Title: Kingdom of God (Matthew 13:3-9)
Contents Jesus told them many things in parables, saying, The sower went out to sow, and some fell by the wayside, and birds came and ate it up.
No, so it sprouts immediately, but after the sun has risen, it is burned and has no root, so it withers up. Some fell on thorns, and thorns grew.
They choked it, and some fell on good soil, and it bore fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty times, some thirtyfold. He who has ears, let him hear.
When Jesus spoke the gospel, there were cases where he explained the truth in an easy-to-understand way or spoke in parables.
The text speaks of the mysteries of the kingdom of God in parables, but it uses very common and ordinary natural phenomena as parables. Because when we are faced with the essential powers or mysteries of nature, we can most easily recognize God in them.
After a cold and tedious winter, before the remaining snow melts, farmers rush into the fields to dig up hard ground, remove stones, smooth the soil, and then sow seeds with an eager heart in hopes of a bountiful harvest in the fall.
Until the harvest, various tasks such as the laborious fertilization management and insect repellent work of a diligent farmer, sweating hard under the hot sun, must be continued continuously, but the effect of climate on agriculture is enormous
As described above, good seeds, good fields, good workers, and good climate must be in harmony in order for a farmer to produce a good crop in a year and reap a bountiful harvest.
The first thing a farmer needs for the farming he wants is the seed, that is, the selection of the seed. Because only good seeds can be planted to produce good fruits.
There is a saying that harvesting is semi-farming. So, even in the days of poverty, when it was difficult to get through the winter of a year with farming, only the seeds were kept as precious as life. However, in this verse, which compares the gospel of the kingdom to seeds, it is taking issue with the hearts of those who are in the field for cultivating the seeds sown.
There are four kinds of hearts in the heart that listens to the Word of God. A hard heart that cannot even accept seeds, a frivolous heart that cannot take root even if it accepts it,
A heart that is not pure enough to take root and grow and bear fruit. No matter how good the seeds are sown in such a heart field, they will not bear fruit. Therefore, those who want heaven are blessed...