• God’s Words will Open One Heart and Harden Another. Your Willingness to Hear Determines which One it will be.

1. God’s Word Reveals

Matthew 13:10–11 NIV¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” ¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

2. God’s Word Conceals

Matthew 13:11 ESV¹¹ And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

3. God’s Word Sifts

Matthew 13:12 NIV

¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

4. God’s Word Invites

Matthew 13:10 NIV¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

Matthew 13:16–17 NIV¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

• Assess your Soil (Heart)

• Move Towards Jesus