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Maybe you're familiar with this story. Jesus told about a guy who was sowing seed.

And this is something anybody in any culture could understand.

Who knows anything about farming?

He's casting seed around and some land was on good soil, some not so much, some rocky soil.

Some birds come get it.

Like, okay.

And maybe you've got friends or family, and it's been rocky, right?

Like they've heard about God and they've rejected it.

Somebody's pointed this out, and I think it's true.

A person can be different kind of soil later on.

Ah, that's very hopeful.

Yeah, there's nothing in there.

It says it's permanent forever. Yeah. And's nothing in there that says it's permanent forever.

Yeah.

And maybe you've even experienced that in your own life.

So to write people off, I just go with that, they're just done like, no.

For some people, if they're humble, life teaches them things and they get really receptive really fast.

This is true. It's something you can do. Find some area that you're like,

God teach me about this, change me in this area. Find one area. You don't have to concentrate

everything. We've all got multiple areas, right? Pick one. What happens is other areas start to come

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