15 "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.
If the seed fell on good ground, where have water and sunshine to grow them, (means the word of God is given to those who having heard the word with noble and good heart and the heart is watering by Holy Spirit), it is obviously the seed to grow wealthily and to bear fruit (means the development of spiritual knowledge, which is the fruit of oneself, and leading people to be Christian, which is the fruit of God). Why here said Jesus particularly that bearing fruit with patience?
This parable let me think of another parable of weeds (Mat 13:24-30). Satan sows weeds too, and the weeds could probably be sowed on the good ground too. We knew that in this parable God allowed the weeds to grow together with the wheat until the harvest time. In this world where we live there is not only some righteous, but also some unrighteous. It is necessary to those who can hold the word of God steadily and live in such an environment with many attacks from the evil to have lots of patience to bear fruit.
We will not know when Jesus comes. It could be tomorrow, 1 year or maybe 100 years later. Keeping God’s Word and holding it until the day Jesus’ coming is also necessary to be patient. Do not give any chance to devil until that day not to let the good ground turn to the poor ground.
Psa 126:5, Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
Psa 126:6 He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Following reply to Tiana’s sharing 09.12.08:
When Jesus revealed miracles, mostly he asked the witness not to spread the miracle around or he withdraw himself from there to a desolate place. Those are to hide, but expect for this miracle in Gerasene he instead told that man to spread what great things God has done to him, and he did.
Mar 5:20 And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.
I think the country of the Gerasenes was not the country where the Jewish were gathering at that time, but rather a country of gentiles. Because the Jewish do not eat swine, but we see Marc 5:13 there were at least two thousand swine in that area. If my assumption were correct, then Jesus maybe liked to through him to let the gentiles there to hear the miracles of God and to know him.
Finally, I want to add some to the paragraph about when demons saw Jesus, just as Doro said “demons recognized Jesus as Son of the Most High God” and “begged Jesus not to command them to go out into the abyss”. The abyss can be connected with the bottomless pit in Rev 20:3, where God have bound Satan overthere. I find it interesting that demons are afraid of death. Is really that the death under Satan’s control? We do but know the only one, who is the all mighty and had ever overcome death, “Jesus”.
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Good sharing ne^^! The connection between parables of weeds and wheals is really insightful. It reminds us to yield fruit as keeping watching and bearing temptations.
i'm reading the Samuels recently and sometimes i feel it is also a blessing to live in the Old Testment time. because in the OT, once someone does something wrong, they receive their punishment right away. it may not be good for the people who died because they have no chance to repent, but for those around him, they are able to know right away that God is not pleased with the situation and repent. in the New Testment, since the wheat and tares grow together and are only separated at the end, people are not immediately punished. this can also let people feel ok if they do something wrong, because they still live on happily. sometimes those who do wrong things seem to be more blessed in life than those who have faith in God. and that can cause false illusions for people who observe from the side. this warns us that we have to be even more vigilant in the grace period of the NT, to be even more alert. to not be deceived because of lack of punishment. to remember that it is by God's grace that we are still living after a wrongdoing and to determine not to do it again. may the Lord help us. thanks for the sharing :)
Thank God that today He has given us the Holy Spirit as the counsellor to direct us from right and wrong even without being punished by Him like that of the Old Testamental times :) John 14:16
However, we have to be sensitive to the calling of the Holy Spirit in our prayers to know where we have done wrong, therefore in 1 Thessalonians 5:19 says "do not quench the Holy Spirit".
I guess that really requires a lot of prayers for us to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit - for even the smallest mistakes we make in life. :)
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