“Four Soils…”

July 4, 2017

“Four Soils…”

Blessings folk!

Jesus now explains the parable of the sower/seed/soil…

Mar 4:13-20

And He said to them,
“Do you not understand this parable?
How will you understand all the parables?

“The sower sows the word.

“These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

“In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places,
who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary;
then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

“And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns;
these are the ones who have heard the word,

but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

“And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil;
and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

One Sower.
One Seed.
Four soils.

1. Beside the road…hard soil - Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
2. Rocky places - hear the word, receive the word in joy, yet no firm root, only temporary.
Upon affliction and persecution because of the word, they fall away.
3. Among thorns - heard the word, but the worries of the world, deceitfulness of riches, desires for things enter in and choke the word. Unfruitful.
4. Good soil - hear the word, accept the word, bear fruit from the word 30, 60, 100 fold.

There is only one good soil.
The rest are “false professions”…false belief.
All four are represented in the organizational “church”.
Only the good soil is the true Body of Christ.
The rest are tares.
I believe that this might reveal that 75% of those who profess to be “religious” etc. do not have true faith unto salvation.

The question is simple.
Do you?

Unless you…

  • hear the word
  • accept the word
  • bear fruit of the word
…then all else is false.

Fruit is evidence of true salvation.

Examine yourself to see if you be of the faith.

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