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Matthew 13
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You see the SEED if the GOSPEL. Not everyone who receives the GOSPEL message is saved.
Some have it stolen from their hearts by Satan. We have atheist, agnostics, etc who don't accept the GOSPEL:
Jesus died for our sins upon the cross so that we might be born again children of God.
So they HEAR but don't UNDERSTAND.
These are people who like the message but don't walk with the Holy Spirit. They have no roots. They follow a teacher or pastor but don't study themselves. They have no prayer life. When trouble arises in their life, they don't seek God in prayer but allow their hope to die (since their hope and faith was in the person telling the message and not God, himself). Often they have the false belief that God doesn't love them or other false doctrines because they haven't studied or prayed for themselves.
These did not follow God but just people and were not saved either.
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The thorny seed people:
They have not died to their fleshly desires and have not been born again. They still seek the pleasures of this world and only view the gospel as a get out of hell free card. They are adulterers with this world. Praying only to spend upon their own lust. They have not died to self and have not been born again.
Thus they are not saved either.
So you see, being saved isn't "easy".
*will continue in next post*
“Therefore hear the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
You see the SEED if the GOSPEL. Not everyone who receives the GOSPEL message is saved.
Some have it stolen from their hearts by Satan. We have atheist, agnostics, etc who don't accept the GOSPEL:
Jesus died for our sins upon the cross so that we might be born again children of God.
So they HEAR but don't UNDERSTAND.
"But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles."
These did not follow God but just people and were not saved either.
Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful."
The thorny seed people:
They have not died to their fleshly desires and have not been born again. They still seek the pleasures of this world and only view the gospel as a get out of hell free card. They are adulterers with this world. Praying only to spend upon their own lust. They have not died to self and have not been born again.
Thus they are not saved either.
So you see, being saved isn't "easy".
*will continue in next post*