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HiddenTreasure | Part 3 · Rewind

Rock Point Church

Pastor Scott Rodgers · Jun 16, 2019 · 63 min watch · 2 min read

HiddenTreasure | Part 3

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Big Idea
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Application

Scripture in this message

Matthew 13
Matthew 13:1
Matthew 13:9
Matthew 13:10
Matthew 13:11
Matthew 13:12

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Quoting the message: To the hungry, Jesus is life changing, end quote..

In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus teaches that the posture and openness of our hearts determines the depth of God's work in our lives. Three rivals — apathy, convenience, and distraction — resist what God wants to do in us. But to those who are genuinely hungry, who lean in, ask questions, and feed themselves spiritually, God promises to reveal Himself. The key to experiencing God more fully is not a checklist of behaviors but a growing, active hunger for Him.

Key points

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1Jesus taught in parables to provoke hunger in those who were genuinely seeking, targeting the spiritually hungry rather than everyone indiscriminately.
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2The rival of apathy — a hardened heart that hears spiritual truth but has no desire to understand it — allows the enemy to snatch away what was sown.
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3The rival of convenience — a faith only as deep as it is comfortable — will quickly fall away when following Jesus becomes costly or difficult.
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4The rival of distraction — worry about life and the pursuit of wealth — chokes the word and makes it unfruitful.
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5Good soil represents the person who hears the word, understands it, and produces a fruitful harvest — the result of leaning in and pursuing God with hunger.
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6God promises to reveal Himself to those who seek Him — ask, seek, and knock, and He will respond.
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7Spiritual hunger works opposite to physical hunger: feeding yourself spiritually increases your hunger for God, while starving yourself spiritually causes that hunger to disappear.

Application

Pastor Scott's challenge is straightforward: get hungry. The rivals of apathy, convenience, and distraction are real, but awareness of them gives us the ability to fight back. The practical next step is to start feeding yourself spiritually — open your Bible tomorrow morning, take a few minutes to pray, put on worship music in the car — and trust that as you do, your hunger for God will grow rather than shrink. The promise from Matthew 7 stands: ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. To whatever degree you hunger for God, He will reveal Himself to you. The question Jesus leaves with each of us is simple: are you hungry?

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Scripture in this message

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“We're gonna look at the parable of the sower in Matthew chapter thirteen. So if you have a Bible with you, go to Matthew chapter thirteen, first book in the New Testament”
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“So go to verse one of Matthew 13, and let's dig into this thing. It says this. The same day Jesus, that same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake”
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“Then he says something really interesting. Look at verse nine. He says, whoever has ears, let them hear”
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“Go to your bible in verse 10. And here's what he says. These next five verses. It says, the disciples came to him and asked, why do you speak to the people in parables”
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“Verse 11. To the question, why do you speak to them and the people in parables? Jesus replies, because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you but not to them”
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“So he says this in verse 12. And it gets confusing. I'll just be honest with you. He says, whoever has will be given more and they will have an abundance”
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“Why? Why are they not hearing? Why are they not perceiving? Well he tells us in verse 15. For this people's heart has become calloused. They hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes”
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“Let's go down to verse 18. Jesus says, listen then to what the parable of the sower means. And I'm gonna read about five verses here. So hang with me”
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“When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their hearts. This is the seed sown along the path”
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“Verse 20. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word. Again, the word of the kingdom, the kingdom of God, the God of the kingdom, you know, all that kind of stuff”
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“verse 22. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful”
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“Verse 23, but the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a 160 or 30 times what was sown”
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“Let me reread some scripture to you. It's not on the screen, but it might be in front of you or you've already heard it. Here's what here's what he says in verse 19. Anyone who hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what's sown in his heart”
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“Verse verse 20 says, the seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time”
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“In verse 22, the seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word making it unfruitful”
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“he says in verse 23, but the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop yielding a 160 or 30 times what was sown”
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“Matthew chapter seven. Here's the promise. Jesus says, ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you”

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Jesus didn't always explain Himself. He told stories — earthy, ordinary stories about farmers and soil — and then let those stories do their quiet work. The Parable of the Sower isn't primarily about the farmer or even the seed. It's about the ground. It's about what happens in you when the Word lands. Pastor Scott pointed out something worth sitting with: Jesus aimed His teaching at the hungry. He wasn't trying to reach everyone in the crowd with the same depth. He was looking for the ones leaning forward, the ones who would come back later and ask questions. That image alone is worth something. Think about the last time you genuinely leaned toward God rather than just being present near Him. There's a difference between being in the room where the Word is spoken and actually wanting to understand it. This week is an invitation to explore that difference — not to grade yourself on it, but to get honest about it. The soil in Jesus's story isn't assigned to you permanently. The same ground that was once hard or shallow or crowded can become good soil. That's not wishful thinking; it's the plain hope embedded in this parable from the start. The question Jesus is really asking is not 'What kind of soil are you?' but 'What kind of soil do you want to be?'

For reflection

When you think about your current posture toward God and His Word, what does your 'soil' honestly feel like right now — and what do you think got it there?

Pray

Pray for honest self-awareness about the condition of your heart toward God today.

The disciples pulled Jesus aside after the crowd thinned out and asked Him a direct question: why do You speak in parables? That move — pulling away from the noise to ask a real question — is itself the answer. Jesus told them that understanding is given to those who are seeking it. To those who already have a hunger, more is given. To those who have no hunger at all, even what they have slips away. That can sound harsh at first. But Pastor Scott reframed it helpfully: this isn't Jesus playing favorites. It's Jesus describing how spiritual hunger actually works. You don't get more by sitting still and waiting to feel something. You get more by leaning in, by asking the question out loud, by going back afterward and not letting it go. The disciples didn't understand everything Jesus said. But they wanted to, and they showed it by asking. That desire to understand — even when you're confused, even when the sermon raised more questions than it answered — is itself a sign of something alive in you. If you've ever found yourself thinking about a sermon days later, or turned a scripture over in your mind while doing something mundane, that's the hunger working. Don't dismiss it. Follow it.

For reflection

Is there a question about God, faith, or scripture you've been carrying but haven't fully pursued? What has kept you from chasing it down?

Pray

Pray for the courage and curiosity to bring your real questions to God and to people you trust.

The first type of soil in Jesus's story is the path — hard-packed, compacted ground where a seed simply cannot take root. Before a bird even arrives, the soil itself has already done the rejecting. Pastor Scott named this rival 'apathy': a heart that hears spiritual truth but has no real desire to understand or receive it. The enemy, Jesus says, comes and snatches away what was sown. But notice what makes snatching possible in the first place — the hardness of the ground. Apathy isn't usually dramatic. It rarely announces itself. It shows up as a mild indifference, a willingness to be near the Word without being moved by it. It's the difference between attending and engaging, between hearing and actually wanting to understand. The honest and difficult thing about apathy is that it can settle in quietly after a season of real faith. Life gets busy, wounds go unattended, disappointment accumulates, and somewhere in there the heart starts protecting itself by caring a little less. If any of that resonates, it's worth naming without shame. A hardened heart is not a final verdict. The fact that you're here, reading this, suggests something in you is still reaching. That reaching matters to God. The ground can change.

For reflection

Can you identify a moment — a season or a specific disappointment — when your heart began to close a little toward God? What do you think it would take to soften that ground?

Pray

Pray for God to soften any hardness in your heart that has built up without you fully noticing it.

The second soil in the parable is rocky ground — not a ground without any dirt at all, but ground where the depth runs out quickly. A seed germinates, shoots up fast, looks promising. Then trouble comes, or following Jesus starts to cost something real, and the plant wilts. Pastor Scott called this rival 'convenience': a faith that lasts exactly as long as it's comfortable. What makes this soil so recognizable is that the initial response is genuine. The joy is real. The enthusiasm at the start isn't fake. But roots require resistance — they grow deeper when they have to push through something. A faith that has never been pressed, never been inconvenient, never required you to give something up or stay committed when it was hard, hasn't had the conditions it needs to develop real depth. None of this is meant to manufacture hardship or suggest you need to suffer more. It's simply an observation Jesus makes about how deep faith is formed. When a moment of cost or difficulty arrives — a relationship strained by your convictions, a financial decision shaped by your values, a conversation you'd rather avoid — those moments are not interruptions to your faith. They're the conditions in which it either deepens or doesn't.

For reflection

Is there an area of your life where following Jesus has recently become inconvenient or costly? How have you responded to that friction?

Pray

Pray for endurance and rootedness when following Jesus requires something real from you.

The third rival Jesus describes is perhaps the most familiar one in the room today: the thorny soil. The seed takes root, the plant grows — and then it gets crowded out. Jesus names two things specifically: worry about this life, and the lure of wealth. Pastor Scott brought this close to home by calling it 'distraction.' Unlike apathy, distraction isn't indifference. Unlike the shallow soil, this isn't a faith that gives up under pressure. This is a faith that gets quietly suffocated by a full life. Worry is worth pausing on here. Jesus doesn't identify worry as a moral failure or a character flaw — He identifies it as something that competes for the space the Word needs to do its work. When your inner life is full of anxiety about finances, relationships, health, or the future, there's simply less room for the Word to breathe and bear fruit. The same is true of the pull toward wealth and comfort — not because money is evil, but because the pursuit of it can quietly become the organizing energy of a person's life, leaving God at the edges. The invitation in this passage isn't guilt. It's awareness. What is actually filling the soil of your life right now, and is there room for the Word to grow?

For reflection

What worry or pursuit is currently taking up the most interior space in your life? How is that affecting your hunger for God?

Pray

Pray for clarity about what is quietly crowding out God's Word in your daily life.

After describing three kinds of resistant soil, Jesus describes the fourth: good ground. The person who hears the Word, understands it, and produces a fruitful harvest — thirty, sixty, a hundred times what was planted. It's worth noticing what Jesus does and doesn't say here. He doesn't describe good soil as soil that was always perfect, or that never struggled. He describes it by its fruit, not its flawlessness. Pastor Scott's focus was on the posture that gets a person there: leaning in, asking questions, feeding yourself spiritually. The disciples who came back and asked Jesus to explain the parable are a picture of good-soil people. They didn't have all the answers. They had hunger. That hunger moved them to pursue rather than drift. And that pursuit is something you can actually do today. Open your Bible — not to finish a chapter, but to understand one thing. Sit with a passage long enough to ask what it actually means. Talk about what you're learning with someone else who follows Jesus. Take the sermon home in your pocket and turn it over through the week. These aren't heroic spiritual acts. They are small acts of feeding that, done consistently, produce the kind of depth and fruit Jesus is describing. The harvest is real. The pathway to it is hunger acted upon.

For reflection

What is one specific, small way you could feed yourself spiritually this week that you haven't been doing? What would it take to actually do it?

Pray

Pray for a genuine hunger for God's Word and the follow-through to act on it in ordinary moments this week.

Pastor Scott anchored the whole sermon's challenge in a promise from Jesus: ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. These aren't conditions to qualify for God's attention — they are an open invitation backed by the character of God Himself. To whatever degree you hunger for God, He will reveal Himself to you. That is the promise. The entire week has circled around one question: are you hungry? Not 'are you perfect?' Not 'have you eliminated all distraction?' The rivals of apathy, convenience, and distraction are real, and awareness of them matters. But the sermon didn't end with a list of things to fix. It ended with an invitation to get hungry and start feeding yourself — open your Bible tomorrow morning, take a few minutes to pray, put on worship music in the car. Small acts, sustained over time, that move you toward God rather than away from Him. Spiritual hunger, unlike physical hunger, grows when it's fed. That means every small step you take toward God opens you up for more of Him, not less. The question Jesus leaves with us is simple and worth returning to often: are you hungry? If the answer is yes — even a quiet, unsure yes — take one step today. He will meet you there.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, where did you notice the most hunger for God — and where did you notice the most resistance? What do you want to do with that awareness going forward?

Pray

Pray for growing hunger — and thank God for the promise that He responds to everyone who genuinely seeks Him.

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This message centers on a question Jesus essentially poses to everyone who hears Him: how hungry are you? Take a moment and think about a time when you really wanted to understand something — what did that curiosity look like in practice?

Discussion questions

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In Matthew 13:10-11, the disciples ask Jesus why He teaches in parables, and He says He's targeting those who are genuinely seeking. What does that tell us about how Jesus approaches people who are curious versus people who aren't?
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Jesus describes three kinds of soil where seed doesn't take root — a hardened path, shallow rocky ground, and ground choked by thorns. Looking at those three together, what do apathy, convenience, and distraction have in common as rivals to what God wants to do in someone's life?
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In Matthew 13:23, good soil is described as someone who hears the word, understands it, and produces a harvest. What do you think the connection is between understanding and fruitfulness — why aren't they separate steps?
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Pastor Scott pointed out that spiritual hunger works opposite to physical hunger — feeding yourself spiritually makes you want more, while going without makes the appetite shrink. How does that idea change the way we might think about getting started when someone feels spiritually dry or disinterested?
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Matthew 7:7-8 promises that those who ask will receive, those who seek will find, and those who knock will have the door opened. What does it look like, practically, for a community like ours to take that promise seriously together rather than just individually?
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Pastor Scott challenged us to start feeding ourselves spiritually — opening the Bible, taking a few minutes to pray, putting on worship music — as simple first steps toward growing hunger. As a group, how might we support one another in actually doing that between now and the next time we meet?

Pray together

Growing hunger — that God would meet us as we lean in, and that He would reveal Himself to us as we ask, seek, and knock

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