280 - Opening Ourselves to the Word
Por Jonathan S. Rose
Title: Opening Ourselves to the Word
Topic: The Word
Summary: It may seem that we are active and the Word is passive, but actually, the Word is much wiser than we are and works to change us for the better.
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
References:
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Luke 13:1-5, 18-19
Isaiah 27:1-3
Mark 4:26-30
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Philippians 2:12-13
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Isaiah 55:8-11
Matthew 13:1-9
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On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
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As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
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When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
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Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
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Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.