Good Seed + Good Soil = Good Fruit

Luke 8:11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.”

One of the very first parables of Jesus that I remember is “The Sower”. It seemed very straight forward in a earthly story that was easy to understand; not to mention that the Lord interprets its deeper means spiritual meanings to us. Quickly, I identified myself as a Sower of God Word, broadcasting the light of this gospel truth because I could see the holy plan and the sacred purpose in this world by the children of God. I read a short devotion that the word of God is pictured by many beautiful symbols in the Scriptures, and perhaps one of the most meaningful is that if the seed, sown in the field of the world by the great Sower, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:16 says, Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.”

The parallel is made that Isaac himself was the “seed” of God’s promise to Abraham, and he was a precursive fulfillment of the ultimate promised “seed, which is Jesus.” Isaac’s sowing of literal seed in the land of the Philistines in Genesis 26:12 is thus a type of Christ’s sowing of spiritual seed throughout the world. As Isaac’s sowing brought forth a hundredfold, so the beautiful parable of the Sower indicates that at least some of the seed “fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit a hundredfold” – Luke 8:8. Although not all seed will come to fruition, it must be broadcast and sown throughout the world. Some of the seed will bear fruit. Isaiah 55:10-11 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the Sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”

1 Peter 1:22-25 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

The first of Christ’s parables is this parable of the seed. The second, complementing the first, indicates that the seed is not only God’s Word, but also God’s children – those regenerated through the Word. Matthew 13:37-38 He answered and said unto them, “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom.” Thus, we also become Sowers of the Word, witnessing to this lost and dying world, fallen in sin and darkness, and bearing good fruit in His name.

In Christ, Brian