THE SOWER PART 2; WEEDS OR WHEAT?

This episode completes a two-part study of the Parable of the Sower, emphasizing that the Holy Spirit alone brings true spiritual fruit. We briefly review the first two soils—wayside and rocky, showing why each fails to sustain the seed, and here consider the two remaining soils—weed-infested and well prepared ('good'). We use the parable of the great banquet to illustrate how loving such things as possessions, ambition, and even family, in preference to loving God, chokes the gospel seed and produces nominal rather than true Christians. The episode closes with a promise that the gospel sown in receptive hearts yields a guaranteed harvest consistent with God’s sovereign purpose.