
They're so busy grasping at everything that they forget what they should hold onto. What's difficult is that re-establishing your priorities isn't a one-time job. Like a weed, once you pull out one misplaced priority, there are thousands of concerns waiting to take its place. Developing single-mindedness is a must for disciples.
Sometimes the seed falls on soil with just the right nutrients and pH balance, and everything works like it's supposed to.
It sends out a root that takes hold, a beautiful plant grows, and it produces fruit. As Jesus says, it produces a crop yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown. It's probably wise to point out that, just like we see in flora, the seed is in the fruit.
As the Christian heart develops, it produces healthy fruit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control Galatians — The more fruit a healthy heart produces, the more it impacts the environment around it. In context, Jesus is the farmer. He spent three years of His life sharing the message of the kingdom with varied results. When we see God as the sower, it's incredibly meaningful.
It's wasteful for a farmer to throw seed away on soil that's not going to produce, but the farmer is so hopeful that He's willing to do it anyway. Jesus doesn't differentiate between worthy and unworthy soil; He throws as much grace and gospel seed as He can at us because He's just so consumed with a desire to see us be reconciled to Him.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age'" Matthew — It's our job to be in the world sowing the seed of the gospel. If we want to create disciples, we have to be mindful of the various kinds of soil. If we desire to grow a bountiful crop, we need to spread as much seed as we possibly can, knowing that a lot of it isn't going to take root.
The farmer's focus is on producing a lucrative crop. Like Jesus, we're to sow the gospel as liberally as possible.
We need to scatter the gospel as widely as we can. We are God's field, and He is looking for us to produce fruit. Let's get busy! What is the Parable of the Sower about? Jesus Film Project. Parables reveal the heart of the listener In the middle of the sower parable, the disciples ask Jesus why He chooses to speak in parables: "He replied, 'Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Password Assistance. Email address. The Parable of the Sower - Bible Story. Contributing Writer. Lisa Loraine Baker. Bible Articles Videos Audio. Moral of the Parable of the Sower Jesus used this parable to explain to his followers and the disciples how there are different responses to the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. What Happens in the Parable of the Sower? Following is a list of the meanings of each term within the parable.
Get emotional about it and fall away as soon as he faces objections. Accept it but dismiss it as the world and its cares and the deceit of money take hold of him.
Share Tweet Save. Matthew It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. This is the seed sown along the path. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Commentaries for Matthew Mark A farmer went out to sow his seed. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times. How then will you understand any parable?
As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Commentaries for Mark Luke As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up.
It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. Jesus used this analogy in the Parable of the Sower.
The Parable of the Sower is recorded in three of the four biblical Gospels — Matthew , Mark , and Luke The soil that the seed fell on represents four categories of hearers' hearts, four different reactions to the Word of God: the hard heart, the shallow heart, the crowded heart, and the fruitful heart.
And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched.
And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
He who has ears, let him hear. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
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