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[2849.72 --> 2852.20] Jesus invites your questions.
[2853.20 --> 2853.32] Right?
[2853.36 --> 2855.26] Christianity invites your doubts.
[2856.02 --> 2858.68] In fact, so much so that I want you to doubt your doubts.
[2858.68 --> 2862.52] Christianity isn't afraid of your questions.
[2862.84 --> 2863.62] Let's ask them.
[2864.28 --> 2865.22] Let's wrestle together.
[2865.32 --> 2866.28] Let's dig deep.
[2866.48 --> 2867.80] That's the point of the parables.
[2868.86 --> 2868.98] Right?
[2869.06 --> 2873.20] We didn't read it, but again, this is why I ask you to keep your Bibles open.
[2873.32 --> 2878.06] Verse 22 or 21 and 22.
[2878.06 --> 2880.00] Jesus says,
[2880.00 --> 2883.44] Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed?
[2883.88 --> 2885.62] Instead, don't you put it on its stand?
[2885.70 --> 2886.62] And here's what I want you to hear.
[2887.08 --> 2889.98] For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed.
[2890.14 --> 2893.94] And whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
[2894.26 --> 2897.58] If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.
[2899.48 --> 2902.34] Whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed.
[2902.88 --> 2906.64] Whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
[2906.64 --> 2910.82] And that Klein Snodgrass, he's a Bible scholar, he says really simply,
[2911.20 --> 2913.76] Parables hide in order to reveal.
[2915.72 --> 2920.20] Parables are inviting us to ask hard questions about life and faith in God,
[2920.26 --> 2924.60] about the kingdom, about what is right and what is truth and what is true.
[2925.06 --> 2928.56] Parables are inviting us to wrestle with the idea of what is the good life,
[2928.66 --> 2930.64] what is truly beautiful,
[2930.64 --> 2936.60] what is meaning and what is meaningful and what is meaning based on in life.
[2936.64 --> 2939.42] There's a case in point here.
[2939.52 --> 2943.08] The parable that we read invites you to consider,
[2943.60 --> 2948.48] are you really asking those questions?
[2949.24 --> 2953.24] Are you really hearing Jesus' invitation?
[2953.82 --> 2957.08] Are your questions really about truth?
[2957.08 --> 2961.26] Or is all of this, whatever this may be for you right now,
[2961.30 --> 2964.62] is all of this just an experience of confirmation bias,
[2964.76 --> 2965.78] of preconceived notions,
[2965.78 --> 2968.44] and really just an excuse in the end to walk away?
[2970.52 --> 2974.34] Parables hide in order to reveal.
[2974.34 --> 2980.92] And the first thing to be revealed is that your heart,
[2981.88 --> 2985.72] right, your willingness to hear matters.
[2986.66 --> 2990.36] That's the theme of this message,
[2990.44 --> 2992.78] this parable of what we're digging into, right?
[2992.86 --> 2997.48] That how you hear and how you set yourself up to hear
[2997.48 --> 3000.02] matters for what you hear.
[3000.02 --> 3004.10] And if you actually hear what Jesus has to say.
[3005.46 --> 3009.16] Now, most of you probably have the same Bible that I do,
[3009.24 --> 3010.78] or a similar one.
[3011.40 --> 3012.74] In most of your Bibles,
[3012.86 --> 3015.40] there's probably a heading at the top of chapter 4.
[3015.94 --> 3017.72] Someone with a heading at the top of chapter 4.
[3017.78 --> 3018.30] What does it say?
[3020.62 --> 3021.60] Parable of the sower.
[3021.94 --> 3022.30] Perfect.
[3022.70 --> 3023.04] Thank you.
[3023.10 --> 3024.52] I'm glad that didn't backfire on me.
[3025.02 --> 3026.12] If yours says something different,
[3026.24 --> 3026.40] shh!
[3026.40 --> 3029.22] Parable of the sower.
[3029.34 --> 3030.82] Now, let me be clear,
[3030.94 --> 3033.22] because some of us are new to this faith thing, right?
[3033.26 --> 3036.16] These headings aren't part of the original text.
[3036.38 --> 3039.40] The Bible was written mostly in Hebrew and Greek.
[3039.58 --> 3041.20] It didn't have chapters or verses
[3041.20 --> 3043.66] or these fancy headings in it to help us organize.
[3044.18 --> 3046.58] These headings are put in by an editorial board,
[3046.80 --> 3048.42] in this case from Zondervan,
[3048.84 --> 3051.26] to help organize the content within it.
[3051.58 --> 3052.20] Now, they're good.
[3052.20 --> 3054.32] The point is,
[3054.62 --> 3055.86] sometimes,
[3056.08 --> 3057.34] they're a little misleading.
[3058.14 --> 3060.60] Because this parable isn't actually about the sower,
[3060.74 --> 3061.74] at least not primarily.
[3063.14 --> 3064.82] And it's not even about the seed,
[3064.94 --> 3066.38] at least not primarily.
[3067.26 --> 3067.34] Right?
[3067.42 --> 3069.30] The verse 14 tells us that the seed,
[3069.44 --> 3071.00] simply put, is the word.
[3071.48 --> 3071.86] Rather,
[3072.32 --> 3075.48] this parable is about the soils,
[3076.08 --> 3078.84] and the people that they represent in life,
[3078.84 --> 3080.34] and what they do,
[3080.40 --> 3081.08] or we do,
[3081.18 --> 3081.80] to hear,
[3082.72 --> 3085.74] and to show that we've heard the word.
[3086.28 --> 3088.88] This parable invites you to introspect,
[3089.60 --> 3090.42] to ask,
[3090.84 --> 3093.22] what am I doing to cultivate a heart,
[3093.30 --> 3094.08] or a soil,
[3094.60 --> 3098.50] that's going to receive the word,
[3098.68 --> 3100.32] and produce fruit?
[3101.80 --> 3102.74] But because of that,
[3103.14 --> 3104.56] and because many of us have,
[3104.76 --> 3104.94] in fact,
[3104.98 --> 3106.64] been around these stories,
[3106.64 --> 3107.92] for a really long time,
[3108.42 --> 3110.24] it's actually really easy,
[3110.24 --> 3111.38] to get distracted,
[3111.72 --> 3112.82] about the sower,
[3113.06 --> 3113.84] about the farmer.