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Hi, this is Robert Jeffers, and I'm glad to study God's Word with you every day on this Bible

teaching program. On today's edition edition of Pathway to Victory.

Perhaps I'm speaking to some of you right now.

If you're honest, you would say, well, I'm suffering from a hard heart.

The Word of God doesn't even penetrate my life anymore.

Reading the Bible is no more exciting to me than reading a dictionary.

If that's true for you, you're suffering from

a hard heart. Let me prescribe for you spiritual exercise. Welcome to Pathway to Victory with author

and pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffers. In the parable of the sower, Jesus describes four types of

soil into which the word of God can be sown, from hard to

healthy. So where do you fall along this spectrum? Today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert

Jeffers diagnoses these four conditions of the human heart and offers three prescriptions for

spiritual health. Now here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message.

Dr. Jeffers? Thanks, David, and welcome to Pathway to Victory. In a moment, we'll resume a message

I introduced yesterday based on Luke chapter 8 and called Prescription for a Healthy Heart.

The key to healthy living we're learning is to allow the seed of God's word

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