The Secret of the Kingdom Part 5

The Good Heart Hearer

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

I. The Secret of the Kingdom

A.​The Sower and the Seed

1.​(Mark 4:3-20 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 groundare 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).

4.​The “Thorny Heart Hearer” understands, gets revelation and starts producing fruit, but then the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke the Word and it becomes unfruitful.

B.​The Good Heart Hearer

1.​(Matt. 13:23 AMPC) (Luke 8:15 AMPC)

a.​The most notable characteristic of the good heart hearer is that the ground has less: no pathway, no stones and no thorns. Therefore,there is no mention of cares, anxieties, distractions or Satan. The Good Heart hearer’s life is simpler because his primary focus is on the Word and he allows no distractions.

• (Josh. 1:8; Ps. 1:1-3) meditate on the word day and night.
~(Rom. 4:17-21) Abraham
• (Prov. 4:20-23 AMPC) Get the word in your heart.
• (Prov. 23:7a) your heart reflects your life!
• (Prov. 27:19 NIV) Your life is a reflection of what is rooted in your heart!
• (Matt. 12:33-37) change the root and you’ll and the fruit will change.
[Pastor Lee Stokes]

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