Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today.

As I mentioned last week, I'm going to continue with the parable of the sower and discuss

each of the three things that the thorny soil uses to choke out the word sown. And here's

the quotation from Mark IV, 18 and 19. Now these are the ones sown among thorns. They're

the ones who hear the word and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches and

the desires for other things entering in, choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.

Last week I talked about the cares of the world and this week the topic is that phrase

the deceitfulness of riches. If we want our lives to be fruitful, we cannot think that

we are out of reach of these things. Oh, I'm the one sown on good ground and praise the

Lord, but even so heads up. We still have an enemy who prowls around seeking whom he may

devour. You may be the good ground, but the Lord told the parable to all the ground,

even our fruitful field can suffer a blight. In Luke 12, 15, Jesus said, take heed and

beware covetousness, or one s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he

possesses. And this is how apt this is for us because the deceitfulness of riches lies

to us and tells us that we can't be happy apart from other things. But as Jesus said, one

s life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. So we're to be finding

our contentment elsewhere. All right. So let's talk about this deceitfulness of riches.

So it's not the riches themselves that enter in and choke out the word, but it's a deceitfulness

of the lies of riches. That's what chokes out the word deceitfulness means treacherous,

duplicitous, lying, or false. So remember, it was our mother, Eve, who was deceived.

She believed the lie that the serpent told her. And notice back in the parable, the word

is planted, but it sees other things as deceitfulness that enters in. So we really need

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