Jesus sat in a little boat, pushed out from the shore, and told a crowd on the beach
about a farmer scattering seed. Some fell on the hard path and the birds took it.
Some fell on rocky ground, sprang up fast, and withered with no root. Some fell among
thorns and was choked out by worry and wealth. And some fell on good soil and bore
fruit thirty, sixty, a hundredfold. Then Jesus did something He rarely does — He
explained His own parable. The seed is the word of God, and the four soils are four
kinds of hearts that hear it. In this episode of Learn of Me, faithful Bible teachers
walk through all four, and press the honest question the parable raises: what does it
mean that a seed can spring up and still die? They differ on that, charitably, and
they agree on this — the difference was never the seed. It was the soil. And the
scarlet thread is right on the surface: Jesus later names the Sower Himself, "He who
sows the good seed is the Son of Man" (Matthew 13:37). He is the Sower, His word is
the seed, and He is the Lord of the harvest. The parable ends up asking each of us
one thing: what kind of soil is my heart?

Featured teachings on the Parable of the Sower (watch the full sermons):
J. Vernon McGee — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPsoeecrTBE
Chuck Smith — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqCs8RtmPA
Skip Heitzig — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBQIQLbFJ5s
David Guzik — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cSew2iY64Q
John MacArthur — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEjTQ7PaO0
R.C. Sproul — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssl1KuKaQ-k
Greg Laurie — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0llCZypNQG4

The conversation you hear was synthesized by AI from these teachers' own messages,
holding to Scripture interpreting Scripture — and it always points you back to the
source. Watch their full sermons above, then open your own Bible to Matthew 13 and
let the Sower speak for Himself.

Learn of Me — where all of Scripture testifies of Jesus. Subscribe and share, and
visit learnofme.org.