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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 sower 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 kinds of hearts, four different conditions of the heart and how those different hearts hear or don't hear the Word of God.

Now listen what I'm going to 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 going to 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 you hear is the measure of virtue which is another word for power and knowledge that will come back to you.

I'm doing my part. But now if you don't do your part, you may have had a nice time, but I want you to have more than a good time.

I don't want you to ever be sorry that you invested this time. I mean, I want you a year from now to be able to remember something changed in my life a year ago when I went to that conference.

God is talking to us and showing us things all the time. And we're talking in this conference about making a greater commitment.

And so let's let one of our goals be to make a commitment to listen to what God says.

Come on. God is trying to give you answers that will keep you out of trouble. And he's not going to change his mind. It doesn't do any good to ignore him hoping that he'll come up with an easier answer the next time.

Because he won't. And I know that I know that I know any person sitting in this room because God is no respecter of persons and the word works for everybody who so ever will.

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