ON GOOD SOIL?

How many of us have ever felt, or have felt like that when a message is preached or taught to us, we receive with gladness but then we soon forget? Or we are at church and fill the Lord tugging at our hearts, and we come to the alter and we fill Gods hand on us, but then when we walk out the door and we haven't changed at all? Why? Perhaps we have let the cares of this world choke our seed that was planted, or perhaps we are not truly grounded in the word. Or perhaps we haven't let God truly have his way in our lives? I don't know the reason? But tonights lesson will perhaps shed some insight on this? In the book of Matthew chapter 13 Jesus spoke about a parable of the seed that was sown on 4 different soils. 18"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19When 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. 20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22The 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. 23But 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." Matthew 13:18 -23

ARE YOU GOOD SOIL???

OR WILL YOU LET THE ENEMY COME AND SNATCH AWAY THE SEED IN YOUR HEART.

OR WILL YOU HAVE NO ROOT, AND THE SEED ONLY LASTS A SHORT TIME.

OR WILL YOU LET THE CARES OF THIS LIFE CHOKE THE SEED THAT IS PLANTED IN YOUR HEART.

OR WILL YOU BE GOOD SOIL??