Churches Today are Lost

In the beginning of Matthew 13 there was a multitude of crowd to which
He gave the parable. After the parable His desciples came to Him and
asked (to paraphrase),"How come you're talking to them in parables?"

Note that He spoke to people who are not necessarily the followers. (Sounds
like the churches today, huh?) That is why He spoke to them in parables. Why did
He speak in that manner? Why in a parable manner?

The multitude of people that were there were not all followers of Jesus. His answer to His desciples now makes sense. Most of them---the multitudes---do not and will not understand Jesus anyway.

Verse 16 onward explains the entire parables. The "wayside" people (in the multitude) are ones that do not understand truths anyway. The seed sowed by the wayside is truth that did not strongly embed itself in the hearers' hearts and the bird (the devil), came and removed them from the hearers' hearts (v. 19).

The seed sowed into stony ground is a temporary growth of truth in the heart of stony
listeners (v. 20). They became happy...but only for a while. When time gets rough (v. 21),
they lose it just as growth does not exist well in stony grounds. These types of people are
all around us today. That is a fact.

Seeds in thorny areas will grow, but not fruitfully (v. 22). This is talking about people today who claim to be Christians and believers in God. Yet when time gets rough, they
lose the love given to them by God.

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