TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - November 10, 2024 - Matthew 13:1-9 - The Parable of the Sower

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

In today’s Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart open Matthew 13:1–9 (KJV) and show Jesus as the Sower who plants not just words but people carrying the Word. After slipping away to rest by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus teaches from a boat so that receptive hearts receive truth while the hard-hearted remain unmoved. The “field” is the world, and the “seed” includes men and women whose hearts have embraced the gospel—whom Jesus then sows into families, vocations, and communities to produce a harvest of 30, 60, and 100-fold. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You 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.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’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-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. And we are glad to have you with us today. We are studying the gospel according to St. Matthew. And today we begin our study of the 13th chapter of Matthew. We'll be looking at verses 1 through 9. So let's pray, invite the Holy Spirit, and then begin our study. Dear gracious Father, thank you for this wonderful, beautiful day. Teach us your word, feed us. We're hungry and thirsty. We desire to be fed your word. And we need the Holy Spirit to illuminate our hearts and minds to understand your word.

And so, Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus. In his name, amen. Amen. All right. Well, we want to say thank you to the 18 countries I've checked in this morning. far and we appreciate you tuning in here on the live edition of morning manna if you're listening at another time we invite you to join us each weekday morning at 8 a.m. on faith and values uh 8 a.m eastern time we'd love to have you with us where we have live interaction going on with

our bible study it's a great opportunity for you to connect with the believers around the world and one of the comments i get from people that are regulars on morning manna is they've made friends all over the world through this Bible study. And really, that's what fellowship is all about. And so today we're starting Matthew chapter 13. So if you've got your Bibles, let's go ahead and open them up. I'm going to be reading verses 1 through 9 today. And I'm reading from the King James, starting verse 1. The same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. And great multitudes were gathered together under him so that he went into a ship and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

And he spake many things under them in parables, saying, behold, a sower 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. And when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away. and some fell among thorns

the thorns spring up and choked them but other fell into good ground and brought forth fruit some 100 fold some 60 fold some 30 fold who hath ears to hear let him hear God bless the reading of the board today this is going to be a good chapter

I love talking about the parables this is going to be a good chapter verse one the same day went Jesus out of the house and sat by the seaside on the same day what day what was the same day the day his mom and brothers and sisters came to take him home it was that day on the same day jesus went out of the house whose house well you know yesterday i said the encounter is chapter 12 with his family and the Pharisees probably occurred in the local synagogue but chapter

13 verse 1 tells us it was in a house not a synagogue right see the bible explains itself i just needed to read ahead and i would have found the answer oh it's not a synagogue it's a house so whose house well a lot of Bible scholars believe the house belonged to Peter and Andrew I don't know that's that's the standard teaching

but they he was in a house somebody's house invited him in so the same day went Jesus out of the house and sat by the seaside so Jesus strategically got away from the commotion at the house with the Pharisees and his relatives like I've had enough of this I'm leaving I'm not going to stay here and argue with these people I'm going down to the seaside seaside his sea side there you go say that sometimes I know

and selling seashells on the seaside so jesus went to the sea shore to seek solitude by sitting on the beach looking at the water haven't we all done that water water's very calming whether it's a river a creek even a bubbling spring water is calming and he at that moment that's what he that's what he desired he did not want to be in that commercial with the Pharisees and his mom and his brothers and sisters too much drama that's what he was saying as he walked away way too much drama look Jesus understands what you and I go through we what we have to do is learn how to respond to these situations like he did he

didn't he didn't blow up and go I got to get out of here where's the door I've had enough of of this he didn't say anything like that he just quietly left the house and walk straight to the sea so when you're in when you're in a situation where you can feel your nerves being plucked things are be starting to get tense relatives are getting on your nerves critics are biting at you like rats be like Jesus just remove yourself from that environment and go find someplace quiet get away from them bring down the temperature relax he found sitting by the sea relaxing so

what sea was it the sea of Galilee verse two and great multitudes were gathered together unto him so that he went into a ship and sat and the whole multitude stood on the shore and great multitudes were gathered together under him his time of solitude didn't last long seems like it never came for him no the people found it the word got out hey Jesus down at seashore he by himself this is the time to talk to it well yeah but you know 2,000 people had the same idea could have been 3,000 could have been 5,000 we don't know great multitudes multitudes is a lot but a great multitudes is an extra lot

so we don't know the Bible doesn't tell us the numerical size of the crowd but describes it as a great multitude multitudes meaning there were multiple crowds and why were the crowds what was it that appealed to them it wasn't always the same with everyone was it

no you know various motivations you know they needed some of the earral yeah some of them needed a miracle some wanted to see a miracle some wanted to be entertained some liked the drama that was going on too yes but some were hungry yes

spiritually hungry and they were hoping maybe this guy is a great prophet perhaps he is the messiah they had different motivations when you get a crowd thousands of people they all have different psyche different mindsets different reasons to be in the crowd so great multitudes gathered to him so that he entered into a boat the crowd the crowd was so numerous that Jesus had to get up from the beach they were pressing in on him. He had no place to go except the water. I mean, they're backing him up.

You know, he's starting to get his feet wet. He's getting into the water because the crowd is all around him. He's got no place to go except a ship. So he got up from the beach and he entered a ship. and he sat down he's back to resting he he resumed his position of rest he didn't he didn't get upset he didn't go what's wrong with you people you know give me a break i just wanted to come out here

and talk i mean i just want to come out here and sit be alone for he didn't say anything like that but he resumed his his position of rest he made an adjustment and then he resumed what he was doing he was sitting and resting he was sitting looking at the water now he's sitting on the water looking at the people right but he's still in control he's refusing to let circumstances change his inner peace. The fact that there was a boat, a ship, not just a boat, wasn't a rowboat, it was a ship. The fact that there was a ship kept in readiness for Jesus suggests the frequency of his teachings by the sea. In other words, In other words, his staff, his disciples knew, keep a ship. Jesus went to the sea where he had

a ship. Right. Luke, he didn't just wander around and go, well, I'm going to sit here. No, he knew where his ship was docked. Yeah, in Luke 5.3, it says, and he entered into one of the ships, which was Simons, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught people out of the ship so obviously this was a pattern or something that he did on a regular basis and it was likely that it was a simon ship or it was somebody's ship but luke five three said it was simons well peter peter was owned a fishing business and he had he had more than one ship you know peter had a thriving fishing business so uh he made a ship available to Jesus you know we don't know the Bible doesn't tell us but Peter and the

disciples may have continued their fishing enterprise between missionary this missionary journeys it's possible but look they had money they had to pay taxes they had to do they had to buy food it's possible that that peter kept his fishing business running even though he's now fully engaged in ministry right doesn't mean he obviously he didn't sell off his he didn't walk away from his ship because he's got one he knew that jesus would need a ship so he he took peter took what he owned and consecrated it to the Lord and said, this is for you. But when you're not using it, I may do some fishing.

So Jesus knew that that ship was docked at the sea, and that's where he went. He went to that location. He didn't just pick out at random a place to sit at the sea. He chose the place where this ship was docked. Because he never knew when he had to leave or when a crowd was going to show up and he was going to have to get in a ship. But I think one thing we can learn from these two verses here, Rick, is that Jesus rested when he was resting and he was resting while he was working too. Yes. Yes. So he was always in a position of rest.

He didn't allow people in outside circumstances to do. disturb his rest. Jesus never bit his nails, never pulled at his hair, didn't have any nervous tics. You know, didn't have to get a drink to calm himself down. Didn't pop pills. He was always in rest.

Yes. but it's almost always surrounded by commotion that's that's the lesson for us if we are in Christ we should have that kind of peace and it's difficult it's not easy I have to remind myself of it not every day I have to remind myself every hour yes I mean, he is our Sabbath rest and everything, but boy, it's, you know, it's work to rest. That's right. That's right. It's like, you know, when we sold our church property, when was it, that was last year, wasn't it?

I met the pastor of the church that bought it. We had been friends for years. we knew each other and I went out there to see him after the closing and I wanted to pray with him and he said Rick I got to tell you the deacons every time we came out here before we bought this property we always said there's peace there's such a peace on this property and I looked at him and smiled and I said pastor you have no idea how much warfare I had the wage to keep that peace. And he laughed. He knew what I meant. Amen. That's true. You know, so you have to work at resting. We're told in Hebrews, you know, to enter into that rest. Enter requires effort.

Yes. You have to work at entering into the rest. Because this world doesn't want you to rest in Christ. Everything in this world is to keep you from being in Christ. Right. So look at this. I want you to see something here. Great multitudes were gathered together under him so that he went into a ship and sat. And the whole multitude stood on the shore. The teacher sat and the audience stood. And that's a method that will reduce the number of people who sleep in church.

I like that. As you continue to stand. Doc, notice his style teaching. I had thought about that before, Rick. The teacher was relaxed and sitting. The students were standing. Honestly, it would change church meetings, wouldn't it? It sure would.

So, the large gathering. shows us the widespread interest in Jesus' teaching and the eagerness of the people to hear him speak or to receive a miracle or to see a miracle there were curiosity seekers there at least they were there you know a circus a circus does all kinds of things to get you to show up to get you to buy a ticket it if they have to entertain you a little bit to get you to come in that's that's what they're going to do so jesus wasn't offended that there were people there who just wanted to see him in action he's like okay you're here i at least have a

chance to get inside you if you're not here i have no chance you know the way i have to view doing this program every day i'm talking about true news i got you know we have a lot of unsafe people that watch true news well at least they're there right at least we have a chance to reach them so jesus makes himself available to teach and he uses a ship to create distance from the crowd So he boards a ship for his own comfort to create space and to address the people. The ship was his platform from which he could teach, be seen and be heard, because the calm waters served as a natural amplifier. for his voice which ensured that the crowd would hear him but this thing of a

platform in today's business world online digital communications platform is a is a very common word today social media platforms YouTube is a platform. Rumble is a platform. Faith and values is a platform. When you're in the digital media world, you talk about building platforms. What is a platform?

It's something on which you stand to be heard. To amplify your voice. To amplify your voice. So Jesus had a platform so that he could speak to the crowd. you know there's if you want to you could you could spiritualize verse one you could you could say that the symbolic interpretation of verse one is that the sea represents humanity and that's accurate in the bible whenever you talk about oceans It means the population of humans.

So keep that in mind, especially when you're interpreting prophecy. Seas and oceans represent humanity. The ship, you could say that the ship represents the church, transporting the gospel around the world. The disciples and Jesus represent the shepherds. of the church, the multitudes represent the congregations. Jesus on the ship represents his preachers who are more exposed to storms on the sea than the congregation.

So they're more experienced with dealing with storms. The congregation remains on the shore. The preacher is representing the the ship crew are the ones out on the sea dealing with storms that's a possible symbolic representation of this verse but we're going to learn parables and another some people interpret these parables as showing the history of the church. And I had never thought about this, Doc, but I came across this in one Bible commentary. And the commentator said each parable represented a stage in the history of the Church of Christ. I could see that.

So that each parable begins to be fulfilled successively after the preceding one, with no preceding one concluding before the next one begins. For example, the seventh parable portrays the condition of the church in the last days, characterized by great mixture. it's an interesting concept one that i've never considered before first three and he spake many things unto them in parables saying behold a sower went forth to sow

and he spake many things unto them in parables parables are a form of teaching that uses common ordinary things to convey deep spiritual truths when we get to verse 11 tomorrow or when no that's what like Thursday yeah tomorrow is today's Tuesday so you know by the time we get to verse 11 Jesus explains to his disciples why he teaches in parables why there's an importance of having spiritual understanding so teaching in parables serves to both reveal truth to those who are receptive and to conceal it from those who are not right in accordance with the spiritual condition of the hearers. Now, Doc, this is an alignment with what Jesus taught

the Pharisees in chapter 12. When he taught that God conceals truth, that there are certain people, God conceals the truth from receiving because of the hardness of their heart. so the parables reveal truth to those who are receptive to receive it right the same parable conceals it from those who are spiritually hard-hearted right stubborn wicked you know you've taught through the parables a couple times now and the last time we went through it was when I realized that Jesus didn't give an interpretation of all the parables to the crowds. He would speak parables to the crowds, but then he would give the interpretation to his disciples.

Yes. That there was a, if you will, I'm trying to think of the best way to describe it, that it was a gateway, if you will. I said a paywall. Yes. A paywall. and a lot of people got upset with me and said, how dare you say Jesus has a paywall?

And I said, but he does have a paywall. In today's business world with platforms, a lot of content is behind a paywall. They give you what's called freemium content, which is free content. But when you want the really good stuff, you have to subscribe. Right.

That's common. with most platforms. And what I said was Jesus is the originator of that concept. He took people inside. He took his disciples in the house and taught them the meaning of the parables. And what some folks couldn't understand was that was the paywall. You had to go in the house of God to be taught.

you had to go in the house of christ to be taught yes you had to be a disciple to understand there's a price to pay to be a disciple yes that's see people were getting confused thinking rick wells is teaching it god charges money to be taught that's not what i'm teaching i'm teaching he demands a price to be paid that price is giving up the things of this world to pursue Christ, carrying your cross, pursuing the knowledge of God's word, studying the word. Look, everybody who's in this class, you're giving up one hour a day, five days a week, you're paying the price.

You're coming into the house. Yes, you're in the house of God, and you're paying the price. And what's the currency? Your time? So, understanding the parables require spiritual insight granted by God. If God doesn't grant the insight, you're not going to understand it. Right. He's sovereign.

He chooses who understands and who doesn't. Does he want everybody to understand? Yes. But everybody's not ready to understand. and some are unwilling to pursue understanding and some don't want to understand unless they can get something out of it right for their own good their own i mean their own profit so parables serve to veil to cover up veil certain mysteries of the kingdom and the veil is removed for those whom god says, your heart is right. I want you to see this truth. But the veil is kept there for those who are proud.

Or lovers of this world. Jesus said, don't cast your pearls before swine. He's not going to cast his parables before swine. Right. He'll tell, he'll let the swine. hear the parables but i want to say he's not going to cast he's not going to cast the truth of the parables before swine because they can't handle it they'll they'll trampled under underfoot just like hogs in a hog pen uh notice what you're going to notice in chapter 13 is that

he spoke seven parables there's that number seven um is there a meaning behind it you know seven represents completeness perfection the first four parables were delivered to the multitude the remaining three parables were given only to the disciples right so there's a division in the audience jesus reserved three parables for only those who were the closest to him the other people never heard them they don't even know that they exist so you know we look at the structure of the parables the first parable is an introduction to the whole Yes.

You can't understand the other parables without understanding the first parable. Each one builds on the other. Yes. The parable of the sower is the key. If you don't grasp the meaning of the parable of the sower, you will misunderstand the other parables. So, Behold, a sower went forth to soul. What's a parable? It's a method of teaching that uses common everyday things to teach deep spiritual truths.

So think about the scene. It was the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee. Many farms surrounded the area. Farming practices were well known to the people who pressed in to hear Jesus. It wasn't a foreign topic. Everybody knew how the sow seed. You had to do it. So Jesus used farming as the common thing that people understood.

He used farming to teach a deep spiritual truth. So he began his lesson by talking about a farmer sowing seed. It was an image everybody there on that day could understand. Now here's an important rule. Whenever interpreting parables, the objects in the parable remain the same in each parable. For example, the sower is always Jesus. Right. If there's another parable that mentions the sower, the sower isn't a different person in another parable.

The sower is always Jesus. right the field is always the world i've heard too many bible teachers mix and match in one parable the sower means this and in another parable the field means that no you can't do that the objects always remain the same and when jesus gives you a key to understanding the paris He's told you what these objects will be in all the parables. Right. So the representation of the objects do not vary from parable to parable. And this is a key to interpretation of parables that is absolutely necessary.

Without it, you will come up with all kinds of whacked out explanations of the parables. That's right. so let me give an example this past Sunday we attended a local church very good church good pastor nothing critical at all but the pastor was preaching on this parable on this very parable yes interesting and he taught it he taught his congregation that the soar represents any Christian who shares the gospel. That's not correct. It's not.

The soar is always Jesus. Right. See, if you get this wrong, you're going to misinterpret all the other parables. I wanted to stand up and say, say, excuse me, I didn't do it, you know. Can't do that. It's his church.

You know, he's the shepherd there. But he's teaching that the sower is any Christian who shares the gospel. In other words, you and I are sent, and that's what he was teaching. You and I are sent out by God to sow the word of God everywhere. And that's a great message just by itself. It is. It's a good message. And that's what I was always taught

until I started studying the Word of God. And then I found out that's not correct. Jesus is the sower. Jesus went forth to sow. What did he sow? Well, the answer, of course, is seed. But what does the seed represent? the typical response is the seed is the word of God yes that's true but there is more

the full meaning is that the seed represents people who have heard the word of God yes so it's not that the word is being scattered but that those who have the word are being scattered yes Okay, think of a seed. A seed has an outer shell and an inner embryo. The life is in the embryo. The life is not in the shell. The life is in the embryo. The shell is to protect the embryo.

you and I are the outer shell of a seed yes the word of God is the embryo inside us so when Jesus sows the seed he is sowing men and women who have the word of God in them of their heart represents the condition of the soil. And whether there is a harvest, the harvest is either, there can be no harvest, or for those that have good soil, the harvest produces 30-fold, 60-fold, 100-fold. For the others, there's hardly any. or no harvests.

Right. But it's based on the condition of the hearts of the people who heard the word of God. Right. And he casts those people out. He sows them into the world. He says, you have my word in you. I'm now sowing you into the world. And I expect you to produce a harvest.

Right. And just like, and Kim brought this out on chat this morning. And just like the seed has to be buried. and really the seed dies and is frung to new life the same thing happens if we have to die in order to be resurrected to new life yes we're transformed we're changed into something else because of the seed that's been planted in us and what did he teach about the seed going into the ground he taught us Jesus taught us that unless the sea goes in the ground it will not live it has to go into the ground meaning there has to be death yes so you and i have there has to be

a death we die our our sin nature our natural man must die what is baptism it's death it's death we go into the water as a center we come up born again our old nature is washed away in the baptismal waters

so it represents a seed going into the ground so verse four as he sewed I can add something on verse three Rick yeah go ahead though most bible translations when they do that last phrase behold a soar went forth to sow and it says a sore like it could just be any sore out there any you know you're soar i'm a sore we're all a sore right

right but in the original greek in the in the in the original writings that a there is not an a it's a Greek word ought and it's actually should be translated the the soar right behold

the soar went forth to sow or behold soar like a title went forth to sow yes and so it's not just a general and if you understand that part of

then you then you understand oh the soer is Jesus it's not just anyone it's not just a witness it's a particular soar uh an individual that's the process i went through that that helped me get to the conclusion that i just expressed because when i realized that i was not the sewer i was the sowed yes you got it you're not the sewer you're the sowed that's when the light came on wait a minute jesus is the well what am I eventually it took a while for me to get this I really had to work

through this this was very it didn't come easy I realize okay on the seed that he sows the field is always the world yes where does he sow us into the world yes where did he sow you where are you that's where he wherever he sowed you wherever you are in life is where he expects you to produce a harvest for him

yes where's my harvest so when I was saved Jesus sowed me into media in a career he sowed me into media

when I was a young man they actually had me in and before I was saved in fact is it Paul who says one of the apostles said whatever career you're in when you get saved just stay there that's that's a

paraphrase okay it's because Jesus sows you into the world yes so he sewed me into the media world and said Rick I expect you to produce a harvest for me now I didn't understand it that time didn't understand it for decades you know i've never really thought about that before rick but even before i was saved i was involved in in radio i did some sports announcing this is when i was 15 years old uh i did a radio show on a country station sunday nights and uh called basketball games and this was before i got saved and uh so that has that had been in me even before I got saved. I hadn't thought about that till just now.

So this is the soil that, you know, the gospel sprang up in in my life. Doc, you know, I just, when you said that, I just had this flashback. I'm guessing I was probably about 12 years old. You know, fifth or sixth grade, 11 or 12 years old. but my parents gave me for Christmas. You know, this would have been, you know, the mid-60s. My parents gave me, my Christmas gift was a, it was a, it was a console that was a low-power radio transmitter.

Really? Yes, I could broadcast in the house. I didn't ask for it. I didn't ask for it. That was the gift that they bought for me. Interesting. And it had a microphone. And I can remember sitting in the house pretending I was, I had a radio station.

And I was, I had that thing and I was broadcasting and my parents could hear it on their radio in another room. You know, when we're sharing old stories here, Rick, but when I was about 10 or 11 or 12, I used to take two separate tape recorders. I'd have them side by side, and I would create radio shows. I would play music on one tape player and do the DJing and play the music to the other tape recorder

and make radio shows just with two tape recorders. when I was 11 or 12 years. I hadn't thought about that until just now, Rick, that God uses the soil that you're in, the soil that you are, wherever you are, and uses that to, you know, to plant the seed of the gospel. And who is the seed that were planted in my life? It was my aunt. It was my cousin. These were the ones that were planted into my life that allowed the gospel to bloom in my life. I hadn't thought about that before. He gives us the desires of our heart.

Most people interpret that as meaning, what I desire, God gives it to me. No, that's not what it means. He gives you the desires he wants you to have in your heart. He's the one who put the desire in your heart. Yes. And so he placed in you, Doc, desire to be a DJ on radio. He placed in me the desire to be a broadcaster. Even though as a

child I had never expressed that desire, he inspired my father and mother to buy me a little mobile, I mean little, you know, in-house broadcasting console, which began the whole process. wow so he's an isn't god good i mean i've really got me pondering today uh rick about how he shaped us in our early years both the tragedy and the blessings that we've experienced in our early life you know because soil isn't perfect by any stretch of imagination you have to get rocks out of it and and all you know get rid of the bugs that would kill the plants you know you've got to prepare soil Soil has to be prepared, and that's the 30-60-hundredfold. But the idea is that God prepares the soil in your own life.

I mean, I'm just sitting here. I'm just feeling all sorts of love right now. God love me enough to prepare the soil for me. He did. And we didn't know it at the time. But he was a loving father taking care of you. I now I look back and I see all the things he did for me when I was a child a teenager a young adult before I knew him yes before we knew him I see his hand in my life career wise you know now look back and see the pattern that the first The first successful job, I had, you know, in my early 20s, I had several jobs, but the first successful one, the one where I excelled, the one where I hit home runs, was in radio advertising sales.

I was in my mid, you know, mid-20s, 23, 24. but God put me in that position I don't even remember how I got it I just remember getting hired at a radio never had it never had a thought about radio but I was I somehow found that job I got hired and I did well right with the pattern that I saw in my life is that I would foolishly stupidly get out of that that career track and go do something else, and I would flounder. Yes. And after flopping around like a fish on the bank of a creek,

he'd bring you back. I think, I got to get back in the water. And the Lord would open up a door for me to get back in the media. Same thing in my life, Rick. I mean, it'd be the very same thing. that even when I was between pastoral positions, I'd somehow get a radio job, either on air or managing a radio station or something along that line. Or sometimes when I was church planting, I planted several churches in Missouri and Kansas,

I'd always be a job in radio. It was, even though I hadn't, when I went to college, I had no formal training. training and radio. It was all this OJT training just from you know from the time I was 15 that radio and broadcasting had been a part of my life but he keeps bringing you back to it doesn't he you can't get it out and I just I just remembered another thing about that that radio console that my dad bought me when I was a kid not only did it have a low power transmitter for the house it also had a shortway radio receiver I forgot about that that was my first introduction to shortwave

radio that was sit in my bedroom and tune in radio stations from around the world and that little radio and then pretend I was on shortwave radio broadcasting but the pattern I saw in my life as a young man is I would I would get in and out of media. When I was in media, I excelled. It was easy. It just flowed. I didn't have to really work at it. I did work, but I mean, it just happened. When I got out of media, thinking, there's something better. I can do something better. I want to do another career. I never did well in it. I'd have to go back to media. Now for you, it may not be media it may be nursing it may be farming it may be carpentry what is it that you

excel in what is it that just comes easy to you yeah what is it that's not worked to you i i doc you'll know who i'm talking about a young man that worked for us love him very much still love him. He's been gone almost three years. And he came to me and told me he was going to resign. He's going to start a business. I didn't want him to leave. There was nothing wrong. I loved him very much. Wanted him to stay with us, okay? But I didn't want to discourage him. Okay. So I didn't want to say anything that was discouraging. So I asked him what kind of business he was getting and he told me and I said you don't have any experience in that business because I know but I can learn it I said I told him all the stories from from my

life doc I said yeah let me tell you what I did when I was your age and younger I did the same thing and I I failed and when I got back to doing what I good at i succeeded and and i told him i said even though i want you to stay here and work for us i love having you around us good i know that you're a good employee yeah good employee good young man but i told him i said even though i want you to stay here i know in my heart that your real skill is not the job you're doing for us. I know what your real skill is, and we don't have that kind of work here. Now, when we had that kind of work, he did great at it, didn't he?

Yes, he did. We can't go into details about it because we want to give too much information, but there were times where we had this particular skill, and we would say, we got just the guy for that, and he would get it done and do an excellent job. And so what I told him, I said, look, I admire your desire to go into business i i can't i can't criticize you or discourage you i admire it but your skill is not in the business you're going into it's the it's this it's the job that you came from when you came to work here yes so maybe your time here was just a um an interlude

where God wanted to do something in your life spiritually and then send you back out into the industry you were in. But if you're going to go into business, that's the industry you should go in. And I told him, I said, you know, if I personally had money to invest and you asked me to invest in this new business that you're starting, I wouldn't do it.

And he looked surprised. He said, why? I said, because it's not going to work. You don't have experience. And it's going to take a lot of time for you to build up the experience and get the skills to make it work. And as an investor, I wouldn't want to put that much money into it. But if you told me you were going to start a business in the industry that you were in before you came here, you better believe I'd get behind you because you're going to succeed.

And what was baffling about that whole situation is that, in the industry that he was in, there's so much opportunity in Florida. I mean, so much. Oh. You could work 24 hours a day and not have enough, you know, still have work to do. And there was just so much opportunity for someone with his skills. Right. So the lesson in here is, all right, he made a wrong choice.

He's still floundering. He still, let me don't, I don't say flounder, he's struggling. Okay, he's struggling. And it hurts me, you know. Three years later, it hurts me that he's struggling, you know, because I want to go make it right for him. I want to fix it for him, you know, because I'm like, I've already done this, I already been there.

But you're just going to have to grow and mature and understand the mistake you made. and then hopefully you won't make it again i made it several times yeah i made the same mistake several times so he's still young he'll figure it out what is the message here for you jesus sewed you into the world the field is the world where did he sow you are you in the place that he sowed you think about it are you in the place he he sewed you or did you hop out are you a are you a Mexican jumping beam are you hop into the rocky places yeah I mean Jesus sewed you over here and you're like a Mexican jumping bean and you jumped over here are where did he

swerged places yeah where where did he sew you what are you you good at doing? What do you just excel at doing? What makes you happy to do it? That's where you've been sowed. You might not be there right now because you, on your own accord, went away from that area. Or you didn't allow Jesus to sow you there. You could have resisted and said, I'm not going there. Where he desires for you to, be planted, is where it makes you the happiest to be. A seed in rich, moist soil is happy. That's a happy seed.

So are you in rich, moist soil? It allows the Word of God in you to grow and produce a harvest for the kingdom. you will produce a harvest for the kingdom by doing what he has called you to do. The word is in you. The word will come out in the workplace, in the career, in the soil. The word will come out and it will produce a great harvest. That's the message in this parable.

We're over our time. We'll have to pick this up tomorrow. Yes, sir. And what a great message today. We're just getting started on this parable. we invite you to return with us tomorrow morning, Wednesday morning 8 a.m. live on Faith and Values.com and join in with over 300 people that gather with us on a regular basis to be planted into that good soil that the Lord casts us out into.

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