{"id":1121,"date":"2011-12-03T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"the-sower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"The Sower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark 4:1-9, Matthew 12:1-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Jesus teaches by parables.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Jesus spoke in their language.<br \/>\n2. Some had eyes that couldn&#8217;t see and ears that couldn&#8217;t hear.<br \/>\n3. He taught them from a boat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Sower, seed.<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\n1. The sower went out.<br \/>\na. He was wise to go out of the city into fields.<br \/>\nb. He knew the seed needed someone to bear it to the planting place.<br \/>\n2. The Seed:<br \/>\na. Precious seed and good seed.<br \/>\nb. This wasn&#8217;t cull seed.<br \/>\nc. The price of this seed was high, (Carl Massey&#8217;s Potato seed).<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Soil and Sequence:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Some fell by the way side, (Hard path).&#8221; The trodden path.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Some fell on stony ground,&#8221; (little soil).<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Some fell among thorns,&#8221; (too many bushes).<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Others fell on good ground.&#8221; Prepared and cultivated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: What makes the difference:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Wayside seed: The Devil comes to church or any other place to pluck away the seed. Hardness of heart.<br \/>\n2. Stony ground: Quick to accept without complete acceptence. These can&#8217;t stand the storms of life and are easily offended.<br \/>\n3. Thorny ground: Fair weather, riches, lust for other things, cares.<br \/>\n4. Good ground: Know by the fruit it bears year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 4:1-9, Matthew 12:1-9 I: Jesus teaches by parables. 1. Jesus spoke in their language. 2. Some had eyes that couldn&#8217;t see and ears that couldn&#8217;t hear. 3. He taught them from a boat. II: Sower, seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}