1. Proverbs 24:30 – I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction.

3. Matthew 13:18-23 – Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

4. What are the 4 types of the soils?
Quick Review
Who is the sower?
What is the seed?
What are the 4 types of the soils?

5. Luke 4:18 – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

6. I Corinthians 3:9 – For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building Luke 24: Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. I Corinthians 3:7 - So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

7. Soil Types
Stony Path
Rocky Ground
Weedy Soil
Good Soil

8. Stony Ground
Hosea 10:12 -Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

9. Mark 4:15 –
And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

10. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

11. Rocky Soil
Mark 13:13 –
And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

12. You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Galatians 5:7 –
You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

13. Weedy Soil
Hebrews 6:7-8 –
For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

14. For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 4:3 –
 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

15. Ezekiel 36:26 –
 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

16. 4. Good Soil
John 15:5, 8-
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

17. Ephesians 5: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. Galatians 5: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

18. 2 Timothy 4:7 – I have kept the faith