All right. So open up your Bible to Luke chapter 8. Luke chapter 8. We're going to look at what I believe is one of the most important

parables that Jesus ever taught. And it's important for a lot of reasons. It's important because Jesus gives

us some inside kingdom knowledge here that he doesn't in many other places. And

Luke chapter 8 is an interesting parable because this is one of the many parables that Jesus

taught to the crowd and then later explained more fully to the 12 disciples. If you'll

look in Luke chapter 8 to think around verse 4 it says there that that he spoke

this to the multitudes a very big crowd of people listened to him to describe these

four types of soil and you can read that for yourself.

And then the disciples, I can hear Peter probably,

walked up to Jesus, say, hey Jesus,

boy, that was a good talk.

That I'm telling you, it was really good.

Could you explain to us exactly what you meant though?

And so Jesus in verse 11 sits down with the disciples

and he goes into further detail on this parable.

And so tonight's talk has got a very simple title

called The Law of the Farm.

The Law of the Farm.

You know, I think a lot of times when we read this,

we say, well, of course Jesus used farming analogies and

animal analogies and ranching analogies because primarily the people who were

listening to him were farmers and ranchers and that is true but I think there's a

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