TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - Nov 11, 2025 - The Parable of the Sower Pt 2

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

In this Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart continue Matthew 13:3–9 (KJV), exploring how the wayside, stony ground, thorns, and good ground reveal the true condition of our hearts. They warn how distractions and “dirty birds” steal the word, why fast growth without roots collapses under heat, and how the cares of life and deceitfulness of riches choke faith like brambles—until the Holy Spirit burns them out. The encouragement: become good soil that bears 30, 60, and 100-fold—a harvest for Christ, as He sows us into places that need light and hope.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!www.Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!www.books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Well, good morning. Welcome to Morning Mata. This is your weekday Bible study of Ministry of Faith and Values Fellowship at Beiro Beach, Florida. I'm Rick Wiles. My co-partnering teaching the Word of God is Dr. Burkhart. I'm in Marco Island today attending the Florida Cattlemen's Association annual convention and will only be here for one day. But I can't this morning manna i love i love teaching morning manna so this new platform that we we develop faith and values dot com this allows me to go mobile any place in the world and it's really liberated me to travel and not be locked down in a physical studio like we were doing for many years so I very very appreciative that our partners helped us develop this this new way of

doing the Lord's work so we're in the 13th chapter of the gospel according to St. Matthew and today we're going to be studying verses 3 through 9 we're in the parables and this is absolutely one of my favorite topics to talk about in the Word to God. So I'm going to pray. Dr. We'll read the Word, verses 3 through 9. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this wonderful, awesome, beautiful day. Thank you for life. Thank you for eternal life for Jesus Christ. Father, feed us today.

Give us your word and open up our hearts and minds to receive your word and to treasure it and to produce a harvest for you. in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. As Rick mentioned, we're continuing our study in Matthew chapter 13. So if you've got your Bibles, follow along with me. We were reading verses 3 through 9. We read these yesterday, but we barely touched in it. And so we're going to get a little bit further along in it this morning. So if you got your Bibles, verse 3 in the King James, and he spoke many things under them in parables, saying, behold, a soar went forth to sow. And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and

devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth, and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth. When the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them. But other fell into good ground. They brought forth fruit, some one hundredfold, some 60 folds and 30 folds and 30 fold who have ears to hear let him hear if you got ears this morning listen up that's the only reason to have ears that's right to hear so first three and he spake many things unto them in parables saying behold a soer went forth to English the the modern English says he spoke to them many things in parables saying

behold a farmer went out to soul we talked about yesterday parables are a form of teaching that uses common ordinary things to convey deep spiritual truths and And we learned this yesterday, that he uses things that we recognize as a teaching tool. In this case, he's using farming, gardening, the sowing of seed, the growing of crops. These are things that people in all continents of the world understand. but he's teaching deep divine principles in these common things so we get to verse four and when he sowed some seeds fell by the wayside and the fowls came and devoured them up so let's remember yesterday what we we talked about the common the commonly

accepted interpretation is the seed is the word of God and yes it is but it's more than the word of God it's the people that have received the word of God that well the people who have heard the word God and I explained yesterday think of a garden seed, it has an outer shell and it has an inner embryo that germinates. We say the life is in the seed, the embryo is what must germinate and push out, break open the seed, the shell, and then sprout through the ground. think of your body your your mind you you are the outer shell and the word is the embryo that has that has come inside of you and Jesus is the sewer and he sows us out

into the world into the field the field in the parables always is the world and the world belongs to Jesus. It doesn't belong to Satan. It belongs to Jesus. In this case, we're talking about the earth. He sows us into the earth. The field. The field belongs to Jesus.

And so he is always the sower. And the seed is always, always represents people who have heard the word of God. He doesn't sow people who have not heard the word. Right. That'd be like sowing an empty husk. Right. He only sows people who have heard the word. So the seeds are men and women who've heard the word of God.

The word is the embryo inside the seed shell that will germinate to produce a harvest. So what about the soil? The soil is the condition of their hearts. Different types of soil represent different responses people have to the gospel. You and I are responsible for the condition of our soil. can't get away from that responsibility. That's where it comes home. You and I, each individually,

are responsible for the condition of the soil in our heart. So in this first parable, some seeds fell by the wayside. What is the wayside? It's a path, a road along the edge of the field where people walk. Every farm has a wayside, a path. The farmer doesn't want you walking where he planted seed. Right. Trust me.

Go walking across the field where a farmer just plant a seed and see what he says to you. get off that field get out of that garden you know i can still hear my granddad what are you doing out there i just plant i just planted beans in there get out of there somehow i can hear my grandfather too right now oh he got upset why because i was tramping down the dirt he had just dug up that that soil broken up up raked it got it ready for the seed put the seed in it and then I come along and I'm walking all over it as a kid and he's yelling at me get out of there I've got seed in

there yes say we my grandmother about her lettuce boy that doc you didn't you didn't go near her lettuce patch that was her part of the garden she owned that my granddad didn't touch it that was my grandmother's the lettuce patch she only the lettuce batch. But when she planted the seed in there, that's the day I stopped playing in the garden. Because the seed was in the ground. So the wayside is the very edge of the field set aside for people to walk on it. Right. That's how you get to the other side of the field. You walk on the wayside. You know, it's like, along the fence row.

Just stay over there, walk along the fence row. That's the wayside. Don't get out there in the field. Don't get in the garden. And that wayside is usually a hardened path. You know, it's that dirt that's been packed down. The feed had, you know, killed the grass and everything. Anything that's growing there, just dirt paths, generally.

Yes. I got a big, you're wondering why I just made it a snoot. I'm just getting ready to take it. I can drink of my coffee and notice I got a spider floating around in it. I'll be drinking spiders today. No, I'm not. I just ended that desire to finish that cup of coffee. So the wayside is soil that's been, that's hard packed from foot traffic.

It's heavily traveled path. It's trodden down compacted, hard to penetrate. So any seed that falls on the wayside hardly ever produces a crop. Because it's left exposed and it's vulnerable to various external factors. And in this case, Jesus uses birds. Now birds are not evil. I mean, God made birds. But in the parables, in various scriptures in the New Testament, birds represent evil spirits.

But birds are not evil. You know, a snake, I know, definitely most women don't like snakes. But snakes are not evil. They got a bad reputation. few people have them as pets so but birds everybody likes birds and you don't think of birds as being evil but the Lord uses them in in scripture to represent evil forces right specifically demons Satan itself so these birds are ravenous they're devouring they're looking for seeing

You and I both grew up in, you know, in farms and ag environments and things like that. And, you know, when planting season was around, the farmer just didn't go out there and throw seed on top of the ground. He used a couple different appliances or pieces of machinery in order to plant seed. One might be a seed plow that actually turned the soil over, and as the soil is being turned over, turned over the seeds being dropped in and the soil is covering it up and when you're planting soybeans you have to use a seed drill in a seed drill one of those pieces of machinery that actually sticks like a spike in the ground drops the seed in there and rolls over but the idea being is that the farmer just doesn't willy-nilly throw seed out there and say well I hope

the plants know it has to be buried and that's why when this seed uh fell on the wayside, it's just sitting on top of hard ground, exposed to the environment and exposed to the dirty birds that are waiting for the opportunity to grab some seed. And I'm explaining when we were planting as kids, you'd always see birds following the farmer and his tractor. Why? They were looking for an opportunity for some free seed. That's right. That's exactly what this is about. The birds quickly eat the seed that are upon the ground on this on the surface and just as the farmer uses various a variety of methods to plant the seed Satan uses a variety of methods to devour the seed right he wants

to get it out of people before it takes root in their hearts that's the main objective people hear the word of god satan comes quickly to get that seed out before it germinates starts to starts to root in their heart and produce a harvest the faster he can get the scene out the quicker he'll be able to keep that person in darkness what are the methods well distractions outside influences diversions broken focus there's a lot of things satan will use whatever tool he's got to use just like the farmer uses tools. Satan uses the tools to remove the seed. Right. And he's got various tools. The farmer is the planter, Satan is the unplanter. He's doing the work of

the sower. Remember, and we'll get to that parable about the tears. somebody planted tears in the field during the night the tears are are look alike we'll get to that parable later but the point I'm making is Satan is working to undo the work of the sower the sower is Jesus and so And so Satan is always following Jesus just like a dirty bird in the field. The birds are following the farmer. The birds are following the tractor. Looking for the easiest seed that they can devour.

That's, you know, low-hanging fruit, as we would say. right you the seed that's on the ground that's that's the easiest seed to devour satan's goal is remove the seed so his troops his demons are trained go first for the seed that's on the ground get it quickly before it gets inside that person's heart once it starts growing in that heart our job becomes more difficult to get it out and rick birds are constantly looking for something to eat aren't they they are serve a bird or duck that all they do really all day is eat isn't it it is you know my my whistlers are gone they they went north to georgia for the summer and but i i've got a

couple stragglers that didn't get the migration memo a handful um but mostly we're So mostly what I've got now are the Moscovies, the big old Moscovies. Doc, they just hang around my house and a neighbor's house all day long. The moment they see me drive into my driveway, I'm not kidding you, the moment they see me drive into my driveway, they come waddling across the road from my neighbor's house and I'll look up and I'll see them, I'll see them come under the fence and they're just waddling towards to my porch they recognize hey the guy with the seed is here he's going to throw some on the ground i'm going to devour it it's as simple as that ducks don't dig into the ground

looking for buried seed they eat the seed that's on the ground So that's the easiest targets for birds to snatch away. So they come quickly to consume the seed before it has a chance to take root and grow. So the wayside represents people who hear the gospel. But they really don't understand it. They really don't accept it. they've heard it their hearts are hardened their hearts are indifferent then packed down packed down skeptical preoccupied with worldly concerns doubters negative they've seen a lot i don't believe it

i'll believe it when i see it they hear the word they've heard the word god chose them to give them the word Remember, he chooses who he will reveal spiritual truth to. But that doesn't mean the person who has been given spiritual truth will receive it. And this is what Jesus is teaching. He's teaching that he sows the seed into people and then he sows those people into the world. not everybody who hears the word receives it and so the group that opts out the fastest is identified as seed on the wayside on the hard path they opt out so hardened hearts prevent people from receiving and understanding the word of God.

And the message in this for all of us is, don't let life harden your heart. I've known Christians who many years ago were on fire for God. And for years, they served God for years. But I see them now. and their hearts are hard something happened in life something happened they once opened to the gospel there was a time in their life they were producing a harvest they were taking people to church they were witnessing the gospel they

were doing things supporting missionary work they were active but something in life changed them some crisis some negative event and it hardened their heart and they're no longer receiving the word of god so it's not this doesn't represent only people who never allow the word into their heart it also represents people who later in life decide to make their heart hard right back down he gets hardened beaten down by life just beaten down uh verse five some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth uh modern english says others fell on rocky ground where they didn't

have much soil and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of earth I go back to you know memories of my grandfather in the garden and Doc when he would plow the garden in the springtime I can remember my grandpa saying to me as a child now I want you to go behind me he'd have a tiller right yes yeah and go before yep go behind me and pick up the stones yes and so that how many times he tilled that garden there were still rocks in it every time after four or five years we would have found all those rocks in the garden you would think so every season yes so that was that was my job in springtime walk behind

my grandpap and his tiller and pick up the rocks and so you know he motivated me by saying I want to see the biggest pile of rocks you can make now that was my motivation how how big can I make that pile of rocks okay you know he he just wanted to make sure I got all the rocks out yes so is that what this verse means that there's a good soil and and there are stones and rocks i don't think so i think this is i think that we're talks about stony places i think this is when you put the shovel down in the ground and it goes through a couple inches of topsoil and then all of a sudden you hear that sound right and you know you've hit rock yes and you just got a little bit of dirt on top and you you move

the shovel and you put the shovel down again and you hit rock and you move the shovel again and you hit rock that's what i think he's talking about not little stones mixed in with the dirt but a layer of soil on top of solid rock and explain here in verse 5 that you know it's not about the rocks but it's about the ability for the roots to take about the deepness of the earth and so

in reading parables be sure to read what it says sometimes we've been told these parables so many times we think we know what you mean but not really read what the word says and the whole idea here in this

verse 5 is it's compared to the ones that fell on the wayside they didn't have the opportunity for root at all they they couldn't get any roots in now you've got this this area of planting area and it looks good on top it looks like it's got a nice of topsoil and everything but the seed is not able to get that root down deep because it hits rock yes so stony places refers to a condition continuous bed of rock beneath the soil with just a thin layer of soil covering the rock and so unlike scattered stones the the rocky stony place hinders deep root

penetration for the seeds right the verse says some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth that tells me this is solid rock beneath a thin layer of dirt right so what happened and forthwith they sprung up things are looking good looking good on the outside you walk past the field hey look at this they came up quickly and actually they came up faster than the seed that was in the good soil here's why the heat of the rock causes the seed to germinate and germinate fast yes that's what I mean the heat that's in the rock heats up

warms up the seed and causes it to germinate faster than the seed that's in good soil and so you're looking at this going wow this seed is awesome this is super seed it's it's taking off and not not knowing that beneath it is is nothing but solid rock so we're on the sea verse five right yeah my lap just had one of those hiccups well more than a hiccup it's more like a seizure I know what does it now I know what does it okay I'll get rid of that okay so the seed springs up it springs up quickly because they had no deepness of earth there's nothing under it it springs up quickly on the outside on the surface it pops up because it

had no place to go right it couldn't go down the seed has to go down first it has to it has to grow its roots into the soil before it pops through the surface of the earth and sprouts and produces a harvest in this case the seed had no place to go but up we see this often American churches have this bad habit of when a celebrity, an important person, a famous person, an influential person, gets saved. And the first thing many church leaders do is rush to put that person in the spotlight. We've got ourselves a winner. This person's a movie star. this person's a rock star this person's a politician this person's a scientist we're to show him off

tell the world look look who got saved in our church we're going to put them on tv and what's the next thing it happens you hear about that person having a moral collapse six months a year later and people go I knew he wasn't saved I knew that was all phony I knew that movie star wasn't saved that was just to get publicity no it wasn't to get publicity

from the person I'm talking about the person the church leaders wanted the publicity and so they pushed the seed up quickly gave the seed a prominent place in the sun with no roots a wise pastor says to a new newly born again you know celebrity important person you need to be grounded in the word of god you need to be Discipled. I don't want you going out in public yet. You need to spend a couple years being Discipled. Now think about this. There's a great example in the Bible of like this, and that's the

Apostle Paul. Right. Think about the Apostle Paul. He had that dramatic conversion and on the road to Damascus. And even though he was feared by Christians, he was the biggest catch, if well, that they'd come across since Jesus had ascended. I mean, this would have been a big deal. And they could have paraded Paul out there early on and said, look, we've got a Pharisee, a Pharisee of the Pharisees that's converted. But the Lord knew to hide Paul for a while, that it was not Paul's time, nor could the people receive Paul at that time.

And so there's there's a preparation. that takes place in the discipleship of the believers. Sometimes we try to rush that. We try to not only rush it in our own lives, but maybe if we've led someone to Jesus, we try to maybe make it go a little bit too fast and try to push people out there before they're ready and before they're prepared.

And what happens? Well, that comes out and they wither away. Yes. Because they had no root. you see the same thing with trees if a tree does not have a deep root system the first big windstorm takes out the tree right they have nothing to hold on to in a storm everybody's happy in the sunshine the test is when the storm comes so you can't judge you can't judge in the sunshine You have to, you have to evaluate and judge in the storm.

I've got some massive trees in my yard. My neighbors estimate they probably are 150 years old. How many storms do you think they've seen? Many, yes, many. The root systems are deep in the ground. They're not coming out of there anytime soon. but I've got other trees that fell over with one windstorm yes so quick growth is superficial it's it doesn't represent genuine spiritual transformation and again we

see it so often in modern evangelical churches where they push somebody out into the limelight into the sunshine before they have time to develop deep spiritual roots and to understand the gospel and there's the irony and there's the irony in that in that plants need the sun to grow they need it they yearn for it they're reaching out for I mean, that's what plants do. They're coming out of the ground. They're reaching for the sun. And yet, in verse 6, that same sun that would be a blessing to a healthy plant,

it will scorch a plant without root. Yes. Isn't that amazing? The same sun? That's a very good point. It's the same sun. They need the sun, and yet, if they don't have a deep root system, they'll be scorched. They're not getting water.

they need the roots to provide the water to the plant verse six that's this right here and when the sun was up they were scorched because they had no root they withered away the sun comes out you got a plant next to it that has deep roots and it's doing great in the sun the other plant has no roots it withers up and it dies the roots are necessary to not only to stabilize the plant but also to nourish the plant the nutrients from the soil and the water in the soil go through the roots to get to the to the plant And so if there's no developed root system, the plant above the surface of the ground has no way to get any water.

And then they're scorched. So plants sprout quickly, but lack stability. they lack substance, sustenance for long-term growth. When the sun intensifies, the lack of deep roots causes the plants to wither away. They're unable to withstand the heat. Well, what does the heat represent spiritually? The various stresses that come against all Christians, it can be persecution, it can be ridicule, it could be just the affairs of life the difficulties that we face in life these are things that

cause people to stop going to church stop reading their Bible stop praying to God to stop fellowshiping with their savior and before you know it they're out of they're out of fellowship with God right withered up and they're not doing anything for the kingdom um doc anything you want to add before i move on to the next no i think you've got you've got that so okay uh verse seven and some fell upon thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them So now we have a different type of hindrance to the Word of God, thorns. Doc, how would you describe the thorns? I've, just as the, the way I would look at thorns is just the cares of this life that choke out the lives that's there.

Obviously, plants can grow there. The soil is okay, but there are other things that are growing there that take away the nutrients and the water and everything that'll basically kill off the seed. Yes. The seed won't get water. It won't get nutrients. It won't get sun because the thorns will, you know, block out the sun to these growing plants. So the way I want to look at is the cares of this. life that choke things out so the thorns are representing uh basically worthless plants that are

growing next to the plant the seed and these thorns are the cares of the world that choke the growth of the seed because they're competing the thorn plant is competing with the word of god seed they're competing for nutrients for for moisture for sunshine and uh these weeds that's all they are their weeds overtake the plants yes they just overtake them and these uh when it says thorns here we we kind of think of you know like just single thorns but the better word here is brambles and for people that never grew up on a farm listen there are thorny plants out there but then there's brambles brambles are nothing but thorns i mean they wrap around things there the whole thing is a thorn and once they get on your

if you get caught up in a bramble bush you know tear up your clothes uh it chokes everything out Yes. So I'm thinking, you know, I've got images in my head of gardens when I was a child. I can think of my granddad's garden. You know, that was absolutely perfect, spotless. It should have been, you know, front cover of gardening magazine. And then I can think of a neighbor's garden that was not taking care of. You'd see weeds and thorns and all kinds of stuff growing in the garden because he didn't

tend to his garden, didn't care for the garden like my granddad cared for his garden. My granddad had a passionate hatred of weeds. But other people have gardens kind of like them. right and Rick ever tried to pull a bramble bush out of the ground oh yeah I mean they they have extensive roots yes I mean they go everywhere and wherever a

root popped up out of the ground there'd be another bramble bush there yes I mean they go everywhere they have a great root system yes so that's what Jesus is teaching here the best thing to think about is a bramble bush that just wraps its roots around the young plant just takes over and it thrives and the plant dies it just never is able to to take off as Jesus said the thorns sprung up and choke them that's what this means the bramble bush has wrapped itself around the plant and is choking the life out of it the cares of this world the entertainment of this world the the money-making of this world the problems of this world overtake the word of God in a person's heart and eventually choke out

the life and that Christian who was given the word of God sewn into the world by Jesus the or stops being a productive person in the kingdom of god right it doesn't happen suddenly it happens over time bramble bushes don't just pop up one day right they grow and they grow deeper and wider because they're allowed to right yeah they don't you know uh these bramble bushes They've been there for a long time, Rick. It's not like they suddenly popped up yesterday. Bramble bushes take a long time to grow. To me, you know, later on, Jesus says that the corned burses, the bramble bushes,

they're the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, those cares of this world. But they've been allowed to grow. They've been allowed to grow wild. Yes, and so what we got here is the principle of survival of the strongest. The thorns, the bramble bush, is stronger than the plant. They simply take over and overpower the plant and dominate it. But like I said, bramble bushes and thorns don't just appear overnight.

Right. They're they're allowed by the farmer, the gardener to grow gradually. So the time to remove a bramble bush, a thorn, a weed is the moment you see it. Right. You got to get it out immediately. Again, this goes back to the individual responsibility that all of us have to guard our hearts. hearts or out of it out of our hearts flow the issues of life yes we have to guard a heart and you know the only thing you can do with a bramble bush yeah is you've got to cut it out and you've got to dig it out and you and then you've got to burn it you got to burn it out i mean you get to get rid of them you can't just you know can't even chop them up you can't even

put them in the weed chipper you've got to burn them There's a scripture in Hebrews chapter 6, verse 8, which says, But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. So what the only good thing, a thorn bush, a bramble bush, is good for it's to be burned. That's it. That's right. It has to be removed with fire.

And the fire is the Holy Spirit. you let the holy spirit burn out these things in your heart and you know look sometimes you got to say to the lord this thing so deep in me i need the holy spirit's help to pull it out yes i don't have the strength to pull this thing out of my heart but i want it out and and the lord will yank on it and remove it if you want it gone he's just waiting on you to say give me a hand get this thing out of here so again the thorns represent various distractions and cares of the world worries deceitfulness of riches pleasures of life work the things you see like work is not wrong until it becomes a distraction yes a lot of these things they're not wrong they're not

sinful on the surface level it's it's when they overtake the word of God in your life right um verse 8 but other see fell into good ground and brought forth fruit some 100 fold some 60 fold some 30 fold this is the good one some seed fell into good ground dark rich nutrient rich moist soil the kind that every gardener every farmer likes to run their hands through it and say yes right this is awesome Rick, yesterday, if you remember when I mentioned back up in verse three about A-sore went forth to sow, but in the Greek, it's the sore went forth to sow there. Well, that same little article, that same little aught, is right here in this verse,

but some fell into, really, it should say, the good ground. Not just the ground in general, but a specific ground. it fell into the good ground and that seems to apply that even in good ground there's different degrees on how fertile ground is I mean you can have good dirt they can have really good dirt I grew up in the Missouri River bottoms and you know every year or so flood there and all that silk would come down and you'd have really good dirt. I mean, you could grow anything in that dirt. A mile away, just a mile away, you'd have different kinds of dirt. But it's interesting that that article is in there, the good ground.

There's a perfect ground for the seed, the good ground. That's a good point. That's a very good point it represents fertile soil receptive to the seed capable of producing a bountable crop as doctor said the good ground suggest a specific type of soil there's various types of good soil but this indicates that there's one that's supreme one type of soil that's better than all the rest so what we learn here is that not all good soil produces the same degrees of harvest some produce a hundredfold some 60fold some 30fold what they all produce and to the farmer he's happy with all of them think of one field one field is producing 30 times what he planted the second field is producing 60 times what he planted

the third field is producing a hundred times what he planted is he happy with all three you better believe that he's got a crop he's got a harvest he's going to market does he want to get the field that's doing 30fold to get it up to 60 yes does he want to get the 60 fold filled up to 100 yes does he want to prevent the 100 fold from dropping down to 60 yes but he's content he's happy that these fields are producing a harvest for his farm yes so you know when Jesus tells these stories he always tells it in and frames it in such a way that they understand it and references things that they already know about and this is we've gone through the study of the parables a couple times but last night as I was

going through a study on this one, I asked myself, has the word a hundredfold ever appeared anywhere else in the Bible? And it has. I didn't realize it. It never occurred to me before, to look it up. And it's found in Genesis, chapter 26, verse 12. And it talks about Isaac. It says, then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him and that sewing that Isaac had done was a sowing of fate he'd just gone through a conflict with abimelech had just you know they've been going back and forth fighting back arguing back and forth but though he planted he isaic decided to plant his seed he's planted a seed and by planting his seed he believed in the promise

the promise that been given to his father by planting the seed isaac was saying i believe god is going to bless me and he blessed him a hundredfold and what i thought was interesting genesis 2612 and said he uh it was multiplied a hundredfold and then the lord blessed him and so there's there are degrees of blessing in our lives and it has to do with the fertility of soil and a farmer has a farmer has to have faith doesn't you brick yes a farmer has to take a seed and say I don't know how this works but I'm going to take the seed I'm going to stick it in the ground I'm not going to see what's happening I'm not going to be able to observe the growth or whatever is happening under the soil at all but by planting the seed I'm

believing for a harvest and the fertility of soil is one factor but how much seed you plant is also a factor too that's right and so there there's a lot in this there really is there is and you know doc for for decades I've heard on Christian TV and I've heard it in large churches this this principle of 30-fold 60-fold a hundredfold and it's always connected in those teachings with the giving of money. And yes, it does apply, but the principal understanding in this parable is the harvest is unto Christ.

Yes. What's being taught on Christian television is the harvest is to you. Right. But Jesus is teaching he's the sower. And you're the seed. You're the seed and you have a responsibility to give him a 30, 60, or 100-fold harvest. And what is that harvest for him? Well, it's souls for the kingdom.

Is your life producing a harvest of souls coming to the cross? Is your life producing a harvest of souls coming into the knowledge of Jesus Christ? Is your life producing a harvest of good works, causing people to glorify God? That's the harvest he wants. The harvest is for him. Now, if we had more time, we could teach that the Lord will then, he'll bless us. He'll cause the blessings that come on us. what what do you do with a plant that's producing a harvest you bless it you water it you

nourish it you give it fertilizer you give it nutrients you're keeping that plant happy why it's producing fruit yes so what does jesus say in another parable about a tree that produces no fruit it's good for nothing but to be cut down and burned So do you want your life to be good for nothing in the eyes of God? Or do you want your life to be pleasing to God? And he says, I've got to get some water on that plant. I've got to get some nutrients, some fertilizer. I got to keep that plant happy.

It's growing. It's producing fruit season after season. That's what you want God to do. That's the blessing that comes in your life. But in this parable, the harvest is under Christ. 30 60 100 times one final thing before we I know I think we're already over aren't we dog I got to say this well we got about me with corrections so yeah so in the beginning of this yesterday I said you're the seed Jesus soar he's sowing you

into the field the world he's sewing you into places of the world where he expects you to produce a harvest for him He sees a place of the world that's filled with darkness and he sows you there and says bring light. He sees a place in the world that's hopeless. He sows you there and says, bring hope. Where did he sow you into the world? What is it? He sows us into places that he needs a harvest.

Where has he sowed you and what is the harvest he expects from you in that place he sold you? That's for you to seek him today. Find out what is it you're supposed to do in the place that he sold you? And then start producing a harvest and watch the blessings of God come on your life. That's it for today. Amen. Rick, thank you so much for that lesson today. We're going to continue in Matthew 13 tomorrow, so we invite you to tune in 8 a.m.

Eastern time live on faith and values.com. If you're listening to us now on one of our various platform, Rumble, Getter, and X, you know, you can always tune in live, weekday mornings and join us and several hundred people in about today's 16 countries that checked in with us as together we study the word. Rick, any final words before we sign on for today? No. That's it for today. I'm going to go right. I'm going to go hang out with the cattleman all right go get your cowboy hat and do the mixer and so all right bless you everyone we'll see you on the Thursday edition of morning panna all right