Main Point: While the word of God is perfect, the human heart – apart from the Spirit’s work – will resist or reject it for one reason or another.

Outline:

1. The Snatched Ground (13:4, 19)

2. The Shallow Ground (13:5-6, 20-21)

3. The Strangled Ground (13:7, 22)

4. The Sensitive Ground (13:8, 23)