Welcome to part two of Dr. Daniel Bacera, Matthew chapter 13 and Luke chapter 8 and 13.

This story, it starts with soil and if you're going to plant something,

the first question that you should ask is what kind of soil do I have as my soil prepared for anything you're going to plant.

And I love that Jesus starts with the soil and when you look at the footnotes,

it kind of ties this to other scriptural stories and parables and Jesus starts with the soil and getting your ground prepared and Alma speaks to the Zormites about a seed.

You'll remember that the people he speaks to are those who have been humbled and they're kind of like good soil walks up.

Hey, what about us? We're poor. We built these synagogues. They won't let us worship.

And Alma sees that they're good soil and then talks to them about planting this seed, which is basically Christ.

It's Christ in his mission, which they said they didn't believe in up on the Ramiumptum.

But then he spends the rest of his time talking about time to grow roots and the season.

He calls it faith diligence and patience. And then if you grow roots, and at one point even says now, if this doesn't grow, it's not because the seed wasn't good.

This is a good seed. It's because your ground is barren and the footnotes point you back to Matthew 13, preparing the soil.

Soil seed and then a season time to grow roots. And he says, if you don't apply faith diligence and patience and take care of this, you'll never per take of the fruit of the tree of life.

And then you go, whoa, we're growing the tree of life here. Maybe I'm seeing more than is there, but it sounds to me like their soil, then there's the seed.

And then there's a time for growing season. And then lastly, the only word I can think of that starts with S is supper, is that you can per take of the fruit.

And it even says, if you don't do this, you'll never per take of the fruit of the tree of life. I feel like parable the sower is part one of kind of a four part story.

Soil seed season supper, which is kind of fun to put them all together. And the footnotes do it. It's all there. And I love it because it's an agricultural metaphor that we cannot.

We've all had a little bit of experience with.

Must be a lot of gardens in heaven because they talk about it a lot.

Yeah, Bruce Arma Khanky talks about the gardens of God, the garden of Eden, the garden of Gethsemane and the garden tomb.

And you be brown, said, I am the gardener here.

God is the gardener, you know, Daniel, anything before we move on?

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