The Problem is not the seed, the problem is the Soil

04/03/2025 22 min

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Episode Synopsis

Today's Gist Matthew 13:1-91. Later that day, Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeshore to teach the people.2. Soon, there were so many people surrounding him that he had to teach sitting in a boat while the large crowd stood on the shore.3. He taught them many things by using stories, parables that would illustrate spiritual truths, saying: “Consider this: There was a farmer who went out to sow seeds.4. As he cast his seeds, some fell along the beaten path and the birds came and ate them.5. Other seeds fell onto gravel that had no topsoil. The seeds quickly shot up,6. but when the days grew hot, the sprouts were scorched and withered because they had insufficient roots.7. Other seeds fell among the thorns and weeds, so when the seeds sprouted, so did the weeds, crowding out the good plants.8. But other seeds fell on good, rich soil that kept producing a good harvest. Some yielded thirty, some sixty, and some even one hundred times as much as he planted!9. If you’re able to understand this, then you need to respond.”