The parable of the sower.

[Watchman22]

Mark 4:11-13

"Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of God. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing , they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand. Lest at anytime they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them."

A child can understand what He just said, it's just hard to accept it.

Still, 2000 years later, we are still making void the word of God by our traditions.
And traditions say, "why everybody can have their sins forgiven." Traditions say God wants everyone converted, Not according to His parable.

 

[Watchman22]

Mark 4:11-13

"Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of God. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing , they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand. Lest at anytime they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them."

A child can understand what He just said, it's just hard to accept it.

Still, 2000 years later, we are still making void the word of God by our traditions.
And traditions say, "why everybody can have their sins forgiven." Traditions say God wants everyone converted, Not according to His parable.

Jesus makes it clear, that if you don't understand this parable, you won't understand anything else He teaches.

This is the beginning, and the key to everything else. You're not going to know anything about God if you don't get through this one.

 

[OMC]

Jesus makes it clear, that if you don't understand this parable, you won't understand anything else He teaches.

This is the beginning, and the key to everything else. You're not going to know anything about God if you don't get through this one.

Your take on Mark 4:11–13 collapses Jesus’ point into fatalism, but the text itself doesn’t support the idea that God doesn’t want certain people forgiven; it explains why Jesus uses parables as a judgment on already‑hardened hearts, not as a barrier to sincere seekers. Jesus isn’t saying, “I don’t want them converted”; He’s quoting Isaiah 6:9–10, where God’s Word exposes hardness that already exists — the same pattern Paul explains in Romans 11:7–8.
The disciples are given understanding because they’ve actually come to Jesus; “those outside” don’t understand because they’ve already rejected Him.
The parable of the sower proves this: the issue isn’t God blocking forgiveness, it’s the condition of the heart responding to the seed. And Jesus’ line “If you don’t understand this parable, you won’t understand anything else” doesn’t mean salvation is restricted; it means this parable is the template for how revelation works — the Word lands, the heart responds, and the fruit reveals the truth.
So the claim “traditions say God wants everyone converted, but Jesus says He doesn’t” is a category mistake:
Jesus is describing judicial hardening, not divine disinterest.
The parable shows that understanding is given to those who come to Him, and blindness remains for those who refuse.

 

[Watchman22]

Jesus makes it clear, that if you don't understand this parable, you won't understand anything else He teaches.

This is the beginning, and the key to everything else. You're not going to know anything about God if you don't get through this one.

God intends that some can't....... But to everyone that can hear and understand, everyone that can see and perceive, and count yourself so fortunate that you at least see and perceive, hear and understand.

And while you are preening your feathers in that knowledge, that you are part of that selected group, that see and perceive, hear and understand.....

Before you get to giddy, and get caught up in it, understand that there are two layers within that group. How terrible to be among the "without", who cannot understand, and cannot perceive. Even more terrible, to see and perceive, hear and understand, and still not make it. Because you are in one of the wrong groups that are described.

 

[OMC]

God intends that some can't....... But to everyone that can hear and understand, everyone that can see and perceive, and count yourself so fortunate that you at least see and perceive, hear and understand.

And while you are preening your feathers in that knowledge, that you are part of that selected group, that see and perceive, hear and understand.....

Before you get to giddy, and get caught up in it, understand that there are two layers within that group. How terrible to be among the "without", who cannot understand, and cannot perceive. Even more terrible, to see and perceive, hear and understand, and still not make it. Because you are in one of the wrong groups that are described.

Brother, your whole framework misreads Jesus’ purpose in Mark 4 by turning the parable of the sower into a fatalistic sorting mechanism where God intends some people to be permanently unable to understand, and even worse, where people who do understand are still in danger of “not making it” because they’re in the “wrong group.”
But Jesus’ own explanation contradicts that entire system.
He quotes Isaiah 6:9–10 to show that parables function as judicial hardening on those who have already rejected Him — not as a divine refusal to let willing hearers understand.
The disciples understand because they come to Him (Mark 4:10–11); “those outside” don’t understand because they won’t come (John 5:40).
And the “two layers” idea is invented —
Jesus gives four soils, not two layers of insiders.
The only “terrible” group is the one that refuses the Word;
the good soil is simply the heart that receives and bears fruit (Mark 4:20).
Nothing in the passage teaches that someone who “sees and perceives” is still doomed;
Jesus says the opposite — those who hear and receive bear fruit thirty‑, sixty‑, and a hundredfold.
The danger isn’t being in the “wrong insider group”; the danger is hardness, which Scripture says comes from sin’s deceitfulness (Hebrews 3:13), not from God arbitrarily blocking understanding.
Parables reveal truth to those who come to Christ and expose hardness in those who refuse;
the issue is the heart’s response, not a secret hierarchy of “insider layers.”

 

[GWH]

Mark 4:11-13

"Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of God. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing , they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand. Lest at anytime they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them."

A child can understand what He just said, it's just hard to accept it.

Still, 2000 years later, we are still making void the word of God by our traditions.
And traditions say, "why everybody can have their sins forgiven." Traditions say God wants everyone converted, Not according to His parable.

This is another example of how proof-texting can cause confusion. In order to develop a doctrine regarding the parables of Jesus, one must conduct a systematic study of every parable recorded in the gospel of Mathew in order to learn their meaning and purpose.

The first parable is The Parable of the Seeds in Matt. 13:1-23. In this parable a farmer sowed seed on four types of soil: a path, rocky ground, thorny ground, and fertile soil–with appropriate results. Discerning the meaning involved understanding the metaphors that were used, most of which were explained by Jesus in v.18-23: seed = GW re the KOH, understands = believes, healed = saved, ears = normal adult souls, hear = be good seed. The apparent meaning of the parable per v. 9 is thus, “Let all accountable souls be allowed to hear and be saved.”

However, this meaning is made problematic by what Jesus told his disciples between relating the parable and then explaining its meaning (v.10-11) regarding his purpose of speaking in parables: “The knowledge of the secrets of the KOH has been given to you (disciples), but not to them (the rest of the people).” Jesus said (in v.14-15) the people fulfilled Isa. 6:9-10, which says in part, “you will be ever seeing but never perceiving, for this people’s heart has become calloused… Otherwise they might… turn, and I would heal them.” In v.12 Jesus said, “Whoever has will be given more… and whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

A person might interpret what Jesus said regarding the secrets to mean that he wanted them to remain unknown except by his disciples, but a few verses later in Matt. 13:34 it says that Jesus spoke in parables in order to fulfill “what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world”, which implies that he wants to share the secrets with the people.

Thus, unless these statements (Matt. 13:10-17 & 13:34-35) can be harmonized, one must choose between two contradictory interpretations: 1. Jesus purposefully hid knowledge from some while revealing it to others according to His will, or 2. Jesus allowed souls to reject saving knowledge or to accept it and be his disciples. Deciding which understanding to adopt necessitates considering the second parable of Jesus, The Parable of the Weeds in Matt. 13:24-30.

In this parable a man sowed wheat seeds in his field, but his enemy came while folks were sleeping and sowed weeds among the wheat. When it became apparent that the field was contaminated, the owner’s servants asked whether they should pull up the weeds, and he told them to wait until the harvest, at which time the weeds should be burned and the wheat gathered into his barn.

Later in the privacy of a house Jesus explained the meaning of this parable, saying that the good seed was sown by the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed stands for those who belong to the kingdom, the weeds are those who belong to the evil one, the enemy who sowed the bad seed is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. At the end of the age the Son of Man will send angels to weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and everyone who does evil and throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, while the righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father. Jesus concluded by saying, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

The mention of Judgment and the opposite destinies of happiness or hell indicates that Jesus employed parables as a means of pre-sifting souls by showing who would understand/believe or not. Some people opine that God/Jesus causes people to believe or not, but notice that in Matt. 13:10-15 Jesus did NOT say that he prevents people from becoming his disciples or that he causes people’s hearts to be calloused, so let us be careful not to pre-sift ourselves by projecting our own hatred onto the all-loving Christ. Understanding God/Christ to be all-loving is gained by searching the Scriptures for insight rather than implicitly accusing Jesus of hating his enemies, which borders on blasphemy against the loving Holy Spirit. The omnilove of Jesus is indicated by such Scriptures as Matt. 23:37, in which Jesus lamented over Jerusalem’s lack of repentance or rejection of his preaching (cf. Matt. 22:39, John 3:16, Rom. 5:6-8, 1Tim. 2:3-4).

We can see that deciding which understanding of the purpose of parables to adopt involves rejecting or accepting Scriptures teaching that God loves everyone, not only the elect or disciples of Jesus. Thus, the doctrine of parables is related to the doctrine of election. I choose to accept the teachings that God is omnilove or loves everyone and wants all to be saved but allows volition and thereby moral accountability to exist, so that souls may reject the Gospel or parables and put faith in I-dolatry. I note that Jesus explained the Parable of the Seeds in plain language, and that the Parable of the Tenants passage indicated his enemies understood he was being critical of them.

 

[OMC]

This is another example of how proof-texting can cause confusion. In order to develop a doctrine regarding the parables of Jesus, one must conduct a systematic study of every parable recorded in the gospel of Mathew in order to learn their meaning and purpose.

The first parable is The Parable of the Seeds in Matt. 13:1-23. In this parable a farmer sowed seed on four types of soil: a path, rocky ground, thorny ground, and fertile soil–with appropriate results. Discerning the meaning involved understanding the metaphors that were used, most of which were explained by Jesus in v.18-23: seed = GW re the KOH, understands = believes, healed = saved, ears = normal adult souls, hear = be good seed. The apparent meaning of the parable per v. 9 is thus, “Let all accountable souls be allowed to hear and be saved.”

However, this meaning is made problematic by what Jesus told his disciples between relating the parable and then explaining its meaning (v.10-11) regarding his purpose of speaking in parables: “The knowledge of the secrets of the KOH has been given to you (disciples), but not to them (the rest of the people).” Jesus said (in v.14-15) the people fulfilled Isa. 6:9-10, which says in part, “you will be ever seeing but never perceiving, for this people’s heart has become calloused… Otherwise they might… turn, and I would heal them.” In v.12 Jesus said, “Whoever has will be given more… and whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

A person might interpret what Jesus said regarding the secrets to mean that he wanted them to remain unknown except by his disciples, but a few verses later in Matt. 13:34 it says that Jesus spoke in parables in order to fulfill “what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world”, which implies that he wants to share the secrets with the people.

Thus, unless these statements (Matt. 13:10-17 & 13:34-35) can be harmonized, one must choose between two contradictory interpretations: 1. Jesus purposefully hid knowledge from some while revealing it to others according to His will, or 2. Jesus allowed souls to reject saving knowledge or to accept it and be his disciples. Deciding which understanding to adopt necessitates considering the second parable of Jesus, The Parable of the Weeds in Matt. 13:24-30.

In this parable a man sowed wheat seeds in his field, but his enemy came while folks were sleeping and sowed weeds among the wheat. When it became apparent that the field was contaminated, the owner’s servants asked whether they should pull up the weeds, and he told them to wait until the harvest, at which time the weeds should be burned and the wheat gathered into his barn.

Later in the privacy of a house Jesus explained the meaning of this parable, saying that the good seed was sown by the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed stands for those who belong to the kingdom, the weeds are those who belong to the evil one, the enemy who sowed the bad seed is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. At the end of the age the Son of Man will send angels to weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and everyone who does evil and throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, while the righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father. Jesus concluded by saying, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

The mention of Judgment and the opposite destinies of happiness or hell indicates that Jesus employed parables as a means of pre-sifting souls by showing who would understand/believe or not. Some people opine that God/Jesus causes people to believe or not, but notice that in Matt. 13:10-15 Jesus did NOT say that he prevents people from becoming his disciples or that he causes people’s hearts to be calloused, so let us be careful not to pre-sift ourselves by projecting our own hatred onto the all-loving Christ. Understanding God/Christ to be all-loving is gained by searching the Scriptures for insight rather than implicitly accusing Jesus of hating his enemies, which borders on blasphemy against the loving Holy Spirit. The omnilove of Jesus is indicated by such Scriptures as Matt. 23:37, in which Jesus lamented over Jerusalem’s lack of repentance or rejection of his preaching (cf. Matt. 22:39, John 3:16, Rom. 5:6-8, 1Tim. 2:3-4).

We can see that deciding which understanding of the purpose of parables to adopt involves rejecting or accepting Scriptures teaching that God loves everyone, not only the elect or disciples of Jesus. Thus, the doctrine of parables is related to the doctrine of election. I choose to accept the teachings that God is omnilove or loves everyone and wants all to be saved but allows volition and thereby moral accountability to exist, so that souls may reject the Gospel or parables and put faith in I-dolatry. I note that Jesus explained the Parable of the Seeds in plain language, and that the Parable of the Tenants passage indicated his enemies understood he was being critical of them.

You treat Matthew 13 as if Jesus is giving two contradictory purposes for parables, when the text itself harmonizes them perfectly: parables reveal truth to those who come to Christ and expose hardness in those who refuse — not because God withholds love, but because hearts respond differently to the same Word.
Jesus says the disciples are given understanding (Matt 13:11) because they came to Him (Mark 4:10–11), while “those outside” fulfill Isaiah 6:9–10 because they refuse Him (John 5:40).
That’s judicial hardening, not divine hatred.
And Matthew 13:34–35 doesn’t contradict this — it shows parables reveal truths “hidden since the foundation of the world,” meaning Jesus does intend to make the kingdom known, but only those with receptive hearts perceive it (Matt 13:12).
The Parable of the Weeds confirms the same pattern: wheat and weeds coexist until the harvest, and the separation is based on what they are, not on God arbitrarily blocking understanding (Matt 13:24–30, 36–43).
Jesus never says He prevents repentance;
He says people’s hearts have become calloused (Matt 13:15) — their condition, not His decree.
And His lament over Jerusalem (Matt 23:37) proves He desires their repentance. Parables sift, but they sift by heart‑response, not by divine favoritism; God loves all (John 3:16; 1 Tim 2:4), Christ reveals the kingdom, and only those who refuse Him remain blind.

 

[timf]

Traditions say God wants everyone converted

1Ti_2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

However, there are lewd fellows of the baser sort and brute beasts for who the presentation of truth would be pointless.

Mat_7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

 

[Watchman22]

God intends that some can't....... But to everyone that can hear and understand, everyone that can see and perceive, and count yourself so fortunate that you at least see and perceive, hear and understand.

And while you are preening your feathers in that knowledge, that you are part of that selected group, that see and perceive, hear and understand.....

Before you get to giddy, and get caught up in it, understand that there are two layers within that group. How terrible to be among the "without", who cannot understand, and cannot perceive. Even more terrible, to see and perceive, hear and understand, and still not make it. Because you are in one of the wrong groups that are described.

1) "The sower, soweth the word. These are they by the wayside, when the word was sown, when they have heard, satan comes in immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts."

You better understand, that there's an audience that surrounds you....
Other than the fleshly friends, neighbors, and family that your aware of. There's that, "satanic audience " and there's the Divine audience. Those that are by the wayside, have the capacity to see and perceive, hear and understand.....

But it doesn't penetrate, but for a second, and satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

 

[GWH]

You treat Matthew 13 as if Jesus is giving two contradictory purposes for parables, when the text itself harmonizes them perfectly: parables reveal truth to those who come to Christ and expose hardness in those who refuse — not because God withholds love, but because hearts respond differently to the same Word.
Jesus says the disciples are given understanding (Matt 13:11) because they came to Him (Mark 4:10–11), while “those outside” fulfill Isaiah 6:9–10 because they refuse Him (John 5:40).
That’s judicial hardening, not divine hatred.
And Matthew 13:34–35 doesn’t contradict this — it shows parables reveal truths “hidden since the foundation of the world,” meaning Jesus does intend to make the kingdom known, but only those with receptive hearts perceive it (Matt 13:12).
The Parable of the Weeds confirms the same pattern: wheat and weeds coexist until the harvest, and the separation is based on what they are, not on God arbitrarily blocking understanding (Matt 13:24–30, 36–43).
Jesus never says He prevents repentance;
He says people’s hearts have become calloused (Matt 13:15) — their condition, not His decree.
And His lament over Jerusalem (Matt 23:37) proves He desires their repentance. Parables sift, but they sift by heart‑response, not by divine favoritism; God loves all (John 3:16; 1 Tim 2:4), Christ reveals the kingdom, and only those who refuse Him remain blind.

I agree with this understanding of parables.
"Hearts responding differently" is what I referred to as "presifting".
And of course you know I believe God loves all humanity but hates all sin.

 

[Watchman22]

1) "The sower, soweth the word. These are they by the wayside, when the word was sown, when they have heard, satan comes in immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts."

You better understand, that there's an audience that surrounds you....
Other than the fleshly friends, neighbors, and family that your aware of. There's that, "satanic audience " and there's the Divine audience. Those that are by the wayside, have the capacity to see and perceive, hear and understand.....

But it doesn't penetrate, but for a second, and satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

1) Take a look at yourself...
How often does the word "prick" a little bit of attention? But then, as the teacher or preacher begins to unravel it a bit further, and you got to grab hold of it and absorb it, your mind wanders, your mind drifted to something else.....You hear the words, tune in for a second, and then your gone.....

2) Most apparent from those who've been around the Word of God the longest, and have taken on that quality of a well trodden path..... Which is what? " The wayside" The surface is so trodden down, nothing can sink in....

 

[GWH]

1) Take a look at yourself...
How often does the word "prick" a little bit of attention? But then, as the teacher or preacher begins to unravel it a bit further, and you got to grab hold of it and absorb it, your mind wanders, your mind drifted to something else.....You hear the words, tune in for a second, and then your gone.....

2) Most apparent from those who've been around the Word of God the longest, and have taken on that quality of a well trodden path..... Which is what? " The wayside" The surface is so trodden down, nothing can sink in....

Yes, Paul was in the second category, which may be why it took being struck blind in order for him to see Jesus as the true Light/Word.

 

[Watchman22]

Brother, your whole framework misreads Jesus’ purpose in Mark 4 by turning the parable of the sower into a fatalistic sorting mechanism where God intends some people to be permanently unable to understand, and even worse, where people who do understand are still in danger of “not making it” because they’re in the “wrong group.”
But Jesus’ own explanation contradicts that entire system.
He quotes Isaiah 6:9–10 to show that parables function as judicial hardening on those who have already rejected Him — not as a divine refusal to let willing hearers understand.
The disciples understand because they come to Him (Mark 4:10–11); “those outside” don’t understand because they won’t come (John 5:40).
And the “two layers” idea is invented —
Jesus gives four soils, not two layers of insiders.
The only “terrible” group is the one that refuses the Word;
the good soil is simply the heart that receives and bears fruit (Mark 4:20).
Nothing in the passage teaches that someone who “sees and perceives” is still doomed;
Jesus says the opposite — those who hear and receive bear fruit thirty‑, sixty‑, and a hundredfold.
The danger isn’t being in the “wrong insider group”; the danger is hardness, which Scripture says comes from sin’s deceitfulness (Hebrews 3:13), not from God arbitrarily blocking understanding.
Parables reveal truth to those who come to Christ and expose hardness in those who refuse;
the issue is the heart’s response, not a secret hierarchy of “insider layers.”

So you reject what Jesus said in the parable of the sower.

Then according to Jesus, you won't understand anything He teaches.

 

[OMC]

So you reject what Jesus said in the parable of the sower.

Then according to Jesus, you won't understand anything He teaches.

You’re trying to flip Jesus’ warning in Mark 4:13 into a threat against me, but the text itself defines the category: failure to understand comes from hardness, not from rejecting Jesus’ own interpretation. Nice try.

 

[Watchman22]

This is another example of how proof-texting can cause confusion. In order to develop a doctrine regarding the parables of Jesus, one must conduct a systematic study of every parable recorded in the gospel of Mathew in order to learn their meaning and purpose.

The first parable is The Parable of the Seeds in Matt. 13:1-23. In this parable a farmer sowed seed on four types of soil: a path, rocky ground, thorny ground, and fertile soil–with appropriate results. Discerning the meaning involved understanding the metaphors that were used, most of which were explained by Jesus in v.18-23: seed = GW re the KOH, understands = believes, healed = saved, ears = normal adult souls, hear = be good seed. The apparent meaning of the parable per v. 9 is thus, “Let all accountable souls be allowed to hear and be saved.”

However, this meaning is made problematic by what Jesus told his disciples between relating the parable and then explaining its meaning (v.10-11) regarding his purpose of speaking in parables: “The knowledge of the secrets of the KOH has been given to you (disciples), but not to them (the rest of the people).” Jesus said (in v.14-15) the people fulfilled Isa. 6:9-10, which says in part, “you will be ever seeing but never perceiving, for this people’s heart has become calloused… Otherwise they might… turn, and I would heal them.” In v.12 Jesus said, “Whoever has will be given more… and whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

A person might interpret what Jesus said regarding the secrets to mean that he wanted them to remain unknown except by his disciples, but a few verses later in Matt. 13:34 it says that Jesus spoke in parables in order to fulfill “what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world”, which implies that he wants to share the secrets with the people.

Thus, unless these statements (Matt. 13:10-17 & 13:34-35) can be harmonized, one must choose between two contradictory interpretations: 1. Jesus purposefully hid knowledge from some while revealing it to others according to His will, or 2. Jesus allowed souls to reject saving knowledge or to accept it and be his disciples. Deciding which understanding to adopt necessitates considering the second parable of Jesus, The Parable of the Weeds in Matt. 13:24-30.

In this parable a man sowed wheat seeds in his field, but his enemy came while folks were sleeping and sowed weeds among the wheat. When it became apparent that the field was contaminated, the owner’s servants asked whether they should pull up the weeds, and he told them to wait until the harvest, at which time the weeds should be burned and the wheat gathered into his barn.

Later in the privacy of a house Jesus explained the meaning of this parable, saying that the good seed was sown by the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed stands for those who belong to the kingdom, the weeds are those who belong to the evil one, the enemy who sowed the bad seed is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. At the end of the age the Son of Man will send angels to weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and everyone who does evil and throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, while the righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father. Jesus concluded by saying, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

The mention of Judgment and the opposite destinies of happiness or hell indicates that Jesus employed parables as a means of pre-sifting souls by showing who would understand/believe or not. Some people opine that God/Jesus causes people to believe or not, but notice that in Matt. 13:10-15 Jesus did NOT say that he prevents people from becoming his disciples or that he causes people’s hearts to be calloused, so let us be careful not to pre-sift ourselves by projecting our own hatred onto the all-loving Christ. Understanding God/Christ to be all-loving is gained by searching the Scriptures for insight rather than implicitly accusing Jesus of hating his enemies, which borders on blasphemy against the loving Holy Spirit. The omnilove of Jesus is indicated by such Scriptures as Matt. 23:37, in which Jesus lamented over Jerusalem’s lack of repentance or rejection of his preaching (cf. Matt. 22:39, John 3:16, Rom. 5:6-8, 1Tim. 2:3-4).

We can see that deciding which understanding of the purpose of parables to adopt involves rejecting or accepting Scriptures teaching that God loves everyone, not only the elect or disciples of Jesus. Thus, the doctrine of parables is related to the doctrine of election. I choose to accept the teachings that God is omnilove or loves everyone and wants all to be saved but allows volition and thereby moral accountability to exist, so that souls may reject the Gospel or parables and put faith in I-dolatry. I note that Jesus explained the Parable of the Seeds in plain language, and that the Parable of the Tenants passage indicated his enemies understood he was being critical of them.

You also reject what Jesus says in the parable of the sower, trying to water it down with other parables.

Well Jesus said if you can't understand the parable of the sower, you won't understand any parable.

My advice is always the same. Check your faith and faithing. Make sure you are in a continually surrendered life to Him. Then this parable will come to you.