All right, good morning. Glad you’re here. Glad to be with you. If I haven’t met you, my name is Shane and one of the pastors and I’m gonna jump right into where we’re going today. We each fall, we cover a portion of Luke, the book of Luke. And so the last two falls, we’ve worked through a handful of chapters. We’re gonna be in Luke eight today. So that’s where we’re gonna start. Technically. I’m covering versus eight, Sorry, chapter eight verses 1 through 21, but we’re going to really focus on the parable of the soils. And so if you have a bible with you, you can open it up. We’ll throw the words up on the screen. But I’m going to just get us going so luke. Chapter 8: verses four through 8 says as a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to jesus from every town, he said in a parable, a sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some fell along the path, it was trampled on and the birds of the sky devoured it. Other seed fell on the rock and when it grew up, it withered away since it lacked moisture. Other seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew up with it and choked it still, other seed fell on good ground. When it grew up, it produced fruit 100 times what was sown and he said this, he called out, let anyone who has ears to hear. Listen. And so here it is parable, The soil is a lot of times people know this as the parable of the sower actually. Um, but I think it’s more fitting that it’s called the parable of the soils when you look at the beginning of it and you think about the sewer and you think about the seed, they’re really not described. It doesn’t say the good sewer, it doesn’t say he was a great farmer. It doesn’t say it really doesn’t describe it. It doesn’t describe the seat either, because that’s not the emphasis. The details are not there about the seed or the solar, particularly because it takes the time to talk about the soils. The four types of soils are really what this parable is about. And so this parable of the soils really represents the condition of someone’s heart. Right? So the parable, the soils is looking at the condition of the human heart in response to the Gospel. And if you think about all the people, you know, you included, so you and your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your classmates. It doesn’t matter. Every single person at a macro level falls within one of these four categories. So, as you go through this, this is a broad picture of humanity in the way every person in one sense is going to respond to the Gospel. A parable though, right? He starts telling this parable and a parable is more common. Uh, back then, just as a way to tell a story, but it’s very common now to it’s a figure of speech. We probably all understand what a parable is. But in the book of luke actually, Uh there’s 24 parables. There’s the most parables out of any new testament book. In the whole bible is Luke And 18 of them are unique just to the book of Luke. So only a few of them are in another book. Generally there in one of the synoptic Gospels, which is Matthew mark and luke. And so this parable that we’re looking at today is it’s covered in all three of those gospels, Matthew Mark and luke. And so what I’ll do is we’ll look at it through luke. But I’m gonna reference back into particularly Mark to draw out some additional details but we all get what the parable is. Right? I mean think about just an analogy where someone says man, he’s as strong as an ox. It’s like, yep, you draw the conclusion, you get what it is parallel, the word means to lay beside. Think about a parable. The root word is where we get parallel like parallel lines. What happens if you lay something side by side? It’s easy to compare right there laying side by side. Now I can compare those things but a parable is more drawn…