*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Fri/12th/Aug/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (153)*
_"When anyone hears the Word of the Kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path"_ (Matthew 13:19).
Farmers would scatter seeds across every part of a prepared field as they walked, distributing some of the seed right on top of the borders to ensure every inch was covered. In those cases, some seed would fall along the hard-packed path. When that happened, Jesus taught, the seeds would sit and wait for the birds to come and devour them. Now here, the seeds represent the Word of God. Different soils represent people with different levels of interest and commitment. Seeds that falls onto the hard-packed earth represent those who do not understand spiritual teaching. These may be the hardened, unmovable hearts of the Jewish religious leaders, and majority of the Jews, and those who carry their character. The truth fails to penetrate below the surface, and satan easily snatches it away from them.
Here, Jesus mentions, in the first place, the barren and uncultivated, who do not receive the seed within, because there is no preparation in their hearts. Such persons He compares to a stiff and dry soil, like what we find on a public road, which is trodden down and becomes hard, like a pavement. The wickedness and depravity of men do not make the Word of God to lose its own nature, or to cease to have the character of seed. This must be carefully observed, that we may not suppose the favors of God to cease to be what they are, though the good effect of them does not reach us. With respect to God, the Word is sown in the hearts. But it is far from being true, that the hearts of all receive with meekness what is planted in them, as James 1:21 exhorts us to receive the Word. So then the Gospel is always a fruitful seed as to its power, but not as to its produce.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_The wickedness and depravity of men do not make the Word of God to lose its own nature. The Gospel is always a fruitful seed as to its power._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
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