THE HEART THAT SEEKS JESUS

Описание: What was Jesus showing them? They asked what the parables meant, and Jesus answered them by explaining the parable. So the real answer is that you can only understand spiritual truth if Jesus is your Teacher. That was the lesson they had to learn. And now Jesus defines the spiritual significance of the elements of the parabolic story.

In Mark 4:14a, the sower is anyone spreading the message of salvation, like Jesus asked us to do.
In Mark 4:14b, the seed is God's Word (see also Luke 8.11).
In Mark 4:15, the soil is the human heart.
In Mark 4:15-20, the four responses to the Word are based on the condition of the soil (or heart).
In Mark 4:20, only one soil (heart) experiences what the Word is supposed to do when received – bear a crop for harvest.

Oceans of truth lie before us who have the entire Word before us to use to compare and expand the truth Jesus gave to the disciples in this explanation.

Only the Word that enters the heart and becomes a part of that like is real. James and then Peter later comment on that reality in their epistles.

James 1:21 Therefore, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

The symbol is Christ's story of God's Word being like a seed is so true. We cannot make seeds; they are part of God’s creation. They are alive. God's Word is ‘living and abiding’. So when we proclaim the Gospel, it can’t be our message – it must be His Word. Jesus is explaining why the same living Word makes no impact in some hearts. The condition of their heart is reflected in their response to God's Word.

From KGD-31e - Four Hearts-One Soil (040418AM)

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