Friends Church Sermons

We return this morning to the parable that Jesus began in verse 1 of chapter 13. After a discussion with His disciples about why He chose to use parables the way He did Jesus returns to the subject at hand; the parable. So let’s backtrack a bit to verse 1-9 to set up today’s text. The parable of the sower is the first of seven parables Jesus uses to give deeper understanding of the Kingdom of Heaven and what is going to happen in the future of this Kingdom. This first parable deals with the inception of the Kingdom the others will deal with its span between the Messiahs coming and His return. Let’s start with this parable of the sower and the seed. In verse 1-9 Jesus sets up the story. A story about a farmer who goes out to a field to sow his grain. As he goes about sowing the field the seed is cast far and wide and falls on four types of soil that are common in Palestine.