{"id":1361,"date":"2009-08-03T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:03","slug":"the-types-of-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"The Types Of Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today on Matthew 13:3-8 where I find there are four types of soil the sower places His seeds in. Remember, Matthew 13:37 tells us that Christ is the sower. Christ chose to sow seeds in four different places. In verse 4 He sowed on the wayside, in\u00a0verse 5 He sowed on a stony place, in verse 7 He sowed on thorny ground, and in verse 8 He sowed on good ground. Three of these places were unprofitable and bore no fruit. Only one was a profitable place. I learned from this that He sowed the seed everywhere even when He knew that it would not be profitable. Some ask why should I witness if He already knows from the foundation of the world who will be saved. It is simple, because He sowed the seed everywhere. Jesus said, &#8220;Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature&#8221;. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today on Matthew 13:3-8 where I find there are four types of soil the sower places His seeds in. Remember, Matthew 13:37 tells us that Christ is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}