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The 21
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Sunday after Pentecost
seek out the knowledge of GodÁ-?s commandments and exercise
them in our life, God will then judge us in the Judgment, even if
we try to say we do not know something.
What is the inner and outer meaning of this parable? There is a lot
of explanation given for this parable, even in the very text of
scripture itself. It is very rare in scripture where our Lord actually
explains the deeper meaning of some dark saying of His. The
Apostles came to Him, and they must have also come to Him many
other times, and they said, we donÁ-?t understand this at all. He
explained this to them, because itÁ-?s meaning is so important.
Á-°A sower went out to sow his seedÁ-?. Who is the sower? None
other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Be careful when you read
scripture -- every word has meaning. The Sower went OUT to
sow his seedÁ-?. He did not go Á-°outÁ-? from the farmhouse and start to
work -- this Á-°going outÁ-? is the incarnation of the Son of God. The
seed is the word of God, those words that He spoke.
As he sowed, some seed fell by various places, the wayside, the
rock, among the thorns and on good ground. It Á-°fellÁ-?. It was not
thrown. It fell everywhere equally, and these places, are the souls
of men. The preexisting one, Jesus Christ, thought it not robbery to
be equal to us, and became a man. And He sowed his teaching to
the entire universe, equally and freely to all men. It is available to
everyone.
There are four kinds of men described in this parable, and, three of
those kinds perished. Three out of the four kinds of men will
perish. The majority will perish. This is true in our age, and has
been true in every age. The majority of people will not inherit the
Kingdom of God, because they are not the good ground. And yet
our Lord and Savior still sows His seed, and still gives the
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