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🗓️ 14 October 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Jesus loves a good parable. It's one of his favorite teaching tools. A |
0:16.7 | 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 |
0:25.1 | listed, just broad facts. Today when we meet up with Jesus by the Sea of Galilee, he's got a lot of |
0:30.9 | parables for us. We'll only cover the main one today and tomorrow we'll talk |
0:34.5 | about the others. This is a parable about the gospel. Jesus compares it to a seed. The seed of the |
0:40.2 | gospel is spread all around and it falls on lots of different types of soil. |
0:44.0 | Four to be exact. So this is often called the parable of the sewer or the parable of the four soils. |
0:50.0 | The soils represent four different ways the gospel can be received. The bad news is |
0:54.6 | three out of the four soils don't receive the gospel very well. We'll look at why in a |
0:59.1 | second, but the good news is the one soil that does produces lots of fruit from the seed. In fact it's up to a 100-fold |
1:06.4 | increase. The first soil is the path, but the birds come and devour the seed. |
1:11.5 | Jesus compares this to anyone who hears the |
1:13.8 | gospel but doesn't really understand it. Then the enemy comes and snatches it |
1:17.4 | away. Jesus says it's not important for people to just hear the gospel, but for |
1:21.6 | people to understand it. |
1:23.2 | Otherwise, the enemy will come along like a bird and snatch it up before it takes root. |
1:27.3 | The second soil is the rocky ground. |
1:29.8 | There's not a lot of soil there and what exists isn't very deep. |
1:33.3 | Jesus compares this to the people who respond to the gospel quickly and with joy, |
1:37.4 | but as soon as tough times come, that plant can't take the heat and it withers. |
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