Jesus’ Parables-The Parable of the Sower

WE ARE STUDYING THE FOUR GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN TO KNOW THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM.

Our Savior was rejected in Nazareth see;

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth.

The Wedding at Cana.

Then He;

 Cleanses the Temple.

We see that He;

Knows What Is in Man.        

He then tells us how to get saved;

You Must Be Born Again!

For God So Loved the World!

Jesus ends His Ministry in Judea and;

John the Baptist Exalts Christ.

Jesus finished His Ministry in Judea and went up to Galilee but did not take the long road the Jews normally take to avoid going through Samaria but went straight to a place called Sychar near to the parcel of  ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria.

Jesus returned via Samaria to Galilee and we see The Rewards Of Service John 4:28-38, The Growth Of Faith John 4:39-45 and lastly The Reward Of Trusting Jesus’ Word John4:46-54.

The Rewards Of Service

Back in Galilee after a year in Judea;

Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds.

Nazareth’s loss was Capernaum’s gain. The people in the latter city recognized that His teaching was authoritative. His words were convicting and impelling.

The Sermon on the Mount.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 

The Beatitudes. Salt and Light.

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

Anger.

Lust-Divorce-Oaths.

Retaliation and Love Your Enemies

Secret giving and secret praying

How to pray and how to fast

What to Seek and Whom to Serve

Do Not Be Anxios

Judging Others

Ask, and It will Be Given & The Golden Rule.

A Tree and Its Fruit

I Never Knew You

Build your House on the Rock.

The Authority of Jesus

Rewards Of Faith, The Great Physician

The Helper Of The Needy And The Friend Of Sinners

a Sermon Christ in Me by Dr. Sidlow J. Baxter.

A Jairus daughter Restored to Life, a Woman Healed, Jesus Heals Two Blind men, Jesus Heals a Man Unable to speak.

Hope for the hopeless. Tender Ministry to Maid and Women. Curing the Incurable and Raising the Dead

The sending forth of the twelve in Chapter 9 opens the third year Jesus’ public ministry

The Harvest Is Plentiful, the Laborers Few

The Mission to Israel.

  Not Peace, but a Sword

  Messengers from John the Baptist

Woe to Unrepentant Cities

Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

God’s Chosen Servant

The Sign of Jonah

Return of an Unclean SpiritJesus’ Mother and Brothers

Frederick Brotherton Meyer, a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic presents it to us this way regarding Matthew 13:1-9

SOWING IN DIFFERENT SOILS

The varying results of gospel preaching are due, not primarily to the sower or to the seed, but to the ground. Four classes of hearers are described in this parable. (1) The wayside or path, trampled hard as the sower goes to and fro. It was once soft, rich loam like the rest of the field, but in the course of years it has been trodden down by passengers and traffic. The seed falls on the surface, but cannot penetrate. When our heart reaches that condition, we need to ask God to drive through us the ploughshare of conviction or sorrow. (2) There is the superficial soil, very light and thin, beneath which lies the rock. How many are easily moved and touched, but refuse to allow God’s truth time to root itself and are as quickly moved by some other appeal. (3) They are the rich with their luxuries, and the poor with their cares, in the thorny ground of whose divided hearts there is no chance for the struggling ears of grace. (4) A fourth part of our hearers will receive the implanted Word into true hearts, and their hundred-fold will amply repay our toils and tears.

We thank William MacDonald (1917-2007) who, for more than forty years, written directly about the key issues of Christianity. Leaving a promising business career as an employed investment analyst with First National Bank of Boston “at the foot of the Cross”, he had travelled worldwide, proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ for the Believer’s Bible Commentary on Matthew 13:1-9.

THE KING ANNOUNCES A NEW INTERIM FORM OF THE KINGDOM DUE TO ISRAEL’S REJECTION

Parables of the Kingdom

We have come to a crisis point in the Gospel by Matthew. The Lord has indicated that earthly relationships are now to be superseded by spiritual ties, that it is no longer a question of Jewish birth but of obedience to God, the Father. In rejecting the King, the scribes and Pharisees have necessarily rejected the kingdom. Now by a series of parables, the Lord Jesus gives a preview of the new form which the kingdom would take during the period between His rejection and His eventual manifestation as King of kings and Lord of lords. Six of these parables begin with the words, “The kingdom of heaven is like. … ”

In order to see these parables in proper perspective, let us review the kingdom as discussed in chapter 3. The kingdom of heaven is the sphere in which God’s rule is acknowledged. It has two aspects: (1) outward profession, including all who claim to recognize God’s rule; and (2) inner reality, including only those who enter the kingdom by conversion. The kingdom is found in five phases: (1) the OT phase in which it was prophesied; (2) the phase in which it was “at hand” or present in the Person of the King; (3) the interim phase, consisting of those on earth who profess to be His subjects following the King’s rejection and return to Heaven; (4) the manifestation of the kingdom during the Millennium; and (5) the final, everlasting, kingdom. Every Bible reference to the kingdom fits into one of these phases. It is the third, interim phase which chapter 13 discusses. During this phase the kingdom in its inner reality (true believers) is composed, from Pentecost to the Rapture, of the same people as the church. This is the only identity between the kingdom and the church; they are not otherwise one and the same.

With this background in mind, let us look at the parables.

The Parable of the Sower

13:1 Jesus went out of the house where He had healed the demoniac and sat by the sea of Galilee. Many Bible students see the house as picturing the nation of Israel and the sea, the Gentiles. Thus the Lord’s movement symbolizes a break with Israel; during its interim form, the kingdom will be preached to the nations.

13:2 As great multitudes gathered on the beach, He got into a boat and began to teach the people by parables. A parable is a story with an underlying spiritual or moral teaching which is not always apparent immediately. The seven parables that follow tell us what the kingdom will be like during the time between His First and Second Advents.

The first four were spoken to the multitude; the last three were given only to the disciples. The Lord explained the first two and the seventh to the disciples, leaving them (and us) to interpret the others with the keys He had already given.

13:3 The first parable concerns a sower who planted his seed in four different types of soil. As might be expected, the results were different in each case

SOIL	RESULTS
1. Hard-packed pathway.	1. Seeds eaten by the birds.
2. Thin layer of soil over rock deposit.	2. Seed sprouted quickly, but no root; scorched by the sun and withered away.
3. Ground infested with thorns.	3. The seed sprouted, but growth was impossible because of the thorns.
4. Good ground	4. The seed sprouted, grew, and yielded a crop: some stalks bore a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

13:9 Jesus closed the parable with the cryptic admonition, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” In the parable He was conveying an important message to the multitude, and a different message to the disciples. None should miss the significance of His words.

Note:

Since the Lord Himself interprets the parable in verses 18-23, we will restrain our curiosity until we reach that paragraph in Matthew 13:18-23

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