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Paco & the Fish: What Kind of Dirt Are You? · Adventures: Bible Truths in Action

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  One day Jesus told this story about a dude that liked to sew
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  Bibles. Wait, he sewed Bibles?
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  How do you sew Bibles? I don't know man with a needle
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  and thread. It was Jesus story not mine.
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  I guess in Bible times people sewed bibles.
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  They were called sewers. That doesn't sound right.
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  It's right if Jesus told it so. This dude was sewing Bibles and
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  some Bible seeds fell on the sidewalk.
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  What's a Bible seed? I don't know.
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  I guess when you sew Bibles together, seeds fall on the
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  ground. That's all I know.
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  That doesn't sound right. Anyways, the birds came and ate
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  the seeds because Bible seeds are bird seeds.
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  Is this story in Mark 4? Yeah, you know this story.
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  It's the story of the Sower sowing the Word of God.
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  Yeah, he sowed Bibles. The Word of God is the Bible.
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  Yes, but the sower is like a farmer A.
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  Farmer sowed Bibles. No, he planted seed in the
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  ground. That's what the word sow means
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  Sow So. What happened to his needle and
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  thread? That's sew.
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  That's what I'm trying to tell you.
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  Jesus is talking about a farmer, that kind of and the seed that
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  he plants in the ground is the word of God.
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  So why is the farmer trying to plant seed in a sidewalk?
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  The sidewalk represents different people's hearts.
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  Jesus talked about four different kinds of hearts.
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  Some people's hearts are hard ground that doesn't receive
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  God's Word, and some people's hearts are good ground because
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  they think about God's Word and it causes their faith to grow.
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  I'm going to have to read that story again, man.
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  It's our job to make sure our hearts are tender so that when
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  we hear God's word, we believe it and do what it says.
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  That's our word for today, Tender hearted.
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  Tender hearted. People with a hard heart are too
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  busy to listen to the word of God, or they don't care what the
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  word of God says. But a tender hearted person
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  loves the word of God and wants to listen so he can learn what
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  it says. Is your heart tender, Paco?
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  Oh yeah, it is. Now.
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  It wasn't always tender. When I was 9 my heart was niner.
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  But then I had a birthday and now my heart is tender.
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  I'm tender hearted but what happens when I turn 11?
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  Will it stop being tender? Never mind.
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  I guess it'll be a lavender. Hey fish, I read mark 4 again.
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  Thanks for helping me understand that the sower was a farmer and
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  planting seed on a sidewalk doesn't work.
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  That's right, a hard heart can't receive God's Word.
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  You got to have dirt in your heart.
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  Wait, what? Yeah, and you got to have a lot
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  of dirt in your heart, because if you only have a little dirt,
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  when the farmer plants the word of God in your heart, the rocks
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  will get the plant and roll it into the sun.
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  Are you sure? I'm sure it's called
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  Rock'n'roll. That doesn't sound right.
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  So if you don't have a lot of dirt in your heart, then you
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  have to have plenty of sunscreen or you'll get sunburned.
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  All because of the rocks. Rock'n'roll.
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  That can't be right. Oh, it's right out of the Bible.
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  I read it this morning, man. People with only a little dirt
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  in their hearts. They really like the word of God
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  at first, but then the rocks come along and cause problems.
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  What kind of problems? I don't know plant problems and
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  the rocks start calling them names.
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  What kind of names? I don't know plant names.
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  Bad plant named maybe? Like Dandelion Lion is a cool
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  name, but not dandy. Now I remember the rocks
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  represent problems in our lives. That's what I said.
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  That's why you have to have a lot of dirt in your heart to
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  keep the rocks buried. OK, first of all, we don't have
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  dirt in our hearts. Our hearts are like the soil
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  that a farmer plants seed in. The deeper the soil, the deeper
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  the roots can grow. The rocks represent problems.
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  They don't cause problems unless we let them in our hearts.
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  Just like a farmer has to dig the rocks out of his field or
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  they will stop the seeds from growing into strong, healthy
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  plants, we have to keep the rocks out of our hearts.
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  How do we do that? Our hearts are supposed to be
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  rooted in the knowledge that God loves us.
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  Rooted in God's love for us. I like that.
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  Paco. That's our word for today,
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  Rooted. That makes sense to me man.
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  When problems come, or when people start making fun of us
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  because we are Christians, we can draw from God's Word and
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  God's love, just like a plant draws life from its roots.
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  Way to go plan. Don't let those rocks push you
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  around, man. What was that?
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  That was me rooting for the plant.
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  As I was saying, we know God isn't the one causing our
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  problems. He's not the one sending the
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  rocks. So we forgive those who make fun
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  of us, and we tell the problems to get out of our heart so God's
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  Word will continue to grow. We don't give up and quit.
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  We're rooted in God's love. Are you rooted, Paco?
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  Of course I'm rooted. Whenever I play soccer, my Papa
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  comes to the game and roots for me.
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  And when I show my abuelita my report card, she roots for me
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  and gives me money. And when I clean up my room, my
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  Mama roots for me. I'm rooted all the time.
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  Oh, brother. What did I say?
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  I hope you didn't give up and quit.
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  I guess I should have rooted for fish.
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  Hey fish, I'm still reading Mark 4 about the farmer that planted
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  seeds. Did you know he planted seeds in
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  the middle of thorns? He didn't plant them in the
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  middle of thorns. The seeds fell in the middle of
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  thorns. Maybe the farmer should be more
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  careful when he scatters the seeds.
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  Then he wouldn't be having all these problems with the birds
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  and the rocks and the thorns. Pagal, the point of Jesus
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  teaching is not that the farmer is sloppy, it's that our hearts
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  are sloppy when we hear the word of God.
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  That's why we need to guard our heart to make sure that it's
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  always good ground. I guess the farmer couldn't pick
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  the seeds back up because he would get poked by the thorns.
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  I hate getting poked. Anyways, this is what I learned.
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  Thorns come to poke the Word of God out of our hearts.
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  You mean choke? What?
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  The thorns come to choke the word of God from our lives.
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  I'm pretty sure it's poke. I've never been choked by a
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  thorn, but I have been poked by a thorn and I have been poked by
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  a wasp, which is like a flying thorn.
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  And I have been poked by a doctor giving me a shot, which
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  is like a thorn with medicine in it.
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  I don't like any of them. Do you know what the thorn
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  represents? I pain.
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  Actually, Mark 4 says, the thorns in our heart are the
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  worries of this life, the lure of wealth and the desire for
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  other things. What does that mean?
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  Well, to put it simply, worry is a thorn.
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  Do you ever get worried? Who doesn't get worried, man?
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  We all get worried at times, but worry is a trap to keep us
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  thinking about our problems instead of God's promises.
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  I get it. It pokes the word out of our
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  heart. OK.
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  So what's the lure of wealth? Here's an example.
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  If you saw a dollar on the ground, what would you do?
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  I would pick it up. But what if you saw someone drop
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  that dollar? I would.
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  Pick it up quicker. Finders Keepers.
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  That's the lure of wealth making you do that.
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  It's choking the word out of your heart which says not to
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  steal. I was joking fish.
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  I would pick up the dollar before anyone else and give it
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  to the person who dropped. It that's good, Paco.
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  And the last one is the desire for other things.
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  I remember one time I wanted a skateboard.
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  All I could think about was that skateboard.
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  I would go to school and try to listen to the teacher, but all I
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  could think about was that skateboard.
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  It poked math out of my brain, so it makes sense that it would
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  poke the Word of God out of my heart too.
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  It's important that we keep the Word of God first place in our
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  hearts, Paco. By keeping God's word first, we
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  keep it on the throne of our heart.
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  Worries and desires and the lure of wealth.
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  It's come to take God's Word off the throne of our heart.
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  That's our word for today. Throne.
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  That's what we have to ask ourselves every day.
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  Paco, who's on our throne? I don't have to ask it.
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  I get asked it all the time. One time I threw a rock and hit
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  the neighbor's cat. The lady said who hit my cat
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  with that rock and I said I cannot tell a lie.
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  It was thrown by me and one time I threw a ball through my
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  umbrella's window and she said who threw the ball at my window
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  and I said it was thrown by me. Not that kind of throne.
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  Throne like what a king sits on. Oh, I get it.
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  The Word of God is on the throne of my heart, and the thorns come
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  to dethrone it. That's why we have to dethrone
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  the thorns, so they can't dethrone God's Word.
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  Wow, that's pretty good, Paco. You actually make sense for a
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  change. That's because I keep poking
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  around the Word of God. As long as I poke around God's
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  word, the thorns can't poke the Word of God out of my heart.
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  And when I poke around the Word of God, it keeps the Word of God
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  on the throne. When I let worries and desire do
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  the poking, then they get on the throne.
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  Poke and it shall not be poked out of you.
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  I don't think that's in the never mind.
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  Did I poke too far? Who's on your throne, man?
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  All right, fish. I don't know how the farmer
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  keeps getting into trouble, man. First, the birds come when he
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  throws a seed on the sidewalk. That's talking about the people
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  who hear the word of God but don't believe it.
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  Or maybe they don't understand it, so the Word doesn't grow in
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  their hearts and the devil comes and steals it.
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  That's why we keep our hearts tender and welcome God's Word in
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  our heart by studying it, especially when we don't
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  understand what it means. That's what I said.
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  The birds come, then the rocks come and roll over the plant
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  because there isn't enough dirt. There isn't enough dirt because
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  our heart is full of rocks. Like when we get upset because
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  of something that someone says or does.
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  Nobody's perfect, so we will always have plenty of
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  opportunities to get mad. We have to be rooted in God's
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  love so that we are quick to forgive others.
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  Then we don't give up and quit. That's what I said.
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  The rocks come, then the thorns come and poke the word of God
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  from our hearts. The thorns are the things we
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  worry about, the lure of wealth and desiring other things more
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  than God. All are ways of taking over the
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  throne of our hearts so that we don't have time for the Word of
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  God in our lives. They choke the Word of God.
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  They poke the word of God, They're thorns, remember?
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  But now, when the farmer finally gets to the good ground, I
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  thought it was going to be easy. But now he has the most trouble
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  of all, man. What are you talking about,
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  Paco? All Mark 420 says is.
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  And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear
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  and accept God's Word and produce a harvest of 3060 or
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  even 100 times as much as had been planted.
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  What trouble are you talking about?
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  30 * 60 * 100 times. The trouble is the math.
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  Jesus is just telling us that the Word of God multiplies the
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  fruit in our lives. That's the problem.
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  Fish multiplying. I can do 30 * 1, I can do 60 *
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  1. I can even do 100 * 1.
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  OK, I can do 100 times anything, but the 30 and 60 are not so
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  easy man. The point is, taking the time to
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  plant God's Word in our hearts will always produce a lot of
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  good things in our lives. The Word of God is fruitful, so
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  our lives will be full of good fruit.
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  That's our word for today. Paco.
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  Fruitful. I'll bet God's Word has made
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  your life fruitful. It has.
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  I remember last summer I prayed and got a job picking
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  strawberries. We had to pick them and put them
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  in these little crates and they would pay US money for every
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  crate we turned in. So the first day I put 1
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  strawberry in the crate and then ate the next.
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  I did that all day, so I didn't get paid as much as the other
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  kids. But I was so full of
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  strawberries when I went home, I was fruitful.
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  No, no, no. That's not what fruitful means.
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  Being fruitful means that you are successful.
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  The Word of God gives us wisdom to do what is right.
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  It gives us power to do the good works God has planned for us.
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  The Word gives direction to our lives to keep us on God's path.
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  It helps us to be strong and courageous instead of being
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  afraid, and it gives us all things that pertain to life and
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  godliness. You said the word of God gives
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  us wisdom to do what is right, so will it give me wisdom to get
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  the right answer on my math test?
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  You know like 30 * 17. Can it do that or do I have to
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  keep going to math class and studying my math book?
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  Why do I feel like I'm talking to a sidewalk?
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  Hey fish, where'd you go? I'm just trying to be fruitful
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  on my math test. I guess I better go ask my math
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  teacher for help. At least she doesn't jump in a
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  pool of water when I ask her for help.
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