What kind of land are you?

That word of the Lord tells us to read in Mark, chapter 4. I want to ask you what kind of land you are. That is the theme of this sermon. What kind of land, of terrain are you? This parable of the sower inspires us, calls us to consider the process of evangelization. It says here in verse 1:

“The Lord began to teach by the sea, and so many people gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea.”

Do you remember that boat of Pedro, last Sunday? Here is the boat again, or perhaps it was at that time that the Lord preached this message. The Bible is very beautiful. A little while ago I smiled because it was as if it were the first time I had seen a verse that is in chapter 3, verse 9 says that the Lord told his disciples to always have the boat ready for him because of the crowd so that he would not you oppressed him An interesting detail, Jesus and the boats. That is a subject for a good sermon, but I don't want to distract you.

He sat in the boat and the people were on land by the sea, “and the Lord taught them many things in parables and said to them in his doctrine, 'Listen, behold, the sower went out to sow and as he sowed it happened that a part fell by the wayside – a part of what? From the seed that he threw. – and the birds of the sky came and ate it. Another part fell on stony ground where it did not have much soil and it sprouted soon because it did not have depth of soil, but when the sun came up it was scorched and because it had no root – mark that there in your Bible – it dried up.”

We have two types of seeds, one falls along the road, another falls on stony ground. “And a third portion of the seed fell among the thorns, verse 7, and the thorns grew up and choked it, overwhelmed it, and it did not bear fruit. But another part, the fourth portion of the seed, fell on good soil and bore fruit, since it sprouted and grew and produced 30, 60, and a hundredfold. Then he who has ears to hear, let him hear."

That's what the Lord tells you, if you have ears to hear right now, listen to the word of the Lord. This is one of the most famous parables of Jesus Christ. In fact, we have a painting that we put up a few weeks ago, in front of the sanctuary when you leave, that represents this parable of the sower. I can see it from here right now. And we put it there at the exit because when you walk out that door you return to your community and I want that painting to serve as a reminder that when you leave here, you go out to sow the seeds of the Gospel.

We go out to serve the kingdom, we go out to share what we have received by grace. We go in to be fed and we go out to feed and sow the word of the Lord. But certainly this parable is one of the best known in all of history. And I like this parable for several reasons. I like him for his insight. How many know how to say what the word insight means? It's a Sunday word. Insight means his deep analytical capacity, his accurate, incisive analytical capacity we could say, his spiritual and psychological insight, due to his understanding of human processes and above all of the spiritual process of evangelization.

We see here a very deep understanding of the processes that affect the proclamation of the Gospel. It shows us the complexity involved in the preaching of the Gospel. The preaching of the Gospel is something tremendously complex and there are many factors that affect the fate of the word of God when it comes out of the mouth of a preacher.

How many of you know that God is not the only actor in the evangelization process? This parable makes us aware that there are many different actors, many different elements that affect the preaching process. For example, in this parable we see that they are involved, first, the sower, also a seed that plays a role, the type of soil the seed falls on is also important. There are thorns, there are stones, there are feet that trample, there are birds that eat the seed, there is a sun that affects the seed. There are many different factors.

Satan is in the process because later on the Lord explains himself... one of the few parables in which the Lord explains the meaning of each of the symbols he uses. How nice it is to have Jesus interpreting his word himself, right? One would like to have that privilege always. But here the Lord himself explains what he meant by his parable.

And he says that those birds that come out in the first type of seed is Satan that affects the destiny of the seed. And there are a number of additional factors that determine whether or not the act of throwing the seed prospers and succeeds. So, one of the first things that this parable teaches us is the complexity, the diversity of factors that affect the proclamation of the Gospel.

It does not show the dynamic and complex character of the Gospel and its proclamation. And in this time when we are continually reflecting on evangelism, and these sermons are designed to be a compendium of teaching on different aspects, it is like a single extended presentation with different aspects, which all have to do with a complete education, more or less. less, but at least comprehensive of the different factors that affect evangelism.

So in this time of reflection, one of the things that we have to understand is that not everything depends on us only when we proclaim the Gospel. And I'm going to tell you why that's so important. But this teaches me that we are like the sowers, the church, you and I, but you see that it is not only the sower but that there are other factors here that play an important role.

And do you know what is one of the most interesting factors in the fate of the preaching of the Gospel? God's will. And why am I saying this? Because there are people with whom God has no purposes and who for some reason are not destined to be saved and this is tremendously mysterious but the word tells us that. In other words, there are people who, no matter how hard we try and do everything we can, are not destined to be saved. And God has no purpose with them. And the Bible says that unless God does not activate his call in a person's life, that person remains inert.

He knows that there has to be a divine intervention for people to come to the Gospel. The word says that no one comes to Christ if the Holy Spirit does not draw him. And there are people that God just…don't ask me why, but if you look in Romans chapter 9, you're going to see something about that there. The whole of Romans chapter 9 is designed to shed some light on that aspect.

For example, the Hebrew people, why the Hebrew people despite having received the Abrahamic revelation, the pacts and all that, even today, says the Bible, that they still have a veil that covers their understanding? Imagine that, centuries and centuries have passed since Christ came to earth, from the lineage of Judah and still that Jewish Israelite people remain dulled in their understanding, even though they are God's people and God has them as parentheses. While he completes his work among us Gentiles, non-Hebrews, that people is there as if in spiritually animated suspension.

And you talk to the Jews about Christ and it's like they're closed like the walls of Jericho. And the Bible says that one day the Lord will remove the veil from them and they will understand and cry for Christ as one cries for a lost son. But in the meantime the Lord has them in parentheses, because God is a God of order and he first works between us and when the fullness of the Gentiles has been completed, then the Lord will turn his gaze again towards the Hebrews.

There are even people that you preach the Gospel to and they have a dull understanding. This very weekend I read an article in the New York Times written by a Jewish novelist, by the way, which is interesting, where she has suffered from insomnia practically all her life, debilitating insomnia, anxiety and depression and she has sought solution for her clinical problem in yamanes, at that moment she is visiting, when she writes the article, she is visiting a Mexican yaman named Rafael, looking to see if he has the solution, but she is incredulous. And I think that she is looking for another paragraph for her article that she was writing.

But it's fascinating all the same. And she talks about how it's impossible for her to believe. Her dad, an American Jewish scientist, she with a very rational, privileged education, can't, no matter how much she wants to, like she has a metal helmet that covers her understanding and she can't believe.

I have had experiences with people like that. I remember someone very dear to me who at a dinner told me, I have tried but simply…. I felt sorry because it was like an admission of defeat that this person was telling me, I can't believe it. And there are people like that, it's like God doesn't have a purpose with them and this often affects the destiny of our preaching.

Verse 14, Romans, 9, says, "What then shall we say, that there is injustice in God?" Because you can say, well, and how is it that a person is born and God has no purpose with him and then they are lost? What faults do they have? Those mysteries that I cannot solve, but they are there in the word. God is sovereign. God does what he wants.

“What then shall we say, that there is injustice in God? No way. Well, he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy on and I will have compassion on whomever I want, in other words, on whomever I feel sorry for. So it does not depend on who wants or who runs but on God who has mercy. Because the scripture says to Pharaoh – the writer of Romans is arguing – for this very reason I have raised you up, to show my power in you and so that my name may be announced throughout the whole earth. So he has mercy on whoever he wants and whoever wants to harden, hardens."

What a mistery. That is why we have to be very careful how we pray. In this time here in this nation, you know that I no longer pray that Hilary does not come out or that Trump does not come out, I am saying, Lord, simply let your will be done. Because? Because maybe God wants this to get even worse in this nation. Perhaps God wants Pharaoh to resist Moses a little longer before the visitation of God's power comes upon this nation.

You know that God sometimes takes things to a dark, dark point and that people become corrupted, the wickedness of men has to reach, he says, its peak before God intervenes. And sometimes we are praying, Lord, that this one, another one, will be converted. Yes, we can ask for rain, because we want the visitation and in the end God will do his will, but I don't know how long while we wait and cry out it will take for God to intervene.

Did you know? I sleep peacefully. Because? Because I know that Hilary goes up or Trump goes up or whoever goes up, the Lord is on his throne, as we say, he is in control. And he's the one who's taking things to their place and sometimes he makes Pharaoh stand up to show his glory then. Sometimes he allows a person to suffer and resist because he has to mature that person before he finally bows his head before the Lord.

You may be praying for your son, Lord, convert him, convert him. And you should keep praying, but perhaps the Lord still has a few more years to hit his head and the wall before he comes to the ways of the Lord. Your part, keep praying, keep crying out to the Lord and leave the outcome to the Lord.

There are people to whom we will proclaim the Gospel, there are nations, there are generations that our part is simply to sow the seed. Sometimes we don't know what purpose God has with people and how long it will take. But I know one thing, that God is faithful and that the word does promise that the Lord is coming soon, that a harvest of souls is coming and we have to be crying out to the Lord, give us anointing, give us understanding, give us power to be prepared when he comes the visitation of your power.

But there are people that you are going to preach to and don't worry, let the Lord do the work, he will know what he has in hand with those people. It is suggested here that with some people God has plans and purposes and with others he does not. and this perhaps explains why some end up unsaved and others yes. This is very complex and I suggest you don't dwell on it too much. The important thing as I say is to preach the Gospel. It is useless for us to torment ourselves, we feel guilty because there is a part that only belongs to the mysteries of the Lord.

Do you know why I am teaching all this? Because many times I see in this nation right now a sector of the evangelical church that is tormented because people accuse the church of being self-righteous, of not understanding homosexual people and transvestites and transgender people, that we think we are better than nobody, and there are many Christians tormenting themselves because they want the church to be popular, they want the church to be accepted. They are tormented by the criticism that people direct towards the church and they are continually experimenting and seeking to see how to remove all offense from the Gospel so that people stop thinking that Christians are bad people.

And you see that they remove the cross, because the cross offends some. Campus Crusade a Christian campus ministry changed its name from Campus Crusade to Cru, because crusade offends Muslims and other people so we are going to remove the word crusade. Others remove the Christian word from the name of the church and put something community, community church. Others call the church the church of Grace, because people like grace, no one is going to call it the church of condemnation, of course. But thank you because that will teach people that these are good people, you can go to that church.

Look, you can change the name you want, you can hide what you want, souls are saved when the Holy Spirit touches the heart and people react positively to God's work. Our part is not to change the Gospel, our part is not to give makeup and deodorant to the Gospel, our part is to preach the word, be faithful and leave the rest to the Lord. Because ultimately the Lord is the one who will be in charge of doing the work, not us.

I don't know what plans God has with this generation. Of course we do, we want to help as much as possible, improve our way of preaching the Gospel, provide people with a correct environment, preach a balanced Gospel, everything else, but I know that ultimately when everything is done, All I can do is rest and leave the result to the Lord. Let's not change the message. Let's not change the proclamation of the word because there are processes and God is the one who has absolute control.

And that is why reading this parable gives me peace, it allows me to preach the Gospel with ease, without eagerness, leaving the result to the Lord. My part, your part is to proclaim the word at every opportunity and then rest. Do not preach the Gospel with anxiety, you want that person to convert, and you are there insisting and bothering and calling on the phone and delivering tracts and all that, no, preach the word and then let the Lord work.

People want to receive the Gospel message from people who are confident in their material. If you have a salesperson… he knows when I am going to buy something, what I dislike the most is when I have not gone through the door and I already see that the salesperson begins to move there to come to me. Leave me alone, if I need it I'll call you. Come on, tell me, I'm at your service here, whatever I'm going to be there. Thank you. Now leave me alone, I know exactly what I'm looking for.

That is, we have to preach the Gospel calmly, with elegance, with grace, with confidence. No one likes a salesperson who is wary of the merchandise they are selling. And I believe that this shyness that so many evangelicals have today in this nation, wanting to justify themselves, for people to think that we are good people, removing all the hallmarks of the Gospel, that is more counterproductive than anything else.

People want you to present a clear, firm, forceful Gospel and that you preach it with confidence and that has a lot of power to convince. Do not preach the Gospel anxiously, feeling guilty. There are parts that only the Lord understands and ultimately he is in control.

Notice here that there is only one seed that is preached. There are not many different seeds, just one seed. The Gospel says is the word once given to the saints. And the church has no power to change the seed. The seed is always the same. The Gospel does not change, it is the same message. The difference is in the land and the context. And that land is the person, the heart of the individual, the sensitivity that receives the message. The context in which the word is preached.

Let's look at the first seed. That first seed says here that it is received by a person, an individual who simply does not understand the sublime character or the life and death importance of the Gospel. In another version of this parable found in Matthew, the Lord explains that the first person who receives the Gospel does not understand the message and that is why the enemy removes the message from him.

So this person, when you preach the Gospel to him, thinks that what you are preaching to him is a denomination, a congregation, that what you want is his money, that he has already heard the same thing 20 thousand times, that you are from that group who shows up there, those crazy evangelicals on TV, etc., does not understand that you are presenting them with the opportunity for eternal life, for a frame of reference for their existence, for an understanding of their origins and all these things . It is not church, it is not religion, it is the eternal salvation of your soul.

But these people do not understand the message of the Gospel. But we are told something else and that is that the devil is the one who removes the seed of their understanding. Since this person does not value, does not understand, his understanding is blind, the enemy can then snatch the seed of the Gospel. Here the Lord clearly suggests diabolical and demonic opposition that I am glad that he is himself interpreting his own parable because there is no doubt that what he meant is that sometimes there is interference.

Another important player in the proclamation of the Gospel is Satan. Many times the demonic, diabolical influence prevents many people from receiving the Gospel. Did you know that in evangelism there is spiritual warfare too? And that the devil has a great interest in ensuring that no one converts to the Gospel.

Look in Second Corinthians chapter 4, in verse 3 it says: “But if our Gospel is still hidden among those who are lost, in whom the god of this age – who is the god of this age? Satan. Century does not refer to this century of 100 years, it refers to this age, this epoch, this time, this dispensation, this human system in which we are involved – blinded the understanding of the unbelievers…”

That is to say, when a person persists in not believing it is because that person in some way is also being affected by a demonic influence that prevents him from believing.

“…so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them. – Verse 6 is interesting – For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, is the one who shone in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Why did you come to know Christ and accept Christ? Because the light of God shined on you. It wasn't because you naturally, the good people you are, decided to believe in Christ, God enlightened you, enlightened you so that you could see. Meanwhile the enemy was trying to blind your understanding so that you would not receive the word.

You have to wonder, will there be a spiritual fight? Why don't I accept Christ? Why haven't I given my life to Jesus Christ? Will there be a spiritual fight part? I have to ask, Lord, give me understanding, open my eyes so that I can know you.

So, we see that Satan often blinds people's understanding so that the light of the Gospel does not shine on them. He comes and removes the seed, on the one hand one is preaching the Gospel to him and his mind is thinking about other things, or a distraction comes, or a problem comes or whatever, and people go on their way and forget what what he heard That is why it is important to pray for the people we want to know Jesus Christ, so that the Lord removes the veil that covers their understanding and they can receive the Lord.

A church that is seeking to be evangelistically effective has to pray, and that is why these times of prayer, I believe the Lord has sovereignly imposed upon us. I did not propose to have times of prayer in this insistent way, once, on Friday, but the rest is the Lord himself who has... and that is why one has to learn from things. God is teaching you. And I believe that we are going to continue until the Lord gives us freedom, we are going to see how. We don't want to make it routine either but if a church wants to be effective it has to pray.

If you want to be effective in your life you have to pray. If you want people to know Christ put them on a list and pray insistently for them so that the devil is defeated in them and they can neutrally receive the word of God.

You know that the Bible says that the strong man must first be bound before people can believe. Look at what Mark chapter 3, verse 27 says – I'm giving material but you can listen to the recording again later – it says here, “No one can enter a strong man's house – who is that strong man? Satan, demonic spirits – and plunder your property if you don't first bind him and then he can plunder your house.”

And he is specifically speaking in the context of the preaching of the Gospel and the demonic kingdom that opposes the Kingdom of God. And first you have to tie, sometimes we have to pray in the form of spiritual warfare so that our children know the Lord. And it's important that people understand that there is a fight for every soul. This is not simple, this is not easy, there is spiritual warfare behind the scenes for every soul. Each soul that converts is a miracle of God because there are powers that are dedicated to preventing it, because the devil wants to cause pain to the Lord in the loss of his children. And we have to cry out to the Lord and you yourself help the Lord crying out so that God opens your eyes and you can understand the importance of the Gospel.

Sometimes we have to get rid of the devil first so there can be a harvest of souls. We have to pray for this city of Boston so that the Lord opens the understanding of the people and they can receive the Gospel. A church that is involved in evangelism has to be strong in prayer and in holiness, otherwise there can be no effectiveness in the Christian life.

That is to say, that the first seed the devil is involved in not allowing it to prosper. The second seed that falls we are told that it fell on stony ground, the portion of the seed fell on stony ground, where it did not have much soil and since it was not deeply rooted it had no way to feed or receive water from the moisture that is under the ground .

This portion of the seed falls and bears fruit prematurely, or rather, a little bush just sprouts, but it hasn't taken time for that seed to go down, get into the ground, because what happens? When a plant has roots it can drink from the moisture that is underground, it can feed on the nutrients in the soil, but if it does not have deep roots it withers easily. And paradoxically there are people like that who believe in Christ, receive the word, convert, you see them start to come to church, but since they don't have a good formation, good teaching, good roots, good spiritual habits, when problems come and difficulties immediately you do not see them again in church.

And here two or three very important things emerge. One of the things, my brothers who have recently known the Lord, you who are young in faith, nourish yourself spiritually, read the word, study the word, acquire good devotional habits. That's why we do different things. One of the things that we offer is after the person is converted we encourage them to take 3, 4 classes that we always offer so that they at least have some knowledge of what happened in their spirit when they accepted Christ as Lord and savior. And we encourage them to acquire good habits of prayer, reading the word, congregating, serving the Lord and other devotional habits so that they can be healthy people.

If your heart is not educated in the word of the Lord, your Christian experience will be deficient. We offer discipleship classes too, all these things that you hear from workshops and retreats, this is designed so that that bush, that seed that has fallen on the ground can go down. Cultivate your spiritual life because for you to be a plant that can resist life's attacks it is important that you take root. This plant, since it has not taken root, is fragile and weak and that is why when the sun rises it burns easily and dies. I encourage new believers to take the Christian life seriously and do everything possible to mature in the things of the faith.

Now, he says that you were clear, when a person does not have a solid Christian life, he is at the mercy of any test that may come. It's like a baby. He knows that babies are fragile and any cold can turn into pneumonia, any fall can affect their brain in a final way, and that is why we take care of babies so much and give them so much maintenance because any test, that is, any trauma on your system can be fatal or very harmful.

And when people are in that initial part of the Christian life, trials can come. He says that when the test comes he turns away from the Gospel. And one can think, well, we know what tests are, but there are two types of tests that I want to tell you that it is very important that we always keep in mind. Do you know what the first test new believers experience is? Sometimes it's here in the church. One of the most dangerous tests, ironically, is the very life of the church for new believers.

In the church there are many imperfect people, they are still in formation and some are not very mature and when the people receive Jesus Christ and come to the church they think that they are all little saints, that the whole world is sanctified, that the whole world is a paragon of virtues and when they realize that this is not the case, they are scandalized and when the gossip person appears, the person who looks at him badly, the person who criticizes him, when she sees 2 Christians who she supposed were very mature fighting with each other the other, when they see that the church is made up of people who are also sick, who need grace from the Lord, they step foot and leave. And the devil sometimes uses the little brothers within the same church to harm others.

And that is why I say, brothers, that the church has to be a place where the little ones can find a good environment to educate themselves. Be careful, I no longer have tolerance for gossipy people in the church, brothers, zero tolerance. Rebuke him in the name of Jesus Christ all backbiting, all gossip, all carnality in him in the name of Jesus. If you see a gossipy person, report it to me and I will take care of it. Now don't all come at the end of the service, but honestly, brethren, that hurts my heart, because that's a test designed by the devil to scandalize little ones.

And the Bible says very clearly, look, it would be better for you to tie yourself to a millstone and throw yourself to the bottom of the sea than to scandalize one of the little ones. And sometimes we scandalize each other, brothers. I think there are so many tests that are coming. Look, sometimes where do you find the greatest temptation? Inside the church not out there.

I tell my sisters, I am going to repeat it for integrity. My sisters, do you know one of the things I love about the Catholic Church in its heyday? It was when those sisters dressed to go to church. I fully understand that... but I believe that the church should be a place where men do not have unnecessary distractions. Amen. Sisters, please understand well what I want to tell you. I don't consider myself a sanctimonious person because I couldn't be, even if I wanted to be, but sisters, this is the place where you and men also tell you the same thing, if by chance God has given you a body that also provokes bad thoughts, dress as you should.

I believe that the Christian must dress appropriately, but at least to come to the house of the Lord. It's so nice when I see my sisters who dress with that delicacy, with that consideration that they are in the house of God. That's like it makes me feel blessed. Out there, you do what you want, but I beg you, and I believe that it will be a blessing for you, I promise, because that is a message that you send to your spirit.

I want you to do what you want with it. But I speak to you with my pastoral heart here in hand, with all my love. I'm not talking about you buying a sack of flour and putting it on like a Muslim with the [inaudible] only there, no, you can dress well, but pray to the Lord, ask the Lord about it. That's all. Because many times that is a stumbling block, it shocks some brothers and other little brothers that the meat is still fresh and new, and if you play a public role in any way, ask yourself, am I performing my task in an inspiring way instead of tempting? Do you understand what I mean? to the good understanding few words are enough.

Because the church can be a place of problems, it can be a place of temptation and complexity and unnecessary complications. And that's it, and we have to be careful… take care of each other, have mercy on each other. The church can be a place… and trials can come in other ways too, they can come through suffering.

You know that many times when we begin to serve the Lord, the devil's attacks come to our lives as well, and the devil wants to see if we send ourselves to flee because problems and trials come, difficulties. What you have to do is resist in the name of the Lord. Stand firm, understand and discern that the devil sometimes wants to destroy your life and the Bible says that we simply resist the devil and he will flee from us.

Don't let yourself be scandalized because the following Sunday after converting the car your car broke down, or that the IRS wrote you a letter that there is money there that you owed for 4 years and now you know. Resist, be faithful until death. God will give you the crown of life.

The Gospel is for the determined, the strong and says that sometimes through many trials and difficulties we must reach the kingdom of heaven. But I can promise you one thing, it is that in the name of Jesus Christ if you stand firm, God will give you victory in all your tribulations and God will use all your ailments, all your trials to make a man, a powerful woman of God and a more effective Christian.

The Christian catches the devil's pitches and hits a home run a hundred percent of the time. The tests, do not allow... put your deep roots in a devotional life, the practices of the Christian devotional life, congregate, serve, stick with two or three mature people in the faith, read the word, and the Lord will give you the crown of life.

The third seed is the one that falls among thorns, which then grow around the seed, choke it and leave it fruitless. What does this amount to? The Lord explains it in verse 19, he says that the cares of this century, the deceitfulness of wealth and the greed for other things - you write what you want there - enter and drown the word and it becomes fruitless, it is say, it does not bear fruit.

Those thorns are the cares of life, the vanity of the world, the deceit of wealth, greed, sensuality. It is one of the great obstacles. I believe that it is number 1 on the list of people when they want to enter the ways of the Lord.

For example, the Bible tells about the rich young man, he came before the Lord with great anxiety, Lord, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And the Lord at the end says to him, “Look, take your money, give it to the poor, distribute it and then come and follow me.” What does the Bible say? The man left sad because he had a lot of money, a lot of fame, a lot of social influence and the Lord said, wow, how difficult it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

And you know what? You do not have to be rich in money to have difficulty entering the Kingdom of God, sometimes you can be rich in appearance, rich in friendship, rich in profession, rich in social influence, rich in prestige, rich in youth, rich in vitality and health, and those things you have to be willing to surrender everything to the Lord so that the Lord can do his work in your life.

If you love anything in this world more than Christ you do not deserve to be a disciple of the Lord. We must despise our life until death, says the word. And many people, when they receive the preaching, like the Gospel, but when they count the cost and realize that this practice steals from customers, I sell them cars that are useless and I tell them that they are the best car they can find. have bought in their lives. I am going to have to leave this young man with whom I go out and have an illicit relationship for the sake of the Gospel. This habit, this mouth, this social influence, they are going to tell me that I am a fanatical evangelical, I am going to lose prestige, they are going to tell me that I am a sanctimonious person, that I am a Pharisee, why do I reject people, etc. and there are a number of things that are obstacles to people coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

And a lot of people like this rich young man say, you know what, no this is not for me. They love people's opinion more and say no, I don't want it. Many people make this type of mental transaction and delude themselves into thinking that God just didn't notice. But you know what? Whenever you say no to the Gospel that is an active no and there is like a camera that portrays the moment in which you said no to the Gospel. And one day we have to give an account, when we come before the throne of God, says the Bible, each one will have to give an account of their decisions. And God is going to ask you why you loved the world more than me? And we have to be able to give an answer.

Hopefully we can say in time, no, Lord, I give you what you want. I love eternal life more than anything in this world. But we simply have to preach to people, we preach and each one has to make their decision according to the seed they are.

And that brings me to the last seed, the Bible says that the fourth portion of seed fell on good soil and the parable tells us that this person is the person who hears the Gospel, understands it, receives it, and bears fruit at different levels. to different capacities. Not everyone is going to be a Billy Graham who will have preached to millions of people, but when you enter the Gospel God calls you to serve him, to prosper, to bear fruit, to grow, to do something positive and so that you help others to know Jesus Christ.

God has a plan for your life. What kind of land are you? Of those 4 portions that are there, which of them do you belong to? May the Lord want you to be like that good land.