The parable of the sower.
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3) "These are they which are sown among the thorns and hear the Word."
Notice everyone of these are not in the "without group", There in the group that see and perceive, hear and understand.....
They hear it! And the cares of the world, the decietfulness of riches, and the lusts come in....
The simple Greek word is "desire"....
And the desires of other things enter in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful....
4) " The good seed"
These are they that are sown on good ground. They hear the Word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit. Some 30 fold, some 60 fold, and some a 100 fold.
It should be easy to understand that the mystery of the parable of the sower is it being a more defined rewrite of what otherwise is still a prophecy of a prophet.
The parable of the sower isn't the prophecy of a prophet, it's the gateway of understanding all the parables, given by God.
Do I need to show you all the things Jesus said about Himself?
He's either someone who needs to be in a straight jacket, or He is who He says He is....
Being a prophet isn't a qualified understanding.
Nope, John 5:31 makes it perfectly clear "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true "
"...and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me." John 14:24
"I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." Deut 18:18
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. John 12:49-50
Again, your question is answered by John 5:31.
The claims Jesus made about Himself.
1) I saw Lucifer cast down.
2) I was there when the worlds were formed.
3) I am the living bread.
4) All authority under heaven and earth has been given to me.
5) I am the door.
6) I am the light.
7) I am the way.
8) I'm the water of life.
9) By me , if any man enter in, they shall be saved.
10) If you build on what I say, you build on a rock.
11) If you build on anything else, your a dead duck.
12) Im it!
13) There is something wrong with all of you that can only be set right by me.
14) I haven't come to destroy the law, I've come to fulfill it.
15) I am going to ransom the whole world with me.
Does that sound like a prophet?????
Strongs definition of a prophet:
Prophetess (67) "a foreteller".
Your breaking the cardinal rule of interpreting scripture. Don't take an uncertain passage of scripture, and knock down a mountain of scripture we are certain of.
Your taking those passages out of context.
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
John 5:46-6:1
So to answer your question, Yes.
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 2 Peter 1:20
So in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke it is written that after the baptism of Jesus beyond Jordan, he was led out in the wilderness for forty days to be tempted of the devil, where does the Gospel of John represent Jesus was at on the third day after his baptism?
Jesus' point is both simple and profound. The person who persevered in belief is the person whose heart God has prepared to receive his word.
Just as the cultivated soil produced a crop, the cultivated heart believed and endured in belief.
Just as the cultivated soil produced a crop, the cultivated heart believed and endured in belief.
So your comfortable just ignoring everything Jesus claimed about Himself?
That will cost you.
Can you show me a legit prophet anywhere, that made any of the claims Jesus made about Himself?
There's only 2 possibilities. Either he needs to be locked up with a straight jacket, or He is who He said He is. Being a good and wise teacher, or a prophet isn't possible.
Do what you gotta do .
I don't need to toss a coin. He's proven to me He is God.
You crossed paths with the wrong dude!
God wouldn't cross our paths unless He was very interested in you.
You may want to take stock, and ask some questions. Do you want me to start a private conversation with you?
Parable of the soils...
It's all about what the soils do with the seed....not about the sower or the seed itself.
I talk about the correct response to the call all the time.
But for three of the soils, it doesn't matter what they do, they will fail.
What is your correct response?
The soils are what they are. They don't do anything to the seed. Either they can receive the seed and produce a harvest or they cannot. What you find is the nature of the soil determines its success.