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The Sower and the Fields


Matthew 13:1-23 

The word parables comes from a Greek word meaning “a placing beside.”

Most of us understand this as an illustration from life that is connected to a spiritual truth. 

One caution, you cannot analyze parables like other passages. 

Our job is to seek out the truth in parables because they reveal how the Kingdom of God works.

The seed that this sown represents the salvation message.

The four different soils represent the different hearts of people who hear the gospel:
rejecting, emotional and self-serving, the worldly, and the open.

We need to examine our own hearts to see if there is a danger, and we need to watch over the hearts of those we influence.


Those whose hearts represent the hard ground:
The hard ground is the path that men walk. 

These are the people that influence us or our family. 


Those whose hearts are filled with rocky places: 
They have not surrendered their life to Christ. This person’s life can go on for a while but they have not settled the issue of who belongs to whom?

God is a way to a better life now. 

They don’t see their purpose as living for His glory. 


Those who want to fit in with the world:
This is a love for this world and a love for money.

1 Timothy 6:10-11 

1 John 2:15-16

When we have this in us, we compromise our life or push success in the world on our family. 


Those who are good soil:
The mark of good soil is fruit.

  • The fruit of our nature
    Galatians 5:22-25

  • The fruit of our actions
    Philippians 1:9 -11

  • The fruit of our works
    Ephesians 2:10

If you pay attention to bearing fruit you will always know that you are His. 




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