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He That received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, (fruit) some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty..
Your good ground soil has the capacity to produce 100 times greater, sixty times greater or thirty times greater..
Lord Activate My Soil
Various Soils Respond to the Seed (13:3–9) Jesus draws from commonplace agricultural conventions to illustrate his kingdom principles, as one might expect from a teacher sensitive to rural Galilean hearers.
Whereas the later rabbinic parables often focus on such settings as royal courts (compare 22:2; see comment on Mt 18:23), Jesus most often told stories about agriculture and the daily life of his common hearers (as in 20:1).
Jesus portrays the present as a time of sowing to prepare for Harvest
Ezra 8:41
And The devil sows seeds into soil as well.
The sower must sow widely to ensure a good harvest.
It made more sense, in a field like the one in Jesus’ parable, to plow up the ground before sowing; this was a frequent practice in ancient Israel
Hosa 10:12
Fallow Ground has to be broken up before seeds can be sown..
You can always tell how hard your soil is by how hard it is to receive a certain word..
Your good until you hear Love your enemies, forgive etc.
Because we cannot know the conditions of given hearers’ hearts before we preach, Jesus uses the second analogy of sowing before plowing; we must sow as widely as possible and let God bring forth the appropriate fruit
Not all ground will yield good fruit..
Secrets for Disciples Only (13:10–17) Jesus reveals special truth to his disciples through parables.
Jewish teachers used parables as sermon illustrations to explain a point they were teaching
Jesus spoke in parables because the kingdom involved end-time “mysteries”*
The disciples were more special than the prophets of old only because they lived in a time when they could receive a greater revelation than the prophets, as Jesus’ blessing on them makes clear.*
The disciples’ eyes and ears were blessed (v.
16) because of the greater one among them (v.
17).
The rest of the hearers, unable to fathom his message, fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah about penal blindness: because of Israel’s sin, they would be unable to truly see, hear and understand God’s message
The disciples alone had pressed close enough to Jesus to understand the rest of what he was giving them.
To those who had some revelation, more revelation would be given (Mt 13:11–12).
In other words, the disciples alone proved to be good soil (v.
23).*
Only Disciples Who Understand Persevere (13:18–23) The only conversions that count in the kingdom are those confirmed by a life of discipleship.
Jesus sowed the Word widely, but not all his hearers persevered in discipleship.
What was true of the crowds that followed Jesus is also true of the crowds who claim to be his disciples today.
Many who have raised their hands in evangelistic crusades or even attended church regularly will be surprised on the day of judgment that Jesus never knew them (7:21–22).
Matthew
In One Ear and out the Other (13:19) Jewish teachers exhorted students to listen intently and memorize their teachings
Yet many who listened to Jesus would forget the message of his kingdom.
Such neglect, Jesus says, is the devil’s work.
Thats why people can hear the gospel every week in Church and still don’t know whats required for them to be saved..
Simply hearing the gospel does not guarantee understanding or embracing it.
Matthew 13:11
Wayside Soil
Matthew 13:18
wayside doesn’t deposit the word its kept on the surface.
The Greenleafs are surface Christians (why would they display Christians this way)
Is it from the writer & Christian relationships (Craig Wright & Oprah Winfrey)
Is this story really about Bishop Earl Paulk Jr. the Pastor of Cathedral at Chapel Hill
The evil One comes along and plucks it right out that persons heart.
Your probably surrounded around more wayside Christians than you care to admit..
Your spouse, Your best friend, tYour parents..
the crazy thing is some times we allow surface Christians to lead the family.
Surface Christians often question if God is real…
Surface Christians Have and hold others to standards they can’t live and don’t practice..
2. Rootless Soil
Matthew 13:20
Matthew 13:20-
Rootless Christians will catch the holy ghost in service and miss-place him once they get in the car..
hear the word with joy but not grounded in the word..(not root in himself)
Temporary endurance
I soberly recall that many friends who became followers of Jesus at the same time I did, including some of my witnessing partners, later abandoned the faith.
God is less interested in how quickly we run at the beginning of the race than in whether we truly finish it
Some will fall no matter how plainly we preach the truth, but we definitely set people up for failure when we fail to instruct new believers that suffering comes with following Christ
Persecution or Tribulation
Because of the Word
By and by he is offended.
(falls from faith)
Offended Pharisees?
consider the unjustified reaction of the
Pharisees.
Unjustified, because
here was Jesus Christ, God in the
flesh, teaching them the truth,
and yet they were offended
merely because God's teachings did not
coincide with their personal beliefs.
Keep in mind, these were not atheists.
Nor were
they people who merely "believed in God[.]"
These were the Pharisees, the religious leaders
of their time.
They were the tithers, the prayer warriors, and the faithful keepers of the law.
They worshiped the God of the Old
Testament, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob.
And yet, they were offended when their
God spoke to them.
What does their reaction to
Christ say about their claim to know God?
Offended Disciples?
Consider this next passage, where we find Jesus Christ teaching in the synagogue.
Jesus told those in attendance that day:
"As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so
he that eateth me, even he shall live by me."
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In essence, Jesus was equating Himself with the Passover Lamb, to which He experienced the following reaction:
"Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?"
experienced the following reaction: "Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can
hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?"
Now, you would expect the religious Jews in that synagogue to be offended.
Jesus had just equated Himself with one of the most "sacred" sacrifices in Jewish
history--the Passover lamb.
To the Jews, the Passover lamb symbolized God's deliverance from Egypt, their very salvation from captivity.
Of course, Jesus Christ delivers the soul from the captivity of sin.
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