Speaker: Eric Drummonds

Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
 
Matthew 13:20-21
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
 
Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
 
Matthew 13:23
As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He
indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.
 

How To Drift From God…

1) Neglect your time with God

2 Timothy 1:5-6
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands

2) Hang around the wrong people

1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

3) Give in to temptation

James 1:13-15
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
 

4) Love the world more than you love God

1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
 

5) Fake it!

2 Timothy 3:2,5
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant… having the appearance of
godliness, but denying its power.
 
Revelation 2:4-5
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.