PARABLES ON HIS KINGDOM SEED

Newsletter 181 February 20, 2010

Bob Mills

In my childhood, where it was possible, every house had a vegetable garden. The garden and the chicken pen were my responsibility. Most people did not run to the grocery store and buy what they wanted for the next meal. They went to the garden or to the basement for a jar of fruit or vegetables and to the chicken yard.

As soon as it was warm enough we planted rows of seeds. Then we watched for them to come up, and our annual battle to protect them from weeds and hungry insects and worms began. We may have lacked in variety, but we never really lacked food. We even had enough to share with less fortunate neighbors who did not have the space for their own garden,.

Jesus used the fruit trees, the vegetable gardens, the grape vines; the fish four of his twelve apostles caught in their in their nets, in his frequent parables. All his parables had a deeper meaning. These two, related by Mark, concerned the church, which we could compare to be the doorway to his eternal kingdom. It does not come without dedication of time, work, or responsibilities, but along the way we can share with others the Good News.

Mark 4:26-34 (King James Version)

26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; (Mark 1:15)

27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (Joel 3:13)

30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? (Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:32, Luke 13:18, Luke 13:19, Matthew 13:24)

31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. (Matthew 13:32, Ezekiel 17:23, Psalm 104:12, Ezekiel 31:6, Daniel 4:12, 1 Corinthians 7:14)

33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Our faith is like the tiny seeds we placed I the prepared garden patch. During the long, hot, Summer. We harvested from those plants, but in the Fall we really gathered the most harvest. Thus is our life. We begin with a small seed of faith, throughout life we are blessed, but at the Fall of life, comes the real blessing. We have entered the door, been blessed by his church, and enter into eternity to the eternal home he has prepared for us.
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RESOLVE TO READ THE BIBLE THROUGH AGAIN IN 2010

FEBRUARY

21st. Sunday – Exodus 25, 26, Mark 5:21-43, Proverbs 5:15-23

22nd. Monday – Exodus 27, 28, Mark 6:1-29, Psalm 24

23rd. Tuesday – Exodus 29, 30, Mark 6:30-56, Psalm 25:1-11

24th. Wednesday - Exodus 31, 32, Mark 7, Psalm 25:12-22

25th. Thursday – Exodus 33, 34, Mark 8, Proverbs 6:1-11

26th. Friday – Exodus 35, 36, Mark 9:1-32, Psalm 26

27th. Saturday – Exodus 37, 38, Mark 9:33-50, Psalm 27


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“….whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”

Mark 3:35