29 Days of Assurance
JESUS IS IN MY LIFE…SOMEWHERE
Matthew 13:22
The Crowded Heart
Big Idea: A faith that shares space with everything else will eventually be ruled by something else.
Intro: Often, spiritual failure does not begin with rebellion. It begins with overcrowding. Very few people wake up one morning and decide they are done with Jesus. What happens instead is slower, quieter, and far more subtle. Responsibilities pile up. Schedules fill. Pressures increase. Desires expand. And without ever intending to walk away from Christ, a person slowly moves Him from the center to the margins. Jesus describes that kind of faith in Matthew 13:22. This is not the shallow heart that collapses quickly under pressure. This is the crowded heart that holds on for a while—but never clears space for the Word to rule. Over time, the truth is not rejected outright. It is quietly suffocated.
- The Crowded Heart Welcomes the Word Without Clearing Space
Matt 13:22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Jesus begins by saying this person hears the Word. That matters. This is not someone who ignores Scripture or rejects the message of the kingdom. The Word is received. Growth begins. Something real appears to be happening.
But there is an important omission. Nothing is removed to make room.
The soil already contains thorns. They are not planted later. They are already there when the seed falls.
As one commentator notes, “This time the soil is good, but it is already taken up.”
The problem is not hostility to the seed, but prior occupation of the ground. Craig Keener explains the danger clearly:
Craig Keener – “Some embrace the gospel, but gradually other interests—wealth, security, family and the like—choke it out of first place.”
This heart never makes a decisive break with competing priorities. Christ is welcomed—but not enthroned.
The shallow heart superficially commits. The crowded heart commits partially. Jesus is added to life, but life is never reordered around Jesus.
This kind of faith can look healthy for a long time. There is attendance. There is agreement. There may even be involvement. But the question is not whether the Word is heard. The question is whether it is given first place.
illus: In the NT, we are introduced to a baptized man named Demas who fell away. Demas did not dramatically collapse spiritually in a moment. He faded. In Paul’s earlier letters, Demas is named among trusted coworkers—listed alongside Luke and others who labored for the gospel. He traveled with Paul. He shared the work. He saw sacrifice up close. But near the end of Paul’s life, writing from prison and facing execution, Paul mentions Demas one final time—not as a fellow laborer, but as a loss: “Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world” (2 Tim 4:10) There is no record of scandal. No public denial of Christ. Demas did not abandon the truth in a moment of pressure. He simply allowed other loves to crowd out devotion. He did not reject the Word—he stopped making room for it.
- Everyday Cares Gradually Crowd Jesus Out
“The cares of this world…choke the word”
Jesus is careful with His language here. He does not say sins choke the Word. He says cares do.
When Jesus speaks of “the cares of this world,” He is describing the ordinary pressures of everyday life that slowly rise in importance until they outrank obedience to Him.
These include providing for family, managing work responsibilities, keeping schedules, paying bills, caring for children or aging parents, protecting health, and planning for the future.
None of these concerns are evil in themselves. Many of them are good and necessary.
But when they dominate attention, energy, and decision-making, they quietly push Christ to the margins.
Spiritual disciplines slowly disappear. Time with God gets postponed. Obedience becomes conditional. Spiritual hunger fades—not because Jesus is outright rejected, but because He is crowded out.
Scripture repeatedly warns about this subtle drift:
Matt 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Luke 10:41-42 “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed…”
Luke 21:34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with… the cares of this life.”
1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Having cares is not the danger. The danger is allowing those cares to take priority over faithfulness to Christ.
Good responsibilities become ruling priorities. What once served discipleship begins to compete with it.
“Such people accept Christianity as a nice addition to their lives—which are devoted to the same basic goals as their neighbors.”
Craig Keener adds a sobering warning for the church: “One reason we may have so many shallow Christians today is that many of us have preached a shallow gospel rather than the demands of God’s kingdom.”
The shallow heart abandons the Word quickly. The crowded heart abandons it gradually. One drops the truth all at once. The other starves it over time.
illus: This story belongs to no single person, but to many. A man comes to Christ sincerely. He attends faithfully. He participates in a small group. He joins a ministry team. His Bible is open. His prayers are real. Then life moves forward. New routines emerge. A promotion brings longer hours. Children grow into different interests appropriate for their next stage, and weekends are filled with sports and travel. Financial pressures seem to only ever increase. Church attendance becomes inconsistent, then optional. Nothing outwardly immoral enters his life. No dramatic fall. He still believes. He still agrees with Scripture. But slowly prayer declines, the Bible closes and begins to collect dust again, and obedience becomes selective. He did not walk away from Jesus—he never cleared space for Jesus to rule.
- Riches Lie to the Heart and Take Control
“And the deceitfulness of riches…choke the word”
Unlike ordinary cares, riches are not neutral. Jesus calls them deceitful.
Money promises what it cannot deliver. It offers security without dependence on God, peace without obedience, and control without surrender. Because those promises sound reasonable, we are easily deceived.
Craig Blomberg captures the result succinctly: “Riches do not merely distract the heart—they reshape its loyalty.”
Wealth convinces us that we are safe, prepared, and self-sufficient—even when our hearts are drifting from Christ.
Scripture is clear that loving money is not a small danger. It is not a harmless tool. Instead, it is a powerful rival.
1 Tim 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Matt 6:19-21 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matt 6:24 You cannot serve God and mammon.
“and he becomes unfruitful.”
illus: He grows up hearing the same unspoken message most Americans do: Get ahead. Don’t fall behind. Make something of yourself. College isn’t presented as an option—it’s a nonnegotiable. So he signs the papers. Tuition is expensive, but everyone assures him it’s “an investment.” He borrows what he needs. Then a little more. Then more again. Four years later, he walks across the stage with a diploma in one hand and a debt load in the other that will follow him for decades. He tells himself it’s fine. Once he gets the job, everything will work out. The job comes—but so do rent, insurance, car payments, subscriptions, upgrades, and expectations. Credit cards quietly fill the gap between what he earns and the life he believes he’s supposed to live. The balances grow, but the lifestyle never slows. Delayed gratification feels irresponsible when everyone around him is indulging now. He still believes in Jesus. He still goes to church—when he’s not traveling, working late, or recovering from exhaustion. He still prays—briefly. Scripture is still important—just not urgent. Obedience becomes something he’ll get serious about once life settles down. But life never settles down. Security becomes the goal. Comfort becomes the metric. Money becomes the safety net. And without ever saying it out loud, he begins trusting his income, his degree, and his credit limit more than the promises of Christ. Jesus is still in his life. Just not in charge. Riches never announce themselves as rivals. They present themselves as necessities. They promise peace, stability, and control. But over time, they quietly take command—reshaping priorities, redefining success, and choking the Word until fruit never comes. He didn’t choose money over Jesus in a moment. He just kept choosing money with Jesus—until Jesus no longer ruled at all.
Unfruitfulness is not a temporary condition here. It is a verdict.
In Matthew’s Gospel, fruit is never optional. It is the evidence of genuine discipleship. Where there is no fruit, there is no lasting attachment to Christ.
The crowded heart did not lose real faith. It revealed that real faith was never present.
“The only conversions that count in the kingdom are those confirmed by a life of discipleship.”
The cares of this life slowly crowd Jesus out. The deceitfulness of riches confidently tells us we don’t need Him.
Both lead to the same end—unfruitfulness.
Conclusion: Some people abandon Christ suddenly when pressure comes. Others stay around but never surrender. The shallow heart rejects the truth quickly. The crowded heart applauds the truth, but never gives it control. Both end the same way.
Jesus’ warning is not meant to confuse sincere believers. It is meant to disturb lukewarm believers and awaken false converts.
The seed is good. The problem is competition.
For Prayer Ministry – Application Questions:
- What good thing has quietly taken first place over Jesus in my life?
This question helps us recognize how even good, responsible things can slowly move Jesus from the center to the margins without us ever meaning to.
- What am I trusting for security right now more than I am trusting Jesus?
This question exposes where our sense of safety, peace, or control has shifted from Christ to something that cannot ultimately hold us.
Jesus does not call us to add Him to our lives. He calls us to follow Him. And only an orchard that has been cleared bears fruit.
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All right, find Matthew 13 in your Bibles. We're not going to let a little inclement weather keep us from marching forward in this important beginning of the year series and all the technology that is available to us. We're so glad that you're joining us in the warmth of your home today with your family at your side. And if you're a guest, thank you for turning us on today. This is Great Commission Church of Olive Branch.
Our series is 29 days of assurance, and we are running out of 29 days. We only have two more of these messages. And today the message that I want to preach to us I've called Jesus is in my life somewhere. And our key verse is Matthew 13, verse 22. Today, as we continue in the parable of the four soils and Jesus interpretation of it, we come to the crowded heart.
Last week was the shallow heart that was the stony ground soil. This week, the crowded heart is the soil with all the thorns. Here's the big idea of the message today. A faith that shares space with everything else will eventually be ruled by something else. A faith that shares space with everything else will eventually be ruled by something else.
And I think, you know, like I do that often, spiritual failure, even though it happens, doesn't always begin with rebellion. It begins with overcrowding. Very few people wake up one morning and decide, you know what? I'm done with Jesus. What happens instead is slower and quieter and far more subtle.
Here's how it works. Responsibilities pile up. And then schedules fill up, pressures increase and desires expand. And without ever intending to walk away from Christ, a person slowly moves the Lord from the center to the margins. And Jesus describes that kind of Faith in Matthew 13:22.
This is not the shallow heart that collapses quickly under pressure. That was last week. This is the crowded heart. And the crowded heart holds on for a little while, but it never clears space for the Word to rule over time. The truth is not rejected outright.
It is instead quietly suffocated. It's strangled out. So I've divided this teaching today into three truths from this one verse. And truth number one is the crowded heart welcomes the Word without clearing space. Here's Our verse Matthew 13:22 in full.
Now, he who received the seed among the thorns is he who hears the Word. And the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word and he becomes unfruitful. That's our verse. I want you to recognize that Jesus says, this person hears the Word. That's how Jesus begins the verse, hearing the Word that matters.
This is not someone who ignores Scripture. Neither is it an individual who rejects the message of the kingdom. The Word is received and growth begins, and something real appears to be happening. It looks right, but there's an important omission. Nothing is removed to make room.
What we learn is the soil already contains the thorns. They're not planted later. They're already there when the seed falls into the ground. As one commentator notes, this time the soil is good, but it's already taken up. You see, the problem is not hostility to the seed.
The problem is prior occupation of the ground, and it's dangerous. And Craig Keener in his commentary explains the danger clearly. He writes, some embrace the Gospel, but gradually other interests, wealth, security, family and the like choke it out of first place. I want you to think about this, because what if this is the soil your heart has for the Word of God? This heart never makes a decisive break with competing priorities.
Christ is welcomed, but he's not enthroned.
I want to compare and contrast last week the the shallow heart with today, the crowded heart. The shallow heart superficially commits to the Word. The crowded heart commits partially. One is more fake, one is real, but not heartfelt. In other words, Jesus is added to life, but that life is never reordered around the Lord Jesus.
And here's what can be so deceiving. This kind of faith can look healthy for a long time.
There's church attendance involved in this. There's agreement with other believers. In the truth, there may be serving and involvement in the ministry. The question is not whether the word is heard. It is.
The question is whether the word is given first place. There's a New Testament illustration of this in Paul's letters. We're introduced to a baptized man in a few places named Demas, D, E M A S Demas. And Demas fell away. But Demas did not drastically collapse spiritually in in a moment's time.
Instead, he faded. In Paul's earlier letters, Demas is named among Paul's trusted co workers. He's celebrated. He's listed alongside Luke and others who labored for the gospel. He traveled with Paul, he shared in the work, and he saw sacrifice up close.
But near the end of Paul's life, when the apostle is writing from prison and he's facing execution, he mentions Demas one final time, not as a fellow laborer, but as a loss. 2nd Timothy 4:10 says, Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.
You know, there's no record of scandal. There's no public denial of Christ from Demas. He didn't abandon the truth in a moment of pressure. Neither did he abandon the truth in a moment of pleasure. He simply allowed other loves to crowd out his devotion.
He did not reject the word. He stopped making room for it. That's the crowded heart. The crowded heart welcomes the Word without clearing space.
Truth number two. In our verse, Jesus says, Jesus gives us this truth. Everyday cares gradually crowd Jesus out. Everyday cares gradually crowd Jesus out. He says the cares of this world choke the word.
Our Lord is very careful with his language here. He doesn't say sin chokes the word. He says cares do. And when our Lord mentions the cares of the world, he's describing the ordinary pressures of everyday life that slowly rise in importance until they outrank devotion to Jesus. Well, what are those, Pastor?
Well, these include providing for family, managing work responsibilities, keeping schedules, paying bills, caring for children, caring for aging parents, being concerned with and protecting our own health, and even planning for the future.
I think you've recognized that none of these concerns are evil in themselves. In fact, many of them are good and even necessary. But when they dominate our attention, when they SAP our energy, when they govern our decision making, they quietly push Christ to the margins. And it looks like this. Your spiritual disciplines slowly disappear.
That means that your daily time with God begins to get postponed. And instead of daily, it becomes every other day, and then a couple of times a week. And then you know what? I looked up and I forgot the whole thing. And when that happens, how we obey God in our minds becomes conditional and our spiritual hunger fades.
Not because Jesus is outright rejected. Our spiritual hunger fades because he's crowded out.
And Scripture repeatedly warns about this subtle drift. Matthew 6:33 but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. The idea is that if God gets first place, all the other priorities will fall in line and be blessed. If you get it reversed, you damage your life and you steal glory from the Lord. In that famous visit to Mary and Martha's house In Luke chapter 10, if you remember Martha showing hospitality, she's busy in the kitchen.
She's doing the meal and getting everything ready to feed the Lord. Her sister Mary could have cut the time in half, but she was not in the kitchen. She was sitting at Jesus feet in the living room with listening to him. Martha, who's practical and also a little bit irritated, goes in there and says, if Mary would come help us, we could get this show on the road. And Jesus responds in Luke 10:41 and following Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed.
He goes on to say that Mary's chosen what's needed and it won't be taken away from her. Here's the idea. You're worried and troubled about many things. That's just another way the Lord Jesus describes the cares of this life. He'll go on to say in Luke 21:34, but take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with the cares of this life.
Same language. And then the apostle Peter is going to remind everyone in his old age, casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you. If you try to shoulder the cares of this life on your own, you'll make Jesus disappear in a practical way each and every day that you meant to be walking with him. You see, having cares is not the danger. The danger is allowing those cares to take priority over faithfulness to Christ.
Good responsibilities become ruling priorities. What once served your walk, what once served discipleship, now begins to compete with it.
Such people accept Christ as a nice addition to their lives, which are devoted to the same basic goals as their neighbors. Craig Keener adds a sobering warning for the church. One reason we may have so many shallow Christians today is that many of us have preached a shallow gospel rather than the demands of God's kingdom. And that troubles me sometimes when I think about it and I say, lord, is it really possible that someone could sit under the ministry of our church? Under the biblical preaching here in the small group ministry and rub shoulders with the Christian leaders here and still not know the demands of the kingdom.
The shallow heart abandons the word quickly. The crowded heart abandons the word gradually. One of them drops the truth all at once. The other starves it over time. The ending is the same though.
Let me illustrate it this way. This story belongs to no single person, but to many. See if you find yourself here. A man comes to Christ sincerely. He attends church ministry faithfully.
He participates in a small group. He joins a ministry team. His Bible's open and his prayers are real. And then life moves forward. Life goes on and new routines emerge.
A promotion brings longer hours at work. Children get older and they grow into different interests that are appropriate for their next stage. And what happens after that? Well, weekends are filled with sports and travel and extracurricular financial pressures seem to only ever increase. Church attendance then becomes inconsistent.
And then eventually it becomes optional. Nothing outwardly immoral enters this man's life. There's no dramatic fall. He still believes, he still says he agrees with Scripture. But slowly all his prayers decline and his Bible closes and it begins to collect dust again.
And how he obeys God becomes whatever he selects and chooses. He didn't walk away from Jesus in his mind. He never cleared space for Jesus to be the ruler in the Lord.
Remember, everyday cares gradually crowded Jesus out.
And then truth number three. Jesus says riches lie to the heart and take control. Riches lie to the heart and take control, he says, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word.
Unlike ordinary cares, riches are not neutral. Jesus calls them deceitful. Friends, did you know that money promises what it cannot deliver? It offers security without dependence on God. It offers peace without obedience.
It offers control without any surrender. And because those promises sound reasonable, we are easily deceived. One commentator captures the result very succinctly. He says riches do not merely distract the heart, they reshape its loyalty. Did you know that wealth convinces us that we're safe?
And it convinces us that we're prepared. And it convinces us that we're self sufficient. At the same time, our hearts are drifting away from Jesus.
And Scripture is clear that loving money is no small danger. It's not a harmless tool. Instead it's a powerful rival. First Timothy 6:10. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Likewise in the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord said virtually the same thing. He urges us in Matthew 6, 19:21, do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
And then he just tells everybody, you have to choose. In Matthew 6:24, you can't serve God and mammon, mammon being a pagan deity related to riches, you have to pick one. And what happens when we're deceived by riches? What happens when we're choked out by the cares of the world? Our Lord says, and he becomes unfruitful.
Here's another story that's like a shotgun blast. He grows up hearing the same unspoken message that most Americans hear. Get ahead, don't fall behind. Make something of yourself. And college is not presented as an option.
It's a non negotiable. You can't do these things unless you have a college degree. So he signs the papers and we know that tuition is expensive, but everyone assures him, hey, look, it's an investment for your future.
So he borrows what he needs, and then he borrows a little more, and then inflation. So he borrows some more again, and four years later, he walks across the stage with a diploma in one hand and crushing debt in the other that will follow him for decades. Well, he tells himself, hey, it's fine. Once he gets the job that he studied for, everything will work out. And then the job arrives.
But so does rent and insurance and car payments and subscriptions and upgrades and dates and expectations and credit cards quietly fill the gap between what he earns and the life he believes he's supposed to live. The balances only get bigger, but the lifestyle never slows down.
Delayed gratification feels irresponsible. None of his friends are doing it when everyone around him is indulging now. And don't forget, he still believes in Jesus. He still goes to church when he's not traveling and when he's not working late and when he's not recovering from being exhausted all the time. He still prays.
Even if it's briefly. Scripture's still important. He remembers it. It's just not urgent. Obedience to the Lord will be something that he'll get serious about once his life settles down.
But he looks up and it's been six years, it's been 10 years, and somehow life never settles down. So then security becomes the goal and comfort becomes the metric, and money becomes the safety net. And without ever saying it out loud, he begins trusting his income. He begins to have confidence in his degree, and he begins to depend on his credit limit. More than the promises of Christ, Jesus is still in his life.
He's just not in charge. Riches never announce themselves as rivals. They present themselves as necessities. They promise peace, they promise stability. They promise control.
But over time, they quietly take command and they reshape priorities and they redefine success and they choke the word until fruit never comes.
He didn't choose money over Jesus in a moment of time. He just kept choosing money with Jesus until Jesus didn't have any space left at all.
You see, unfruitfulness is not a temporary condition here. It's a verdict.
In Matthew's Gospel, fruit is never optional. It's the evidence of genuine discipleship. Where there is no fruit, there's no lasting attachment to Christ, and you should have no assurance of your salvation. You see, the crowded heart did not lose real faith. It revealed that real faith was never present.
Somebody wrote, the only conversions that count in the kingdom are those confirmed by a life of discipleship. Are you a follower? The cares of this life slowly crowd Jesus out.
The deceitfulness of riches confidently tell us that we don't need him and both lead to the same end. Unfruitfulness, well, those are the two difficulties of the thorny ground soil. In conclusion, today, you know, some people abandon Christ suddenly when pressure comes. That's the shallow heart. Others stick around but never surrender.
That's the crowded heart. The shallow heart rejects the truth quickly. The crowded heart applauds the truth but never gives it control. And both of them end the same way. And I want to say as we close, that Jesus is not meant.
Jesus warning here is not meant to confuse sincere believers. So if you're one of those and you're confused, let us counsel with you and pray with you, because that's not what he's trying to do. His warning here is meant to disturb lukewarm believers and to awaken false converts. The seed is good. The problem is competition.
Now, you're going to have to figure out a way to do prayer ministry today in your home with each other, or maybe get on the telephone with one of your friends here at our church, a prayer partner. I want to give you two application questions for prayer ministry today. Number one, what good thing. What good thing has quietly taken first place over Jesus in my life? What good thing has quietly taken first place over Jesus in my life?
That's one of the cares of the world that choke the word. This question helps us to recognize how even good and responsible things can slowly move Jesus from the center to the margins without us ever meaning to. And number two, what am I trusting for security right now more than I'm trusting Jesus? What am I trusting for security right now more than I'm trusting Jesus? This question exposes where our sense of safety and peace and control has shifted from Christ to something that cannot ultimately hold us.
Final thought. Jesus does not call us to add him to our lives. Instead he calls us to follow Him. And I want you to remember that only an orchard that's been cleared and pruned bears fruit. You think about that this morning.
And let me just say a pastoral word about these last two sermons, because I believe, like so many in the past, that you've seen yourself, some of you in the shallow heart, the. The stony ground soil. You had a fast start and a fast abandonment of your faith, but others of you saw yourself in the soil today, the thorny ground hearer, because good things and riches have choked out your faith and your walk with God. And what I want to say, that if you see yourselves in either or both of those two soils, Jesus doesn't give you hope, that that's a real salvation. Those are the characteristics of a false conversion.
You need to pray asking the Spirit to show you whether you're in the faith or not. Because this may be God using his Word to bring you into the real thing, to give you legitimate life giving salvation and eternal life. That's. That's been really my goal for this whole series, is that the thorny ground hearers and the stony ground hearers would see that in themselves and say, God, I want to be the kind that bears fruit. I want to be the good soil.
I want the real thing. Save me Jesus, from a false conversion. He did that with me back in 1989. And I remember the feelings of those weeks struggling with. But everybody thinks I'm a believer and I've already been baptized.
But I know that you're not there and I don't have any assurance. And I know I didn't understand what sin meant and I know I didn't have repentance, but you're giving it to me now, Lord, so what do I do? And he says, you just start over and you repent and believe and I'll keep my promise and I'll make you a child of God. You think about that as we pray. Lord, would you give our church gospel humility?
Would you give us clarity about what kind of soil we are. And God, I pray that our church would be ones that bears fruit over and over again. But Lord, do the work of the evangelist, by the master Evangelist, the Holy Spirit and bring false converts to the reality of their need for the real thing. And I pray you would save souls in light of the preaching of this word. God bless our church as we're snowed in, as inclement weather has caused us all to pause.
I pray God you'd give us ears to hear that we would hear your voice. Walk in truth, walk in joy together over this time out that you've called in our everyday lives. Thank you for it. Lord, we give you glory in Jesus name. Amen.
Thank you. Thanks for being with us today.
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