Sep 15, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
What kind of soil is your heart? In Matthew 13, Jesus shares the Parable of the Sower and teaches us about the importance of how we receive the Word of God. The same seed is scattered, but the…
set the stage for all six of the other sermons that were leading into this is that same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea a great crowd gathered around him and he got into the boat and he sat down in the whole crowd stood on the beach So I want to set the scene here for a moment because Jesus isn't in a temple.
He's not in a synagogue.
He's not behind some pulpit.
He's sitting in a boat on the water.
And there's a crowd gathering around him on the beach, on the shore.
And this is an open air area.
It's like an amphitheater.
The water is sounding like a sound system.
Put it that way.
Good job, tech team.
Making it through.
You just never know, right? And so he was about to preach.
He's going to preach this theological lecture about all these things.
Not about doctrine.
None of this stuff.
He tells a story.
It's a theological statement disguised as an ordinary story.
On the surface, it appears very familiar to us.
Farming, weddings, coins, sheep, You know where I'm going, right? Jesus talked about all these things.
And the listener who hears these parables or these stories thinks, hey, I know what this is about.
I'm a farmer.
Hey, I know what this is about.
set the stage for all six of the other sermons that were leading into this is that same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea a great crowd gathered around him and he got into the boat and he sat down in the whole crowd stood on the beach So I want to set the scene here for a moment because Jesus isn't in a temple.
He's not in a synagogue.
He's not behind some pulpit.
He's sitting in a boat on the water.
And there's a crowd gathering around him on the beach, on the shore.
And this is an open air area.
It's like an amphitheater.
The water is sounding like a sound system.
Put it that way.
Good job, tech team.
Making it through.
You just never know, right? And so he was about to preach.
He's going to preach this theological lecture about all these things.
Not about doctrine.
None of this stuff.
He tells a story.
It's a theological statement disguised as an ordinary story.
On the surface, it appears very familiar to us.
Farming, weddings, coins, sheep, You know where I'm going, right? Jesus talked about all these things.
And the listener who hears these parables or these stories thinks, hey, I know what this is about.
I'm a farmer.
Hey, I know what this is about.
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