Parable of the Sower

February 2013 PROMPT: Write about the parable of the sower.
(Matt 13:1-9 // Mark 4:1-9 // Luke 8:4-8)

Jesus was a teacher and He knew some would understand and some wouldn’t. He knew some would listen and some wouldn’t. Eventually Matthew, Mark and Luke ask him about the way he taught. Matthew, Mark and Luke understood his word as spoken directly and asked Jesus why he didn’t speak to the average people direct. Jesus spoke to the average people in parables which would make them think.

Matthew was a tax collector and left to follow His teaching and His word. Mark was a Jew and used his mother house as a Christian meeting place to teach His Word. Luke was a physician and educated. He also was good at writing which help to document Jesus teaching.

Because they knew and understood Jesus when He spoke God’s word; they each considered him of great importance. The Messiah, Servant of God and the greatest man in History because he taught, died and rose again.

There came a day when Jesus spoke to a large crowd of the parable of sower of seed. The seed is the Word of the Kingdom. Basically how a man receives the Words depends on their hearts.

Now, what does that mean?

A man whose heart is deep in sin will not have heart enough to let the seed grow in the hardened ground. A man who seems delighted to hear the word; will lose faith when trouble comes because the seed won’t grow on heart of stone. A man who lives totally in the flesh will have a heart that will not receive the seed and consider it a waste of his time. A man who receives and understands the word and allows it to work in his life will bring forth the seeds of the Kingdom.

So The Parable of the Sower is told to us to make us understand our hearts will receive The Word only on good soil.

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