Sept. 7, 2024

Matthew 13:4 and Alcohol?

Matthew 13:4 and Alcohol?

A review of a sermon on Matthew 13:4

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A review of a sermon on Matthew 13:4

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Heavy metal with bagpipes? Wait? What heavy metal with bagpipes?

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Are we?

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Are we talking about a real genre of music? What

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do we I know you may be asking, why are

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you talking about that? Well, that's a good question because

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in our last live broadcast, we really were left what

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we were left were with. We were left with the question,

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which was what metal bands use bagpipes? That's what we

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were left with that after all of we did in

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the last live broadcast, we were left with the question

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what metal bands have buy bagpipes in their music. Yeah,

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I'm doing really well talking this afternoon, but that's what

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we were left with. I'm hoping, I'm hoping in this broadcast,

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I'm hoping, I'm hoping, I'm hoping and hoping we won't

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be looking for which metal bands have bagpipes. I'm hoping

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we'll we'll find ourselves looking for something. I know that's

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probably not a completely fair thing to say about the

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last live broadcast, but in some ways that was kind

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of the joke. So we're going to move forward and

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hopefully this will be a little bit more successful. I

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don't know how do we measure that. Hopefully it'll be

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more beneficial. But with all of that said, good afternoon everyone.

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It is Saturday, September seventh, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently three twenty five pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, just to get everyone

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caught up, it started with a very simple idea, which

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is what always happens here on this podcast. I come

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up with what I think will be a simple idea,

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and then it just tur There's twists and turns, and

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we never know where we're going to end up, but

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we always end up in some very interesting places, and

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hopefully by the time the journey ends, we've found something

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to be somewhat beneficial and hopefully spiritually, you know, helpful

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to your Christian life. That's always the goal. But the

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idea was simple, Hey, here's a study Bible. I haven't

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done much with this study Bible. I don't like to

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have any books anywhere near me that I haven't done

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something with. I haven't taken extensive notes on, I haven't

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read multiple times, I haven't used it for a sermon

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or or for a podcast. I've got to get the

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most out of every book. So I've got this study

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Bible sitting here. Let me open it up, all right,

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flip the page, flip the fing ooh, look at this.

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Here's an article about how to read and study the Bible.

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Well that's an easy podcast mini series, ladies and gentlemen.

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We're going to be discussing how to read and study

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the Bible for the next few episodes. It should be beneficial.

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I will offer my critique and analysis and compare it

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to all the Bible study methods which I have taught.

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Let's go simple idea, right, and then the next thing

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we know, we get to a part in the basically

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the introduction to the article that says, Okay, if you

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want to be an effective Bible student, if you want

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that Bible study to be really effectual in your life,

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to really accomplish something, then you must start not with

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knowledge about hermoneutics and biblical principles of interpretation. No no, no, no,

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no no no. You need to start with getting your

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heart right, because it's the condition of your heart that

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will determine if you can be an effective Bible student,

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and it will determine if studying the Bible, listening discermons,

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or going to church will even be beneficial and do

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anything for you. You've got to get your heart right.

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And of course I'm not good at just reading something

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and just teaching it. I read and ask a million questions,

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I challenge. I try to create my own hypotheses and

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then test it, and then that's all what always happens.

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So of course, immediately I was like, I'm the student

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in the back of the room raising my hand, going

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wait a minute, wait a minute. If I have to

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get my heart right before I study the Bible, well,

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then how do I get my heart right? Because I

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thought it was the Bible that helps me get my

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heart right. So is it the study of the Bible

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that helps my heart or do I already have to

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have my heart right before I study the Bible? And

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it was very confusing and very almost contradictory in a way.

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You're kind of going in a circle. Well, you got

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to get your heart right, but the Bible is what

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helps you get your heart right. But the Bible won't

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do any good until you get your heart right. But

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if I already have my heart right, then I don't

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need the Bible to get my heart right, because it's

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already right before I even started studying. So the whole

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thing was just confusing and confounding. So we started questioning it,

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and we started challenging this whole concept, and they were

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utilizing the parable and March after four typically referenced as

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the parable of the sewer, or you could refer to

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it as I tend to like the idea the parable

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of the soils because it's referring to different ground, but

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it is actually in the Bible called the parable of

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the sewer. So we started looking at the parable itself.

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We started challenging this view that this parable is telling

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you how to be an effectual Bible student. You have

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to get your heart right. How do you get your

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heart right? Well, it seems the best answer we can

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come up with after not only looking at the article,

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looking at a book that the author wrote listening to

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sermons is basically you just say, God, make my heart right,

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and then your heart is right. And I guess then

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it's always right because you get a new heart. But

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then there were also the implication, then you get a

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brand new heart when you get saved. Well, if I

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get a brand new heart. When I get saved, well,

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then I shouldn't have any heart problems because I just

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got a brand new heart. But at the same time,

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even though it was implied that we get a brand

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new heart in salvation, and it was also implied that

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sometimes our heart gets hard or cold, or our heart

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gets distracted by the cares of this world. And it's

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like seemingly to describe the different grounds that's described in

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the parable, But then at the same time we said, no, no, no,

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the only people that are saved in that parable are

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the people with the good ground. So the people with

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the good ground, that the people have a good heart,

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and the only way you get a good heart is

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at salvation, so then you shouldn't have any of those problems.

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But at the same time, the sermons seems, the sermons

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that we've reviewed, seem to imply that we can have

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those problems. So we've been left with just absolute no answers.

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It's been confusing, it's been confounding, it's been contradictory, it's

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been problematic, it's been irritating, and dare I say, it's

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been frustrating. So we've offered some things. Now a lot

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of people the reason they say, well, Mark four, when

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it talks about that one ground, the good ground, the

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tilled ground, it produces fruit. Well, we know they're the

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only people saved because in the Gospel of Mark it

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says by your fruits, or in the Gospel of Matthew

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it says by their fruits you will know them. So

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then they say, well, see that proves that fruit is

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the way you prove salvation. The only problem is when

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you go to that passage in Matthew, the fruit there

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is not about salvation. It's about determining if someone is

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a true or false teacher. It's not really about determining

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someone's salvation because clearly even Christians can well do well,

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I mean, have all kinds of problems. So we looked

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at that and kind of challenge that, but we've not

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really been given any good answers. It's something like, hey,

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you got to get your heart right to study the Bible.

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But you need the Bible to get your heart right. However,

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you got to you have your heart right before you

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study the Bible, and then the way you get a

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good heart is just, I guess you just ask God.

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Sometimes they make it sound like you ask God after salvation,

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But then others make it sound like, well, you get

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it in salvation. But if everyone gets a new heart

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in salvation, then we shouldn't have any heart problems. Meaning well,

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and it's the heart. The same thing as to say nature,

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or do we separate those two? Do we have a

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new heart but an old nature? And there's the new

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heart and the old nature, and then fight each other,

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and so then we don't have any How does that

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which one is stronger, the new heart or the old nature?

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And so now are we somewhat conflicted? And well, sometimes

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they make it sound like that the new heart is

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stronger than the old nature. But then they will tell

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you can't get to perfection. Well, why can't I get

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to perfection? Well, because I have the old nature. That

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would mean the old nature is stronger than the new heart.

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So then it's all it's all confusing. And we've talked

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about this so many times, but this is highlighting many

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of the issues we've had. So we've been working on

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it and working on it and working on it, and

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I will be working on it more tomorrow at Victory

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Baptist Church. My intention was to go to church tomorrow

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and do other things but we're gonna do some work

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on this tomorrow. I don't know how far we will get.

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But in the meantime, I was like, well, do I

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broadcast today? Do I not broadcast? I was really conflict.

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I was really conflicted, And so I opened up the

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sermons two point oh app and you're not going to

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believe this. I opened up the sermons two point oh app.

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I tapped on the feed tab and the very first

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sermon listed is entitled the Wrong Seed by Bible Believers

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Baptist Church. The Wrong Seed Bible Believers, Baptist Church. Now, first,

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the first thing I saw was just the word seed,

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and I'm like, oh, you gotta be kase this is

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going to be another sermon on Mark chapter four. Well,

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we know that obviously the same parable is told in

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Matthew thirteen. And just the other day I found a

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random sermon in my sermon's two point oh feed on

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Matthew chapter thirteen. So but I saw seed, I'm like,

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oh is this Mark four? And I clicked on. I'm like,

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oh wait, it's Matthew thirteen. But wait a minute, it's

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Matthew thirteen, okay, which is the same parables and Mark

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four the parable of the So why is it called

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the wrong seed? So then I was like, hmm, So

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I clicked on. I'm like, well, let me and I

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hit play for just a second, and I realized that

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this is kind of an ongoing series. So I went

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and found what I thought was the first message. But

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then I'm like, well, do I want to go with

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the first message? I'm really curious because I don't know

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anything in this parable that talks about the wrong seed.

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I don't know anything in the parable that talks about

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the wrong seed. Nothing in Mark four, nothing in Matthew thirteen.

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So we have to listen to this. So we're gonna

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review this, and this will go on with our ongoing

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discussion about the parable of the Sewer, Mark four, the

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Parable of the Sower, Matthew thirteen. We have, you know,

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those two main passages are the ones we're looking at.

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I've given you some assignments to work on and reading

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Mark four and then checking Mark three, because that's kind

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of a hypothesis that I'm working on, trying to find

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a new way to interpret it. I've also challenged our

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interpretation of Mark this parable to look at it from

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more of a possible kind of a more you know,

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dispensational perspective, and you know, maybe that will work, maybe

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that it's not, And I don't care if it's dispensational

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non dispensational. The key is trying to understand the passage,

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because again, the interpretations are all are all over the place,

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and it's just been confusing. Some people want to turn

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it illness into a test of salvation. I don't think

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that's what the parable was ever designed to be. Others

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just want to make it pretty simple, like all it's

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doing is just showing that when the word whatever, however

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we define the word there, whether it's a message about

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the kick coming kingdom or whether it's the Gospel itself.

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It would be hard to say it's the entire Bible,

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but if you even if you want to go there,

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I think it's just simply trying to say there's going

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to be different responses, and the different responses will as

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being visualized as soil or ground. And I don't know

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if it's really supposed to go beyond that, because typically

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the pair of have one basic meaning, but we love

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to just expound on them and expand them and expand them,

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and I think sometimes we then lead ourselves into some

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really difficult areas theologically and harmoneutically that I think goes

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beyond the actual meaning of the parable. And then even

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if it goes to well, the soil represents the heart. Okay,

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even if you go with that theory. Now you can

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and you can see if that actually works. Is the

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ground representing the heart? Because okay, but if it represents

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the heart, well, then what changes the heart? If you

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say it's just God, Well, then you can't tell people

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they have to get their heart right in order to

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be able to an effectual Bible student. Because they can't

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get their heart right. God has to get their heart right.

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then everyone should have a perfect heart. And if everyone

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has a perfect heart, you would think, because where does

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Jesus say sin comes from? Doesn't say it comes from

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our heart? Well, then if we have no sin in

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our heart, should not be the expectation then be there's

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no internal anything right we should be We should not

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have any internal sin inside of us. We should have

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no evil desires, we should have everything should just be perfect, right,

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So it's just all of these questions has been have

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been swirling around then, of course, and the last broadcast

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it ended up about heavy metal music and bagpipes because

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the person was telling he told some stories, and he

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told stories about being at a convenience store putting gas

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in his car and there was this large man listening

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to heavy metal with bagpipes, and I was like, what

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is going on? Okay, but you can go back and

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listen to that, So we're gonna least listen to this.

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There's no way we're going to finish this review in

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one particular episode because the audio is fifty three minutes.

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We know a twenty minute audio I can review for.

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I can have a twenty minute audio and do two

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hours of review. But what we're gonna do is just

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try to get I just want to know the wrong seed.

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Where do you find the wrong seed in this? Parable?

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Is it this? I'm I don't like that title. Boom job,

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well done. Your title is just like slap me in

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the face, and like I got to hear this because

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I gotta find there, because if I've been sitting there

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trying to figure out Mark four and Matthew thirteen, we've

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been trying to figure out this parable Do we have

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a new problem? Is there wrong seed?

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A right?

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Well? Are we adding this into the let's find out.

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We're gonna find out now.

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That in chapter thirteen. Try to pick up where we're

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left off this morning, am bad throw Matthew chapter thirteen.

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Give you just a couple of principles, and we will

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close out. I think we'll close out tonight this thing

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about the ground. And for those of us that are

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dirt bags and realize that, at least for me, it

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simplifies things to know that there's not a multiplicity of

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things that can be wrong. What I like about what

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I'm going to try to show you here is is that.

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The problem's not the seed.

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The problem is what we do with our ground and

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what we allow to grow in God's ground.

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And okay, well, so the title accomplished its purpose the

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wrong seed. And I'm like, ooh, and he just said

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the problem isn't the seed. Okay, Well I feel better

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because I thought, what is he adding here? But he

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said there's another problem. I'm going to back this up

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just a little bit. I'm gonna back it all the

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way up. I know it starts off with a period

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of silence. But we'll get we'll get there, right, So,

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so at least we know it's not the wrong seed. Okay,

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that I guess In some ways I kind of wanted

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to know. I wanted to know what what is this

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theory of the wrong seed? So he calls it the

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wrong seed, but he's now telling me there the problem

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isn't the seed. So I don't know why he's called

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the wrong seed. All right, let let's see where this

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is going. But listen to what the problem is. Listen

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to what the problem is. Okay, so according to him,

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Mark four, Matthew thirteen, same parable.

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Now he didn't say that, but we know it is

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all right now, we know that in some of it.

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And again I don't have time to go back and

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review everything, so I'm just you know, if you if

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you're behind, go read them. But the seed is is

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broadcasted out. Well, we learned that the phrase broadcast seeding seeding.

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You're throwing the seed out. You're just tossing it anywhere.

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think of it, right, it's just being tossed anywhere, right, Okay,

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So the seed is thrown out and we know that

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in that the there's different things that happen depending on

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the ground in which it falls, right, but only one

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produces fruit that seems to last. That's the one with

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the tilled ground, with the good ground. Okay, now he's saying,

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all right, so the problem isn't the seed. The problem, then,

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I would say, is the ground. But I don't think

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he did he say it's the ground or did he

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say it's something else. Let's let's see how he described it.

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Admits bad thrown Matthew chapter thirteen. Give you just a

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couple of principles, and we will close out. I think

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we'll close out tonight this thing about the ground. And

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for those of us that are dirt bags and realize that,

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at least for me, it simplifies things to know that

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there's not a multiplicity of things that can be wrong.

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show you here is is that the problem's not the seed.

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what we allow to grow in God's ground.

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and what we allow to grow in the ground. So

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the problem is what we do with the ground and

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what we allow to grow in the ground. So the

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problem is us. Now what is the solution to that problem?

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Is it God or is it us? And if the

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problem is us, it's what we do with the ground

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and what we allow to grow in the ground, then

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are you saying this is a problem that happens to Christians?

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the ground represents our heart, then clearly we didn't get

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a new heart in salvation. So immediately, see, do we

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see this possible? This has the possibility of being very

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different than all the other messages we've already reviewed, and

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that like, how many different approaches can there be to

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this passage? And remember this parable? I'm going to go

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back to Mark chapter four, verse thirteen. Mark chapter four,

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verse thirteen, and he said to them, do you not

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understand this? Turned the page? This parable? How then will

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you understand all the parables? If we don't understand this parable,

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Jesus seems to imply we can't understand any of them.

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have not yet found one agreed upon interpretation. We've not

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seem to even agree on how to even approach the

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text there seems to be. I mean, if this parable

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is the key, and if we don't get this one right,

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we don't understand all of them, then you would think

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christiandom would be like, there's only one way to understand

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this parable. This is the way it is, because if

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we don't get this right, we don't understand any of

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the parables. Well, how can we know if we're getting

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it right? If no one can agree on what the

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right interpretation is? All right, but just remember, according to him,

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the problem is that the seed. Okay, amen, I think

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we can agree there. The problem is what we what

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you and I do with the ground, and what you

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and I allow to grow in that ground? Now, oh man,

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and just think about it. If it's the heart, if

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we're referencing the heart, what do you mean what we

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allow to grow in the heart? The heart is depraved, right,

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so we don't have to let anything grow in it.

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It's already there, correct, Right. I'm interested to see how

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this all plays.

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Out, and oftentimes those things wind up getting conflicted and

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creates issues for you. And it's just real practical stuff

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to try to help you in your Christian life, to

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try to not have to struggle so much to not

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talk so much about having a good Christian life, but

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to actually have a good Christian life, what does it require?

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Awful sanctification, separation a good way to put it, to

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be able to keep the ground clear of clutter and

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to keep the pathway clear. Too much getting packed down,

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getting set up, getting concreted, getting where the ground gets

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hard and it gets where the word can't get in there,

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or it's too overgrown with thorns and thistles. Oftentimes, on

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your plow, thorns and thistles will be there. And what

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you may not recognize is is when you get ready

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to make a pass with that plow, even if it's

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a trouble hook plow, when you can pass through there.

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If you're not careful, all that dirt will do is

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is fall over on the thorns and thistles, and you think,

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because they're covered up, they're not there. And then you

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get ready sometimes to get you a broom handle, and

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you put a hole in there and drop three seeds

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in there if you're planting corn, and the next thing

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you know, that thing gets twisted up and you reach

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down there and you grab it, and then you have

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little splinters and all from the thorns that are covered

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up by the dirt.

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God doesn't intend for you to do that.

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He wants you to moult that stuff up and destroy

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that stuff from the roots up. But oftentimes, as you'll

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find out with a story about the Parable of the

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tears coming in there, once your ground becomes valuable, make

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no mistake about it, it's not always you. The devil's

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interested in your ground.

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Okay, So immediately we know we're off to a for

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an approach. Discipplo. Everyone in this parable, every one of

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the I'm just gonna read it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna

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I'm gonna go to Matthew thirteenth, since that's where he is.

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I'm gonna go ahead and just read Matthew thirteen. I apologize.

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I know we're twenty three minutes into this and I

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just keep referencing it instead of reading it. I probably

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should have just read it right from the start. I apologize,

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all right, but all right, because I figure a lot

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of times if I read it and then I start

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the sermon and immediately they read it, all right, So

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it's better just to let them read it. But he's

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not start, He's just starting the same way, just like

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everyone already understands where we are after all the hours

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we've already spent on this. I'm assuming everyone is. But

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let's just get everyone on the same page. Matthew, Chapter thirteen,

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verse three. And now soon as I read this, he's

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going to read it. But that's okay, all right. Then

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he spoke to me. He spoke many things and parables, saying, behold,

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a sewer went out to sew, and I see. So

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some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds came

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and devoured them. Some fell on stony places where they

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did not have much earth, and they immediately spring up

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because they had no death of earth. But when the

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sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had

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no root, they withered away. Some fell among thorns, and

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the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell

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on good ground. So you have to seed, and you

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have all these different grounds, and the grounds represent well.

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He calls it our ground, right, and I'm assuming he

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means our heart. But he applies this too. He applies

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each one of these types of ground to all Christians.

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He's saying, hey, is a Christian. You can't let it

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get too packed down. Right, you can't let it become

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like the wayside. So he's saying that this is applicable

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to all of us. Others say, look, no, no, no, no,

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these other grounds, those aren't Christians. The only Christian in

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this parable is the one with good ground. The others

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don't represent Christian life or Christians. It represents lost people.

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He's saying, no, no. And then we had one sermon

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that applied two of the grounds to lost people and

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then two to save people. So we have some who

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say only one is saved. We had another one that

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says two for two, and now this one and says

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all of them are applicable to Christians. Now, remember this

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is the parable that if we don't get right, we

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can't understand any of the other parables. And we've now listened,

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I think, to three sermons, and already we have three

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completely radical different approaches. Only one per Only one ground

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here represents save people. No, two grounds represent save people.

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He's saying, all of them represent Christians. So what we

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have to do is constantly be checking our ground to

465
00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:31.200
ensure that it's not well, it's not like one of these.

466
00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:33.319
Wow.

467
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.720
Then I'm glad we've brought great clarification to this, and

468
00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:41.720
we now all understand. Let's see how we see his approach. Now,

469
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.079
let's see where he takes it. I'm not saying he's wrong.

470
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.240
I'm not saying the others wrong. I don't think anyone

471
00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:46.880
really knows.

472
00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:51.480
You say why, Because he wants to plant his own

473
00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.240
crop there, you've become valuable. Thorns and thistles don't mean

474
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.640
anything to him. But once you clear that stuff out,

475
00:25:57.799 --> 00:26:00.319
once you get it fixed up where God can do

476
00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:02.839
something with it, all of a sudden you become valuable

477
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.680
to him. And he may not have messed with you before,

478
00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:08.400
but now that it's ready for planting, he wants to

479
00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.920
put his slew foot right there, put that cloven hoof

480
00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.480
right there, and he'll take that ground and use it

481
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.920
for what he wants instead of what God wants.

482
00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:22.759
Okay, now that preach is good, here's my question, are

483
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:28.440
you ready? First, based on Matthew thirteen and based on

484
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:33.039
Matthew four, does it have any does it indicate in

485
00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:36.440
any way, shape or form that Satan will come along

486
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:42.640
and plant seed in the good ground? Is there any

487
00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:47.319
indication in these parables that Satan will come along and

488
00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:50.799
plant Now you may say well, it's inferred, it's implied,

489
00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:54.440
or come on, that's a logical that's a logical conclusion.

490
00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:58.000
I'm just asking, based off these parables, do we have

491
00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:01.079
any warning? Does Jesus say, hey, hey, guys, guys, guys,

492
00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:03.920
even those of you who have the tilled ground and

493
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:06.039
you're producing fruit, you got to be on the lookout

494
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:09.200
because Satan will come and he'll plant in your good ground.

495
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.680
So this is the idea. If the good ground represents

496
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:14.960
a good heart, then even if you have a good heart,

497
00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.559
Satan can come along and now plant in your good heart.

498
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.319
So you not only want you even if you get

499
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:22.880
a good heart, you're now going to be on the

500
00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:25.559
lookout that Satan will come and not plant in your

501
00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:28.680
good heart. How does Satan come plant in your good heart?

502
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:31.920
I'm assuming then it's gonna be. So I guess this

503
00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:35.079
is the idea that you're I don't I don't even understand.

504
00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.279
So you're you get a brand new heart?

505
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:38.160
Boom?

506
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.720
So is that the eradication of the old nature? I

507
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.519
don't know. Do you have a heart? We already went

508
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:44.559
back and forth on that. So you get a new heart,

509
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.640
but now Satan can come and plant in the new heart.

510
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:48.519
So even if you get a new heart, your problems

511
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.279
aren't really over because Satan can now come plant in

512
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.920
your heart. So if he plants in your heart, is

513
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.640
it now a new heart. If Satan can plant something

514
00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:59.599
in your heart, the a minity plants in your heart,

515
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.920
it's no longer a new heart, right, it's now a

516
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.279
corrupted heart.

517
00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:10.319
Look again at the path the parable here and pick

518
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:12.519
it up in verse number eighteen. This is the Lord

519
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:14.799
now talking to the boys here, and he's going to

520
00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:16.960
give him it Matthew thirteen, verse eighteen.

521
00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:18.599
He's going to give them what it means.

522
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:22.039
When anyone hereth the word of the Kingdom understandeth it not,

523
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.359
then cometh the wicked one and catcheth the way that

524
00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:25.599
which is sown in his heart.

525
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.640
We talked about that. Understand it that not? What does

526
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:29.039
it mean?

527
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.400
I don't understand what God's trying to say to me.

528
00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.640
Understanding is is how what God's saying applies to me.

529
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:35.359
Into my life.

530
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.200
And then he says that we receive the seed by

531
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.359
the wayside, trample down with your own way of thinking, your.

532
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:42.920
Own way of doing in those things.

533
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:45.240
And he received the seed in the sony place the

534
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.319
same as he that hearth the Word and Anon with joy,

535
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.640
And he that hath not rooted himself, but dureth for

536
00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:55.279
a while, for when tribulation and persecution arrives because of

537
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:59.000
the Word, not because of foolishness, by that he is offended.

538
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:01.839
He also receiveth the seed among the thorns. Is he

539
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:03.799
that heareth the Word, and the care of this world.

540
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.000
Care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke

541
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:10.319
the word, and it becometh unfruitful Verse twenty three, hoping

542
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.079
to get here tonight. But he that receiveth the seed

543
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:15.799
into the good ground, is he that heareth the Word

544
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:20.119
and understandeth it, and beareth fruit, bringing forth some hundredfold,

545
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:23.920
some sixty and some thirty. A brother, Sam, you pray,

546
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:25.359
would you and ask the Lord to help.

547
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:30.160
Us thanks chance to.

548
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:39.079
Bring sure as you preach us to us.

549
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:46.720
And Jesus Us Okay, so pray that God will help

550
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:51.759
us now again. I'm always I'm always confounded and confused

551
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:57.000
by Christianity, sometimes right, because constantly we get these prayers

552
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:00.480
before sermons. God only let me say that which is true. Well,

553
00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:04.279
if God is keeping every pastor from only saying that

554
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:07.160
which is true, we should all have the same doctrine, right, Okay,

555
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:09.640
God help us understand. Well, if God is the one

556
00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:12.960
helping us understand, we should have all the same understanding. Right.

557
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.480
So now he's like God prepare our hearts, like prepare

558
00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:19.279
our ground. So now is God the one who prepares

559
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.119
the ground. So if God is the one who prepares

560
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.000
the ground, then it's not us having to It's not

561
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:27.079
about us what we deal with the ground. God's the

562
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:28.960
one's going to till the ground. So is it us?

563
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.759
Is it God? Can anyone explain any of this to me?

564
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:36.160
It's so I cannot keep like, I think one of

565
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.599
the reasons sometimes when I began these messages especially, I

566
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.000
think this has been very true when I begin these

567
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.279
messages so far in this after we kind of left

568
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:47.200
the study Bible and we've got into Mark four in

569
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:50.880
Matthew thirteen, I think reason some of my introductions haven't

570
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:53.920
flown very well, that don't seem to flow very well

571
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.200
to me, right, flown haven't flowed very well to me

572
00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:03.640
is because I'm I'm just so I'm so confused by

573
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:05.880
it all, Like I'm just like, okay, so if I

574
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:08.279
even try to review it, how much like do I

575
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.839
just constantly go through all the different interpretations. It's turning

576
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.480
into that. It's going to be like for the next hour,

577
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.960
I'm going to list all the different interpretations to this parable,

578
00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:22.920
and just remember everyone, if we don't get this parable right,

579
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.759
we can't understand any of them by by what we're

580
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:29.039
discovering is I don't know if we any of us

581
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:32.079
can understand it. But okay, so they prayed. All right,

582
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.000
let's see where this goes. Right, Let's see it appears

583
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:39.759
to me he's every one of these different soils, these

584
00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:43.759
different grounds, all of them were applicable to Christians. So

585
00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:45.960
this all so we could be any We can be

586
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.079
the Christian. On the wayside, we could be the Christian.

587
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:50.400
And amongst the thorns we can we can be the

588
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:53.160
Christians without any route. We could be the Christians with

589
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:57.319
good we could be any of them. Now, okay, then

590
00:31:57.359 --> 00:31:59.720
what makes the difference, What makes the difference?

591
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:04.839
See now, what happens here is is that the soil,

592
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.240
once it gets cleared out, once you get the thorns

593
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:11.160
and thistles, you understand that when when the Lord lays

594
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.839
down the ground and you get that stuff cleared out,

595
00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.759
that all of a sudden that vacant field becomes something

596
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:19.240
of great interest to the devil.

597
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:24.200
So it sounds like, at least he seems to infer

598
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.000
that we're the ones who clean it out. So we're

599
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.000
the ones. So we're the ones who break up the

600
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:35.640
wayside ground, We're the ones who get rid of all

601
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.759
the stuff. We're the So I guess it's not now

602
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:42.119
he may say, it's maybe he may. I'm assuming he's

603
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.440
going to say it's a synergistic work, right. Obviously he's

604
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:48.839
not going with a moneergistic idea, So synergistic meaning it's

605
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:52.599
the work of two. So it's us in God, we're

606
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.720
working together to get the ground right. So I guess

607
00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.119
he's definitely not implying then that we just get a

608
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.000
new heart, all right, So he doesn't seem to be

609
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.279
going with the idea you get a new heart, unless

610
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:11.480
so we become saved and now we've got this old,

611
00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:13.920
messed up heart that we have to now work on

612
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:17.359
to clear it out, to get it ready. That seems

613
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:18.559
to be the implication here.

614
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:21.720
I mean, the seed may.

615
00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.319
Be good because it's easily plucked off, it's easily come

616
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:26.480
by there, it doesn't have straw or anything on it,

617
00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:28.920
and the seed that's laying there by the wayside, the

618
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:31.680
devil's easy to grab that because you've already made up

619
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:34.079
your mind. It doesn't make a difference. What God says,

620
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:35.960
don't confuse me with the facts. Is the way the

621
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:39.359
old statement goes. And that ground has become so packed

622
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:42.680
and so hardened that when the seed comes in lit

623
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:45.920
and can I say this to you, there's absolutely no

624
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:51.440
lack of seed. There's plenty of seed. The Lord says

625
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.279
in the last days. It's not that there's a lack

626
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:56.960
of preaching. He says, in the last days there's a famine,

627
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.519
a land of hearers. The ground's not good. I've already

628
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.599
made up my mind. And so the seed gets thrown.

629
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:04.799
There's plenty of seed to go out, and there's plenty

630
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:06.960
of seed to raise a crop. The problem is never

631
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:09.639
the seed or the abundance of seed. The problem is

632
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.039
the ground for the seed to fall on. And in

633
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:13.800
the day and time in which you live, people have

634
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.199
already made up their mind. They've traveled that ground back

635
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.360
and forth and back and forth. In the South we

636
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.800
used to say this, I've said it to you many times.

637
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:23.920
We don't do it like at around here. Well, what

638
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:26.360
does the Bible say? We don't care what the Bible says.

639
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:28.639
All we gonna do is what we always do around here.

640
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.079
We don't do it like at around here. But what

641
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.920
does the Bible say? The Bible teaches you that by

642
00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:36.320
your traditions you make the word of God of no effect.

643
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:38.880
You say, what is that that's well traveled ground by

644
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:41.639
the wayside. I've already decided how I feel about it,

645
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.320
what I'm going to do, and that just settles it.

646
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.840
For instance, you might even bring up something that I

647
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:48.559
bring up regularly around here is I'm not sure none

648
00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:48.840
of you.

649
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:50.760
Folks have any problem with it whatsoever.

650
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:53.400
But when it comes to say something like drinking, I

651
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.960
could preach on drinking and the majority of you be

652
00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:57.400
like snoozefest.

653
00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.079
But that's a regular thing.

654
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:02.400
And I'm not talking about Nike will at night. I'm

655
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:05.000
talking about you're two months away now from coming up

656
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.679
on Thanksgiving. Well, Thanksgiving as good as time as any other. Well,

657
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.159
that's just your conviction. No, See, that's where you're wrong.

658
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:14.360
Your ground's hard. That seed just fell on the wayside.

659
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.400
You say, why you done made up your mind what

660
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:18.760
you're gonna do, and you don't care what the Bible says,

661
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:20.800
or what the preacher says, or what a good.

662
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.000
Christian says to you.

663
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.199
You've decided it's not a problem for you. The problem

664
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.239
is is that you have hard ground and you won't let.

665
00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:29.320
God have his way with you.

666
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:32.599
And you'd think something that's that's silly, like a bottle,

667
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.239
like somebody having liquor. You'd think something that's stupid that

668
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.760
you wouldn't say, Well, I wouldn't want to risk my

669
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:41.920
fellowship with the Lord over a glass of liquor.

670
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.280
A can of beer.

671
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:43.480
Who would want to do that?

672
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.800
Well, I just don't see a problem with it, preacher.

673
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.000
Okay, Well, we'll find out who's right at.

674
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.639
The judgment seat.

675
00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:52.079
If you're saved.

676
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:58.559
Whoa so hard ground? One of the proofs of hard

677
00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:03.639
ground is if you have a disagreement with a pastor

678
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:09.320
over whether a Christian should totally abstain from liquor or

679
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:15.960
whether a Christian can drink moderately. So hard ground now

680
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.360
is if you say, hey, as long as I don't

681
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.000
get drunk, I am not violating any scripture. He says,

682
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:26.159
that's hard ground, and you're gonna find out. We're gonna

683
00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:29.039
find out who's right at the judgment seat. So wait,

684
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.079
we're gonna find out at the judgment seat that if

685
00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:35.239
someone moderately drinks, are gonna find out that they're wrong

686
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.559
even if it was complete sin. Aren't all their sins

687
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:42.159
forgiven in Christ Jesus? Or is God now gonna sit

688
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.559
there and go through all the sins you've ever committed? Well,

689
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:47.639
if God, when I get to heaven, if He's gonna

690
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:50.800
start outlining every sin I've ever committed, I'm telling you

691
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.760
I don't drink at all, but I'm in trouble. Man,

692
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:57.760
you don't want to be anywhere near me because God's

693
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.119
gonna list out a whole law on the list. Man,

694
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:04.760
you may want to bring a chair because you're gonna

695
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:08.039
be waiting a long time. You're like, man alive. I've

696
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.000
been here for three days and he's still on that theology.

697
00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:14.199
Central guy. Can you can we move this along? I

698
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:17.639
would like to get in now. I'm being obviously somewhat

699
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.360
sarcastic and a little bit of hyperbolic, but it just

700
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:24.880
seems that that hard ground now is well, you should

701
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:25.679
not drink.

702
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:26.000
Well.

703
00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:28.519
I believe the Bible says as long as I drink

704
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:32.079
within moderation and I do not get drunk. There's nothing wrong.

705
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.199
You've got hard ground. You're gonna find out at the

706
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:41.239
judgment seat. Wow, that's now. Look, I don't think Christians

707
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:42.960
should drink, not be, and I don't even do it

708
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.880
from a biblical perspective. I just think any any substance

709
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.360
that could produce an addiction, I'm a little bit concerned with.

710
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.159
So I just think for our lives are difficult enough.

711
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.239
We've got enough problems, We've got enough sin. The last

712
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:57.559
thing I need is to put anything in my body

713
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.079
that that could impact my ability to judge things into

714
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:05.360
discerned things and bring I just think from a practical perspective,

715
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.800
it's just safer because the last thing you ever want

716
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.159
to do is become addicted to alcohol or drugs, And

717
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:12.440
the best way to avoid addiction is to never do

718
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:16.119
so that's the best advice. That's just advice. But I

719
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:19.559
wouldn't look at you and go you hard hearted ways

720
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.440
side Christian, the seed of God, the seed of God's

721
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:26.199
word just falls on you and bounces off because you're

722
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:29.239
so hardened by your tradition and by you just doing

723
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:31.519
what you want to do. Because you don't agree with

724
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:40.639
me about alcohol, that's a weird place to get here. See,

725
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:46.360
you see what happens to the parables. See this is

726
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.519
why the preaching and the teaching the parables always drives

727
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:55.239
me to the point of insanity, because traditionally, hermoneutically we

728
00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:59.000
say the parables have one basic meaning or not to

729
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.039
break down. Every part represents this. So now the hard

730
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:07.920
soil can represent a Christian who simply disagrees on the

731
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.360
subject of full abstaining from alcohol or moderately drinking. He's

732
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:18.559
not even drawing the difference between abstaining and getting drunk.

733
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:23.639
He's drawing the distinction between moderately drinking and abstaining. That

734
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:28.559
seems like a you draw your own conclusions.

735
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:32.960
I mean, I'll have the day to be able to

736
00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:34.599
watch the Lord up there say well, I know you

737
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:36.320
didn't think it was a big deal, but I did.

738
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.039
That's why I put it in the Bible. But you see,

739
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.599
you're not going to hear anything else. I've already said already.

740
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.440
I can guarantee you this. We're not building over there.

741
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.559
It's been a lot of years ago, and the guy

742
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:49.320
happened to walk in, and I happened to be on

743
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.760
a tear about drinking and I went through seventy something

744
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.800
versus about drinking and the problems with alcohol, and I

745
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.400
gave a bunch of illustrations and back.

746
00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:58.960
In my day, long before heroin and.

747
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:02.159
Cocaine, and he's in blues and all the other pills

748
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:04.800
and all that other stuff and pill pain clinics and

749
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.159
that kind of a deal. I mean, there was nothing

750
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.840
like liquor to destroy a family, and nothing like liquor

751
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.440
to wind up with people jacked up and cracked up

752
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.199
in the hospital or in the jailhouse. And liquor was

753
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.960
just destroying people's lives right and left, and that kind

754
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:20.719
of a thing. And I went through that, and this

755
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:23.880
guy walked in and he sat there and he said

756
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:26.079
he Furst. And he said when he got ready to go,

757
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.719
every time I go to a blank church, all they

758
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.679
want to do is talk about drunks and drinking.

759
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:33.320
Well, I didn't even know you were coming.

760
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:35.559
I don't even know you from Adam's Housecat, I don't

761
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.920
know you have a problem with liquor. And you walk

762
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.079
in the door and I happen to be preaching on liquor.

763
00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:41.119
Is that God?

764
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.159
Or is that you? You want to go find a

765
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:45.800
church that doesn't preach on liquor.

766
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:47.039
They're all over the place.

767
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.440
As a matter of fact, they even drink it in

768
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:51.679
the Lord's suffer. You know what you are, You're just

769
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:53.119
a jack leg.

770
00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:54.199
And you're not a Christian.

771
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.960
You're a saved individual with no scruples and no character

772
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:01.480
enough to say no, sir, it's not pleasing to the Lord.

773
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.280
I ain't doing it. But you don't care who you affect.

774
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.239
You don't care who you hurt. You're a you're a

775
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:09.400
smart alec. You're kind of a you know, I'll do

776
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:11.360
what I want to do. It's my life, it is

777
00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:13.320
your life. Really, are you saved?

778
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.760
Wow? Is he implying that anybody who thinks moderate drinking

779
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:22.119
is okay is not saved?

780
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:23.719
Why?

781
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:30.559
Oh boy, We're never going to find out the actual

782
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:34.599
meaning to these parables because all these sermons just go crazy.

783
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.079
They just I don't understand. We've yet to find a

784
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.199
sermon that will just actually work with the actual text here,

785
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:52.440
Like what what? I am so confused. I'm so confused,

786
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.239
and I don't I could back it up. It made

787
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:58.199
it sound like where you're not saved, but then you

788
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.960
could be saved. So so maybe he's saying you could

789
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.559
be saved. You may not be safe. But at this way,

790
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.239
he's questioning the man spiritual, whether they're saved or not saved.

791
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:11.039
He's questioning everything about their spirituality based I guess on

792
00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:13.880
the attitude about drinking. Now, maybe because the man supposedly

793
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:18.039
cursed and then was upset, maybe he's mixing the two. Well,

794
00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:21.079
they cursed and they have an issue with me preaching

795
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.840
against alcohol, so therefore I'm gonna call into question their salvation.

796
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:26.599
Maybe instead of just talking to the man that way,

797
00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:30.000
maybe you just say, well, let's talk about this. So

798
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:34.719
what's your thoughts here? Like, why are you so bothered

799
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.920
at people preach against alcohol? What is it about sermons

800
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.760
against alcohol that bothers you so much? Wouldn't that be

801
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.000
the approach instead of just like he sounded like he

802
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:46.159
was almost provoking. Why would you He sounded like he

803
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.119
was ready to fight. Why why don't we you just

804
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:52.199
calmly say, hey, calm down, calm down, calm down. All right,

805
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.519
Well I'll let everyone leave and we'll talk about it

806
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:56.639
in private and tell me, okay, So what is it

807
00:42:56.679 --> 00:43:00.280
about sermons against alcohol that make you so angry? Talk

808
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:03.840
to me? Wouldn't that be the way wouldn't that be

809
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:04.639
the way to go?

810
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:05.480
Right?

811
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:07.599
So I'm gonna back this up just a little, gonna

812
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:09.199
back this up just a little.

813
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.960
Here we go, been cracked up in the hospital or

814
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.400
in the jailhouse, and liquor was just destroying people's lives

815
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:18.960
right and left and that kind of a thing.

816
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:19.960
And I went through that.

817
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.960
And this guy walked in and he sat there and

818
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:25.159
he said he first, and he said when he got

819
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:27.760
ready to go, every time I go to a blank church,

820
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.280
all they want to do is talk about drunks and drinking.

821
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:32.920
Well, I didn't even know you were coming.

822
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:35.159
I don't even know you from Adam's housecat, I don't

823
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.519
know you have a problem with liquor. And you walk

824
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:39.679
in the door and I happen to be preaching on liquor.

825
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.840
Is that God? Or is that you?

826
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:44.800
You want to go find a church that doesn't preach

827
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:45.400
on liquor.

828
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:46.599
They're all over the place.

829
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:48.000
As a matter of fact, they even drink it in

830
00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:51.199
the Lord's suffer. You know what you are, You're just

831
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:52.760
a jack leg and.

832
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:53.760
You're not a Christian.

833
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:57.519
You're a saved individual with no scruples and no character

834
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:01.079
enough to say no, sir, it's not pleasing to the Lord.

835
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:02.679
I ain't doing it.

836
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.480
That's a little confusion. Confusing because he says, you're not

837
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:11.599
a Christian, you're a saved individual with no scruples. Well,

838
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:13.960
if you're not a crew. So I think he's just

839
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.480
getting fired up retelling the story. I think he's just

840
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:18.400
getting fired up and probably kind of stumble over over

841
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:20.559
his words. And that's okay. I stumble over words all

842
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.880
the time, A right, so so that's okay. But it's

843
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.480
just he just seems really aggravated over this, and it

844
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:29.320
just seems like, if the if the man's a complete stranger,

845
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.880
why would you come at him so hard? Why wouldn't

846
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:34.519
you just be like, hey, let's take it down and

847
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.679
not Why Why wouldn't you diffuse the situation. De Escalate

848
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:41.800
is the word of the day. Let's deescalate this, let's talk.

849
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:46.719
You seem really bothered about churches that preach against alcohol.

850
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.360
Please tell me why wouldn't wouldn't that be better than

851
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.880
to be antagonistic? You're just this, You're just this.

852
00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:57.559
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa?

853
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:00.599
Why are you fighting with the guy. He's a stranger

854
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.199
who walked into your church. Like the whole story just

855
00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:05.360
seems like that's not quite the way I would approach it.

856
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.719
But that's okay. At this point, I don't care how

857
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.760
you approach it. Can we just figure out the bearable?

858
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:15.239
Can we? Please? Maybe?

859
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:15.679
Maybe?

860
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:19.400
But you don't care who you affect. You don't care

861
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:21.880
who you hurt. You're a you're a smart alec. You're

862
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.639
kind of a you know, I'll do what I want

863
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:25.880
to do. It's my life, it is your life. Really

864
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:27.000
are you saying.

865
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:29.440
He really is?

866
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:30.519
He's he?

867
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:33.079
I guess he just started calling the man. You're a

868
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.760
smart elec, you're this, you're this sure, you just met

869
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:38.599
the man and you're already making all of these dramatic

870
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:42.679
judgments about the man. Well, why would you come at him?

871
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.679
So why wouldn't you? I don't, I don't. I don't

872
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:48.280
understand why you would approach a stranger this way. Yeah,

873
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:52.960
the stranger may have ticked you off. But are we

874
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:58.000
not supposed to be gentle and peaceable and long suffering, right?

875
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:01.159
Aren't we aren't? Do we have a a mandate? Is

876
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:03.920
a Christian turned to the other cheek love our enemy?

877
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:08.840
If the man is that bothered, maybe because that's conviction. Gy,

878
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.320
wouldn't it be possibly from a spiritual perspective, go that

879
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:15.199
man seems to be very convicted. Hey, hey, hey, I'm sorry,

880
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:17.960
let's talk about this. Why wouldn't you approach it that way?

881
00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:20.039
Like you're this and you just do You're just gonna

882
00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:22.119
do whatever you want. And you're a smart alec and

883
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.199
you may not even be a Christian. Whoa man you

884
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:32.280
just laid into? The guy you just met him saved.

885
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:35.840
Listen. I'm not stupid. I know kids.

886
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:37.920
You listen to your country music and you sit around

887
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:39.840
in god Mutton and you sit around on the back

888
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:41.719
of the truck and you and you listen to all

889
00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:43.440
the stuff that goes on, and you listen to your

890
00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:45.079
rock and roll, and you listen to your rap and

891
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:48.679
all that and always couple with that stuff is nowadays

892
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.440
you're gonna be vaping and drinking. Used to be smoking

893
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:54.920
and now it ain't smoking. Now you're sophisticated.

894
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:55.639
You vape.

895
00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:58.440
You put little special things that have foo food juice

896
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.960
in them and stuff like that. You choked the death

897
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:02.760
if you choke the old days. In my days, they

898
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:04.639
smoke unfiltered pell mells.

899
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:13.239
H sir, I love music. I've listened to every kind

900
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.320
of music on the face of the earth, and uh,

901
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:20.199
I never drank alcohol ever.

902
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:21.519
Ever.

903
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.559
I don't know how you're attaching music to certain alcohol

904
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:28.679
or drugs. I understand sometimes the two show up, but

905
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.639
I don't know you're you're drawing a cause and effect.

906
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:33.840
If I listen to this, I'm going to drink this.

907
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:35.920
If I listen to this, I'm going to do this.

908
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:40.159
That's just not the case. I don't cause cause and effect.

909
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:42.360
We could get into that never ending argument. I don't

910
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:43.440
know if we're gonna get I don't know if we're

911
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:44.639
gonna get here. I don't know if we're gonna get

912
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:46.360
to the parable ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if

913
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:49.039
we're gonna get to the parable. I only reason I

914
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.239
wanted to listen to this was because we're dealing with

915
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:57.559
this parable and we're trying just give up.

916
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:01.920
They had fingers that were yellow from holding them down.

917
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:03.920
You think you're something when you smoke a joint, You

918
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:08.119
ain't nothing. Man. Then then people you smoke that one cigarette,

919
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.880
you'd think you were high as a kite.

920
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.920
Are you antagonizing the kids? You smoke a joint, you

921
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.119
ain't nothing? So what do you need the kid to

922
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:21.599
do show up at the church with a crack pipe,

923
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:23.559
then he'll show you that you're something. Do you need

924
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.199
the church to show up? You need to invite you

925
00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:28.280
up and show you his meth lab Are you just

926
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:32.079
going to you ain't nothing? Man, You ain't nothing because

927
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:37.559
in my day we smoked unfiltered cigarettes. Man, like, is

928
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:43.159
this are we now going to antagonize the youth? You're

929
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:48.400
not really cool? So logically, then the inferences you got

930
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:50.920
to do more than just a joint? Do you need

931
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.119
to do math? What do you need fitting all? What

932
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:54.119
do you what do you want them to do? What

933
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:57.760
do you want crack cocaine? Heroine? What do you want

934
00:48:57.800 --> 00:48:59.519
them to do so that they can prove that there's

935
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:03.000
something because they ain't nothing of They're just smoking a joint.

936
00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:06.280
You ain't nothing? What is this? It sounds like something?

937
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:09.320
You hearing it? Junior high play you smoke that. You

938
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:12.320
ain't nothing? Man, look at this. I got a little

939
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:16.079
of this. Okay, come on, get the veins ready, we're

940
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:17.079
gonna shoot it right in?

941
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:18.159
Is that like what?

942
00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:19.679
I don't even know what is happening?

943
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.239
So I've been told I never messed with that stuff.

944
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.679
I mean, I learned pretty quick. Somebody's like that, you guys,

945
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:32.519
y'all are y'all.

946
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:33.239
Are tender feet man?

947
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.559
And those days, those people held those things until it

948
00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:38.239
burned their fingers. They'd have callouses on them. You've got

949
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:42.639
to get you a roach clip to hold yours. You sophisticated.

950
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:49.519
That they were using roach clips in the seventies, I

951
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:51.880
think maybe even in the sixties. I know they were

952
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:55.519
using them in the eighties. So what day are you

953
00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:57.599
going back to? Were you gonna go back to the

954
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.599
day that you burned your fingers? And that's when we

955
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:04.320
were men, That's when we were tough. I mean, I

956
00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:07.039
didn't do it, but I'm going to antagonize you that

957
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:10.760
you're not doing it the right way because you're what

958
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:11.039
what what?

959
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:13.960
Uh?

960
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:18.480
I don't know what to say. I don't know what

961
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:19.000
to say.

962
00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:23.039
You gotta why some of you look you look like

963
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:26.119
you got hemorrhoids or something. Tonight we looked like you

964
00:50:26.199 --> 00:50:27.039
lost your best friend.

965
00:50:27.119 --> 00:50:28.360
Walk out, we'll talk about you.

966
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:30.800
You say, what are we talking about?

967
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:34.079
I'm talking about seed on the wave ground on the wayside.

968
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:45.639
Why are you? Why are you insulting and antagonizing? I

969
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:53.920
don't understand. I don't understand the antagonizing and then just

970
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:58.360
telling them to walk out and then you'll talk about them.

971
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:00.880
That's is this the way it's supposed to be done

972
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.880
from the pulpit. No, you're not, sir. You're not talking

973
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:08.719
about the seed. You're not talking about the parable. You've

974
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.159
been on a full blown rant and now you're just

975
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:14.679
antagonizing young people that they need to step up and

976
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.960
do the hard stuff where they'll burn their fingers. And

977
00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:24.159
I like, your challenge is actually for them to go

978
00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:28.400
do harder drugs, more dangerous drugs, so that they will suffer.

979
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:31.360
That seems to be your challenge. Your challenge is not

980
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:34.800
for them to turn to Christ. Your challenge is for them,

981
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:39.199
don't be a whimp, do the hard stuff and suffer.

982
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:44.400
I'm talking about when these boys get up here to

983
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.760
preach to you, they do their best to put something

984
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:47.039
in it.

985
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:49.000
They do their best to give you the word of God.

986
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:51.599
You've already made up your mind about how you feel

987
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.400
about it, and you've become sophisticated about that, and as

988
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.880
a result of that, you've already decided you're gonna listen

989
00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:58.480
to your music, You're gonna do what you want to

990
00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:01.039
do with your social media, Gonna drink when you want

991
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:01.719
a drink.

992
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:03.599
And that's just how it is, because I am who

993
00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:03.920
I am.

994
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.639
Hey, there's a judgment day coming, sonny.

995
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:09.440
Boy, and one day the Lord's gonna put some on

996
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:11.639
you ajax one, and they're gonna be too late for

997
00:52:11.639 --> 00:52:12.599
you to say, Oh.

998
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:14.280
I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry.

999
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:18.199
I didn't realize that you don't have any character. You

1000
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:21.400
know what character has the ability to do no, thank you,

1001
00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:24.199
I ain't doing it.

1002
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:27.679
Well.

1003
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:38.760
If they're lost, they don't need character. They need salvation, right,

1004
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:45.679
I mean, if they're lost, the issue isn't that they

1005
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:50.000
listen to rap music or rock music, or they smoke

1006
00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.599
a joint or they listen to country music and drink

1007
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.599
of beer. If they're lost, they don't need character. They

1008
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:03.320
need the imputed righteousness of Christ. They don't need a

1009
00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:13.039
pastor antagonizing and mocking and making fun and calling them

1010
00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:14.519
out in front of everyone.

1011
00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:20.719
Character does mean you have to say no sometimes, and

1012
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.920
as a parent, sometimes you know what you have to say.

1013
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:24.519
You have to say no to your kids.

1014
00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:26.519
I know you love them, I know you care about them,

1015
00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:28.320
and I know you don't want to be Cattiwampus.

1016
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.320
One of the worst parents in the world is a

1017
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:31.960
parent that won't correct as kids.

1018
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:34.519
That's a selfish imbecile.

1019
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:36.480
I don't know how you correct them. I don't care

1020
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:38.519
how you correct them. The fact that you take the

1021
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:42.480
time to correct them means you love them whom the

1022
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:44.960
Lord loveth he chasing it and scourgeth every son whom

1023
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.920
we receive it. If God's a good father, then you're

1024
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:49.239
a good father or a good mother.

1025
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:50.719
If you correct your kids.

1026
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.400
That's gone the way of the American Indian nowadays, God forbid.

1027
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.280
I said that HGW be in here.

1028
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:58.599
Somebody will call the welfare department or down there at

1029
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:02.639
hrs say that preacher's up there preaching about corporal punishment.

1030
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:05.000
I didn't say a word about corporal punishment. I said

1031
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:09.199
a word about punishment. And the thing that you don't

1032
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:11.639
realize is is when that ground becomes hard, it don't

1033
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:13.519
matter how much you could take a bag of seed

1034
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:15.880
and pour it in there, and none of it's gonna

1035
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:18.880
take roof You say why persecution for the words sake?

1036
00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:21.599
Your friends make fun of you. You say why you're

1037
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:26.079
running with the wrong friends. Yes, you're running with the

1038
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:26.800
wrong people.

1039
00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:39.000
I don't understand. I don't understand. I well, I kind

1040
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.840
of missed the sermon about heavy metal and bagpipes. I'm

1041
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.280
kind of missing that. Do we want to go back

1042
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.239
to that. Let's go back to the sermon about heavy

1043
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:50.880
metal and bagpipes. Oh, I did have someone send me

1044
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.719
a list of metal bands that have bagpipes. So we

1045
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:55.480
do have a list. We have to do a list.

1046
00:54:56.360 --> 00:54:58.320
I think it's our listener from Georgia. He sent me

1047
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.480
the list. All right, he may his his his job

1048
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.360
to find a list of heavy metal bands with bagpipes.

1049
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:06.679
I kind of missed that sermon.

1050
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:12.679
I I I.

1051
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:25.800
Don't know what to say.

1052
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.199
I can assure you this, and I know you think

1053
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:31.199
I'm a stick in the mud.

1054
00:55:31.199 --> 00:55:32.320
I'm very much aware of that.

1055
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:33.000
Thank you for that.

1056
00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:35.559
I appreciate that. I'd just soon be known that way.

1057
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.519
That what you're known for, you're known for running with

1058
00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:40.440
anybody you want to run with. We had a name

1059
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:42.599
for you. I wouldn't say that in now, but they

1060
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.880
walked eighth in main Street. You prostitute yourself and give

1061
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:47.639
yourself up for whoever's the.

1062
00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:49.559
Flavor of the month right now?

1063
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:56.400
You man, who in the who in the world is

1064
00:55:56.440 --> 00:56:00.840
he going after in the congregation, basically just refer to

1065
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:03.960
them as a prostitute as I mean, there's a there's

1066
00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:06.599
a more, you know, there's a there's a more colorful,

1067
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:12.599
colorful expression. Look, who's he going after? It sounds like

1068
00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:17.480
he's going after the young people in the church. That

1069
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:21.400
sounds like a and and all that. Amen? Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen?

1070
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:23.840
What do you amening? You're not learning anything. You're not

1071
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:25.239
learning anything about the text.

1072
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:25.800
You don't know.

1073
00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:27.639
You're gonna leave this. You're not gonna know anything about

1074
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:30.159
Matthew thirteen, nothing about Mark chapter four. You're not gonna

1075
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:32.360
know any of the answers to any of the problems

1076
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:35.679
hermeneutically that these parables present. You're not gonna get it.

1077
00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:41.360
You don't understand it. You're just someone ranting and almost

1078
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:45.159
like antagonizing. It's like it's like someone just punching people

1079
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:49.000
in the face. Just come on, come on, come on,

1080
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:51.280
dare you get mad at me? Come on, come on,

1081
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:52.760
get come on, get mad at me?

1082
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:53.079
Come on?

1083
00:56:53.159 --> 00:56:53.719
What do you got?

1084
00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:54.440
What do you got?

1085
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.320
Called them friends? They ain't your friends. They're there to

1086
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:04.280
use you. And guess what they do when they're done

1087
00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:06.440
with you. After they've gotten all the pleasure and protection,

1088
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:09.239
they'll kick you to the curb and write you off.

1089
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.400
You say, what you're dancing to their tune? The wayside's hard,

1090
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:18.079
the ground's hard. I go to an independent Bible, believe

1091
00:57:18.119 --> 00:57:20.800
in Baptist Church. King James only Hallelujah, Glory to God.

1092
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:23.599
I'm saved Washington the blood of Jesus Christ. That doesn't

1093
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:26.519
tell me anything. What tells me whether or not God's

1094
00:57:26.559 --> 00:57:29.320
working in you is whether or not when God puts

1095
00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.360
the plow down, do you let him tear up the

1096
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:32.519
ground so the seed.

1097
00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:33.239
Will do you any good?

1098
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.000
And if that's the case, why are you already upset

1099
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:37.320
about me talking about.

1100
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:38.760
Something as stupid as drinking.

1101
00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:45.280
So God does the plowing. I'm trying to ignore all

1102
00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:50.920
the rest. God does the plowing, but we can stop

1103
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:57.079
the plowing. So I'm trying to understand. So if you

1104
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:01.880
if you have the hard ground because you stop the plow,

1105
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:06.679
or God's plow didn't work, or God's plow hasn't gotten

1106
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:11.599
to you. If God's doing the plowing and he's the

1107
00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:22.400
you know, omniscient, omnipotent, you know, eternal God, why wouldn't

1108
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:24.639
his plow just look right through you and then you

1109
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:27.760
You've got good ground. But I guess I can say,

1110
00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:31.159
stop the plow in the name of me. In the

1111
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:33.000
name of Me is greater than the name of or

1112
00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:34.559
God's just like who who wha whoa whoa whoa what

1113
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.599
everyone stopped? Or stop the plowing? He doesn't want to

1114
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:43.840
be plowed, and and he's in charge. I don't understand this.

1115
00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:49.440
Then bring up your television set or your social media,

1116
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:50.320
none of that other.

1117
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:51.679
Stuff I just said drinking.

1118
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:53.840
But you know what you are.

1119
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:57.960
You're a maverick. The seed does you no good at all.

1120
00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:01.519
I hear brother Jerry a minin. You think he's another dinosaur.

1121
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:06.079
Thank God for dinosaurs. You say, what that'll rick your life?

1122
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:08.519
I can handle it. I can handle it. I can help.

1123
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.639
Let me tell you something, sonny boy, you got no

1124
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:12.039
idea what you can handle.

1125
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:13.000
You have no.

1126
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.760
Idea once you stake that thing, and once you start

1127
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:17.960
down that road you think you can handle it.

1128
00:59:18.039 --> 00:59:20.119
I got news for you. I know people that could

1129
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:20.599
eat you.

1130
00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:23.239
For breakfast that they weren't able to handle it better

1131
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:24.280
men and women than you.

1132
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:31.119
Why are you so tearing them down.

1133
00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:34.039
Now?

1134
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:35.840
I don't know how this I don't know how this

1135
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:37.679
will work. I don't know how that kind of message

1136
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:39.000
would work with a teenage girl.

1137
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:39.440
I don't know.

1138
00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:42.039
I can't I can't speak from the female perspective, But

1139
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.480
as a teenage boy, I'd be like, dude, you want

1140
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:47.360
to come and me. I would stand up right there

1141
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:49.199
in the middle of the car. Let's let's go. You

1142
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:51.400
want to sit there and antagonize me. You want to

1143
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:53.880
talk trash, let's throw down right here.

1144
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:54.119
Now.

1145
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:56.400
You could say, well, that's because you're ungodly, but why

1146
00:59:56.480 --> 01:00:02.000
the antagonism like that? Nobody deserves to be spoken to

1147
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:06.119
that way. Now. Look, I've been guilty of probably preaching

1148
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:09.440
similar ways in my past, So I'm not sitting here

1149
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:12.519
saying I'm better. But I'm just like man alive. I

1150
01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:17.360
just this is just provoking. This is the thing that

1151
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:19.519
will take This will is the thing that's just like

1152
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.519
you're just slapping the sinful nature provoking it. Come on,

1153
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:25.639
bite me, bite me, Come on. Look, I don't like

1154
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:28.039
what I don't get it.

1155
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:35.639
If God warns about it, why are you messing with it?

1156
01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:36.480
I'm preacher.

1157
01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:37.920
Why you gotta get on that? Oh it's for the

1158
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:39.800
people on the internet. It's not for you people. I

1159
01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:42.039
know you people. Never mess with that stuff. I get

1160
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:44.199
warm out with that stuff, hiding it? And why are

1161
01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:44.840
you hiding it?

1162
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:47.719
The Bible said, whatever you do in word, indeed, do

1163
01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:48.679
all of the glory of God.

1164
01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:49.519
Isn't that what he says?

1165
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:50.239
All right?

1166
01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:51.480
If it's right, have at it.

1167
01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:54.079
Put it on the table. Man. Why are you about

1168
01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:57.719
to do this clandestine stuff? Put in a paper cup

1169
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:00.639
or suff put it out there. I mean, you call

1170
01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:02.639
yourself a Christian. Set the beer down there.

1171
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:04.360
I'm a Christian. I'm a drinking Christian.

1172
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:06.199
Well good for you.

1173
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:07.480
Why you trying to hide it?

1174
01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:09.239
A chameleon?

1175
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.159
You just just you're you're a Judas. You're just like, well,

1176
01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:17.159
you know, that's my brand of Christianity. Ensure ain't God's

1177
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:18.199
brand of Christianity?

1178
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:22.719
Man, So if you drink a beer, you're now Judas?

1179
01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:40.519
Whoa what? Goodness? Gracious man. I just wanted. I just wanted.

1180
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:43.400
I just wanted. I just wanted to work on Matthew

1181
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.360
thirteen and Mark four. It really just to help with

1182
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:55.480
sermon prep. That's all I wanted. That's all I wanted. Yeah,

1183
01:01:56.039 --> 01:01:58.960
that's all I just wanted. I just wanted to hear

1184
01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:00.599
because At first, I tell you're they tell me about

1185
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:02.480
the wrong seed. Then when you told me that, hey,

1186
01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:04.920
there's no wrong seed, then okay. Then you start talking

1187
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:08.119
about the conditions of the soil and that basically it's

1188
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:10.559
what we do with it and how we keep it

1189
01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:12.920
clean or how what we let grow in it. And

1190
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:14.880
then you gave me the idea that Satan can plant

1191
01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:17.800
something in it, but you didn't expound exactly how that works.

1192
01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:19.159
And now you told me that God is the one

1193
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:21.159
who does the plowing. But it seems I can stop

1194
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:23.920
the plowing, but you're not giving me anything other than

1195
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:30.960
just you yelling and antagonizing people. And I don't understand it, and.

1196
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:39.199
Hard ground made up my mind. I ain't changing.

1197
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:41.719
I don't care what the Bible says. It's not my

1198
01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:44.400
tone of voice that bothers you. It's the fact that

1199
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:47.639
I can give you seventy verses on the dangers of

1200
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.760
alcohol and not to have anything to.

1201
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:50.280
Do with it.

1202
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:52.280
And you know what you've already done. You turned me

1203
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:57.119
off ten minutes ago when I first started. You decided

1204
01:02:57.199 --> 01:02:59.320
ten minutes ago, I ain't listened to this what I

1205
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.960
come here for that I already knew that that's just

1206
01:03:02.039 --> 01:03:05.079
his opinion. It ain't my opinion, it's the Bible.

1207
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:11.360
Man. He is ticked off as someone in the church.

1208
01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.440
Maybe there's some teenagers there that got busted for drinking.

1209
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.719
I don't know what's going on, but he is ticked off,

1210
01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:27.719
and I understand. I mean, there's been times I've been

1211
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:29.480
ticked out like that. One of the worst things to

1212
01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:31.719
do is walk into the pulpit when you're angry. It

1213
01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:35.519
is Look. Look, pastors are human beings, right, So I've

1214
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:38.960
stood in the pulpit angry, mad, and it's come out.

1215
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:41.360
You've heard me yell, You've heard me scream, you've heard

1216
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:43.440
me slam. I if you've listened to my preaching for

1217
01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:45.920
the length of time, you've heard. You've heard when I'm calm,

1218
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:49.079
You've heard when I'm well. I'm always kind of dramatic

1219
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:51.960
and loud, all right, I never do anything really quiet,

1220
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:55.079
but that's just my normal personality. But you've heard times

1221
01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:57.519
when I'm very angry, and I should not be behind

1222
01:03:57.559 --> 01:03:59.559
the pulpit when I'm angry. No pastor should be. I

1223
01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:02.679
think there's time where there can be righteous anger, but

1224
01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:05.440
it's very hard to maintain that with a sinful nature.

1225
01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:09.360
So I can understand. I can understand, but it just

1226
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:15.719
this reminds me when I sat in the congregation at

1227
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:21.760
the Independent Baptist Church, Heartland Baptist Church in Bellevue, Nebraska,

1228
01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:25.880
the pastors out of town, the associate pastor stands to preach,

1229
01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:31.920
and the associate pastor's anger just comes pouring out. He's mad,

1230
01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:34.519
he's met at people in the congregation, he's mad at

1231
01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:37.960
things that's happened. He's mad, and he just starts unloading.

1232
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:40.840
And there was everything inside of me wanted to just

1233
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:42.960
get up, even though I wasn't, you know, a part

1234
01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:45.400
of the ministerial staff. I wanted to just walk up,

1235
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.960
put my arms around him, like, man, just stop, just stop,

1236
01:04:48.079 --> 01:04:50.440
just stop. But I didn't, And to this day I

1237
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:55.559
regret that. Because that sermon ended, they called contacted the pastor.

1238
01:04:55.960 --> 01:04:58.639
He was given a cassette copy of the sermon, and

1239
01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:02.559
that the associate pastor was fired that night and Monday

1240
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:08.960
he was cleaning out his office and I felt horrible. Well,

1241
01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:11.039
I don't think this man's in danger of being fired,

1242
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:13.760
but it just want me just somebody things like said

1243
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:18.400
amen and going, hey, past come come down. Well, all

1244
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.000
we're gonna do is antagonize. Whoever's drinking in the church,

1245
01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:23.920
We're putting them on the spot. We're just embarrassing them.

1246
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:29.840
You're were humiliating them, like because obviously there's there's a

1247
01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:32.440
drinking issue going on in the church. But I don't

1248
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:36.559
think it's a drunkenness issue. It seems just the drinking

1249
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:37.639
is the issue.

1250
01:05:39.960 --> 01:05:41.719
That seed's doing you no good at all.

1251
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:44.880
You know, the seed that saved you, the seed that

1252
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:47.119
bought you, the seed that paid for you.

1253
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:49.559
That seed. You know what that seed did.

1254
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.079
He just came by and dumped the seed out there,

1255
01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:53.480
and he said, we the ain't no me eve need

1256
01:05:53.559 --> 01:05:55.519
to worry about that. They ain't got the courage to

1257
01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:57.320
bust the ground up, to let it take root. You

1258
01:05:57.400 --> 01:05:59.360
just will go ahead and feed it to the burger,

1259
01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:00.920
Just throw it up like you're throwing it into the

1260
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:01.880
seagulls out there.

1261
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:05.679
You say, why you done decided? Hatnya? Hatnya? Made your

1262
01:06:05.719 --> 01:06:09.119
mind up? Hatnya. I'm gonna do what I want to do.

1263
01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:11.079
I don't care what the Bible says to do. You do?

1264
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:15.320
Well, now he's like you, Now he makes this something

1265
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:18.760
that we have to bust up the ground, and he's

1266
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:21.559
making it sound like that they're saved. So they're saved.

1267
01:06:22.199 --> 01:06:24.280
I don't know if God is doing that plowing, if

1268
01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:27.679
I'm doing the plowing, I don't know who's doing what anymore.

1269
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:30.039
In this parable life, I don't even know. I don't

1270
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:31.039
have any clue.

1271
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:33.360
So what happens that.

1272
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.760
Light rejected becomes lightning, And before long you'll get callous

1273
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:38.960
on that ground to be so hard you can't even

1274
01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:40.400
receive the simple things that are.

1275
01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:40.920
In the Bible.

1276
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:42.599
And the Lord will speak to you and try to

1277
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:44.719
give you the meaning of a parable, but you don't

1278
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:45.480
shut him off.

1279
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:53.280
Wait, God gives us the meaning of the parables. Oh,

1280
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:55.880
I am so confused. All right, So God is the

1281
01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:57.840
one who gives us the meaning. Well, if God is

1282
01:06:57.840 --> 01:06:59.360
the one who gives us the meaning, then we should

1283
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:01.440
all agree on the meaning of the parable. And I

1284
01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:04.800
would be hard pressed to say that God's meaning of

1285
01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:08.159
the parable of the sower is a rant about alcohol

1286
01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:16.480
where we insult and antagonize people. Now God gives us

1287
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:19.159
the meaning. So the way you do hermeneuticts is just

1288
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:22.320
let God give you the meaning. I am so confused.

1289
01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:26.239
You don't care anything at all about what he has

1290
01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:26.679
to say.

1291
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:29.119
We have a lot of statistics here.

1292
01:07:29.159 --> 01:07:31.280
I'm ashamed to say, we have a lot of people

1293
01:07:31.320 --> 01:07:32.760
here that have had preacher.

1294
01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:33.280
What happened?

1295
01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:34.199
Where did so and so go?

1296
01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:34.880
What happened?

1297
01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:39.079
The ground got hard, the seed no longer did any good.

1298
01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:42.719
It couldn't get in the ground and germany and root and.

1299
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:43.760
Then produce some fruit.

1300
01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:47.000
You say, what happened? The ground got hard, the seed did.

1301
01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:48.679
Them no good, and they're out.

1302
01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:52.280
I know you're gonna be the exception. One of these days.

1303
01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:53.559
You gonna think you're gonna plow.

1304
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:56.440
I don't know if you've ever lived to plow, or

1305
01:07:56.440 --> 01:07:57.599
to pull a plow or to push.

1306
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:02.239
Sir, he said, God does the plowing. Now we're doing

1307
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:04.079
the plowing. I don't know who's doing what.

1308
01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:07.400
It's a plow.

1309
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:09.719
I should probably bring that plow that's up in my

1310
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.239
attic up here. But you take that old plow with

1311
01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:14.480
that old metal wheel on the front end of that thing,

1312
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:16.840
and that harrow, and I don't care how sharp you

1313
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:19.119
get it. If that ground is out there and it

1314
01:08:19.159 --> 01:08:21.920
got wet and then it got baked down real real good.

1315
01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:24.079
After that, that's like breaking concrete.

1316
01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:26.520
And you put that thing down and you can't get

1317
01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:28.760
that thing to crack that ground, and before long you're

1318
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:30.560
running across the top and all you got is just

1319
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:32.279
a little trail of dust up there, and that thing's

1320
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:34.119
like running on concrete.

1321
01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:36.800
You say, what are you doing?

1322
01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:38.960
You keep on, keep on until eventually you got to

1323
01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:41.039
get a pick and finds you a hole. Knock a

1324
01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:42.760
hole in it to be able to break that crust

1325
01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:46.199
off of it. And that's where some of you are.

1326
01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:48.560
You've trodden on that. I'm going to do it my

1327
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:50.920
way ground so long you got to crust on. You

1328
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:54.760
about that thick and God can't get through there, and

1329
01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:56.800
it doesn't make any difference. And he keeps taking you

1330
01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:58.840
to the same classroom and you keep failing, and you

1331
01:08:58.880 --> 01:08:59.479
wonder why.

1332
01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:00.439
I'll tell you why.

1333
01:09:00.680 --> 01:09:01.920
That's by the wayside.

1334
01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:05.560
You've traveled it so many.

1335
01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:13.119
God can't get through it. I know you're upset about alcohol,

1336
01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:16.199
but maybe you should be upset about the hermit, like

1337
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:19.439
I don't know someono how God. God is not omnipotent.

1338
01:09:20.840 --> 01:09:23.600
If God can't get through it, then God is not omnipotent.

1339
01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:26.079
I think I would be more concerned with your view

1340
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:28.640
of God than someone drinking a beer and listening to

1341
01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:31.319
country music. Sitting on the back of their pickup truck.

1342
01:09:33.399 --> 01:09:35.840
I think I'm more concerned about I don't understand what

1343
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:37.560
in the world you're doing with this parable that I

1344
01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:40.039
am someone drinking or listening to country music. Now, maybe

1345
01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:42.279
I would go for something a little different than country music.

1346
01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:44.199
But okay, I mean, I mean, maybe we could have

1347
01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:47.159
a discussion about, you know, which genre of music is

1348
01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:50.560
the best? I never I'm joking. Now, okay, all right,

1349
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:53.439
let's I'm gonna just wrap this up because obviously we're

1350
01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:54.840
not gonna get anywhere.

1351
01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:58.239
Anytimes that the grounds packed down and is too hard

1352
01:09:58.279 --> 01:09:59.439
for the seed to do any good.

1353
01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:00.800
You say, is that possible?

1354
01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:03.520
Yeah, you can read the Bible and get nothing out

1355
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:05.800
of it at all, So I'm sure I get something

1356
01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:06.239
out of it.

1357
01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:07.520
Really, where's the fruit?

1358
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:08.800
Amen?

1359
01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:09.920
There it is.

1360
01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:12.920
I mean, if you're getting something out of the Bible,

1361
01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:18.680
where's the change, where's the willingness to change? When's the

1362
01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:20.359
last time you had a ground inspection?

1363
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:25.319
Ladies and gentlemen. You see where we just ended. Back up,

1364
01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:28.640
You see where we ended. So you can't get anything

1365
01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:31.319
out of the Bible unless the ground is right. So

1366
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.000
you've got to get the ground right before the Bible

1367
01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:39.199
will do any good. So then is it the Bible

1368
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:41.920
that changes you? Because it sounds like you have to

1369
01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:44.720
change yourself in order for the Bible to do any good.

1370
01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:50.880
We're right back to the convoluted circular reasoning. Hey, the

1371
01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:54.640
Bible will do you no good until the ground is right.

1372
01:10:55.239 --> 01:10:58.319
You've got to get the ground right. God can't get

1373
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:00.399
through the ground. You've got to get through the ground,

1374
01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:02.960
it sounds like. And until the ground is right, the

1375
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.560
Bible will be of no value. Well, then does the

1376
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:09.279
Bible Is the Bible the thing that changes us? Because

1377
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:11.439
it makes it sounds like I've got to change myself

1378
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:14.119
before the Bible then can change me. But I've got

1379
01:11:14.119 --> 01:11:16.680
to change myself without the Bible, because the Bible will

1380
01:11:16.680 --> 01:11:19.119
do no good until the ground is made right. I

1381
01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:24.960
am so getting fed up with the messages on these parables.

1382
01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:29.680
It's oh man, okay, Well, I'm just gonna let it

1383
01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:31.800
play to where I feel it's a good stopping point

1384
01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:32.600
and that we'll just stop.

1385
01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:36.239
I guarantee you Jake Johnson to walk around there and

1386
01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:38.039
say no sense and trying to plant nothing here.

1387
01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:39.439
What's the matter, Paupaul?

1388
01:11:39.720 --> 01:11:41.720
That ground right there is too hard man, you have

1389
01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:42.199
to get you.

1390
01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:45.319
A pick and get you a mall and bust that.

1391
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:48.079
Ground up before you even think about plowing it. You say, wow,

1392
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:50.640
that ground's way too hard, man. It didn't have any

1393
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:53.119
nutrients in it, It hadn't been turned over. There isn't any

1394
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:53.640
air in it.

1395
01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:56.159
That ground just about as dead as it could possibly be.

1396
01:11:56.520 --> 01:11:59.079
That ground's good for one thing. Weeds.

1397
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:04.399
And I don't mean weeds. You ever gone out here

1398
01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:07.039
in the parking lot. Dale's out here in the parking

1399
01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:08.920
lot and getting things cleaned up and fixed up and on,

1400
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:11.159
or getting ready to put multen stuff down.

1401
01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:12.920
You it's the strangest thing you'll find.

1402
01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:15.800
There'll be just the tiniest little crack in that black

1403
01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:18.960
top out there, or in that concrete, and you'll you

1404
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:20.840
know what you'll find in there. You don't find corn

1405
01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:24.199
and tomatoes and peas and turnip greens and lettuce and all.

1406
01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:24.920
You know what you find?

1407
01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:25.880
You find weeds.

1408
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:28.720
You know what the weed usually is. It usually has

1409
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:32.079
thorns on it. You know what some of you are

1410
01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:34.159
barren weeds.

1411
01:12:34.640 --> 01:12:36.279
I'm gonna do what I want to do. You ain't

1412
01:12:36.279 --> 01:12:37.359
gonna make no hay with God.

1413
01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:40.159
I'm just telling you and I know that's not good English,

1414
01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:42.760
but you can understand it. You ain't gonna make no

1415
01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:47.439
hay with God having that attitude, that attitude, that's a

1416
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:51.199
hard heart. David said in Psalm fifty one that we

1417
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:54.800
went over on Wednesday night. David said, a broken spirit

1418
01:12:54.880 --> 01:12:56.119
and a contrite heart.

1419
01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.560
Notice the second thing that you see show up there.

1420
01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.239
Okay, I'm going to stop. I have no idea what

1421
01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:09.520
just happened. There was no point even having a Bible.

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The name of the message is the wrong Seed. You

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can go finish it. I do challenge you to finish it,

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just because there may be something of great value that

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we just missed. I just don't get it. It's called

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the wrong seed from Bible believers Baptist Church. I literally,

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I just I mean I follow them. I follow them.

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I mean, I mean I follow so many different broadcasters

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01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:38.079
on the sermon's two point oh app and literally my

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01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:41.399
intention was, oh, this will get a different perspective, we'll

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01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:44.960
get a different hypothesis and how to approach this parable

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and then we'll compare it. But we fell right back

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into the circular reasoning that we've been talking about. I

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don't get it. We've got to get our heart right

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01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:57.079
before even reading or studying the Bible. That's why the

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01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:00.439
article started with the concept that it starts with the heart.

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You've got to get the heart right, or Bible study

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01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:05.479
is useless. So listening to sermons is useless. Going to

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01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:08.760
church is useless. It will do nothing, it will have

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01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:12.880
no value. It's a waste of time. You've got to

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get your heart right. But then almost inevitably, people say,

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the thing that gets our heart right or doesn't work

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01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:20.560
on our heart is God's word. But God's word can't

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01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:22.079
do it work on my heart. I've got to get

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01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:24.920
the heart right before God's word can do anything. Well,

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01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:26.680
if I got to get my heart right, how do

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01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.119
I get my heart right apart from God's word. So

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01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:32.039
some of the sermons seem to imply it's God it

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01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:33.920
gets my heart right. Well, then if God it gets

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01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:36.000
my heart right, then we should all have a perfect heart.

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01:14:36.079 --> 01:14:38.000
If we all have a perfect heart, then we shouldn't

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01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:40.159
have any problems. But then it sounds like no, we

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01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:42.199
can still have problems even with a perfect heart. Well,

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then that means the heart's not perfect. So I don't understand,

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01:14:52.279 --> 01:14:55.560
and I don't get how Christians don't how what bothers

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01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:56.920
me is why am I the one who will go

1457
01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.560
wait a minute, this is the most circular reasoning confused

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thing I've ever seen in my life. And Christians will

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01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:03.680
be like, hey man, it's so great, it's so good,

1460
01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:06.479
it's so good. It's so good. Remember, even when I

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01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:10.279
brought this problem to AI, even artificial intelligence was like, uh,

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this is circular reasoning, and it tried to offer some

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different ways that throughout Church history they've tried to reconcileve this,

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01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.359
but even that nothing was of work. Even aid he

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01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:22.399
couldn't even come up with even a way to work

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01:15:22.479 --> 01:15:25.399
around it. So I've got to get my heart right

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01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:27.520
before the Bible does any good. But I need the

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01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:32.159
Bible in order to get my heart right. But the

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01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:35.760
Bible can't help me get my heart right because unless

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01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:41.119
my heart right, the Bible doesn't do anything. Oh boy,

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And is it God that gives me the heart? It

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sounds like I've got to be the one to make

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01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:47.119
my heart right because I'm doing the plowy. But he

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01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:49.000
says then that the ground can get so hard that

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01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:51.159
even God can't get through it. So now God is

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01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:54.159
not omnipotent. God does the plowing, but then in the

1477
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:56.079
same summon, we heard that we do the plowy. So

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01:15:56.239 --> 01:15:58.359
is it God or is it us who's doing the

1479
01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:04.520
stinking plowing? And I've got to plow apart from God's word.

1480
01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.439
So plowing has nothing to do with God's word, because

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01:16:07.479 --> 01:16:10.119
God's word won't do any good until I do the plowing.

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I don't understand. I don't understand. Okay, I'm gonna go

1483
01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:24.560
find some heavy metal with bagpipes. I don't drink, but

1484
01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:27.319
I'm really considering a trip to the liquor store right now.

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01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:36.720
I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. Hey, if young people,

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01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:38.279
if you go to a church where people are just

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antagonizing you and calling you basically names, just don't don't

1488
01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:53.319
don't give into the the bullying, don't give into basically

1489
01:16:53.399 --> 01:16:56.399
your being like it's like a troll on on social media.

1490
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Just don't fall for it. Just don't let them antagonize you.

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01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:03.520
You you pursue God, you get into his word, and

1492
01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:06.319
don't allow the adults who just want to bully you

1493
01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:09.479
and antagonize you. Don't let them do it. Don't let them,

1494
01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:12.239
don't give into it. Don't give into it. Be better

1495
01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:18.399
than that, be better than that. Don't don't let their

1496
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:24.399
antagonism make you make bad choices. All right, Let their antagonism,

1497
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.600
Let that antagonism and they're bullying, Let that speak more

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01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:32.520
about them, and you just ignore it. Don't let it

1499
01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:34.439
lead you to go, well, then I'm going to go

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out and get so wasted to prove a point. Don't

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do that.

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Don't.

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That's how I would have reacted. I would have. I

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01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:44.840
would have I would have I would have taken a difference.

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I would have taken an ungodly approach. Don't take my

1506
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:53.079
ungodly approach. Just ignore the antagonism, ignore the bullying, ignore

1507
01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:56.760
the being trolled, Just ignore the troll Just ignore it

1508
01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:00.680
and just say, Okay, do I believe in God? Do

1509
01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:03.279
I believe the Bible is his word? Let me pursue

1510
01:18:03.680 --> 01:18:06.279
the study of God's word, pursue him, and then you

1511
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:08.920
just try to figure out your Christian life and don't

1512
01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:12.479
allow that to give you an impression of Christianity or

1513
01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:15.680
his word. Please don't let that happen. Please don't let

1514
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that happen. All I can say is, and I hate

1515
01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:30.000
to say this, every review we've done so far on

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01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:34.640
messages in Relationship to Mark four or Matthew thirteen. I

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01:18:34.680 --> 01:18:41.239
hate to say this have been vanity of vanities, all

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is vanity. I truly feel like they've been meaningless. God

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bless