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Why the Word of God Isn't Working in Your Life (The Parable of the Sower)
Episode 520th August 2026 • Raising The Standard • Josh Khachadourian
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Everyone teaches the parable of the sower wrong.

They say three of the four soils failed. Three-quarters of the sowing came to nothing. That is not what happened.

God said His Word never returns empty. This is the Son of God sowing the Word of God. Not one seed failed. The seed did its job every single time. The seed was never the variable.

God said His Word never returns empty. This is the Son of God sowing the Word of God. Not one seed failed. The seed did its job every single time. The seed was never the variable.

The dirt was.

The seed isn't on trial in this parable. You are. Four men hear the exact same truth and get four completely different outcomes, because of what was already in the ground before the seed ever landed. That ground is your operating system. The root system installed in you long before you had a say.

In this teaching I walk through:

  • The four kinds of men in the parable, and how to tell which one is you.
  • Why the careless man who shrugs off the Word isn't neutral. There's no neutral with Jesus.
  • Why the thorn-choked man is the driven believer whose own ambition is quietly strangling the Word in his chest. Not sin. Success.
  • Why even the good soil runs at thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold, and why you go all in everywhere else but run thirtyfold with God and call it balance.
  • And the turn most preachers skip: your soil is not your sentence. Soil is dirt, and dirt can be worked.
  • The seed was never the problem. The seed is perfect. It's time to deal with your dirt.

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Subscribe. We go to the root here. We don't manage the fruit.

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