What’s Your Response? 

#1) God’s Word demands a response: 

Ex. Lord if that’s you, “Bid me come.” (Matt. 14:28) 

Bid/Command 

 

Jesus said: Mark 4:9, “He who has ear to hear, let him hear!” 

Not just a mental activity 

 

Jewish mindset: Shema “Hear and obey / take action, take heed, do what is asked.” 

Ex. Clean up your room 

 

The Sower Sows the Word 

 

#2) Mark chpt. 4     AND     Matt. chpt 13 

 

Verse 9) Let him who has ears to hear, let him hear! 

 

Verse 13) “And he said to them, Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Four Ways you and I respond to hearing God’s Word!! 

 

#1) Wayside Soil:  

Soil that doesn’t receive the word: 

It’s hard ground 

They don’t understand it 

Satan comes immediately to steal the word difficult word! 

 

Our response must be a willingness to ASK QUESTIONS and  RECEIVE the word! 

 

 

#2) Stony Soil: 

Immediately receives the word with Joy/Enthusiasm  

It has no root “In itself.” 

When persecution and tribulation come, “For the word’s sake,” They wither, stumble. 

 

Our response must be to get ourselves ROOTED and Grounded! 

 

#3) Soil with thorns: The Message Bible, “The seed cast in the weeds represents the ones who hear the kingdom news but are overwhelmed with worries about all the things they have to do and all the things they want to get. The stress strangles what they heard, and nothing comes of it.” 

Hear the word  

Cares of the world 

The deceitfulness of riches 

The desire for other things 

Choke the word, and it “The Word “becomes unfruitful 

 

Our response must be to keep our heart focused on things that have eternal value! 

 

#4) The Good soil: 

Hears the word 

Understands it 

Produces some 30, some 60, some 100 fold 

 

Our response is to tend the soil! 

 

Continually pulling the weeds 

Making sure that the Word gets proper amounts of Water and sufficient Sun/Son!