1. Be Fruitful

2. 3. Soils – 4 Messages on Parable of Sower
Be Fruitful
1. Fruitfulness – 2 Messages
2. Sowing and Reaping – 6 Messages
3. Soils – 4 Messages on Parable of Sower

3. Be Fruitful
Matthew 13:3-9
Then He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen! A sower went out to sow. While he sowed, some seeds fell beside the path, and the birds came and devoured them. But other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up because they did not have deep soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched. And because they did not take root, they withered away.

4. Be Fruitful
Matthew 13:3-9
Some seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. But other seeds fell into good ground and produced grain: a hundred, sixty, or thirty times as much. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

5. Be Fruitful
Matthew 13:18-23
Therefore listen to the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one who received seed beside the path. But he who received the seed on rocky ground is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, eventually he falls away.

6. Be Fruitful
Matthew 13:18-23
He also who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit. Some produce a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

7. Be Fruitful 3 Seed Destroying Soils Name Nature Enemy Outcome Path
Hard
Birds-Devil
Seed-Taken Away
Rocky Soil
Shallow
Sun-Persecution
Seed-Withered
Thorny Soil
Cluttered
Other Seeds-World
Seed-Choked
1 Seed Developing Soil
Good
Fertile
Seed-Fruitful

8. Be Fruitful 3 Seed Destroying Soils Name Nature Enemy Outcome Path
Hard
Birds-Devil
Seed-Taken Away

9. Power of God’s Seed (Word) in Out Heart Overcomes Evil
Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
Power of God’s Seed (Word) in Out Heart
Overcomes Evil
Psalm 119:9-11
How shall a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word…Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

10. Power of God’s Seed (Word) in Out Heart Produces Good
Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
Power of God’s Seed (Word) in Out Heart
Produces Good
John 15:7-8
If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit.

11. Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
2 Key Issues: Hardness
Cause
- Sin
Hebrews 3:12-15
Be attentive…lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called ‘Today,’ lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

12. Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
2 Key Issues: Hardness
Tenderness – How?
* Given by God
Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

13. Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
2 Key Issues: Hardness
Tenderness
- How?
* Given by God
* Maintain by Listening & Obeying
Hebrew 3:12-15
…exhort one another daily…lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence firmly to the end, while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts…”

14. Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil) 2 Key Issues: Hardness & Devil
Seed Taken – How?
* Doubting God’s Word
Gen. 3:1 “Has God said”
* Alternative to God’s Word
Gen. 3:4 “You will not surely die”
* What you are Missing
Gen. 3:5 “You will be like God”

15. Hard Soil (Heart) & Birds (Devil)
Heart Monitoring
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it are the issues of life.

16. Soil 2 Rocky: Shallow Heart & Persecution
Be Fruitful
Next Sunday…
Soil 2 Rocky: Shallow Heart & Persecution