The word of God Jesus calls the seed and comparesHis candle on the effects on the human soul, which serves as a source of light in the darkness and penetrates it with its rays. Therefore, a person received the Gospel as a candle, and how can you leave it without using it and gaining benefit from it. This great gift cannot be treated indifferently and indifferently. They need to use, because sin is afraid of light. The devil, the culprit of sin, hides in the dark corners of the soul. People vicious under his influence do not want anyone to look into their souls. The parable of the sower was told by Jesus Christ and described in the Gospel. And it sheds light on many things.
Gospel Parable of the Sower
That day Jesus left the house and sat down by the sea.Immediately around him gathered a lot of people. Then He entered the boat, and all the people remained standing on the shore. He began to teach them with his parables. One of them is the parable of the sower, who went out to sow grain. One part of its grain scattered along the trodden road, and then the birds flew down and ate it up. The other part crumbled on stony terrain, where there was little land, so the seeds soon rose and immediately withered because of a weak root. Another part of the seed fell into a thorn bush, which did not allow the seed to grow and drowned it. Another part of the seeds fell into good soil, which bore multiple fruits (one at thirty, some sixty, one third a hundred times).
Parable about the sower. Interpretation
Its meaning was explained in great detail by the Lord Himself.To His explanation one can add only that the sower is God, the seed is God's word, the field is the whole people of the world, perceiving miraculous gospel words that help to know the true God. These words are the seed of salvation and life thrown into the heart of a person, germinating under favorable conditions and bearing their fruit, consisting in good deeds and a holy life.
The parable of the sower preaching sounds from the mouth of an Orthodox priest. In this way, he teaches and instructs his parishioners to do good deeds.
Seed
The parable of the sower tells us that in ourtime, like many centuries ago, the word of God carries in it living power. It equally pleases, touches, excites, humbles, judges and comforts, thereby affecting the most delicate strings of the human soul.
The Word of God always acts and is sharper than the sword. It is alive and soulful, it is in it that the eternal truth is hidden. But as a seed it does not always germinate and does not always produce a harvest of the same quality.
The soil
As you know, a good harvest gives fertilizedland. The human heart is the soil described in the parable. All its power depends on the spiritual state of man, which affects the germination of the holy seed.
Telling about the fate of the seed, the Lord draws our attention to four kinds of conditions in which it can grow. This implies four types of dispensation of the soul and the human psyche.
Driveway
Describing the first type, we can say that the heartsuch a person is like a road. The seed that falls on it will not be able to break through and strengthen, and therefore the birds will quickly destroy it. This is what the parable of the sower implies, its interpretation has a great instructive meaning for man.
These people include rude natures.animal warehouse, which have an exclusively materialistic worldview. They cynically mock the ideals of truth, kindness, beauty and all that which all of humanity has worshiped for centuries, which has fascinated him for feats and companionship life. The benefit for such people is most important. The parable of the sower says that the womb is their God, and therefore the word of God in them meets the wall of indifference, selfishness and does not penetrate the depths of the heart.
Rocky terrain
The second type of people is quite common.These people strive for love and goodness; every word of God receives fast and lively response in them, but it does not capture them enough to begin to work on themselves and fight against hostile forces.
They will listen and catch fire from the gospelsermons on truth, love, and self-denial. But as a match in a short time will just as quickly go out. Such people will go for the feat, but they are not at all ready for long-term work, and as a result, there is a “stony ground” in their heart on which only grass can grow, just like the little things that they are capable of. Such people are very proud and not ready for self-sacrifice. In the end - treason and apostasy.
Thorns
The gospel parable of the sower very clearly givesideas about our souls, and how they are different. The third type of people can hear the word of God, but it is muffled in them themselves, because they serve both God and mammon. Such a person is in a constant whirl of worldly concerns, he does not struggle with earthly passions and therefore becomes their prisoner. The seed in the thorns will not germinate, so all to no avail.
Kind soil
The fourth type is whole natures with sincere andresponsive heart, their words are not at variance with the case. Listening to the word of God, they will try to fulfill it. But obedience to him cannot be all equally perfect and complete. One can only perform the third part, the other two thirds, and only a small part of people executes it perfectly and completely. Quite a few such people, but how they shine brightly against the dim background of the attitude of modern people towards the Gospel.
According to biblical parables, the parable of the sower, cartoons and even video films were also made. They are very detailed and understandable explain to us the essence of this wise story.
After all, the parable of the sower (sermon) teaches thatwhen the soil is prepared, the processing of the soul itself will facilitate the germination of the seed of the word of God. As the old rules of the ascetics say: “Fill the heart with prayer, use the plow of repentance, tears of contrition, and weed out the grass of bad passions.”
