Mark 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
The second lesson from the parable of the Sower is the seed that falls to the way side and then devoured by the birds is illustration of the Church with an Indifferent Heart. The Church that just shows up, but no real interest in the Word of God as it is being spread to them. They are attending but not paying attention and the Devil and his demons snatch away any opportunity of that Church of recovering any thing that was taught them. That Church’s Indifference to God’s Word will destroy it.
Mark 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
Luke 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.