STORY ABOUT THE GOOD SEED AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Matthew 13, Jesus went down to the shore, where an immense crowd soon gathered. He got into a boat and taught from it while the people listened on the beach. He used many illustrations such as this one in his sermon: “A farmer was sowing grain in his fields. As he scattered the seed across the ground, some fell beside a path, and the birds came and ate it.

And some fell on rocky soil where there was little depth of earth; the plants sprang up quickly enough in the shallow soil, but the hot sun soon scorched them and they withered and died, for they had so little root.

Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns choked out the tender blades. But some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as he had planted. If you have ears, listen!” His disciples came and asked him, “Why do you always use these hard-to-understand illustrations?”

Then Jesus explained to them that only they were permitted to understand about the Kingdom of Heaven, and others were not. FRIENDS, THE KINGDOM OF GOD GROWS AS SINNERS COME TO JESUS. Matthew 24:14 Jesus said, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.