The Seed and the Heart – The Parable of the Sower Explained

I am so anxious to talk to you about the heart I’ve decided to back up so far to get there that I’m not going to rush this. I’ve got tonight; I’ve got from now to eternity. I didn’t hear one remark, but I said amen anyway.

I’m just going to start way back in the twilight and keep going on, and then tonight, we’re going to take a look at something in the book of Matthew. Then on Thursday night, we’ll go back to some of the other matters, but tonight, I want to impress you with the progress of what the Lord wants to do in your heart and how important the heart is. My only burden tonight is to show you how important that heart is. You may not learn a thing about it; if you learn it’s important, that’ll be enough.

Genesis 1:11 – Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them on the earth,’ and it was so. And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them after their kind, and God saw that it was good.

Alright, here is seed, and you plant it, and it brings forth after its kind. Did you get that? The seed is in the earth; it comes up, and there’s after its kind. It falls in the soil, and then what comes up is after its kind. If it comes up, it’s after its kind. You plant it, it’ll come up, and what comes up will be after what’s planted. It’ll be like what’s planted. Just consider that. I’m going to repeat it. If the seed is planted, if it’s the proper seed, if it goes in proper soil, if it gets proper treatment, and it comes up, it’ll be just like that seed you just planted. Praise the Lord. The seed is important, isn’t it? The soil is important, isn’t it? The growth is important, isn’t it? Then, when all that’s correct, you’ll have what? After its kind. That’s heavy.

Genesis 1:29 – Now then, God speaks to man. God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding seed, and it shall be food for you.’

Genesis 1:30 – …and I have given every green plant for food, that is to man, and it was so.

In this verse, you not only have the seed being planted and the vegetation coming up after its kind, but now God comes to man and says to man, “I give you the seed, and I give you the fruit that comes up from the seed. So I have given you the vegetation for food to eat. I have given you that which is after its kind for you to feed upon.” Man was given the seed to eat, and from that seed he himself would be established in life. God gave the seed; the seed was planted, and what came up was after its kind, and God gave it to man. God has ordained the seed to be something very important. The seed is very important. The seed goes all the way through Scripture. Are you aware of that? All the way through Scripture is the seed. What is that seed? Jesus Christ.

In Genesis 1, there is fruit yielding after its kind. Then, brothers, according to all that we understand about the Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ became a seed. In Genesis 3:15, Jesus Christ became the seed of what? The seed of the woman. Then in Genesis 12, He became the seed of Abraham. The New Testament repeats and confirms this for us in Galatians 3.

In Galatians 3 and Genesis 12, Jesus Christ starts as the seed of the woman; He becomes the seed of Abraham; and then, in 1 Samuel 7, He becomes the seed of David. That’s not where he stopped. I want to go a little further. In Genesis 3, He’s the seed of the woman; in Genesis 12, He’s the seed of Abraham – in Galatians 3, it’s verified. Then in 1 Samuel 7, He is the seed of David. And that’s not all.

Well, what do you do with a seed? You plant it. What comes up? After its kind. Then what do you do with it after it’s come up? You eat it. I’m going to put in something else before that: you harvest it. After you harvest it, you eat it. Okay? Did you get all that? Gene, that’s so simple. Why don’t you go on something else? Because this is important; really important.

God gave a seed, and that seed had life in it, and where it is properly planted and properly brought out, it will produce after its kind. Then, after it is brought out, brothers and sisters, it is harvested. After it is harvested, it is eaten. After it is eaten, it produces in the eater after its kind, brothers and sisters.