Worldwide News: “Can you Hear the LORD speaking?”

“And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!”  (Mark 4:9)  Jesus taught this parable by the seaside to a great multitude.  A sower went out to sow seeds:  (1)  by the WAYSIDE but the fowls of the air came and devoured up the seeds;   (2) on STONY GROUND where there was not much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth;   (3) among THORNS and the thorns grew up and choked the seeds and it yielded no fruit; and (4) on GOOD GROUND and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth fruit some 30, 60, 100.   

PART ONE: To the World and Worldly Christians

Jesus told His Disciples, “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God…”  but not unto the people.  In general,  people don’t want to live right that’s why we have violence, rapes, premeditated murders, wars, and everything else throughout the World.  There is a degree of righteousness in mankind but not to give up the lusts of the flesh to live in the liberty of Jesus Christ.  JESUS AIN’T STUPID that’s why He said,  “SEEING they [people] may see AND NOT perceive; HEARING they may hear AND NOT understand; lest at any time they should be converted and THEIR SINS should be FORGIVEN them.”  (Mark 4:12) 

There ain’t nothing wrong with the seed as it is 100 percent proof grain.  Instead, the problem is where the sower plants the seed!  To begin, the average sower eats up his own seed.  He tells himself: “I work hard so I’ll eat (three times a week)  a big steak, fried onion rings, a baked potatoe (with all the trimmings), a small loaf of baked bread or cornbread (packed with real butter), 2-3 shots of whiskey, and a big slice of pie…”  But the sower has high cholesterol or gout and the doctor has forbidden him to eat such meals three times a week.   Here’s another example:   the sower is a great financial provider for his family but can’t stop sowing outside relationships!  Rather than be a father to one set of children, he is now fathering other sets of kids.  Can the sower be in two places at once?  Here’s another example:  the sower has a good job and is helpful to others but sowing in the lives of people who don’t know how to cultivate, water, or fertilize the seed…so the seed money is wasted, buried too deeply (the light never reaches).   Here is another example:  the sower sows into the lives of snakes (true characters are unknown to the sower) who robs the seed money or takes it by force, sows into the lives of others (unworthy), collects accolades from them (without giving praise to the original sower and never apologizes to the original sower for his seed). 

ANTIDOTE:

CAN YOU HEAR THE LORD SPEAKING?  He is saying  “…whatever you have done for others, YOU HAVE DONE SO UNTO GOD…”   Repent and do right:  (A)  if your seed is appreciated (i.e., cultivated, multiplied into 30, 60, or 100-fold);  OR  (B) if your seed is not appreciated (wasted, dry-rots in the ground, and eaten by the fowls of the air).  Regardless, the Lord GOD in Heaven gives the increase!  If someone steals the seed, pray for him to do right as you have no say-so over his actions.  Do not give with reluctance to others and continue in Agape LOVE!

(See next blog: Part II)