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The Parable Of The Sower

The Parable Of The Sower

Jan 05, 2025

Passage: Matthew 13:1-23

Preacher: Rob Holster

Series: Gospel of the Kingdom

Summary:

Happy New Year! My prayer for us as a church this year comes from the Apostle Paul, who wrote to the church at Colossae: So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins. (Colossians 1:9-14, NLT) The first part of that prayer is about God giving us spiritual wisdom and understanding––eyes to see and ears to hear––as Jesus said in Matthew 13. Paige introduced us last week to this chapter, which is filled with seven parables. He mentioned that parables both reveal (to the believer) and conceal (to the non-believer) this spiritual wisdom and understanding. Matthew 13:11 says, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given." May God give us understanding as we go through these parables. They begin with perhaps the most famous and important of them all––the Parable of the Sower. Many words have been said and volumes written about this parable involving a sower, seeds, and soil. What does it all mean?

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