The Four Soils - Thorny Ground
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The heart determines the harvest.
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Thorny Ground Described
Cares of this world
Deceitfulness of riches
Lusts of other things
What Does This Ground Do?
Chokes the word
Becomes unfruitful
Three Descriptions Of Thorny Hearts
Cares Of This Life
Entangled (mixed up and caught up) with the world.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Take no thought for tomorrow.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The longer I’m alive the more I believe it’s not what you can do but what you can ignore.
Am I in God’s will? Is this what He wants?
Not what if I fail? WIll I be able to do this?
I refuse to ask victims questions or think disempowering thoughts.
Do other people think I can do it? It’s none of your business.
Deceitfulness of riches
Have things. Don’t let them have you.
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Love Of Money is root of all evil
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Lusts of other things
Love God more than what you lust for
Everyone experiences temptation. Its what we do with it
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Who ceases from sin? Has suffered in the flesh
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
What does lust bring forth? What does sin bring forth?
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Loving God and being occupied with God.
We love Him because He first loved us.