In this parable Jesus tells us about four different soils, representing four different groups of people. The first group represents people who never become Christians. They harden their hearts and decide not to listen.
The other three groups represent the people that become Christians. One of these groups consists of those who receive God’s word with happy hearts but they last only as long as it is easy to be a Christian. When it becomes difficult, they quickly fall away.
The second of these groups consists of those who accept the word of God but they become engrossed with the cares of this world and the making of money that end up choking God out of their lives like weeds in a garden. They fail to really bear fruit for God.
But the last group consists of those Christians who after hearing and receiving the word of God, serve God for a lifetime, and their lives are not consumed with the mere making of money and other cares of this world. Their life in Christ blooms and flowers and really bears fruit for God.
During the Lord’s Supper we need to remember that two out the three groups of Christians about which Jesus spoke failed to actually bear fruit. This is a time when we should examine ourselves to see if we are bearing any fruit for God. And this is a time when we should commit ourselves to being in that one group of Christians that bear fruit for and please God. The sacrifice of Jesus for us deserves nothing less.