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What is the Soil Type of Your Heart?
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Henry Ford gave away millions of dollars to many different causes in his lifetime, but he was notorious for the fact that he refused to give any money at all to schools.
He felt that well-meaning but non-businesslike people frequently mishandled those gifts.
Now, there was a woman named Martha Berry who had begun a school in Mt.
Berry, Georgia.
She’d started the school because she was shocked to discover that many of rural children attended neither a church nor school and were unfamiliar with stories from the Bible.
So she decided to start a school where the poor could learn to read and write and do arithmetic and to know basic Bible stories.
But she needed more money than she had.
Now, she was aware of the fact that Ford never gave money to schools but she went to him anyway and asked for an endowment.
As expected, Ford refused.
So Miss Berry, said "Well, then, would you give me a dime to buy a sack of raw peanuts?"
Ford was a little taken back, and he asked why she wanted just a dime.
She replied: "A dime is all I want, Mr. Ford, but I do want to show you what I can do with ten cents."
Berry returned to her school, and she and her students planted and replanted the peanuts.
Then she sold the crop for $600 and took the money to Ford.
She stood face-to-face with Henry Ford, and said, "See how practical we are in the use of money at the Martha Berry School?"
Mr. Ford was so pleased with what she’d done, he gave Miss Berry the $600 back--and added $2 million to it.
Martha Berry took the money and built the buildings that became Berry College in Mt.
Berry, GA.
The difference between God and Henry Ford is -- God believes we are capable of making good use of what He’s given us.
He believes in us, and He trusts us to be faithful.
The question for us today: what have we done with the seed God gave us?
(Source: from a sermon by Jeff Strite, "Scattering the Seed" 7/13/08, SermonCentral.com)
What have we done with the seed God gave us?
There are typically 4 results when God’s seed (His Word) is given out.
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It depends upon the Soil Type in a person’s heart - (4 Soil Types)
Which Soil Type would represent the Response of your Heart?
Beside the Road (Bird Problem) v.4
Rocky Ground (No Depth of Soil) v.5-6
Among the Thorns (Choked Out) v.7
Good Soil (Fruitful Crop is Multiplied) v.8
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The Purpose of Parables
Why would God reveal kingdom mysteries to some, and hide them from others?
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What did Jesus’ mysterious pronouncement mean?
The parallel account (, ) sheds some light: “Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see: though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’”
In essence Jesus was enigmatically saying that the condition of one’s heart determines its receptivity to truth.
The scribes had originally been given straightforward teaching which they rejected and thus they could ultimately lose the truth—it would be taken away from them.
Those who receive truth and act upon it receive more.
Those who reject truth will ultimately lose the bit they have.
The parables were full of truth, but for truth-rejecting people, they were inscrutable.
This principle is paralleled in other areas of life.
Physically, if we fail to exercise a muscle, we will one day lose its use.
It is the same with our intellectual powers.
If we fail to use them, there will come a time when we will not be able to summon their full power.
God confronts us with his truth, but if we do not positively respond to it, we will lose it.
What a solemn reality for those who sit under the teaching of God’s Word week after week and do not respond to it.
(Preaching the Word - Kent Hughes)
Beside the Road (Bird Problem) v.15 (SATAN COMES AND TAKES AWAY THE WORD)
Rocky Ground (No Depth of Soil) v.17 (NO FIRM ROOT, ONLY TEMPORARY - AFFLICTION, PERSECUTION)
Among the Thorns (Choked Out) v.19 (WORRIES OF THE WORLD, DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, DESIRES FOR OTHER THINGS
Good Soil (Fruitful Crop is Multiplied) v.20 (BEARS FRUIT)
Specifically, in your life, what are the things that prevent you from bearing multiplied fruit?
Beside the Road (Bird Problem) v.15 (SATAN COMES AND TAKES AWAY THE WORD)
Rocky Ground (No Depth of Soil) v.17 (NO FIRM ROOT, ONLY TEMPORARY - AFFLICTION, PERSECUTION)
Among the Thorns (Choked Out) v.19 (WORRIES OF THE WORLD, DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, DESIRES FOR OTHER THINGS
Good Soil (Fruitful Crop is Multiplied) v.20 (BEARS FRUIT)
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