Lose Your Salvation? The Gift You Did Not Deserve or Earn? No Way

The following question from GotQuestions.org has just been assigned and answered by Fletcher Law.

QUESTION RECEIVED:
Is Matthew 13 verse 18-23 saying that a believer can lose his/her salvation?

MY ANSWER:

Everybody can have an opinion but Scripture rightly applied trumps all.
Let's look at the text for our answer.

Matthew 13:18-23 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Sower Explained

18 “Hear then the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside