The Sower the Seed and the Soil - 3/30/2025 Sunday Sermon

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The Sower the Seed and the Soil

When the child of God

Looks into the word of God

And sees the Son of God

They are transformed by the Spirit of God

Into the image of God

For the glory of God

-Warren Wiersbe

Every one of the seeds in the pack I gave you can become the flower it was meant to be if it finds receptive soil as it is planted. In today’s passage we see Jesus tell a little story about the different responses there will be to His gospel during the church age we now find ourselves in.

Matthew 13:1-23

Introducing the parables of the Kingdom - V. 1-3, 10-17

But Matthew 13 features the first occurrence of the word parable(s) in the New Testament, and the most occurrences of the word in the Bible. The word Parable(s) occurs 48 times in the Bible, 12 in this chapter alone.

The 35 Parables that Jesus told in the New Testament are little stories with big meaning comparing God’s activity in the present age to everyday matters we can relate to. Jesus’ parables often paint a picture of a wrong response from His critics and a right response by His followers.

In the 7 parables of the Kingdom in Matthew 13, Jesus for the first time reveals the secret (the mysterion) of the spiritual kingdom that will grow between His first coming and His return to set up a physical kingdom. The secret includes the church age we are now in where local churches become spiritual ‘embassies’ of the coming Kingdom.

The word for secret is the Greek word musterion (G3466-27x); it means that which is known to the ‘initiated’ (mustos). That which was not fully revealed to O.T. saints has now been revealed to Jesus’ followers.

Matthew 13:13-17 uses the Hebrew poetry device of chiastic structure, where the first and last points echo each other and so on toward the big point in the middle.

Jesus explains the parable of the Sower - V. 3b-9,18-23

The 4 different responses to the gospel:

The Not-now response (rejection) - V. 19

The Shallow response (belief without repentance) - V. 20-21

The double-minded response (distraction) - V. 22

The Devil got the wayside folk, the flesh took care of the rocky-ground folk, but the world chokes out the word for the thorny ground folk.” - J. Vernon McGee

The fruit-bearing response (this one understands) - V. 23

The Jewish poetic device of chiastic structure in Matthew 13:13-17:

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