Who is the sower and what is the seed?
Quick Answer
The Teaching understands sowing as broadcasting the word of the Kingdom and applies the sower’s action to those who share Scripture.
Key Scriptures
– Matthew 13:1-9 – Yeshua tells of the sower and four soils; the parable is the session’s central text.
– Matthew 13:18-23 – Yeshua explains wayside, rocky, thorny, and good soil and their responses.
– Matthew 28:18-20 – Yeshua’s charge to make disciples and teach them obedience supports the sowing application.
Detailed Biblical Study
Yeshua explicitly identifies what is heard as the word of the Kingdom. The Teaching highlights the purposeful action of sowing and connects it to the commission to make disciples. Readers should distinguish Yeshua’s story from the broader exhortation to every believer to evangelize.
– Matthew 13:1-9 – Yeshua tells of the sower and four soils; the parable is the session’s central text.
– Matthew 13:18-23 – Yeshua explains wayside, rocky, thorny, and good soil and their responses.
– Matthew 28:18-20 – Yeshua’s charge to make disciples and teach them obedience supports the sowing application.
Related Teaching
Parable of the Sower – Revealing The Mysteries
The teacher begins a series on Yeshua’s parables by asking why the Messiah taught the crowds through simple but layered stories. Reading Matthew 13 alongside Psalm 78 and Isaiah’s prophecy, the Teaching argues that spiritual receptivity is central to understanding the mysteries of the Kingdom: the same spoken word can be heard without being perceived or welcomed with an open heart. The speaker urges believers to seek understanding rather than treating spiritual knowledge as passive listening. He then moves to the Parable of the Sower, presenting the sowing of seed as a picture of widespread sharing of Scripture and connecting it to the command to make disciples in Matthew 28. Each soil represents a different response: wayside incomprehension, stony enthusiasm without roots, thorny distraction and the deceitfulness of riches, and good soil that hears, understands, and bears fruit. The discussion links understanding to obedience (Deuteronomy 4; James 1), worldly desires to Genesis 3 and 1 John 2, and lasting fruit to abiding in the true vine (John 15). The closing fellowship considers whether a person’s “soil” can change through maturity, regression, patient encouragement, and continued sowing. The broader purpose is to encourage attentive Bible study, practical obedience, and fruitful disciple-making.