This week we look at the first major parable of Jesus’s teaching. The Parable of the Sower looks at the types of “soil” or hearers of the Word of God. We go through the types of soil and what each one looks like.

Outline below and contact info.

Spurgeon quote:

We are told men ought not to preach without preparation. Granted. But, we add, men ought not to hear without preparation. Which, do you think, needs the most preparation, the sower or the ground? I would have the sower come with clean hands, but I would have the ground well plowed and harrowed, well turned over, and the clods broken before the seed comes in. It seems to me that there is more preparation needed by the ground than by the sower, more by the hero than by the preacher.

Outline:

Ice Breaker: If you could have a farm, what would you grow?

Study Outline:

A. What is a parable (v1-20)

1. Teaching with Imagery

2. Teaching with Familiarity

3. Teaching to Expose Spiritual Condition

B. Sower and the Seed (v4-8; 15-20)

1. On the Road (v4&15)

2. On Rocky Ground (v5-6; 16-17)

3. Among the Thorns (v7; 18-19)

4. On Good Soil (v8; 20)

Big Idea: Good seed ain’t growing in bad soil

1. Colossians 1:9-13

A. Knowledge, Wisdom (v9)

B. Bearing Fruit (v10; Gal 5:22-23)

C. Endurance, Patience (v11)

D. Thanks, Inheritance (v12)

E. Rescued, Redemption (v13)

Application:

From JC Ryles:

Reader, How do you hear? You live in a Christian country; you go to a place of worship Sunday after Sunday and hear sermons: in what spirit do you hear them? What effect have they upon your character? Can you point to anything that deserves the name of “fruit”?

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