This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Joyce Meyer

Ministries. You didn't get your life in a mess by doing one thing wrong one

time and it's not going to get straightened out because you do one thing right

one time

and today I want to talk to you about the parable of the soul that is so

important in the word of God because really it's a parable about four different

kinds of the Bible says soil but it's really talking about four different

kinds of hearts four different conditions of the heart and how those

different hearts here are don't hear the word of God now listen I'm gonna say

know the word and take action on what you hear hearing it and not doing it is

pretty much useless the only thing if you just know a bunch of stuff but you don't

act on it then you just usually become proud of what all you know and want to

tell everybody else what to do but if you're not doing it yourself it's not

gonna change your life it's not just hearing it's not just underlining in your

Bible it's doing what you hear interesting thing about this parable is Jesus

told his disciples if you don't understand this parable you will not be able to

understand any of the parables wow what a statement if you do not understand

this parable you will not understand any of the parables and then he also says

in Mark 424 and this is very important to hear the measure of thought and

study that you give to the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue and

knowledge that will come back to you let me say it again the measure of thought

and study thought and study thought and study that you give to the truth that

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