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🗓️ 14 October 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:13.0 | Jesus loves a good parable, it's one of his favorite teaching tools. |
0:16.6 | A parable is a short story that usually has one main point or idea, though occasionally |
0:20.8 | more, and it's often generalized, meaning there are no specific people or places listed |
0:25.5 | just broad facts. |
0:27.3 | Today, when we meet up with Jesus by the Sea of Galilee, he's got a lot of parables |
0:31.4 | for us. |
0:32.4 | We'll only cover the main one today and tomorrow we'll talk about the others. |
0:35.9 | This is a parable about the gospel. |
0:37.9 | Jesus compares it to a seed. |
0:39.6 | The seed of the gospel is spread all around, and it falls on lots of different types of |
0:43.5 | soil, for, to be exact. |
0:45.7 | So this is often called the parable of the sower or the parable of the four soils. |
0:50.0 | The soils represent four different ways the gospel can be received. |
0:53.8 | The bad news is, three out of the four soils don't receive the gospel very well. |
0:58.1 | We'll look at why in a second, but the good news is, the one soil that does produces |
1:02.7 | lots of fruit from the seed. |
1:04.6 | In fact, it's up to a 100-fold increase. |
1:08.0 | The first soil is the path, but the birds come and devour the seed. |
1:12.0 | Jesus compares this to anyone who hears the gospel, but doesn't really understand it. |
1:15.9 | Then the enemy comes and snatches it away. |
1:18.2 | Jesus says it's not important for people to just hear the gospel, but for people to understand |
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