"To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God . . . So do you not understand this parable?" (Mark 4:11, 13)
Jesus says if you are going to understand his parables, you must understand the parable of the sower. In it is the DNA that unlocks the meaning of Jesus other parables. Jesus wants us to humbly come as a child and not with adult like pride. Jesus wants us to apply his hard sayings to our own hard- headedness and hard-heartedness. If we do not see how our lives fit into all the soils at varying moments of our lives, we will miss the spiritual truth that Jesus wants to awaken within us.
1. Jesus comes to plant the seed of His word of Life and Spirit into us to make us fruitful for God's kingdom.
2. Satan comes to steal the seed so it does not take root. Spiritual warfare and fighting the enemy who attacks and accuses us from within and from without will always be a part of the Christian pilgrimage.
Parables come to conceal and reveal. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy and God comes to give us life everlasting and reveal to each of us who we are as God's beloved children. I am in the process of still learning and growing in my understanding of unlocking the secrets of Jesus/Yeshua parables. I know there is so much "more" to unlock and discover.
If there is one area many followers of Jesus are lacking in is boldness and confidence in their Christian faith. I am coming to a deeper awareness that when Jesus speaks about the kingdom of heaven suffering violence, and the violent take it by force" (Matthew 11:12), there is a whole debate and controversy over the meaning of this by biblical scholars. I simply believe it means that we are too passionately pursue and advance God's kingdom by the force and power of God's Holy Spirit. In the Spirit realm, this will be a clash of kingdoms and violence going on in the heavenly realm as we live as citizens of heaven here and now on earth.
This is brought home to me when a couple asked me and another friend last night to pray for a man who is technically brain dead from a bad reaction to medicine. He has been laying in a comma for a week. This husband and wife are stepping out with a mustard seed of faith and a belief in Jesus and God's Word to pray for healing and wholeness for this man. The wife confessed afterwards she struggled in having confidence in overcoming the enemy. The husband confessed the opposite problem of lacking faith and confidence in God to heal the man. The secret missing in many Christians lives today is possessing the boldness and confidence God desires for us to posses as followers of Jesus. If Jesus came bold and daring then shouldn't we be bold and daring as well?
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