Father, I ask that you would come now and guard me from error and grant this people

that they would take heed how they hear.

And that you would grant people in this room by the hundreds to hear with a good heart

and that they would receive the word, that it would go down deep, and that it would bear fruit

a hundredfold. And to that end, I pray that you'd illumine me

so that I see what's in the text correctly

and speak it faithfully

and that you would illumine us all

to hear what you have to say.

I ask this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

I invite you to open your Bible to Luke chapter 8.

Luke 8 and we're going to read verses 4 to 18. If I were to give a title to this message it would be take heed or take care Christ

covenant church how you hear a sermon take heed how you hear because that's the point of the

text so we'll start at verse four when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him,

he said in a parable, a sower went out to sow his seed.

And he sowed, and as he sowed some fell along the path and was trampled under foot and the birds of the air devoured

it. And some fell on the rock. And as it grew up, it withered because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns. And the thorns grew up and with it

and choked it.

And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.

And as he said these things, he called out,

he who has ears to hear, let him hear. And and then his disciples and when his disciples asked him

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