Kingdom Parables

THE KINGDOM PARABLES
This is the word that was heard by the people who go in the way of the
world. Hearts that are engrossed in the world and in its pleasures only.
Jude 11 says: They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for
profit into Balaam's error..... Remember Cain was the first tiller of the
ground and the first builder of the City. He was a murderer in his heart
even before he hated and killed his brother out of sheer jealousy. These
are the people Pro. 1: 13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, 14
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, 15 whose paths are
crooked and who are devious in their ways.
What happens to the seed that fell on the way?
They were simply swallowed up by the birds. Birds since they ate up and
destroyed the Word of God , evidently describes the powers of
darkness. We will have occasion to expand on the identification of this
in detail later. It is sufficiently established here for the context.
2.7 THE SEED THAT FELL ON ROCKY GROUNDS
Rock is used in the scripture as something indicative of harness,
firmness or anchorage. Thus we have verses like "He is my rock and my
salvation" (Ps. 62:2) "The wise man built his house upon the rock."
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