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Welcome to a redemption hill podcast for more

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It's good to be here

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with you. It's good to see

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believe I can't see very well. But I

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think you still all have your hands after

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fourth of July. That's

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that's classic. That's good. But

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I'm glad you're here. We're gonna jump into,

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Luke chapter

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We're gonna read it. We're gonna pray for

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help, to be honest. This is a text

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that

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is I dig into it for Sermon and

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prep, I think it's 1 that we all

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approach are, like, yeah, I know what that

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means.

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Then you look deeper. Like, I don't really

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know what that means.

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And so we're we're gonna read it and

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ask the lord

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that he would help us,

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and then he would be glorified and made

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much of and draw near to us through

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his word.

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He says doesn't return to wood. It's always

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doing something.

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And so it's it's read, and pray and

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ask for help and we'll dig into it.

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Luke chapter 8 starting in verse 1, we're

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gonna read through 18.

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Soon after already went on through cities and

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villages,

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proclaiming and bringing the good news of the

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kingdom of god. This is Jesus that it's

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talking about. And the 12 were with him

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and also some women who had been healed

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of evil spirits and firm,

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Mary called Mag,

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from whom 7 demons and got out and

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Joanna, the wife of Chu,

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harriet house told manager and Susanna and many

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others provided for them out of their means.

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And when a great crowd was gathering.

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And people from town,

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and people town after town came to him,

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he said in a parable.

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A sow went out to sow his seed.

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And as he sow, some fell along the

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path and was tram under foot, and the

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birds of the air devoured it, and some

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fell on the rock, and it as it

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grew with her away because it had no

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moisture.

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Some fell among the thorn of the thorn

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grew up with it and choked it. And

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some fell into good soil and grew and

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yielded a hundred fold,

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and he said these things and he called

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out, he who has ears to hear,

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let him here.

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And as when his disciples asked him, what

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the parable

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meant? Right? That's that part Talking about before.

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Know what this means. I I don't know

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if I know what it means Even the

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disciples didn't know.

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He said to you, it has been given

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to know the secrets to the kingdom of

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God, but for others,

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they are in parable, so that seeing they

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may not see.

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In hearing they may not understand.

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Now the parable is this, the seed is

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the word of God. The ones among the

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path of those who have heard them,

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and the devil comes and takes away the

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word from their hearts. The tour praying does

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not happen.

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So that they may not believe and be

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saved and the ones

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on the rock or those who when they

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hear the word, receive it with joy, but

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these have no root.

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They believe for a while.

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And in time of testing they fall away.

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And ask for what fell among the thorn,

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they are those who hear, but as they

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go on their way, they're choked by the

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cares and the riches and the pleasures of

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life

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and their fruit

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does not mature.

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It's a heavy line.

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As for that, in the good soil, there

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are those who hear the word hold it

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fast in an honest and good heart and

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bear fruit with patience.

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Verse 16. No 1 after lighting a lamp

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covers it with a jar puts it under

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a bed, but puts it on a stand

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so that those who enter may see the

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light. For nothing is hidden that will not

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be made manifest nor is anything seeker that

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will not be known and come to light,

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take care then how you hear.

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For the 1 who has more will be

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given.

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And for the 1 who has not even

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what he thinks that he has will be

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taken away. This is the word of the

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lord.

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Father we just asked for your help.

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Let's just confess.

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I, I'm I'm weary in and body and

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and spirit.

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In a heavy text before, so he just

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asked for your help. Holy spirit come.

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Shows us the beauty of,

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the word honor your promise that it doesn't

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return void.

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May it shows the beauty of who you

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are, may it reach the depths of our

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heart and the ways that it has meant

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to come and do your work? We we

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pray for that and we ask you your

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help.

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Pray this in your name more.

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Amen.

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So so kinda jumping in, as I was

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thinking through this text this week, my my

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family, I'm lucky lucky enough that we have

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some

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land in

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New Franklin. It's where my great grandparents lived

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before they passed.

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Away. It's where my grandpa and my great

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aunts grew up. My grandpa actually helped his

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father dig the the basement of this house

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by hand.

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In the middle of a flood. Right? Just

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some crazy stuff around this land. So I...

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I've grown to really love this land, and

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I picked up hunting

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there, again, over the last few years. I

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grew up hunting on the land, but now

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I'm doing it a little bit of a

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different method.

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I haven't used a gun out there for

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hunting since I was probably 19

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or 20. Now I've switched into,

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I take a bow in arrows, and I

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hang from trees from ropes and saddle and

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hope I don't die to try get a

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deer with a a bow. That's my my

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thing. There's something about it.

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The challenge, the prep, the ability to fire

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a bow,

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a bow and an arrow is not like

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a bike. It's not like, once you get

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it. It's just there. It deteriorate quite quickly.

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So you gotta kinda stay sharp. Got a

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lot to do a prep work. And the

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more I go.

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The more I enjoy it, Garrett, and Harrison

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will tell you, we get this because I'm

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always sending them dear pictures. I'd, I love

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it.

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But here's the thing as much as I

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enjoy Bow hunting, I want to be successful

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at it. Right? I'm not gonna be the

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guy who would go out during a season,

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all year long, I'm like I'm just so

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happy I was in the woods. Now I

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would be angry. Like, I want to go,

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but I wanna go and do well.

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And I wanna get the biggest buck around.

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If if I would tell you the truth

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of my heart. I wanna get a bigger

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deer than my dad has ever gotten, I

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wanna be able fling an arrow at the

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mythical 30 pointer, I I wanna be successful.

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With the problem with that is,

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that doesn't happen very much in in bop

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hunting because you have to get really close

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to a deer, like, really, really, really close.

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my dad,

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he will post up on a creek side

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and look over an open field. You can

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really shoot a hundred, a hundred and 5202

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hundred 50 yards. Just as much as your

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skill will allow,

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gunpowder and lead is a powerful combination to

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reach out a long, long ways.

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But for a bow,

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in Missouri terrain, you gotta get a deer,

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like, 20 to 30 yards.

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Away. So you've gotta get them close. And

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not only they have to be close. There

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has to be nothing in the way.

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I went bow hunting when I was, I

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think, 15 or 16 and I remember

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what I thought was a big buck at

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at the time. It could've have been a

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spike now. I don't know, But it it

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came down a hill and I was so

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excited, and I I pulled back and I

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let Loose an air of, like, yes.

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And it hit a tree branch and Do

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its feet and her ran away. So you

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gotta get it close.

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You gotta have nothing in your way. Then

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you gotta pull a bow back with a

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deer close without seeing or hearing you. And

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then with your heart beating a million miles

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now, you gotta... Yeah. Shoot the thing.

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There's a lot that goes into

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bow hunting and becoming successful. So

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as of late, I've been trying to do

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what I can to kind of tip the

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scale into my favor so I'm successful. I've

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spent

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12 or 15 hours with a weed eater

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cutting trails into the woods. Which if you

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could see me I'm in the middle nowhere.

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But if you could see me like, why

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is that weird dude with a weed eater

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in the woods? I'm I'm trying to cut

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trails to get deer to come through I've

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been cutting down a bunch of trees to

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to make room. And then recently, I've been

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doing this, research and what is called a

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a food plot, year, eat, like, 5 to

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6 times a day.

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Right? You think they eat or you eat

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a lot they eat more. So a lot

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of their movement is determined by where do

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I get my food? So the idea is

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if you can bring good food to your

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hunting area? There's a good chance you can

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bring big deer to your hunting area. So

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now hunters will try and make food plots

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appear in the middle of the woods.

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They'll try and get clover and rye and

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other things that won't die in October and

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November,

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to grow in the middle of the woods.

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And again, the idea is if I can

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bring food, The deer will come in when

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I'm trying to, and I'll be more successful.

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So try to explain this to my wife.

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I am out there trying to draw deer

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in.

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And I I'll show her pictures, look at

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the 1 I got. She's like, okay. So

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you

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do a lot of work in the woods

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to make, like a cozy living room dining

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room so that the deer will enjoy it.

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And then you try and shoot them in

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it.

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Also, yes. That's a hundred percent, what I'm

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trying to do. It should look at me

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like, Think you're a little messed up. I'm

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like, cool. Right? And

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and and and so that's what what I'm

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doing, but the difficulty with this food plot

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idea is it's not very easy to get

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crops to grow in the middle of the

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it takes a little bit of work, especially

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if you can't get, like, big equipment or

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a tiller back there or things like that.

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hold hold with me. I, I've done some

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research, and they basically tell you in order

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to get a food plot in the middle

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of the woods, you gotta clear some some

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dead trees.

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Do a little bit of of raking to

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expose just a little bit of the soil.

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And then after that, you basically go out

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and you just throw seed, like a wild

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man

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everywhere.

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And you scatter it all over the place

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hoping that it will find good soil, but

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knowing full well that a large large amount

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of it will not.

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The reality is you cannot tend to all

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the soil. You cannot make the woods perfect

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for growing crops, but you can throw a

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ton of seed out knowing some will grow.

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Some will find sunlight.

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Some will end up having a root that

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that is deep enough that it won't get

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scorched out when when that we're in the

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blazing heat of

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of late July and in August, and and

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then some of it,

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we'll never hit the ground because as odd

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as is add as it is the the

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deer that you're trying to attract will eat

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it before it ever takes root.

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Why why am I giving this deep dive

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into bow hunting and food plots

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probably because it's on my mind, but

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the biggest part is really this this way

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of starting things

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reminded me exactly the terrible to seed in

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the soil. This is exactly what Jesus was

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talking about and the thing that I was

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trying to do. And he taught us this

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interesting thing. If you throw all the way

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stuff away from deer hunting,

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scatter seed will yield hitting different soils.

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The different soils that it hits will yield

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a different result. This is this is what

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Jesus wants to to tell us. You throw

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out seed, hits different ground. We'll do different

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things based on it. And then Jesus said

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this really

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interesting and profound thing. This is part of

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what what I think, we're like, yeah, I

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think I know is what this means and

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then you dig a little deeper. Not I'm

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not fully sure if I know what it

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means.

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He who has ears to hear let him

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hear.

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We'll dig into that more, but I think

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we can agree ahead of time that the

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prayer and hope for us is that we

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would have ears to hear. Lord give us

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ears to hear us.

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Would you bring a harvest? Would you let

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it lead

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to to to something

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good for your glory and and and for

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our good?

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Now this first parable in this text is

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is likely the most well known parable in

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the new testament. It's kind of

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the parable, if you will, It comes up

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a lot. It's in more than 1 of

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the gospel, and it even comes with an

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explanation, which is odd for parable.

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A most are short and sweet and either

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get it or you don't, and there's no

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explanation that comes with it. But,

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this one's not like that. So the the

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the parable of the foundations that was earlier

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in Luke. I believe that was 1 that

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Garrett did a a killer job with taught

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that building our life upon the rock of

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god's

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word

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is better than building it on the shifting

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sands of our desire or cultural opinion. So

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it's leading believers build your life on God's

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word and not just hearing them, but obeying

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it, and you have a solid foundation underneath

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of you. If you do. And and then

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the parable about the debts being canceled from

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last week, it it's not hard to see

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if the holy spirit has given you the

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ability to to be saved,

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that that text was about forgiveness, Uncharted favor.

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You have been forgiven out of something that

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you could not have worked your way out

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of, and that should stir in you a

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love for for Jesus and others. The those

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didn't need a whole lot of explanation, but

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this 1, it's a little different.

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It still holds a a message about the

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kingdom of God or as this text says,

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it literally holds some of the secrets of

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heaven.

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But it also So teaches us more about

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why Jesus was using these parable

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in in general? Well, why Jesus using parable,

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and what are they for and and what

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are they they doing

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to begin to look at that and and

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and ask what are these parable doing? We

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need to maybe back up and and see

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why did luke put this parable here?

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And,

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why did Jesus give this parable when he

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did?

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So not only we have a parable, Jesus

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just tell us why you uses the parable,

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but why is this parable here? In in

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context of what's going on, Jesus was getting

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a fairly large

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crowd. In a Texas said people were coming

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from all kinds of cities all over we're

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coming. There's a large crowd coming. Some are

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coming from miracles,

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some were coming for teaching.

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Some were c... Coming hoping that they would

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have some sort of need or desire met

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or something would be given to them.

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Some were coming just to see what all

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the buzz was about. Some were coming to

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try and challenge,

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Jesus, some were coming genuinely to find salvation

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in Jesus. The motives were all over the

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place.

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Then contextual, the... Jesus also was having these

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kind of encounters or tu with the ph

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season in that time. And the ph,

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were were the ones

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who were religious people. They knew the the

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scriptures

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and yet despite their familiarity with the scriptures,

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they had rejected who God had sent to

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be they're redeem. So there's different types of

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people, from different places

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with different motives and different hearts and different

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ideas and different wants. There's this mass group

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and there's crazy different amount of reasons why

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they're there. So this text is there to

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help us so that we can weed out

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maybe true believers from fake believers.

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And this Text is here to maybe help

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us see how to tell the difference between

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a ph and a true believer and and

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even more so because we're not just supposed

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to use this to judge other people. This

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text is is here to help show us

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if we're on the right path.

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How do we know if we're following Jesus

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rightly if we are healthy if the preferred

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result is kinda happening in our life? This

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this text actually speaks into that, which is

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helpful.

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This parable begins to answer some of those

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questions, but we may still ask okay, why

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do we need this

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differentiation?

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Why do we need to know good soil

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from bad. Why do we need to to

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understand the results that hit different soils will

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will differ. Why why do we need to

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pay attention to how we hear and what

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happens afterwards. Well, again, contextual, it stated that

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a lot of people were around?

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Now.

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But what about later?

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See, the crowds are are huge. People from

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all over are are coming and and they

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seem to be super into Jesus, but what

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we know if we if we know a

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little bit more about the bible is in

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not too much time, those crowds are gonna

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d to be about nonexistent existent.

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Massive crowds

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following Jesus and listening

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to, like, crickets and nobody

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around.

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When that happens when the followers of Jesus

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shrink and number, the common human response will

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be to blame the message

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or the messenger.

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It's it's a try and use the the

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number drop as evidence well that Christianity was

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a failed experiment.

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We live in a pro pragmatic world that

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kind of says anything healthy,

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we'll grow. All a sudden if something's not

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growing, People are gonna try and throw it

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out... It's not healthy.

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It's not good. Something must be wrong with

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it yet This parable explains

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that not all people accept the gospel.

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And then further, it it explains that

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some will seem to,

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accept it

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and yet they won't stick with it.

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They won't grow. They won't produce fruit. They

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won't find maturity and they'll fall

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away, and that line was heavy. Some will

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never find maturity.

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And some will hear it a lot, and

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it'll actually harden them.

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There's this interesting thing that's in this text

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the gospel to seed. It's always doing something.

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It'll either harden you, produce something fake and

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then harden you or produce something good.

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It's always

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doing

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something. What we need to know here.

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Is when people reject the truth,

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will people walk away from the truth. When

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people walk away, from Jesus that doesn't mean

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that the message of the messenger is broken.

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This would have been extremely helpful for the

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early church

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for what coming for them, and it's still

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helpful today when the tides of culture change,

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which historically, though we think we're always in

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a new time. The the the the tides

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have always kind of done this, when all

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of a sudden, a lot less people claim

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Christianity,

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1 that's not new,

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Jesus told us there's gonna be a lot

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of people who walk away.

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And again, it doesn't mean that we need

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to change the gospel give up on on

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Jesus.

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As we look at the text, we see

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the setup

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already unfolding.

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We hear that there's a great crowd.

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This isn't a few people, this is thousands

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and Jesus opens up this parable. So you

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you've gotta kinda put yourself there and understanding.

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A lot of people are coming,

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mixed motives,

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different reasoning. There there's a buzz. There's an

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excitement. They're all coming. Let's see what this

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Jesus guy gonna. He's done some crazy stuff.

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I heard. Let let's see hear what he

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has to say. And they gather around.

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And jesus opens up the parable the... Of

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the seed and the soils.

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Big crowd.

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A sow went out to sow seed.

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He's throwing it all around the land and

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some fell on the path, and it was

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tram and the birds devoured it.

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Some fell on the rock and it started

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to grow and then it end up s

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because it had no root.

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Some fell among the thorn but the thorn

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00:17:48,247 --> 00:17:50,091
grew and they They choked it out,

544
00:17:51,684 --> 00:17:53,994
and some fell on good soil and yield

545
00:17:53,994 --> 00:17:54,791
at a hundred fold,

546
00:17:55,986 --> 00:17:58,297
and Jesus says emphatic those who have ears.

547
00:17:59,188 --> 00:18:00,645
Hear, let them here

548
00:18:02,219 --> 00:18:02,618
the end.

549
00:18:05,569 --> 00:18:06,766
I don't know about you, But if I

550
00:18:06,766 --> 00:18:08,361
came from a long distance to hear that,

551
00:18:09,891 --> 00:18:12,204
I I would have been confused if not

552
00:18:12,204 --> 00:18:12,443
irritated.

553
00:18:14,916 --> 00:18:16,671
Why did I come so far off for

554
00:18:16,671 --> 00:18:18,288
this guy to talk about a

555
00:18:19,157 --> 00:18:21,726
a farmer throwing seed out and.

556
00:18:23,135 --> 00:18:25,044
I don't I don't understand.

557
00:18:26,173 --> 00:18:27,869
I imagine the disciples were also

558
00:18:28,725 --> 00:18:31,675
in an an interesting situation. I I imagine

559
00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:33,429
maybe James looks at his brother John. It

560
00:18:33,429 --> 00:18:34,067
says, hey, bro,

561
00:18:35,598 --> 00:18:37,913
You understand what that's about. Right? And John's

562
00:18:37,913 --> 00:18:38,791
like, yeah, totally.

563
00:18:39,430 --> 00:18:41,186
You you know what it's about right? Yeah,

564
00:18:42,065 --> 00:18:43,901
Totally knowing that neither of them have a

565
00:18:43,901 --> 00:18:44,401
clue

566
00:18:44,874 --> 00:18:47,027
on what Jesus has just said. And we

567
00:18:47,027 --> 00:18:48,940
know that they're confused because it actually says

568
00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:50,136
that they have to go to Jesus and

569
00:18:50,136 --> 00:18:53,086
ask for an explanation. Again, we don't know

570
00:18:53,086 --> 00:18:55,254
what that explanation looks like, but my kind

571
00:18:55,254 --> 00:18:57,487
of dull Adhd mind likes to pretend. I

572
00:18:57,487 --> 00:18:58,285
know what it looks like.

573
00:18:59,003 --> 00:19:01,156
Maybe Peter throws Thomas under the bus at

574
00:19:01,156 --> 00:19:02,432
dinner. Is was like, hey, geez. It's Thomas

575
00:19:02,432 --> 00:19:03,230
is a little confused.

576
00:19:04,043 --> 00:19:04,521
You gonna, like,

577
00:19:05,398 --> 00:19:06,595
help him out I get it, But you

578
00:19:06,595 --> 00:19:08,669
wanna help him out and explain to him

579
00:19:08,669 --> 00:19:09,945
what this parable is about, I think it

580
00:19:09,945 --> 00:19:12,178
would help him. And we have no idea

581
00:19:12,178 --> 00:19:12,816
how it happened.

582
00:19:13,629 --> 00:19:14,664
I think that would have been funny.

583
00:19:16,974 --> 00:19:18,806
But reality is even there confused.

584
00:19:19,523 --> 00:19:21,036
And they ask Jesus for help and in

585
00:19:21,036 --> 00:19:22,333
his kindness he is

586
00:19:23,042 --> 00:19:24,712
content to shed more light on the parable

587
00:19:24,712 --> 00:19:26,779
about what it means we hear this. Before

588
00:19:26,779 --> 00:19:28,211
he explains the parable,

589
00:19:29,245 --> 00:19:31,329
he speaks to them in general about why

590
00:19:31,329 --> 00:19:33,650
he's using parable and why they're ramping up.

591
00:19:34,450 --> 00:19:35,569
But that that's a that's a big deal.

592
00:19:35,809 --> 00:19:37,009
I'm not just gonna tell you what this

593
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:37,829
is about

594
00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:41,007
I'm gonna tell you you the methodology of

595
00:19:41,007 --> 00:19:42,757
why I'm giving parable.

596
00:19:43,949 --> 00:19:45,301
He says to you it has been given

597
00:19:45,301 --> 00:19:46,732
to know the secrets of the kingdom of

598
00:19:46,812 --> 00:19:47,130
God.

599
00:19:48,814 --> 00:19:49,608
But for others,

600
00:19:50,243 --> 00:19:52,466
they are parable so that seeing they may

601
00:19:52,466 --> 00:19:53,363
not see

602
00:19:54,689 --> 00:19:56,277
and hearing they may not understand.

603
00:19:57,483 --> 00:19:59,310
We we may normally assume that the point

604
00:19:59,310 --> 00:20:00,900
of parable is to make something clear.

605
00:20:02,171 --> 00:20:03,681
It takes a concept about the kingdom of

606
00:20:03,761 --> 00:20:04,953
God and puts it on the low shelf

607
00:20:04,953 --> 00:20:07,112
for everyone to grab, but But Jesus laid

608
00:20:07,112 --> 00:20:08,698
out here that the parable actually have a

609
00:20:08,698 --> 00:20:09,516
dual purpose

610
00:20:10,443 --> 00:20:12,268
for those who have ears to hear.

611
00:20:14,031 --> 00:20:15,862
The spirit has given them faith for them.

612
00:20:16,021 --> 00:20:18,251
The parable to them is meant to explain

613
00:20:18,251 --> 00:20:20,082
or clarify the secrets of the kingdom of

614
00:20:20,162 --> 00:20:20,401
God.

615
00:20:22,568 --> 00:20:24,244
But for others who don't have ears to

616
00:20:24,244 --> 00:20:26,000
hear the parable is actually meant to hide

617
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:26,719
the truth from them.

618
00:20:28,236 --> 00:20:30,072
That means that parable are not only to

619
00:20:30,072 --> 00:20:31,085
reveal, but they're also

620
00:20:31,444 --> 00:20:31,763
conceal.

621
00:20:33,678 --> 00:20:35,434
What Jesus says here is a quote from

622
00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:38,068
the book of Isaiah. We always need to

623
00:20:38,068 --> 00:20:39,996
make sure to understand if there's quote from

624
00:20:39,996 --> 00:20:41,743
the old testament. What are they doing and

625
00:20:41,743 --> 00:20:43,093
and what are they saying and why are

626
00:20:43,093 --> 00:20:43,887
they saying it?

627
00:20:44,761 --> 00:20:46,667
That that quote for Isaiah, keep on hearing,

628
00:20:46,826 --> 00:20:48,653
but do not understand keep on seeing, but

629
00:20:48,653 --> 00:20:51,713
do not receive in the context of Isaiah

630
00:20:51,849 --> 00:20:54,077
ministry in the old testament people would rebelled

631
00:20:54,077 --> 00:20:55,668
against the the word of God.

632
00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:58,473
But they rebelled in an interesting way. They're

633
00:20:58,473 --> 00:20:59,829
they're eager to come hear it.

634
00:21:00,786 --> 00:21:03,179
They're just not eager to do it. They

635
00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:04,694
they become hard. And I'll hear it, but

636
00:21:04,694 --> 00:21:05,971
my answer is gonna be no.

637
00:21:06,464 --> 00:21:08,692
And part of God's judgment against their sin

638
00:21:08,692 --> 00:21:11,078
of rejecting what he wanted for them is

639
00:21:11,078 --> 00:21:13,147
to harden them further in their un unbelievable.

640
00:21:13,879 --> 00:21:16,033
So here here's here's the idea. People come

641
00:21:16,033 --> 00:21:17,869
together hear the word. All here, but I

642
00:21:17,869 --> 00:21:19,305
ain't gonna do it. Their hearts are hard

643
00:21:19,305 --> 00:21:20,423
and because I wanna gonna harden your heart

644
00:21:20,423 --> 00:21:20,981
even more.

645
00:21:22,830 --> 00:21:24,742
Jesus is telling the disciples. I'm gonna use

646
00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:26,256
the parable like back in the day of

647
00:21:26,574 --> 00:21:26,813
Isaiah.

648
00:21:29,059 --> 00:21:31,053
They'll be revelation to those who have ears

649
00:21:31,053 --> 00:21:31,531
to hear,

650
00:21:33,206 --> 00:21:35,519
who... Those who want to obey me and

651
00:21:35,519 --> 00:21:37,354
they'll harden the stiff neck people who do

652
00:21:37,354 --> 00:21:38,471
not want to obey me.

653
00:21:39,601 --> 00:21:41,911
Rc sp says it's as though, God were

654
00:21:41,911 --> 00:21:44,301
saying to the stiff neck people. You don't

655
00:21:44,301 --> 00:21:45,098
want to hear me.

656
00:21:46,133 --> 00:21:47,647
Fine. I won't let you hear me.

657
00:21:48,618 --> 00:21:50,771
You're closing your ears with your hands. I'll

658
00:21:50,771 --> 00:21:52,286
do you 1 better. I'll close your heart

659
00:21:52,286 --> 00:21:52,525
off.

660
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,635
And this is heavy stuff, and we might

661
00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:57,092
hear this and think well, That sounds

662
00:21:57,563 --> 00:22:00,687
capri and addictive on god's part, but

663
00:22:01,697 --> 00:22:04,162
as older theologian have put it, God's justice

664
00:22:04,162 --> 00:22:06,332
is first just, but it's also poetic.

665
00:22:07,597 --> 00:22:10,145
He gives people. And we see this all

666
00:22:10,145 --> 00:22:12,057
over the old testament. We we we tend

667
00:22:12,057 --> 00:22:13,889
to think of judgment only is what happens

668
00:22:13,889 --> 00:22:14,685
when you die,

669
00:22:16,214 --> 00:22:17,889
But god all over the bible talks about.

670
00:22:17,969 --> 00:22:19,803
There's a judgment that can happen here and

671
00:22:19,803 --> 00:22:21,956
a judgment that happens internally. There's not just

672
00:22:21,956 --> 00:22:24,509
1. A judgment that happens here is I'll

673
00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:25,625
give you over to your sin.

674
00:22:26,755 --> 00:22:28,425
If you're cool with your heart being harden,

675
00:22:28,664 --> 00:22:29,937
I'll make sure it's even harder.

676
00:22:33,615 --> 00:22:35,695
You want a stiff neck, I'll make it

677
00:22:35,695 --> 00:22:36,174
concrete.

678
00:22:37,695 --> 00:22:38,975
If that's what you want, you can have

679
00:22:38,975 --> 00:22:39,615
it in spade.

680
00:22:40,748 --> 00:22:42,500
Think of the book of Romans, read the

681
00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,230
first 2 chapters and he gave them over

682
00:22:45,288 --> 00:22:46,323
to a debate mind.

683
00:22:46,881 --> 00:22:48,394
This is this. Okay. You can have what

684
00:22:48,394 --> 00:22:48,713
you want.

685
00:22:50,159 --> 00:22:52,221
This means the same parable could have different

686
00:22:52,221 --> 00:22:53,252
effects on different people.

687
00:22:54,442 --> 00:22:56,266
For those who come just to be entertained

688
00:22:56,266 --> 00:22:57,559
or casually here

689
00:22:57,948 --> 00:23:00,493
Jesus with no desire to obey or or

690
00:23:00,493 --> 00:23:00,993
follow

691
00:23:01,367 --> 00:23:03,992
or submit to. Those people are gonna be

692
00:23:03,992 --> 00:23:06,553
hardened and Deaf. Here's the result. That that

693
00:23:06,553 --> 00:23:09,105
that's just interesting this week every time we

694
00:23:09,105 --> 00:23:10,860
preach or you hear the word an c

695
00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:13,253
or Dna or or whatever you're doing. When

696
00:23:13,253 --> 00:23:14,768
you're hearing the word of god. It never

697
00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:15,725
does nothing.

698
00:23:16,378 --> 00:23:18,533
It either harden you or soften you. That's

699
00:23:18,533 --> 00:23:19,011
all it does.

700
00:23:20,128 --> 00:23:21,325
Be careful how you hear.

701
00:23:25,557 --> 00:23:27,460
Those who seek to listen and apply and

702
00:23:27,460 --> 00:23:27,857
follow,

703
00:23:28,967 --> 00:23:30,950
says there'll be truth that's added to you,

704
00:23:31,918 --> 00:23:33,510
and then you get more and more in

705
00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:34,487
or it'll it'll

706
00:23:35,022 --> 00:23:35,897
it'll build you.

707
00:23:37,330 --> 00:23:39,024
Leon Morris says this for

708
00:23:40,294 --> 00:23:41,912
Jesus was looking for more than

709
00:23:42,371 --> 00:23:42,871
superficial

710
00:23:43,250 --> 00:23:43,650
adherence.

711
00:23:44,768 --> 00:23:46,127
What what we may wanna hear is he's

712
00:23:46,127 --> 00:23:48,775
looking more for more than cultural Christianity or

713
00:23:48,854 --> 00:23:50,228
Sunday morning than Christianity.

714
00:23:51,079 --> 00:23:51,817
So he

715
00:23:52,191 --> 00:23:53,859
his parable in his use.

716
00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:58,253
Stories which yielded a meaning only to those

717
00:23:58,253 --> 00:23:59,608
who are prepared to search for them.

718
00:24:00,485 --> 00:24:03,846
The parable demand thought and earnest ness and

719
00:24:03,846 --> 00:24:06,547
they separate the the sincere seeker from the

720
00:24:06,547 --> 00:24:09,089
casual here, like, a, oh, take it or

721
00:24:09,089 --> 00:24:09,407
leave it.

722
00:24:10,693 --> 00:24:13,637
This idea of spiritual earnest, this is desire

723
00:24:13,637 --> 00:24:16,182
to not just hear, but to search and

724
00:24:16,182 --> 00:24:18,829
process and apply and plumb the depths of

725
00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:21,490
Jesus words. This all of a sudden explains

726
00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,710
a little bit more why he says those

727
00:24:23,710 --> 00:24:25,961
who have ears, let them here. You're you're...

728
00:24:26,199 --> 00:24:28,419
There's something that's supposed to happen in our

729
00:24:28,419 --> 00:24:30,480
hearing. It's not it's not meant to be

730
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:31,352
a road to nowhere.

731
00:24:32,541 --> 00:24:33,200
The Jesus

732
00:24:33,669 --> 00:24:35,664
desires for those who are his to hear

733
00:24:35,664 --> 00:24:37,899
deep in their soul and have the secrets

734
00:24:37,899 --> 00:24:39,495
of the kingdom of god take root in

735
00:24:39,495 --> 00:24:40,134
their life.

736
00:24:42,863 --> 00:24:44,222
What does this mean? And and and this

737
00:24:44,222 --> 00:24:46,059
is what is hard is especially if we're

738
00:24:46,059 --> 00:24:47,977
talking... We're we're coming fourth of July ish

739
00:24:47,977 --> 00:24:48,377
weekend,

740
00:24:48,856 --> 00:24:51,264
tons of plans, maybe you haven't your vacation

741
00:24:51,264 --> 00:24:52,695
yet. You're... Maybe you're the low and you've

742
00:24:52,695 --> 00:24:54,921
already vacation. Like, there's a million things that

743
00:24:54,921 --> 00:24:55,478
can happen.

744
00:24:56,193 --> 00:24:58,101
And it's showing us that we're not meant

745
00:24:58,101 --> 00:25:00,501
to just come around the word And here

746
00:25:00,501 --> 00:25:02,091
it physically, we're meant to hear it deep

747
00:25:02,091 --> 00:25:03,522
in our soul. This is what Jesus wants.

748
00:25:03,999 --> 00:25:05,669
Hear my words deep in your heart, take

749
00:25:05,669 --> 00:25:07,339
them in and let them do something in

750
00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:07,577
you.

751
00:25:08,309 --> 00:25:10,305
And then he explains the parable.

752
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:12,540
The seed is the word of God.

753
00:25:14,057 --> 00:25:16,691
It is the the bible. The manifest will

754
00:25:16,691 --> 00:25:19,171
and word and part of God is revealed

755
00:25:19,171 --> 00:25:21,393
through the scriptures and passed on by the

756
00:25:21,393 --> 00:25:23,138
apostles. This is the seed.

757
00:25:24,899 --> 00:25:26,815
But Jesus is showing is the seed or

758
00:25:26,815 --> 00:25:29,130
the word will hit 4 different types of

759
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:31,205
hearts. Now, clarify, it's not saying there's 4

760
00:25:31,205 --> 00:25:32,482
different types of people in the world That's

761
00:25:32,482 --> 00:25:33,041
not what it says.

762
00:25:34,094 --> 00:25:36,411
It's saying that when the word goes out

763
00:25:36,411 --> 00:25:38,569
and someone is hearing it, there's 4 different

764
00:25:38,569 --> 00:25:40,886
types of parts that it'll that that will

765
00:25:40,886 --> 00:25:41,205
hear it.

766
00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:43,620
The word will hit a hard heart,

767
00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:46,019
a shallow heart,

768
00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:48,500
an infested heart,

769
00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:50,180
or a good heart.

770
00:25:52,426 --> 00:25:54,094
And it will have an effect on all

771
00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:54,412
of them.

772
00:25:55,843 --> 00:25:57,773
For the heart heart, this is the soil

773
00:25:57,829 --> 00:25:58,329
upon

774
00:25:58,878 --> 00:26:00,472
the path. If you've ever walked on a

775
00:26:00,472 --> 00:26:02,465
trail, if you've been hiking or Mountain biking

776
00:26:02,465 --> 00:26:04,299
and there's a trail that that hundreds of

777
00:26:04,299 --> 00:26:05,972
feet have walked through it, it's it's hard

778
00:26:05,972 --> 00:26:08,137
like concrete. There's There's nothing that's gonna get

779
00:26:08,137 --> 00:26:10,046
in there. And this is what Jesus talking

780
00:26:10,046 --> 00:26:11,876
about. These are people who hear the word

781
00:26:11,876 --> 00:26:14,359
outward, but it never makes it inward. This

782
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,516
seed is thrown. It lands on them. They

783
00:26:16,516 --> 00:26:17,795
are as hard as a rock and it

784
00:26:17,795 --> 00:26:18,993
never breaks the surface,

785
00:26:19,552 --> 00:26:21,150
then listen to Jesus words.

786
00:26:22,044 --> 00:26:23,962
The devil comes and takes a seat away.

787
00:26:26,358 --> 00:26:28,436
The word is taken from their hearts.

788
00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:31,642
So that they may not believe and be

789
00:26:31,642 --> 00:26:31,961
saved.

790
00:26:34,912 --> 00:26:36,506
That's a pretty profound thing if you believe

791
00:26:36,666 --> 00:26:37,702
Jesus is serious isn't it?

792
00:26:38,914 --> 00:26:40,674
The holy spirit is at work trying to

793
00:26:40,674 --> 00:26:43,714
bring about faith and repentance and strengthen us

794
00:26:43,714 --> 00:26:45,315
to see the beauty of Jesus when the

795
00:26:45,315 --> 00:26:45,875
word is preached.

796
00:26:47,490 --> 00:26:48,849
And the devil is at we're trying to

797
00:26:48,849 --> 00:26:49,970
pluck it off of the hard ground.

798
00:26:51,490 --> 00:26:53,890
Jesus tell us there's a spiritual battle raging

799
00:26:53,890 --> 00:26:55,819
that you and I can't see or understand

800
00:26:55,819 --> 00:26:57,251
when the word goes out because it's not

801
00:26:57,251 --> 00:26:58,126
meant to do nothing.

802
00:26:59,001 --> 00:27:00,751
There's a battle that rages when it goes.

803
00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:03,336
Then some seed hits

804
00:27:03,714 --> 00:27:05,251
the rock. This is

805
00:27:07,303 --> 00:27:09,536
meant to be imagine bedrock with a an

806
00:27:09,536 --> 00:27:11,052
an inch or 2 of dirt on top.

807
00:27:12,184 --> 00:27:13,565
The seed hits it

808
00:27:14,184 --> 00:27:16,505
seems to to take root to sprout up.

809
00:27:16,664 --> 00:27:18,105
It seems like there's gonna be a harvest.

810
00:27:18,264 --> 00:27:20,917
This person normally joy or receives the word

811
00:27:20,917 --> 00:27:23,392
and joy. They're excited about Jesus they're pumped

812
00:27:23,392 --> 00:27:25,228
about it. I wanna do all the things...

813
00:27:25,627 --> 00:27:26,984
But they don't... They don't have a root

814
00:27:26,984 --> 00:27:27,383
system.

815
00:27:29,312 --> 00:27:31,384
And it doesn't go deep. It doesn't break

816
00:27:31,384 --> 00:27:33,216
the... The... It it doesn't break the surface

817
00:27:33,216 --> 00:27:34,571
and go deep enough in their heart. So

818
00:27:34,571 --> 00:27:35,527
at the first test,

819
00:27:36,339 --> 00:27:38,817
the first problem, the first conflict, the first

820
00:27:38,817 --> 00:27:41,214
challenge of their their life and their faith.

821
00:27:41,454 --> 00:27:43,132
They fall away, and they leave behind. I'm

822
00:27:43,132 --> 00:27:45,210
so excited about Jesus peace out. I'm out.

823
00:27:46,424 --> 00:27:47,463
That that's the rock.

824
00:27:48,342 --> 00:27:49,780
This is the shallow part.

825
00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:53,936
Faith doesn't go very deep.

826
00:27:55,390 --> 00:27:57,789
This person is normally interested more in the

827
00:27:57,789 --> 00:28:00,509
ideas of Jesus like salvation, inheritance peace with

828
00:28:00,590 --> 00:28:01,869
God, no

829
00:28:02,830 --> 00:28:05,562
no consequence for sin, but but not very

830
00:28:05,562 --> 00:28:08,035
interested in in san vacation, die to self,

831
00:28:08,593 --> 00:28:11,385
repentance life together. I want Jesus words, but

832
00:28:11,385 --> 00:28:12,501
not as heart. Let me do my thing.

833
00:28:12,661 --> 00:28:14,256
This is the the shallow 1.

834
00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:16,508
As soon as trial comes,

835
00:28:17,547 --> 00:28:18,266
they walk away.

836
00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:20,664
Now some here this,

837
00:28:21,862 --> 00:28:23,701
we have put our theological hat on. Right?

838
00:28:24,994 --> 00:28:26,914
And they wonder is is Jesus teaching that

839
00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:28,115
you can lose your salvation.

840
00:28:29,954 --> 00:28:30,515
He was not.

841
00:28:31,554 --> 00:28:33,645
The bible tells us that those who the

842
00:28:33,645 --> 00:28:34,838
lower lord redeem,

843
00:28:36,667 --> 00:28:37,167
he

844
00:28:37,861 --> 00:28:38,179
preserves.

845
00:28:40,184 --> 00:28:42,264
Guys in moments when we know life isn't

846
00:28:42,264 --> 00:28:42,825
going well,

847
00:28:43,384 --> 00:28:44,825
this is a bedrock of our hope.

848
00:28:45,625 --> 00:28:46,904
I got you and I won't let you

849
00:28:46,904 --> 00:28:47,065
go.

850
00:28:48,118 --> 00:28:50,032
He gives them a seal a guarantee of

851
00:28:50,032 --> 00:28:51,729
the holy spirit and we're told

852
00:28:52,505 --> 00:28:54,600
that he who began the good work him

853
00:28:55,536 --> 00:28:57,131
is gonna see it through to completion.

854
00:28:58,657 --> 00:29:00,165
Salvation doesn't get lost because it's held by

855
00:29:00,245 --> 00:29:01,991
God and nobody wins in a fight against

856
00:29:02,071 --> 00:29:02,309
God.

857
00:29:03,103 --> 00:29:05,008
He keeps his children,

858
00:29:05,723 --> 00:29:06,223
but

859
00:29:07,088 --> 00:29:08,759
There will be sadly people who have what

860
00:29:08,919 --> 00:29:10,033
I'll just call foe faith.

861
00:29:11,784 --> 00:29:13,614
The idea of Jesus will seem good to

862
00:29:13,614 --> 00:29:13,853
them,

863
00:29:14,982 --> 00:29:16,890
but they will walk away at some point

864
00:29:16,890 --> 00:29:19,036
because their hearts were never transformed by god.

865
00:29:20,944 --> 00:29:23,170
They at many levels did not want the

866
00:29:23,170 --> 00:29:24,776
word to go deep so it did not,

867
00:29:24,935 --> 00:29:26,210
and they fall away over time.

868
00:29:27,484 --> 00:29:29,794
And the soil among the the thorn. This

869
00:29:29,794 --> 00:29:30,112
is the,

870
00:29:31,148 --> 00:29:32,954
infested heart or I could call it the

871
00:29:33,074 --> 00:29:35,454
the the the dual heart or the the

872
00:29:35,454 --> 00:29:37,517
conflicted heart, This person seems to have faith

873
00:29:37,517 --> 00:29:39,287
and maybe it lasts a little bit longer

874
00:29:39,421 --> 00:29:42,296
than than the the the word hits the

875
00:29:42,296 --> 00:29:43,352
rock, but

876
00:29:43,885 --> 00:29:46,110
ultimately the thorn, the cares of the world,

877
00:29:46,507 --> 00:29:48,591
the desires that the passions that you have,

878
00:29:48,750 --> 00:29:50,184
the things that you want out of life

879
00:29:50,184 --> 00:29:52,095
end up competing with the truth of god

880
00:29:52,095 --> 00:29:53,290
and they win. They choke it out.

881
00:29:53,927 --> 00:29:56,157
I want Jesus, but I want this more.

882
00:29:57,127 --> 00:29:58,319
And and it wins.

883
00:30:00,940 --> 00:30:02,314
What's difficult for us

884
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,174
is there are things that

885
00:30:08,346 --> 00:30:09,960
that Jesus says

886
00:30:11,689 --> 00:30:13,598
that there will be moments of time that

887
00:30:13,598 --> 00:30:15,508
illuminate to us that we just didn't take

888
00:30:15,508 --> 00:30:17,356
it serious that he met that.

889
00:30:18,791 --> 00:30:20,305
So he flat out says there's a lot

890
00:30:20,305 --> 00:30:21,045
of people

891
00:30:22,777 --> 00:30:24,291
who will walk away from my word.

892
00:30:25,183 --> 00:30:26,717
Right? There's no mathematical

893
00:30:27,093 --> 00:30:29,003
equation, but you do understand that there's 4

894
00:30:29,003 --> 00:30:30,276
types of hearts, and only 1 of them

895
00:30:30,276 --> 00:30:31,152
is a a good 1.

896
00:30:32,838 --> 00:30:34,293
There are a lot who here

897
00:30:34,668 --> 00:30:36,815
seem to accept. Seem to be even in

898
00:30:36,815 --> 00:30:38,406
the words they'll will accept it with joy.

899
00:30:38,645 --> 00:30:40,316
They'll be excited over it.

900
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,991
But then it'll come crashing down and the

901
00:30:43,991 --> 00:30:44,548
walk away.

902
00:30:45,981 --> 00:30:48,209
After Covid was a mass illumination of what

903
00:30:48,209 --> 00:30:50,119
we'll call shallow and infested soils.

904
00:30:51,249 --> 00:30:52,148
In the church

905
00:30:52,686 --> 00:30:53,644
a whole over the west.

906
00:30:54,602 --> 00:30:55,799
It was a point in time that many,

907
00:30:55,959 --> 00:30:58,673
many, many, many people left the the church

908
00:30:58,673 --> 00:31:00,270
as it seems for good.

909
00:31:00,922 --> 00:31:02,985
Hopefully not. But as it seems for for

910
00:31:02,985 --> 00:31:05,684
good, many seem to have bore faux fruit

911
00:31:05,684 --> 00:31:08,398
and then attention came or problem came, or

912
00:31:08,398 --> 00:31:10,467
their desires came and weighed in and all

913
00:31:10,467 --> 00:31:12,297
of a sudden, they... The ones who seem

914
00:31:12,297 --> 00:31:14,047
like they accepted the word of God rejected

915
00:31:14,047 --> 00:31:15,558
the word of god and Jesus told us

916
00:31:15,558 --> 00:31:16,275
it was gonna happen.

917
00:31:17,404 --> 00:31:19,557
And it let a lot of people wondering

918
00:31:19,557 --> 00:31:20,057
if

919
00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:22,371
the gospel with a church

920
00:31:24,024 --> 00:31:25,539
were just done a irrelevant,

921
00:31:25,938 --> 00:31:26,417
broken.

922
00:31:30,021 --> 00:31:31,297
And believe this Texas say no.

923
00:31:32,813 --> 00:31:34,647
It just wasn't good soil. It hurts and

924
00:31:34,647 --> 00:31:36,503
it's not fun. We pray the lord still

925
00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:36,800
intervene,

926
00:31:37,534 --> 00:31:39,452
for for those who walked away all over

927
00:31:39,452 --> 00:31:40,891
the place, but it doesn't mean the church

928
00:31:40,891 --> 00:31:41,710
or the gospel

929
00:31:42,169 --> 00:31:43,208
are dead or broken.

930
00:31:44,007 --> 00:31:45,606
I told you that there was gonna do

931
00:31:45,606 --> 00:31:45,766
this.

932
00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:50,160
Was first 3 were a bit depressing. Right?

933
00:31:51,274 --> 00:31:52,069
You can say yes.

934
00:31:54,614 --> 00:31:56,860
1 of you said it. Strongly. Yes.

935
00:31:58,934 --> 00:32:00,790
Then Jesus says some will

936
00:32:01,407 --> 00:32:02,204
hit good soil.

937
00:32:06,528 --> 00:32:07,966
This is the heart of a person who

938
00:32:07,966 --> 00:32:09,963
hear the word and hold fast to it.

939
00:32:11,801 --> 00:32:12,780
Here and

940
00:32:13,173 --> 00:32:14,764
Hold fast. Not hold fast for a second,

941
00:32:15,003 --> 00:32:17,150
not here for a second here and hold

942
00:32:17,150 --> 00:32:18,980
fast with an honest and good heart. They

943
00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:20,888
will bear fruit a hundred fold.

944
00:32:22,017 --> 00:32:24,004
This hundred fold isn't just a literal 100.

945
00:32:24,242 --> 00:32:25,298
This is meant to be

946
00:32:26,150 --> 00:32:26,309
exponential.

947
00:32:28,455 --> 00:32:29,726
We need to do some work here though.

948
00:32:31,093 --> 00:32:33,002
Because we pair this parable with the 1

949
00:32:33,002 --> 00:32:35,070
prior last week. Remember the parable from last

950
00:32:35,070 --> 00:32:36,661
week was about the debtor who could not

951
00:32:36,661 --> 00:32:36,900
pay.

952
00:32:38,190 --> 00:32:40,289
There was a bill that no matter what

953
00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:42,669
could not be paid off. The person could

954
00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,109
not get rid of it. They couldn't cancel

955
00:32:44,109 --> 00:32:45,879
it. They couldn't deal with it no matter

956
00:32:45,879 --> 00:32:47,547
what the bill is way too big. It's

957
00:32:47,547 --> 00:32:48,047
astronomical.

958
00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:50,326
I can't fix it. So the 1 who

959
00:32:50,326 --> 00:32:52,629
is owed cancels the debt for the 1

960
00:32:52,629 --> 00:32:53,661
who actually owes.

961
00:32:55,026 --> 00:32:57,012
The point was that Sin has brought about

962
00:32:57,012 --> 00:32:58,442
a bill that you and I cannot pay.

963
00:32:59,633 --> 00:33:01,857
We cannot lose our theology because of a

964
00:33:01,857 --> 00:33:02,174
parable.

965
00:33:03,462 --> 00:33:04,818
It's brought a bill that we cannot pay.

966
00:33:04,977 --> 00:33:06,571
We cannot fix it. We cannot clear it.

967
00:33:06,731 --> 00:33:08,804
We cannot work it off. This is why

968
00:33:08,883 --> 00:33:11,195
Grace is such a beautiful thing. Un meredith

969
00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:13,916
its out... Or a favor is salvation, not

970
00:33:13,916 --> 00:33:15,905
the the debt that you were able to

971
00:33:15,905 --> 00:33:16,382
pay off.

972
00:33:18,132 --> 00:33:20,303
As Jesus is talking about the soils

973
00:33:20,694 --> 00:33:22,050
and the harvest that comes.

974
00:33:23,724 --> 00:33:25,958
That if we hold theology with the parable,

975
00:33:26,038 --> 00:33:27,712
he isn't telling you to work hard to

976
00:33:27,712 --> 00:33:28,749
make yourself good soil.

977
00:33:31,236 --> 00:33:32,353
He isn't telling you,

978
00:33:33,230 --> 00:33:34,049
hey, you better

979
00:33:34,426 --> 00:33:36,260
you you better weed yourself. You better take

980
00:33:36,260 --> 00:33:37,695
care of the Thorn now or else they're

981
00:33:37,695 --> 00:33:38,333
gonna get you.

982
00:33:39,864 --> 00:33:41,622
Right? No soil is able to clear rocks

983
00:33:41,622 --> 00:33:42,341
from itself.

984
00:33:43,460 --> 00:33:44,918
That was a ph mindset

985
00:33:45,377 --> 00:33:47,269
salvation by. It works. Remember the ph that

986
00:33:47,390 --> 00:33:48,830
that got into it with Jesus in the

987
00:33:48,830 --> 00:33:49,630
text last week.

988
00:33:50,830 --> 00:33:53,070
Jesus isn't giving us a huge task that

989
00:33:53,070 --> 00:33:54,269
we have to figure out how to do

990
00:33:54,269 --> 00:33:56,922
on her own He's explaining what happens when

991
00:33:56,922 --> 00:33:58,520
a person is saved.

992
00:33:59,079 --> 00:34:01,796
Remember, he's the champion. He's the hero.

993
00:34:03,962 --> 00:34:06,029
Because of the salvation that Jesus brings, they

994
00:34:06,029 --> 00:34:06,824
receive the word,

995
00:34:07,937 --> 00:34:08,970
and it gets down deep,

996
00:34:10,321 --> 00:34:11,275
and they hold to it.

997
00:34:12,244 --> 00:34:13,764
And they cling to it with an honest

998
00:34:13,764 --> 00:34:14,005
heart.

999
00:34:16,324 --> 00:34:19,224
Meaning they in their heart, want the word

1000
00:34:20,005 --> 00:34:20,724
torque in them.

1001
00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:24,099
And it does.

1002
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,000
And they bear fruit then by hearing

1003
00:34:27,460 --> 00:34:29,559
and taking in the word, and then they

1004
00:34:30,673 --> 00:34:32,746
as they take in the the word, the

1005
00:34:32,746 --> 00:34:34,501
word becomes a apparent in their life because

1006
00:34:34,501 --> 00:34:36,356
it actually harvest itself

1007
00:34:36,813 --> 00:34:37,530
out of their life.

1008
00:34:39,539 --> 00:34:41,396
Remember, there's a ton of people who are

1009
00:34:41,614 --> 00:34:43,689
around at this point. Again, what why is

1010
00:34:43,689 --> 00:34:44,487
he doing this?

1011
00:34:45,524 --> 00:34:49,043
People all around coming? And they're hearing for

1012
00:34:49,043 --> 00:34:49,918
different reasons.

1013
00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:52,460
And I can just imagine them but like,

1014
00:34:52,540 --> 00:34:53,914
this is so good and

1015
00:34:55,098 --> 00:34:56,527
there's a lot of people are hearing though,

1016
00:34:56,686 --> 00:34:58,036
but they don't actually wanna change.

1017
00:35:00,419 --> 00:35:02,484
And it's not doing anything, and they're fine

1018
00:35:02,484 --> 00:35:02,802
with it.

1019
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:06,943
See, the good soil is the heart that

1020
00:35:06,943 --> 00:35:08,608
wants the word to grow in it.

1021
00:35:09,956 --> 00:35:11,542
They want to take it in. They they

1022
00:35:11,542 --> 00:35:13,302
they want it to to go deep. They

1023
00:35:13,302 --> 00:35:14,732
wanna hold onto to it, and they wanna

1024
00:35:14,732 --> 00:35:16,161
cling to it and be shaped by. They're

1025
00:35:16,161 --> 00:35:17,749
not wanting to just how much do I

1026
00:35:17,749 --> 00:35:18,861
have to do in order to not go

1027
00:35:18,861 --> 00:35:20,425
to hell. They're they're wanting the word to

1028
00:35:20,625 --> 00:35:22,625
to dig deep and and change them, Lord

1029
00:35:22,625 --> 00:35:24,704
you are good in your kind, so change

1030
00:35:24,704 --> 00:35:26,465
me from 1 degree of glory to another

1031
00:35:26,465 --> 00:35:27,905
because I need you. This is the good

1032
00:35:27,905 --> 00:35:28,065
heart.

1033
00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:30,559
Not the mixed mode 1.

1034
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,800
I believe Jesus is telling us more about

1035
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,320
the miracle of salvation here.

1036
00:35:37,773 --> 00:35:39,210
Than he is of giving us a heavy

1037
00:35:39,210 --> 00:35:40,567
task that we need to figure out.

1038
00:35:42,802 --> 00:35:45,197
It would be heavy. Wouldn't it? Make yourself

1039
00:35:45,197 --> 00:35:45,676
good soil.

1040
00:35:47,202 --> 00:35:47,599
Fix it.

1041
00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:50,373
It's counterintuitive to the whole gospel.

1042
00:35:51,561 --> 00:35:52,695
He's telling us

1043
00:35:54,594 --> 00:35:57,074
about the miracle of salvation as those who

1044
00:35:57,074 --> 00:35:58,195
were once hearted.

1045
00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:01,635
Those you and I who are once shallow,

1046
00:36:03,885 --> 00:36:05,401
those who are once are in by the

1047
00:36:05,401 --> 00:36:07,235
thorn by the work of the spirit are

1048
00:36:07,235 --> 00:36:08,751
not transformed into good soil.

1049
00:36:09,708 --> 00:36:11,564
Jesus takes what looks unusable,

1050
00:36:12,913 --> 00:36:15,007
Jesus takes what seems like it would be

1051
00:36:15,065 --> 00:36:17,616
impossible for anything good. Remember the broken,

1052
00:36:18,333 --> 00:36:19,051
the shattered.

1053
00:36:21,058 --> 00:36:23,206
And he turns it into something usable and

1054
00:36:23,206 --> 00:36:23,603
healthy,

1055
00:36:24,319 --> 00:36:24,819
transformed

1056
00:36:29,504 --> 00:36:31,094
Well, the goal of this parable isn't to

1057
00:36:31,094 --> 00:36:32,842
get you to try and change your soil

1058
00:36:32,842 --> 00:36:33,161
makeup.

1059
00:36:35,148 --> 00:36:36,181
This is the hard part of the text.

1060
00:36:36,420 --> 00:36:36,579
Right?

1061
00:36:37,548 --> 00:36:38,506
Then what do I do with it?

1062
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:41,696
If it's not trying to get you to

1063
00:36:41,696 --> 00:36:43,531
change your soil makeup. If you were a

1064
00:36:43,531 --> 00:36:45,286
follow of Christ, it does shed light into

1065
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:46,880
how you are meant to to live.

1066
00:36:48,494 --> 00:36:50,255
You were meant to take in the word,

1067
00:36:51,054 --> 00:36:52,494
and it is meant to do something in

1068
00:36:52,494 --> 00:36:52,734
you.

1069
00:36:56,908 --> 00:36:59,855
That means Sermon an mc and Dna and

1070
00:36:59,855 --> 00:37:00,833
reading and

1071
00:37:01,846 --> 00:37:04,155
every time that you encounter the seed,

1072
00:37:06,001 --> 00:37:08,068
that has not meant to be an exercise

1073
00:37:08,068 --> 00:37:08,568
in

1074
00:37:08,943 --> 00:37:09,261
futility.

1075
00:37:09,897 --> 00:37:11,407
God help us for the times that we

1076
00:37:11,407 --> 00:37:12,599
just come expecting nothing.

1077
00:37:13,315 --> 00:37:14,348
It's meant to work.

1078
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,711
It's meant to be seeds planted that grow

1079
00:37:17,711 --> 00:37:18,987
and become apparent.

1080
00:37:20,423 --> 00:37:21,859
See for those who take in the word

1081
00:37:21,859 --> 00:37:23,614
all the time and yet there is no

1082
00:37:23,614 --> 00:37:24,411
change in them.

1083
00:37:26,899 --> 00:37:28,574
Those who hear Sermon all the time and

1084
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it doesn't ever do anything.

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00:37:31,365 --> 00:37:33,838
What Jesus is telling you that's not supposed

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to happen.

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00:37:35,929 --> 00:37:38,409
That's not what salvation does. Salvation bears fruit.

1088
00:37:39,849 --> 00:37:41,530
Salvation springs up in the heart. Is this

1089
00:37:41,530 --> 00:37:43,941
at over the top? Like a crazy manic

1090
00:37:43,941 --> 00:37:45,695
thing all the time, no, but we are

1091
00:37:45,695 --> 00:37:48,088
to be changed, and it's visible and it's

1092
00:37:48,088 --> 00:37:49,865
made manifest and it's transformative

1093
00:37:50,242 --> 00:37:52,077
and it's exponential we could never do it

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00:37:52,077 --> 00:37:52,555
on our own.

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00:37:54,567 --> 00:37:55,866
If it's made to be

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00:37:56,884 --> 00:37:57,384
manifest

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00:37:57,843 --> 00:37:59,681
and seen and invisible,

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Then maybe we can understand why Jesus says

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what he says in verse 16.

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No 1 lights in the lamp for the

1101
00:38:07,568 --> 00:38:09,079
purpose of light and then covers it up.

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00:38:14,050 --> 00:38:15,190
Jesus is transfer...

1103
00:38:15,890 --> 00:38:18,130
He's transferring the metaphor for from sea to

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light here.

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00:38:20,060 --> 00:38:21,890
But the general idea is the same. If

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a person hears the word of God,

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if they take in the seed,

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00:38:26,839 --> 00:38:28,517
if the light of the world, Jesus christ

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00:38:28,517 --> 00:38:29,636
has lit in their heart,

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00:38:31,874 --> 00:38:33,492
then you can't hide that

1111
00:38:33,952 --> 00:38:34,911
because it does something.

1112
00:38:36,443 --> 00:38:38,677
It'll be visible to to them and to

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00:38:38,677 --> 00:38:40,432
others. It is a fallacy to think that

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00:38:40,512 --> 00:38:43,065
Jesus... Would reside in the heart transform you.

1115
00:38:43,399 --> 00:38:45,234
Make you a new creation, give you the

1116
00:38:45,234 --> 00:38:47,868
spirit, a new identity, a new inheritance, are

1117
00:38:47,868 --> 00:38:49,943
calling a brand new name, call you clean,

1118
00:38:50,182 --> 00:38:51,632
Tell you, you'd never let you go. And

1119
00:38:51,632 --> 00:38:53,142
you look the same as everyone who's never

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00:38:53,142 --> 00:38:53,619
been saved.

1121
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,989
There's a beautiful light that has been given

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to the good soil.

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It's not meant to be hidden.

1124
00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:04,456
Friend is a light hidden.

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00:39:07,408 --> 00:39:09,641
There's likely a twofold meaning to this.

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00:39:10,853 --> 00:39:12,452
If we believe we are saved,

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00:39:13,490 --> 00:39:15,648
and yet the salvation isn't visible, It isn't

1128
00:39:15,648 --> 00:39:17,486
breaking through the darkness, then there is a

1129
00:39:17,486 --> 00:39:17,885
problem.

1130
00:39:20,460 --> 00:39:21,920
Maybe we aren't good soil

1131
00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:25,660
or maybe we need to ask the lord

1132
00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:26,160
to

1133
00:39:26,619 --> 00:39:27,260
till the heart.

1134
00:39:28,789 --> 00:39:30,297
And if we're doing our best to blend

1135
00:39:30,297 --> 00:39:32,281
in culture. We've been on this road every

1136
00:39:32,281 --> 00:39:33,019
since even

1137
00:39:33,471 --> 00:39:35,376
through Romans and Hebrews. If we're doing our

1138
00:39:35,376 --> 00:39:37,619
best to blend in to not cause waves

1139
00:39:37,619 --> 00:39:39,460
to not be extra for Jesus or stand

1140
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,699
out. You're missing the point of your salvation.

1141
00:39:42,739 --> 00:39:44,420
You're not meant to be a jerk, but

1142
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:45,780
you're also not meant to blend in.

1143
00:39:47,389 --> 00:39:49,614
We are called to shine. He he he

1144
00:39:49,614 --> 00:39:51,284
literally talks about. You meant to be like

1145
00:39:51,284 --> 00:39:53,112
a light, a kid in a corner no

1146
00:39:53,112 --> 00:39:53,668
on a stand.

1147
00:39:54,399 --> 00:39:56,151
Like on a hillside. You can't hide that

1148
00:39:56,151 --> 00:39:56,231
thing.

1149
00:39:58,143 --> 00:40:00,055
In a cultural moment like today where the

1150
00:40:00,055 --> 00:40:02,445
tenants of Christ are just... They're not loved.

1151
00:40:06,846 --> 00:40:08,361
Good soil still not meant to hide.

1152
00:40:09,876 --> 00:40:11,472
It's meant to keep on shining. It's meant

1153
00:40:11,472 --> 00:40:12,827
to be put on the stand. It's meant

1154
00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:15,229
to be seen by the world even if

1155
00:40:15,229 --> 00:40:16,738
the world doesn't like it.

1156
00:40:19,041 --> 00:40:20,947
This is why Jesus ends the text by

1157
00:40:20,947 --> 00:40:21,185
saying.

1158
00:40:23,744 --> 00:40:25,020
Take care than how you hear.

1159
00:40:29,809 --> 00:40:30,788
I think there's a

1160
00:40:32,614 --> 00:40:34,364
Well we cannot change the tenants of what

1161
00:40:34,364 --> 00:40:36,216
soil we are. There is just a message

1162
00:40:36,273 --> 00:40:36,773
seriousness.

1163
00:40:39,072 --> 00:40:40,503
Be careful not to be flipping around the

1164
00:40:40,503 --> 00:40:40,661
word.

1165
00:40:42,251 --> 00:40:43,842
Be careful not to assume it's not gonna

1166
00:40:43,842 --> 00:40:44,398
do anything.

1167
00:40:45,193 --> 00:40:46,408
Be careful how

1168
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,351
you hear don't hear the truth and hide

1169
00:40:49,351 --> 00:40:51,584
it. Don't hear the truth and file it

1170
00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:53,259
away in the recesses of your heart. You

1171
00:40:53,259 --> 00:40:55,732
not hear the the word and become indifferent

1172
00:40:55,732 --> 00:40:55,971
to it.

1173
00:40:57,259 --> 00:40:58,315
Here and be transformed.

1174
00:40:59,721 --> 00:41:01,492
Here to be changed. Here to

1175
00:41:02,262 --> 00:41:04,780
have the light of the world shine in

1176
00:41:04,819 --> 00:41:06,649
you and not in some weird way, be

1177
00:41:06,649 --> 00:41:09,512
become more and more and more like Jesus.

1178
00:41:12,791 --> 00:41:14,567
Think maybe we bought into

1179
00:41:15,025 --> 00:41:17,656
for a while that because grace is unmarried

1180
00:41:17,656 --> 00:41:19,331
favor, we're just all meant to go to

1181
00:41:19,331 --> 00:41:20,847
to heaven still dumpster fires.

1182
00:41:21,818 --> 00:41:22,935
He's meant to change us.

1183
00:41:23,813 --> 00:41:25,487
Look more and more and more and prepare

1184
00:41:25,487 --> 00:41:27,003
us for eternity with him.

1185
00:41:28,598 --> 00:41:29,794
There's a bit of a warning here.

1186
00:41:31,963 --> 00:41:33,558
Those who hear the truth and it does

1187
00:41:33,558 --> 00:41:33,877
nothing.

1188
00:41:34,914 --> 00:41:36,829
Actually need to know that the truth is

1189
00:41:36,829 --> 00:41:37,467
hardening you.

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00:41:41,226 --> 00:41:42,738
We may hide behind,

1191
00:41:44,251 --> 00:41:45,763
I'm a cy or other things like that,

1192
00:41:45,842 --> 00:41:48,003
but if there's if there's nothing good coming,

1193
00:41:48,162 --> 00:41:49,694
it is hardening you

1194
00:41:56,842 --> 00:41:58,438
So those up ears let them hear and

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00:41:58,438 --> 00:41:58,996
be changed.

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00:42:01,150 --> 00:42:02,904
This text since it shows us the miracle

1197
00:42:02,904 --> 00:42:03,782
of salvation,

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00:42:06,184 --> 00:42:08,489
and are evident need to be serious about

1199
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how we hear.

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00:42:12,878 --> 00:42:14,494
There's probably a couple plays

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00:42:15,510 --> 00:42:17,105
If you feel like your heart is growing

1202
00:42:17,105 --> 00:42:17,424
cold,

1203
00:42:19,099 --> 00:42:21,833
isn't open to change is different as nonchalant,

1204
00:42:23,824 --> 00:42:24,945
And I think it'd be wise in our

1205
00:42:24,945 --> 00:42:27,585
in our time of prayer today, Lord help

1206
00:42:27,585 --> 00:42:27,744
me.

1207
00:42:29,838 --> 00:42:31,912
I was seeing more clearly, and I've blamed

1208
00:42:31,912 --> 00:42:33,587
it on a a lot of other things,

1209
00:42:33,827 --> 00:42:35,900
but my infections aren't hot, and my my

1210
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:37,575
heart isn't being molded and I need your

1211
00:42:37,575 --> 00:42:39,902
to help holy help soften me. I need

1212
00:42:39,902 --> 00:42:42,129
you. III can't do it. Give me a

1213
00:42:42,129 --> 00:42:44,515
new heart, help me to see and be

1214
00:42:44,515 --> 00:42:44,913
changed.

1215
00:42:45,390 --> 00:42:46,901
You aren't done. Keep working.

1216
00:42:50,975 --> 00:42:53,522
For us, what child of God believes that

1217
00:42:53,522 --> 00:42:54,954
the work that God wants to do them

1218
00:42:54,954 --> 00:42:56,865
isn't good. So at a heart level, if

1219
00:42:56,865 --> 00:42:59,190
we feel that the Lord isn't working through

1220
00:42:59,190 --> 00:43:01,023
his word, maybe we just say, lord good

1221
00:43:01,023 --> 00:43:02,297
father. I I need you to work again,

1222
00:43:02,457 --> 00:43:02,696
help me.

1223
00:43:03,891 --> 00:43:05,246
Weed without the things that I can't.

1224
00:43:06,296 --> 00:43:08,206
There's also a time for gratitude I think

1225
00:43:08,206 --> 00:43:09,957
in this. If you don't change your soil,

1226
00:43:10,593 --> 00:43:12,344
and the Lord is the 1 who's changed

1227
00:43:12,344 --> 00:43:12,583
you,

1228
00:43:14,345 --> 00:43:15,853
If God has moved towards you with the

1229
00:43:15,853 --> 00:43:18,074
love of Jesus so that you would be

1230
00:43:18,074 --> 00:43:19,899
changed and grow and out of a bill

1231
00:43:19,899 --> 00:43:21,248
that you could have never paid off, then

1232
00:43:21,248 --> 00:43:23,570
there's a lot of adduction that comes out

1233
00:43:23,570 --> 00:43:23,888
of that,

1234
00:43:24,604 --> 00:43:25,161
man you're good.

1235
00:43:27,231 --> 00:43:29,355
Man you're good, and your patient and your

1236
00:43:29,634 --> 00:43:32,106
kind. So I think there's a invitation to

1237
00:43:32,106 --> 00:43:33,861
ask the lord to work again if it

1238
00:43:33,861 --> 00:43:34,180
slowed,

1239
00:43:35,297 --> 00:43:37,211
and then the invitation to to worship out

1240
00:43:37,211 --> 00:43:38,646
of thankful and humility.

1241
00:43:39,856 --> 00:43:41,367
God you've done a good work. Please keep

1242
00:43:41,367 --> 00:43:42,797
doing it. Thank you for doing what I

1243
00:43:42,797 --> 00:43:43,354
could never do.

1244
00:43:45,182 --> 00:43:46,239
The so came

1245
00:43:47,011 --> 00:43:47,885
and the word went out.

1246
00:43:50,043 --> 00:43:50,914
Hit many hearts,

1247
00:43:53,687 --> 00:43:54,559
and in some of them,

1248
00:43:57,351 --> 00:43:59,816
There's a great harvest. Friends our our prayer

1249
00:43:59,816 --> 00:44:00,690
just simply this. Look...

1250
00:44:01,485 --> 00:44:03,154
Let let your word do you're work us.

1251
00:44:04,203 --> 00:44:05,873
Don't stop changing. We're so glad that we

1252
00:44:05,873 --> 00:44:06,668
have a a building.

1253
00:44:07,781 --> 00:44:09,451
But, we're glad that you've been kind. We're

1254
00:44:09,451 --> 00:44:11,121
we're glad that we've have... We we've had

1255
00:44:11,121 --> 00:44:12,950
many years under our belt, but we also

1256
00:44:12,950 --> 00:44:14,797
want you to keep working, thank you for

1257
00:44:14,797 --> 00:44:15,275
what you've done.

1258
00:44:15,993 --> 00:44:17,030
Continue to work in us.

1259
00:44:17,987 --> 00:44:19,422
Man you guys can come back up. We'll

1260
00:44:19,422 --> 00:44:19,922
take

1261
00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:21,098
comm today.

1262
00:44:22,055 --> 00:44:23,012
Like we do each week.

1263
00:44:24,782 --> 00:44:28,532
First Corinthians 11:23 through 26 where I received

1264
00:44:28,532 --> 00:44:30,207
from the Lord what I also delivered to

1265
00:44:30,207 --> 00:44:30,367
you.

1266
00:44:32,135 --> 00:44:33,411
At the lord jesus on the night when

1267
00:44:33,411 --> 00:44:34,845
he his betrayed, took bread and when he

1268
00:44:34,845 --> 00:44:36,678
had given thanks, he broke, and he said

1269
00:44:36,678 --> 00:44:38,192
this is my body, which is for you.

1270
00:44:39,562 --> 00:44:40,996
Do this in remembrance of me in the

1271
00:44:40,996 --> 00:44:42,909
same way. Also, he took the cup after

1272
00:44:42,909 --> 00:44:45,140
supper saying, this cup is the new covenant

1273
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:45,777
in my blood.

1274
00:44:46,748 --> 00:44:48,344
Do this as often as you drink, and

1275
00:44:48,344 --> 00:44:49,858
remembrance it's of me for as often as

1276
00:44:49,858 --> 00:44:51,373
you eat this bread and drink the cup.

1277
00:44:51,533 --> 00:44:53,070
You claim the Lord's death

1278
00:44:53,606 --> 00:44:54,483
when until he comes.

1279
00:44:56,890 --> 00:44:58,962
Friends of Jesus was telling us this parable

1280
00:44:58,962 --> 00:45:01,114
to explain the miracle of salvation then we

1281
00:45:01,114 --> 00:45:02,309
come to the table thankful.

1282
00:45:03,918 --> 00:45:05,270
God is only you that have done a

1283
00:45:05,270 --> 00:45:05,906
good work in me.

1284
00:45:07,099 --> 00:45:08,452
Thank you for what you've started to thank

1285
00:45:08,452 --> 00:45:10,043
you that you you preserved me.

1286
00:45:11,172 --> 00:45:12,528
Thank you that you you will not let

1287
00:45:12,528 --> 00:45:13,805
it in. You will not let it go.

1288
00:45:13,964 --> 00:45:15,161
Thank you that you have done all the

1289
00:45:15,161 --> 00:45:17,394
works. It was your body and your blood

1290
00:45:17,394 --> 00:45:18,750
thank you helped me to live out of

1291
00:45:18,750 --> 00:45:20,106
that, may your word.

1292
00:45:22,513 --> 00:45:25,224
Produced a rich beautiful crop in my life.

1293
00:45:25,782 --> 00:45:27,616
Thank you for your goodness. That's our hope

1294
00:45:27,616 --> 00:45:29,551
as we come to the table. We remember

1295
00:45:29,704 --> 00:45:31,784
It his god's work and out hours and

1296
00:45:31,784 --> 00:45:32,925
we worship out of

1297
00:45:33,625 --> 00:45:35,224
out of that. You don't have to be

1298
00:45:35,224 --> 00:45:36,905
a member to take here. We'll play a

1299
00:45:36,905 --> 00:45:38,585
couple songs at any point you can come

1300
00:45:38,585 --> 00:45:39,957
up. And you can take.

1301
00:45:40,754 --> 00:45:42,827
But the hope is that will continually be

1302
00:45:42,827 --> 00:45:44,980
fed at the table. Got it as you

1303
00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:46,813
and you alone, and we thankful for your

1304
00:45:46,813 --> 00:45:47,531
grace and mercy.

1305
00:45:48,423 --> 00:45:49,543
Would you stay in and pray with me?