The Secret of the Kingdom Part 4
The Thorny Heart Hearer
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
I.The Secret of the Kingdom
A. The Sower and the Seed
1. (Luke 8:4-15 NIV) Parable of the sower and the seed.
a. Key to the parable of the sower:
~We are the sowers.
~The Word of God is the incorruptible seed.
-(hear it, read it, meditate on it, speak it)
~The four different types of ground (pathway, stony ground, among thorns, and good ground) are four conditions of the heart that affect how the seed grows.
~Only one ground was able to produce and sustain a harvest – good ground.
~Common denominator – all heard the word.
~Every believer fits into one of these 4 progressive categories.
2. The “Pathway Heart Hearer” doesn’t understand the Word so Satan was able to immediately steal it.
3. The “Stoney Heart Hearer” understands the Word but it doesn’t take root in them, and/or they don’t have root in themselves (aren’t established in who they are in Christ).
B. The Thorny Heart Hearer
1. (Mark 4:7, 18-19 AMP) (Luke 8:14 AMP)
This person hears, understands and even gets revelation of the word and starts producing fruit, but now the worries, cares, and distractions of the worldly pleasures, the deceitfulness of riches, wealth or, fame and the passionate desires for all the other things choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. These things that choke the word are not necessarily bad things, but can be good things out of priority.
a. (1 Tim. 6:6-10 NIV) Godliness with contentment is great gain. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
~(Prov. 15:16-17, 27; 17:1; 23:4-5) Money with wrong priority can cost you your family.
~(Phil. 4:6-7 AMP) “Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything…”
-(John 14:27 AMP) God’s peace
-(Isa. 26:3 NKJV) Perfect peace
~(1 Tim. 6:17-19 AMP) instruction for the wealthy
~(2 Tim. 4:10 AMPC) Demas turned on Paul
~(Mark 10:23-31) the upside down kingdom
[Pastor Lee Stokes]