1. Hearing the Word
Luke 8:1-15

2. Two Questions
1. What is the word of God?
2. What is meant by the different soils?

3. The Word of God
• The message from God
• The bible
• The message is carried by believers
• Jesus is the Word of God – Revelation 19:13
• Born again of the word of God
• The seed is good

4. The Path
• The seed never penetrates because the
ground is hard
• Satan snatches the seed away
• Satan’s preferred result
• The enemy has always opposed the word of
God
• There is a battle

5. The Rock
• Just a thin layer of soil
• The moisture evaporates
• In Wales 69% claim to be Christians
• 6% attend a church regularly
• Is society is becoming faster and more
superficial
• Received the word with joy
• No root
• New life has to be nurtured

6. The Thorns
• They hear
• The seed is good
• The soil is good
• Worries, riches and pleasures
• The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of
wealth and the desires for other things –
Mark 4:19
• All that we strive for in this life will end as dust
• Too busy

7. The Good Soil
• Hear
• Retain
• Persevere

8. Final question
• What kind of soil am I?