Teaching Series: Hidden Treasure Revealed
A series of teachings focusing on the parables of Jesus
What is a parable? A story that teaches a spiritual truth.
1st Teaching-Parable of the seed and the sower
Text: Matthew 13: 1-23
I want to teach this parable using a coin as an example- One side is teaching us what happens to people in relationship to there hearing the good news of Christ. The other side of the coin is teaching how the believer responds to the Word of God.
The sower- The person being used by The Holy Spirit
The seed- The word of God
The different soils- The heart of man
The receptiveness- the result
We will read the parable and then the explanation
(Vs 4) – The seed sown on the side of the road and the birds eat it
( Vs 19) the heart that lacks understanding allows the enemy to steal the illumination
(Vs 5) – The seed sown on rocky soil and interest is shown but nothing further
(Vs 20 ) someone who responds to the gospel but only for a short season.
(Vs 7) – The seed that fell among the thorns and weeds and was choked out
(Vs 22) when other things over take us and the word becomes ineffective.
(Vs 8) – The seed that fell on the good soil and produced fruit. Salvation.
(Vs 23) The growing believer /the degree of fruitfulness is up to the condition of the heart.
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