{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Red Letters Day 15 Luke 8:1-25","description":"To grow a seed must be planted  On Tour with Jesus  Jesus is on a tour of the nearby town and villages  Preaching the good news with his 12 disciples  Some healed women with him on the journey  They had been healed of demonic and diseases  They were using their own resources    The Farmer Did His Job He gives this parable about a farmer scattering seed  The seed fell on 4 types of soil  Footpath-stepped on and eaten by birds Rocks-wilted and died from lack of moisture ( you have go to be watered by the Word) Thorny-grew and choked  Fertile-produced a crop hundredfold  They all grew but all were affected by the circumstances surrounding them  Which soil are you in? He uses parables fulfilled with scriptures  He explains the meaning  The Footpath- hear the message, only to have the devil snatch and prevent them from believing and being saved  Rocky- hear, receive with joy, don't have roots so they believe for only a little while fall away from face temptation  Thorny-hear the message but quickly gets crowded out by the cares, riches, and pleasures of this life, never matures Fertile-honest good-hearted people who hear the word and cling to it and patiently produce a harvest  Shine your light and Listen  No one hides lamps around their house  It's on a stand display  Where are your lamps? How is it shining? Our witness is public. What secret will be brought out in the open  Everything concealed will be revealed  Therefore consider how you hear.  Listen and get more understanding  Don\u2019t listen and what you understand will be taken away from you    Hear the Word and obey it  Jesus  mother and brothers came to see him and they couldn't get to hi So they sent the word to your family outside  Jesus responds my mother and brothers are those who hear the Word and obey it  Are you in Jesus' Family? Where is your faith? Jesus said Let\u2019s go to the other side of the lake  They get in the boat Jesus takes a nap  They failed to realize Jesus said they were going to get to the other side  Fierce storm, boat filling up, they were in danger  They woke him up shouting we are going to drown  Jesus woke up and rebuked the wind and the waves, all is calm He asked them Where is your faith? Their eyes were on the storm and not the Savior  They were terrified and amazed  Who is this man? The wind and waves obey him  They have seen his authority over the death, the sick, and now the creation and they still asking who is this man  We must see Jesus for who he is. Rebuke the storms when they arise don't wait until the water fills the boat    Chew We must have fertile soil, watered daily by the Word of God to obey and shine our light and to walk by faith  For more about Gloribites https:\/\/linktr.ee\/Gloribites   ","author_name":"GloriBites","author_url":"http:\/\/www.gloribites.com","html":"