Understand that the Word of God is a person: the person of Jesus, the Word of God made flesh.

Understand that the Bible is the inspired and written Word of God that is living and active in the one who believes and receives.

Understand how the Word of God works as a seed and creates everything.

Understand that the Word of God is the absolute Truth.

Understand the process of how the Word of God works in your life and how to cooperate with Him.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain why the Word of God is the ultimate and unshakeable foundation upon which everything else is built.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain why both the Spirit and the Word are needed for successful growth as a son of God.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to assess if the Word of God is what they have been building their own life upon.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain the process the Word of God goes through in a person’s heart to see its effects. (Mark 4:3-20, 26-29, 30-32; Luke 8:11)

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how the soul is like a garden.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify if there are any areas in their life where they are expecting supernatural change but may have never sown a Seed.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify what is the main thing that determines whether the Word ever gets past head knowledge and down into the heart.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain and apply Jesus’ instruction to “take heed how you hear” to their own Bible reading time.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe the characteristics of a heart that is “stony ground.”

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe the characteristics of a heart that is “the wayside.”

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to define what “cares of this world,” “deceitfulness of riches,” and “desires for other things” are and identify if there are any in their lives choking the Word.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to recognize any thorns or weeds in their own life that may be sucking up all the nutrients from their own ground (soul) and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to cut out those things taking time and attention away from the Word.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain how the good ground can have varying degrees of harvest (30, 60, 100).

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain how a pregnancy is a type and shadow of the growth of the Word of God within our hearts.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to list the enemy’s main tactics to limit the potential power of the Word of God in your own life.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to paraphrase how the Church is the Bride of Christ.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to discuss how Jesus wants us to see Him by the Spirit (i.e. by the Word) rather than by the natural (physical).

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to justify why we can now know Jesus better and more intimately through the Word of God than those who physically walked with Him.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to value the Word of God more than facts, opinions, trends, or experiences.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to contrast the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to summarize what it means to eat from the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to judge which of the two trees their thoughts are rooted in.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to express the difference between Biblical meditation and eastern meditation.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to summarize the benefits of Biblical meditation.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to practice Biblical meditation.