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The soils ... it may not be 4 types of people but rather 4 stages of revelation ...

Matthew 13 Read This Chapter

13:15
For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'

13:16
"But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;

13:17
for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

13:18
"Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

13:20
But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

13:22
Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

13:23
But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

First the revelation hits you and you brush it off as the hard soil. Truth is lost to skepticism, doubt and attack of the enemy.

I identify with the hard soil.

Some time later, you hear and accept what is sewn and has been sewn before only to be disenchanted due to how others respond to your joy and acceptance of it.

Sadly, I know this routine too.

Then the revelation hits you again and Truth has no time to purchase and germinate in you as you are swept up with the things of the world and nothing comes of it.

Been there. Done that.

Then your whole world is turned upside-down / the hard ground is broken and tilled. You are fertile for truth ... the seed lands and finds purchase and grows to be a vital part of who you are ... even firmly rooted therein.

Thank God! He is so persistent with us.

This interpretation, if correct, gives me hope to share and share again, as much as He would have me share ... maybe God will turn a soil's world upside down and the seed will fall and grow this time. As you have noticed in the news ... a great many people are going through this right now. Events are turning the soil and breaking up the hard ground. Stones and thorns are dug up and cast aside ... so let us be ready to cast seeds prayerfully and see what God makes grow!

It is a special time. And it will be hard, but the harder it becomes the more grace we have at our disposal in Jesus ... for He has overcome the world. Amen!