September 16th, 2007 by admin

This past summer somewhere around June of 2007 I awoke from a dream that was very symbolic. I dreamed I was nurturing a baby and made the comment, �If I have the baby, I have the adult�. It was as if in the dream I was trying to get an adult, but I was given the baby. Upon waking my comment stuck with me. If I have the baby, I have the adult. If I have the baby, I have the adult. I knew that this was pertaining to faith, but I didn�t have any scripture to keep this thought in a truth perspective. Where in the bible would this be found? Maybe I had just a stupid dream and it didn�t mean anything at all. Many different thoughts can run through your mind during times like this. That day I found myself thinking about the baby being the adult except in seed form. If I have the baby, I have the adult. If I want the adult I must first have the baby. Babies grow up to be adults. I was putting two and two together and then I was drawn to the scripture of the Parable of the Sower. After reading this passage it all came clear, and I saw something that I had never seen before. It�s amazing how much you can read something or be familiar with something in the bible and always see something new. The Parable of the Sower was a parable that Jesus said if we didn�t understand, then how could we understand anything in the Kingdom of God. There was a key here that once understood we could then learn to understand the rest of the Kingdom principles. We must understand the Parable of the Sower before we can truly understand anything else. Why did Jesus say this? The Parable of the Sower must be very important. More important then we think.

Part of the passage in Luke reads,�Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.  Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.  But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.  Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.  But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.� Luke 8:11:15

As I studied this passage it hit me. The Word of God comes to us in seed form, not fruit form. The fulfillment of the Word of God is the fruit. This passage tells us that the Word of God is �SEED�. Please stop here�� think about this. It is seed. The Word of God is seed. The seed is not the fruit. You must plant the seed and then this passage says that you must �keep it� and then you will �bear fruit� with �patience�. In the other passages where this Parable is located (Mark 4 & Matt 13) it gives more light into that we will bear fruit some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold. The amount of the fruit you receive will depend on the amount you �keep it�. What does �keep it� mean? This is a very important step, and a step that I believe stops most from receiving their fruit or in other words the fulfillment of the Word of God in their lives. Remember the passage says that we are to receive the Word of God, then we are to keep the Word of God, and then we will bear the fruit of the Word of God with patience. Don�t overlook the word �patience�.