The Wayside Heart Parable of the Heart Soils Every once and a while I like to return to the parable of the heart soils. It has SO many applications and truths that run its length and breadth that it would be near to impossible to exhaust all one could learn from it. Also it perfectly augments what we have been learning about pursuing knowing God both relationally and intimatly. Today's lesson is focused upon the first of the 4 hearts in Jesus' parable of the heart soils and that is the Wayside Heart. This is also correctly termed the Pathway heart, the heart of ignorance and the hardened heart. We addressed all that Jesus said about this heart from Matthew, Mark & Luke, comparing them as we took note of what was distinctive of this heart in both the parable and in Jesus' later explanation of the parable to His disciples. We discovered that there are at least two different types of hard hearts though they both share a common cause or root. One can be helped and the other must change first before it COULD be helped. The religious leaders of Jesus' day often fell into the worst type of hardened heart, while even His Own disciples often fell into the other. We used to video links in the message to illustrate the sowing process and the tactics of the enemy who is able to so easily steal from this heart. Blessings!