Parable of the sower

 

Parable of the sower

 

(Mark 4:3-8) 『Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: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. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And the other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.』

In the parable of the sower, sowing is sowing the word of God. The Word is about the kingdom of God. When these seeds fall into the world, there are various reactions. The kingdom of God has already come, but the response has been different. In Jesus’ parable, the meaning of the parable is explained again. Some people could not accept the kingdom of God that Jesus preached, some accepted it and then abandoned it, and although there were very few, there were some who accepted it well. But, that is heaven.

The parable of the sower is a message about how to treat Jesus Christ, who is heaven. However, this reaction can occur in one believer at the same time. For a believer, it can be like a roadside, a rocky field, a thorny field, or a transition into a good field. God works in the hearts of believers to make this happen. That is the kingdom of God on this earth. The kingdom of God is not a utopian kingdom that will come in the future, but it will appear in this present form. In the hearts of believers, good land and evil land coexist, and wheat and tares coexist. Jesus tells the parable of the wheat and the weeds right after the parable of the sower. The parable of heaven involves both wheat and tares. So, God increases the number of believers from thirty to sixty to one hundred. That is why there is also the patience of saints.

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