Parable of the 4 soils

Into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”a. Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field: In His explanation, Jesus made it clear what the different figures in the parable represent.· The field represents the world.· The good seeds represent God’s true people, the sons of the kingdom.· The tares represent false believers in the world, the sons of the wicked one, who (like tares among wheat) may superficially look like God’s true people.i. In this we see that the parable of the tares changes the figures slightly from the parable of the soils (Matthew 13:3-9; 13:18-23). In the parable of the soils, the seed represented the Word of God; here it represents true believers. The point of the parables is completely different; the parable of the soils shows how men receive and respond to the Word of God, and the parable of the tares of the field shows how God will divide His true people from false believers at the end of this age.ii. “Satan has a shoot of iniquity for every shoot of grace; and, when God revives his work, Satan revives his also.” (Clarke)iii. This parable powerfully teaches that it is God’s job to divide in judgment. “Magistrates and churches may remove the openly wicked from their society; the outwardly good who are inwardly worthless they must leave; for the judging of hearts is beyond their sphere.” (Spurgeon)iv. “Jesus announced

Background Scripture (read 2-3 times during the week) Matthew 13:1-23 Story Summary This is the first lesson in the Parables unit. We aren't going strictly chronologically in this section. We're studying several of the most popular parables of Jesus together. What are Parables? Take this opportunity to teach your children what parables are. They are little stories Jesus told that teach us about the Kingdom of God. They are similar to fables in that they are stories with a deeper meaning. But fables give moral or ethical lessons. For example, the Tortoise and the Hare teaches us not to give up (if you are the tortoise) and not to be too full of yourself (if you are the hare). The Boy Who Cried Wolf teaches us that if we lie repeatedly, people won't believe us even when we are telling the truth. Parables teach us about life in the Kingdom of God, or life as a Christian. The Parable of the Sower is found in Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:3-25 and Luke 8:5-18. This parable is best read directly from the scriptures. Below is an overview of the 4 different types of soil: Type of Soil Result Path When we don't understand the word, it is like it is snatched up like a bird swoops down and eats a seed he finds on a path. Rocky Places When we receive the word and it springs up quickly, but trouble comes and because it doesn't have a good root, it quickly falls away. Thorns When we receive the word, but the worries of life and our possessions choke it out. Good Soil When we receive the word, understand it, and it changes us. It "produces a crop" The Kingdom lesson in this parable: Not everyone receives the Word of God. We must be willing to receive it and allow it to be more important than anything else in the world. What You Will Need Supplies Garden tools, planting and potting supplies (pots, dirt, trowel, fertilizer, seed, water, etc) Snack Suggestion Dirt Cake Reinforcement Activity Video Options God's Story - Seeds and a FarmerFrom Crossroads Kids Club Parable of the Farmer and the SeedsFrom Saddleback Kids Parable of the FarmerFrom LifeKids Resource Sheet Parable of the Sower Coloring SheetThis coloring sheet depicts the 4 soils Jesus used in the Parable of the Sower 1. Warm Up get your kids talking and engaged Have

James 1:19 Growing plants Activity Instructions--> Place dirt in cup or pots. Put seeds into the dirt and give it water. Glue or tape a paper strip with Matthew 13:3 onto the cup or pot.Place plants in a sunny place. Dirt, Rock, Thorn Craft Activity Instructions--> Draw a picture of a plant in the middle of the paper. At the bottom of the paper, glue a small pile of dirt right under the plant.Next to the dirt, glue a few small pebbles. On the other side, glue some thorns.Place the verse Matthew 13:4-8 at the top of the paper. Dirt Cake Activity Instructions--> Place pudding mix into each plastic cup.Place crushed cookie on top of each.Add a plastic flower or gummy worm to each cup. Four Soils Craft or Diorama Activity Instructions--> Give the kids all sorts of supplies listed above and have them create a diorama of the four different types of soil in the Parable of the Sower.Have them use their best creativity and talk about the parable with the children as they are building it. The Parable of the Sower Activity Instructions--> Go to and print out "The Parable of the Sower" word search. See if you can find the words and how these words are related to the parable. Parable of the Sower Four Corners Activity Instructions--> Play the game of Four Corners, but instead of each corner of your room being a number 1-4, name each corner: Path, Rocks, Thorns, Soil.Write each word on a sheet of paper and hang them on the wall at each corner.Identify one child to be "it" (or have the teacher be "it")While It closes their eyes and counts to 10, all the other students run to one of the four corners.Then It says one of the four names of the soils.All children in that corner sit down and are out of the game. If no one is in that corner, no one has to sit down.Repeat until there is a winner. Dirt Discovery Science Experiment Activity Instructions--> See the link below ("Dirt Discovery Science Experiment") for a good science experiment to get your kids talking about dirt and soils.This experiment works best if you get regular ol' dirt from outside, not topsoil from a garden store.Use this experiment to reinforce the concept in the parable that not all places are good for seeds to grow, and we must be

Select a Bible Book Select a Chapter Matthew 13 – The Kingdom ParablesVideo for Matthew 13:Audio for Matthew 13:A. The parable of the soils.1. (1-3a) Jesus teaches with parables.On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. Then He spoke many things to them in parables,a. He got into a boat and sat: Jesus sometimes used a boat as His “pulpit” (Mark 4:1). It gave Him a place to speak, away from the press of the crowds, provided good acoustics, and probably a nice backdrop.i. When Jesus taught from a boat, surely that was a new thing. We can imagine some critic saying, “You can’t do that! Teaching belongs in the synagogue or in some other appropriate place.” It would be easy to come up with objections: “The damp air might make people sick” or “There are a lot of mosquitoes down at the shore” or “Someone might drown.” But Jesus knew that teaching from a boat suited His purposes well enough.ii. “When the doors of the synagogue were closed against him, he took to the temple of the open air, and taught men in the village streets, and on the roads, and by the lake-side, and in their own homes.” (Barclay)iii. “The teacher sat, and the people stood: we should have less sleeping in congregations if this arrangement still prevailed.” (Spurgeon)b. Then He spoke many things to them in parables: The idea behind the word parable is “to throw alongside of.” It is a story thrown alongside the truth intended to teach. Parables have been called “earthly stories with a heavenly meaning.”i. “The Greek parabole is wider than our ‘parable’; in the LXX it translates masal, which includes proverbs, riddles and wise sayings as well as parables. Matthew uses it for instance for Jesus’ cryptic saying about defilement (Matthew 15:10-11, 15), and in Matthew 24:32 (‘lesson’) it indicates a comparison.” (France)ii. “It had a double advantage upon their hearers: first, upon their memory, we being very apt to remember stories. Second, upon their minds, to put them upon studying the meaning of what they heard so delivered.” (Poole)iii. Parables generally teach one main point or principle. We can get into trouble by expecting that they be intricate systems

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