Red Letters Day 15 Luke 8:1-25

To grow a seed must be planted

• Jesus is on a tour of the nearby town and villages

• Preaching the good news with his 12 disciples

• Some healed women with him on the journey

• They had been healed of demonic and diseases

• They were using their own resources

• He gives this parable about a farmer scattering seed

• The seed fell on 4 types of soil

• Footpath-stepped on and eaten by birds

• Rocks-wilted and died from lack of moisture ( you have go to be watered by the Word)

• Thorny-grew and choked

• Fertile-produced a crop hundredfold

• They all grew but all were affected by the circumstances surrounding them

• Which soil are you in?

• He uses parables fulfilled with scriptures

• He explains the meaning

• The Footpath- hear the message, only to have the devil snatch and prevent them from believing and being saved

• Rocky- hear, receive with joy, don't have roots so they believe for only a little while fall away from face temptation

• Thorny-hear the message but quickly gets crowded out by the cares, riches, and pleasures of this life, never matures

• Fertile-honest good-hearted people who hear the word and cling to it and patiently produce a harvest

• No one hides lamps around their house

• It's on a stand display

• Where are your lamps? How is it shining? Our witness is public.

• What secret will be brought out in the open

• Everything concealed will be revealed

• Therefore consider how you hear.

• Listen and get more understanding

• Don't listen and what you understand will be taken away from you

• Jesus mother and brothers came to see him and they couldn't get to hi

• So they sent the word to your family outside

• Jesus responds my mother and brothers are those who hear the Word and obey it

• Are you in Jesus' Family?

• Jesus said Let's go to the other side of the lake

• They get in the boat

• Jesus takes a nap

• They failed to realize Jesus said they were going to get to the other side

• Fierce storm, boat filling up, they were in danger

• They woke him up shouting we are going to drown

• Jesus woke up and rebuked the wind and the waves, all is calm

• He asked them Where is your faith?

• Their eyes were on the storm and not the Savior

• They were terrified and amazed

• Who is this man?

• The wind and waves obey him

• They have seen his authority over the death, the sick, and now the creation and they still asking who is this man

• We must see Jesus for who he is.

• Rebuke the storms when they arise don't wait until the water fills the boat

Chew

We must have fertile soil, watered daily by the Word of God to obey and shine our light and to walk by faith

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