"That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."... If people have not got Christ they tire. There will be no enduring unless Christ has possession of the soul; but if He has, there will be an abiding motive, and people will go on, and "bring forth fruit with patience."... Trouble may come in, in the church; disappointment may arise, even from the brethren; but they go on just the same, because they have got Christ before them; for the word they have heard and keep connects them with Christ, and He is more than anything else.