Lesson 2 · October 12, 1901

Parable of the Sower

Lesson Scriptures.—; Luke 8:⟦?⟧

Aid.—.

1.When Jesus gave the parable of the sower, what were the surroundings? .
2.What did He say? .
3.Was a sower in sight when He said this? What is the meaning of the word "behold"? In the application of the parable, who is the sower? . What does He sow? What kind of seed? What is the seed? .
4.What causes growth?—Life. Who quickens, or gives life to, all things? .
5.Is that past merely, or present also? By whose life does the Creator make things live and grow?
6.If there were another source of life than God Himself, what would be necessary?—Another god besides the Lord. What, then, is the life of every seed and plant and tree?
7.What is a "fountain"? With whom is the "fountain of life"? .
8.By what means are people created? .
9.How are they kept alive? .
10.What relation is there between God's Word and His life? .
11.Then, since all things are now caused to be, and made to grow, by the "life" of God, does that mean by the "word" of God?
12.How are men born again? ; . Ans. Born again by the "word"; born by the "Spirit." "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." .
13.Are written signs and characters the real word of God? .
14.Since it is the same life in what we call "natural" things as that which is found in spiritual things, what ought we to see in all natural objects?
15.In the parable what did the sower sow?

Notes

They expected the Messiah to prove His claims by mighty deeds of conquest, to establish His empire on the ruins of earthly kingdoms. This expectation Christ answered in the parable of the sower. Not by force of arms, not by violent interpositions, was the kingdom of God to prevail, but by the implanting of a new principle in the hearts of men.

The word of God is the seed. Every seed has, in itself, a germinating principle. In it the life of the plant is enfolded. So there is life in God's word. . . . In every command and in every promise of the word of God is the power, the very life of God, by which the command may be fulfilled and the promise realized. He who, by faith, ⟦received?⟧ the word, is receiving the very life and character of God.

But the teacher of sacred truth can impart only that which he himself knows by experience. "The sower sowed his seed."

Bible texts in this lesson

Matthew 13:1-9 · Matthew 13:1 · Matthew 13:2 · Matthew 13:3 · Matthew 13:37 · Luke 8:11 · 1 Timothy 6:13 · Psalms 36:7-9 · Job 33:4 · Acts 17:25 · John 6:63 · 1 Peter 1:23 · John 3:6 · Hebrews 4:12

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