When Jesus taught, He wanted the people to truly see what they were shown and ears that heard and understood truth.
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If growth matters to God, why don't we have more control over it? It's because He doesn't hold us responsible for growth. All He asks us to do is obey Him and the rest will fall into place.
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Jesus taught that the way people learned to understand the parable of the soils would be the template to understand further parables.
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There was a lot of mystery surrounding Jesus. Who He was, the prophesies regarding Him, and the parables He spoke in left many confused, yet wanting to know more. Relating to the parable of the soils, what we hear is the seed, and how we hear determines what that seed does in our spiritual life.
In the parable of the soils, we see that the fate of the seed reveals what kind of soil it was sown in.
