This message started its life out as a 3-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is three into one.
So of course we know that dirt is alive because it produces all kinds of manner of vegitative fruitfulness. Isn't this why Jesus gave them and us the story about the condition of soil? It's a story right out of the Garden of Eden in which He placed Adam, red dirt, to tend to the soil in the garden so that it too would be fruitful and multiply. Isn't it like God to give us so many parallels from just one product which in this case it is dirt?
The seed reacts to the quality of the soil and produces henceforth. Not sure if that word fits but I like it so there it is. The Word of God is the seed that is sown into you, a person made from soil. Now but the quality of that soil is dependent on the quality of your relationship with God. If it is all living then it will over power the seed and dormatise it or kill it. If however, the soil consists of the living Word, water, and some dead stuff, namely you, then the harvest can stretch to 100 fold. See for yourself.