Matthew 13 – the parable of the sower
(pt 2)
This week we’ll look at conditions that make us unhearing or calloused.:
– LACK UNDERSTANDING
Def. understanding
How did they get “there”
Unexamined teaching….
The FALL
Eve inputs of information – deceived
Placed her self in the position as judge over rather than subject to…
Adam – willfully disobeys
UNDERSTANDING
Vs 19. When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
Def. of Understand = comprehend
The path – hard pack soil……
Beat down by traffic…
ILLUS – Oregon trail 1840-1880 400,000 travelers
No let up for tilling…..seed never get planted.
- you & family
- Friends & others
Take UNDERSTANDING seriously….
Definition of evolution:
IMAGE
Education
ILLUS – Evolving iPad?
ILLUS – Necklace?
Genes /
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_KM1ANWbrIY
31:05-35:16
ILLUS – Evolving iPad?
ILLUS – Necklace? ( photo )
1 Corinthians 3:19-20
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.
Ephesians 4:17-18. , 4:20
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:21
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
1 Cor 2:14
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Colossians 2:3
My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.
– LACK OF ROOT DEPTH
20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When TROUBLE OR PERSECUTION comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Roots don’t go deep – superficial knowledge
ILLUS – why do bad things happen to good people
1 Cor 15:56-57
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 3
There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[i] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness,
Roots of UNDERSTANDING this? – Genesis 3
The world teaches : ( thru evolution) death brought man
The Bible teaches : ( beginning at Genesis) that man brought death
ILLUS
To Combat Superficial knowledge
( See video links at bottom of notes )
– WEALTH AND WORRIES
22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Hear … ✔️
Understands … ✔️
But still the WORRIES and deceit of WEALTH
Matt 19
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
…..22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
Polluted soil ! Too much competing for priority…..
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GROWTH
23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who HEARS the word AND UNDERSTANDS it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown
****** RESOURCES ********
Video resources
MATHEMATICS
Answers in Genesis
April, 2019
The Secret Code of Creation: Dr. Jason Lisle
DNA (Information systems)
Answers in Genesis
March 2, 2017
Sciences Confirms the Bible – the language of DNA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYswvGoaPU
COSMOLOGY
(Available on DVD)
What You Aren’t Being Told About Astronomy – Vol. I (Our Created Solar System)
Spike Psarris
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CzyQbOQ0dv0
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Discovery Science
2017
Revolutionary: Michael Behr and the Mystery of Molecular Machines
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToSEAj2V0s
GEOLOGY & RADIOMETRIC DATING
Nuclear Physics and the Young Age of the Earth – Dr. Jim Mason
48K views
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fdBn22BAQ
Answers in Genesis
2018
Science confirms a young earth- the radiometric dating methods are flawed
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AomTKRLB_4
Dr. Robert Carter: Creation’s Competitive Edge
2017
Calvary Chapel Tri-cities
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUmseLGBcU
DINOSAURS
Dragons or Dinosaurs (?DVD)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcF8K8ArGCk
Answers in Genesis
Ken Ham :Dinosaurs for kids
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-g_hk_KKro
EVOLUTION ( problems)
Calvary Chapel Tri-cities
Dr. Robert Carter: Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V7SV8o-Mrew
APOLOGETICS
Our Created Universe
Spike Psarris
Northwest Creation Network
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6SoTVZrBV8
THD – Spike Psarris Testimony