I would like to share two parables, that you can read in the Gospel of Mathieu chapter 13, which are the good soil and the good seed, these are two parables, that are easy to understand since Jesus gives us their explanations. But I would like to point out: the fact that it is no coincidence that this soil and seed that are the sons of the kingdom are called "good" by Jesus Christ.

 

The good soil and the good seed

I would like to share two parables, that you can read in the Gospel of Mathieu chapter 13, which are the good soil and the good seed, these are two parables, that are easy to understand since Jesus gives us their explanations. But I would like to point out: the fact that it is no coincidence that this soil and seed that are the sons of the kingdom are called "good" by Jesus Christ.

 

 

The good soil

 

Jesus said to them in parables.

In Mat 13 (From verst 3 to 9 and 18 to 23), it’s about the sower, who went out to sow. That seed is, as Jesus said in verst 19 : « the word of the kingdom ». That seed fall everywhere, along the path, on rocky ground, among thorns and in the good soil.

Along the paths : they are them who listen the word but does not understand it, either because they are not ready or because of their heart who has grown dull and their ears wich can barely hear. Jesus said, talking about the seed : « and the birds came and devoured them » (Mat 13/4)

 

On the rocky ground, they hear and receive the word, but they have not roots in themselves, and have not perseverance. And Jesus talking about the seed said : « and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. » (Mat 13/5, 6)

 

Among the thorns they receive the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. They prefer to keep their lives. Jesus said from this seed : « and the thorns grew up and choked them. »(Mat 13/7)

 

Only the seed, the word of kingdom, wich fell down in the « Good soil » bears grains. And Jesus said about this seed : « And produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. »(Mat 13/8)

 

Why Jesus speaks to them in parables ask the disciples ?

Verse 11 : « And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. »

In verse 15 Jesus said to us why was it not given to them.

Jesus anwsered in verse 15 : « For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them »

So they themselves have hardened their ears and closed their eyes, we find the same thing in :

 

John 3 : 18 to 21

« Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed »

 

Jesus tell us, Men remain unbelievers because they love the darkness rather than the light.

One might be sorry to see some people harden their hearts, but God does not want to force anyone, he wants to let people free to choose.
Only people who really want to Follow him and find him follow him and find him (Mat 7/7 and 8).

« Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. »

 

There are many people who say that they are biblicals, of God, believers, lovers of Jesus, born again etc.

But :" love Jesus "without obeying with all his heart to all his word, without to go beyond what is written, (1 cor 4/6) will never give « good soil. »

How many are there who want give up their knowledge, sufficiency, pride, own glory, evil deeds, lies, theft, fornication, etc.(Gal 5/20-21) (Marc 7/22)

 

who really want to give up or lose his life to follow him

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Mat 10/39)

 

Through this first parable in Matthew 13 and its associated comments, we can understand that the good soil is :

those who are willing to lose their lives because of and for Jesus. They do not harden their ears, nor close their eyes they act according to the truth and come to light.

The word of the Kingdom bears fruit in themselves, they are good soil, they are the sons of the Kingdom, the good seed of the second parable of Matthew 13 that I will develop in the rest of the text.

 

The good soil or the good seed which give good fruits, are like the good tree of

Mat 12/33 to 35

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”

 

When I looked at my personal life, I can say that it was not done alone, all of a sudden, it is little by little, Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. says Jesus in Mat 6/34.
And in Mat 13/33

“He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

 

The little leaven for me would have been, my first awareness, as I was going in the opposite direction, I became aware of the reality of this verse of Matthew 6/33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. "
That's what I tried to do, being in the wrong direction. I was far from to be a good seed, I had to wait several more years before I could start walking in the right direction.
In any case, we are for nothing. It is the holy spirit who lights our path little by little and we only have to obey and to walk in the faith in what we receive from God, but God lets every one free and we can to obey or not to him.

 

It is why I say; Do not try to persuade yourself that you are a son of the Kingdom, nor to work to become one by yourself, by your own efforts, you will not be able to, it is only a question of obeying and walking by faith.
as Jesus said in Matthew 19/26: "But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Whoever seeks, finds. (Luke 11/10)
Truly only Jesus sows the good seed.

 

 

The Good seed

The sons of the kingdom of the second parable of (Mat 13 : 24 à 30 et 36 à 43) are the good seed sowed by the Son of the Man in his field, the world.

 

Mat 13/24

“He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,”

And in verst 27:

“And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’”

 

Four times in the same parable and his explanation Jesus talks of good seed

 

 

Is it not wonderful that in the first parable Jesus speaks of the sons of the kingdom as "good soil" and in the second parable as "good seed", as he speaks of the word itself of God like seed, without the adjective good.

 

When a farmer or a gardener sows seed in his field, he obviously selects, according to his means, the best seed of the best variety he can find, in order to obtain the best fruit. This is what Jesus means when he speaks of "good seed".
Could it be thought that the Creator of all the wonderful things that we see on this earth, may have sown in his field, a bad seed, deformed, mixed or impure, obviously no!

 

Mat 13 : 36-39
« Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

 

The Son of man sows in his field, the "good seed", the best that he find, a "good seed", perfect, flawless, pure, irreproachable, holy. This is confirmed by other scriptures that speak of the sons of the kingdom. Here are a few.

 

 

Eph ¼ et 5

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

 

Col 1/21-22

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

 

1 Cor 6/11

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

 

We can write etc. because the liste is not exhaustive.

 

Jesus, the Son of Man, told us us how to enter into the kingdom of God, the only way we have given to be sons of kingdom, the good seed, sowed in this field, the world.

 

John 3/5-8

“Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

 

In this passage quoted above we see that it can only be the action of the Holy Spirit and in the verse 6 Jesus makes the difference between:

That who was born of the flesh. A man born of the first man Adam, he is flesh

And that who was born of the Spirit. A man born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1/12). He is spirit.

 

Sometimes we hear peoples confessing to be born again, pretending that they are regenerated in spirit only, but that their souls would not be regenerated, they would be a little flesh and a little spirit, so they would not be “good seed” full and whole, but a mixed seed, a little wheat, a little weed, there would be weed in them.

This is not the language of the word of God, but the language ot the weeds that would like to pretend to be wheat.

I do not say that all who speak by this way are weeds, far from here, some are, and others seduced, speak the language of the weeds.

Born of God we are whole new (2 Cor 5/17) we live in a body of flesh washed from the sin (1 Cor 6/11)

We put the new wine into the new bottles (Mat 9/17) said Jesus.

The good seed bears good fruits, wheat and the bad seed, the weed, bears bad fruits. Like the good tree bear good fruits and the bad tree, bad fruits.

“So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Mat 7/17 to 19)

 

It is clear that the tares is not the wheat, they are two different plants, as what is born of the flesh is different from that which is born from the Spirit.

Tares like wheat are not mixed seeds, half wheat, half tares. No, wheat is pure wheat, and tares are pure tares, they are alike, they are sown side by side, but they are two different plants. What is born of the flesh is flesh, what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The weed is the man born of the flesh, born in the sin, the body of sin, inherited from the first Adam, The tares want to persuade themselves and persuade others that they are wheat and that they must act like them to be wheat. They can do anything, what they want to look like wheat, but they will never be wheat. As I already said only Jesus is able to sow the good seed.

 

Only those who receives the word and obeys it, who goes through a true repentance and a death to himself, receives the power through Jesus-Christ to become a son of kingdom (Acts 3/19, 20); (John 3/5-8); John 1/12, 13) ;(Roman 6/6)

The wheat is the man born of the Spirit, not of the will of the man, nor the will of the flesh (John 1/12) but only by the grace and the will of God

The “good seed” is all Good.

Every man born of the Spirit is the “good seed” sown by the Son of the Man in the field, the world, they are not of the world, but the Son of the Man, Jesus, choose them from the midst of the world (John 15/19) and regenerated them entirely (Titus 3/5, 6)

1 Peter 1/3

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”

 

He gave them the adoption

Gal 4/4,5

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”

 

This good seed will give at the beginning of the grass, the wheat, which will grow to become an adult plant and will bear fruit, the wheat grains, in reality the good seed bears always good fruit even when it is grass, the wheat remains pur wheat, unmixed, pleasant to the sower.

When you look at the field of the Son of Man, the world, we see that it is not filled with wheat, the wheat, the sons of the kingdom, does not fill the whole space of this world. There is wheat, here or there, sometimes we see ears in number, other times alone, or by two or three, here and there. The field of the Son of the Man is the world, his good seed does not fill the whole world today

 

The tares have been sown by the devil, not in the field, the world, but among the wheat, and we will see that there are two levels of understanding.

“but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.” (Mat 13/25)

Unlike the Son of Man, the devil does not have the power to engender new men, all men have become his adopted children because of sin. The men born of the flesh, heirs of the first Adam, are all under his rule. The world is filled with men under the control of the devil.

 

The tares sown among the wheat.

First level of understanding:
From the following verses and others;

 

Eph 1 : 4- 5

“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,”

 

Psalm 139
Here is an excerpt. verses 15 and 16

“My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

 

God is not in space time and we understand that from the foundation of the world God who knows all things had already sown his "good seed" in his field before the devil came, through the seduction of sin, to sow its tares among the wheat. God always has a lot of time ahead of the devil, which makes us happy. For whatever the situation we are going through, we know that God left nothing to chance. If we are pure wheat and live in faith as it is said in Col 1: 21-23, we know that we will appear in front of Him holy, blameless and above reproach.

Second level of understanding also valid.

We can say that we are all at our birth of the tares. Until our new birth or by the will of God, we become pure wheat.

Rom 3/23

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

 

Today in the world, the devil places men chosen by him among the wheat.
The tares sown among the wheat, will always try to pervert and stifle the wheat all the time.

When wheat is young, it is difficult, if not impossible, to differentiate between tares and wheat.

We begin to see the difference, for wise people, when plants grow and bear fruit, the grains.

 

Mat 13/30

“Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’

Mat 13/41-42

“The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

 

We see clearly that it is the tares that are burned, it is the tares who commit all the scandals and who commits iniquity, sin, and it is the tares that will be burned and cast into the fiery furnace.

We find again the same thing, about those who commit sin in Mat 7/23

“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”

 

Conclusion

 

John the baptist said speaking about Jesus, the Son of the Man: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1/29)

In the old testament God had given his people, the Hebrews, the opportunity to ask forgiveness and to be forgiven of their sins by offering animal sacrifices. These sacrifices that allowed them to be forgiven, did not remove the sin, the body of sin, inherited from the first Adam, which made them slaves of sin thus they continued to sin so that they had to continually offer these sacrifices to be forgiven of their sins (Heb 10/1 à 22)

 

Jesus, came down from the heaven (John 6/33), has come as the lamb of god and by his sacrifice, his death on the cross, he has accomplished once and for all these sacrifices. He has taken away the sin.

Hebrews 10/14

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Heb 10/10

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

By his sacrifice Jesus, the Son of the Man, has therefore received the power to sow the "good seed" in his field. the best seed he is. A good seed in which sin, impurity, or iniquity has been removed.

 

Roman 6/6-7

“We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.”

 

1 John 3/9-10

“Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God,( the wheat)and who are the children of the devil (The weeds): whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.”

 

Those who are today in the kingdom of God, the sons of the kingdom, the wheat (Mat 13/24 to 30 and 36 to 43) have their bodies of sin destroyed, their old nature is crucified with Christ, they are not more slaves of sin (Rom 6/1 to 6)

They crucified the flesh with his passions and desires (Gal 5/24) they have been crucified with Christ (Gal 2/20)

they are no longer sinners (1 John 5/18), the sown wheat is not bad wheat nor damaged wheat.

 

It is possible and even sure, that they are children of God, sons of the kingdom of God, who think they are sinners because of the deceit of deceitful workers, the tares that were sown by the devil among the wheat. These children of God are deceived, they are not sinners. The tares is near them, or surrounds them, but is not into them.

 

Everyone is and will be responsible for himself before God, and must verify for himself what he is taught. Everyone must believe what it is written as it is written and God will enlighten him, it will be revealed to him that he has been sown as a pure and sinless “good seed” in the field and so, walking in faith in that he has received, he may grow in holiness. It’s not because you’ve never lived it that it’s impossible. Is not God great enough to keep his children who believe in his word? (Ps 91 verse 3 to 12)

 

But if he continues to be seduced by the tares, who are the sons of the evil one (Matt 13:38), he will continue to believe that he is a sinner and will never prosper or grow to the extent of perfect stature. of Christ (Eph 4/13) and may even be stifled by tares (Mat 13/7) he may one day be among the people to whom Jesus says: "Depart from me, you who do iniquity. »(Mat 7/23)

 

A child born of God does not need to wait until spiritual adulthood to be holy, without sin, he enters, holy, sanctified, pure and blameless in the kingdom of God, from his (new) birth. He is sown "good seed". He is "wheat" from his new birth, and he will appear holy blameless and above reproach if at least he remains grounded and unshakeable in the faith. (Col 1 / 22-23)

Jesus Christ, the sower, who has fulfilled all on the cross, will come to seek his wheat, a church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, clothed in the fine linen, an image of purity, these are the righteous deeds of the saints and who has already prepared. (Eph 5/27: Apo 19/7 and 8)
There is and there will never be any sinner, no matter how small he is in the kingdom of God. The sinners are the tares, the sons of the evil one, and will be thrown into the fiery furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Mat 13 / 41-42)

 

If we are sons of kingdom, we are “good seed” the good seed is by definition good in every sense of the word.

The good seed like the good tree can only bear good fruit. (Marc 7/17 to 19)

 

Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” (John 11/40)

 

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. (Jean 14/22, 23)

Jacques Goillot