Kingdom Parables

THE KINGDOM PARABLES
Is. 55: 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for
the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
Again in 2 Cor 9: 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will
also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your
righteousness.
The sower therefore is the servant of God who carries the seed - the
Good news of Jesus when applied to the Kingdom of Heaven. Similarly
the sowers of the Kingdom of Darkness are those who carry the seed of
the devil - the good news of the worldly freedom; "bow down and
worship me, I will give you all these" (earthly glories) The sowers here
are then Christians for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Notice that the sower went out to sow. It is his business to sow. It is the
business of every Christian to be a sower. Whenever he goes out
whether in business or in pleasure, he carries with him the seed. We are
his witnesses.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into his wonderful light.
Ex. 23:10 "For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but
during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among
your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do
the same with your vineyard and your olive grove. 12 "Six days do your work, but on
the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave
born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.
This law is repeated again in Lev 25:4-7
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