What spirital lesson was Jesus trying to convey in the Parable of the Sower? (Matthew 13:1-9)?

Question

What spiritual lesson was Jesus trying to convey in the Parable of the Sower? (Matthew 13:1-9)

I know what the parable means but I'm not sure about the spiritual lesson.

Answer 1

Read verses 19-23.

Answer 2

There are four kinds of people who are denoted by their ability to survive on certain types of ground. This is meant to show the four types of believers and who will survive.

Answer 3

simple do not cast pearls before swine they have no use for pearls

so plant your seeds in fertile ground to those whom you believe can and probably will receive them so they might with the help of God grow into good fruit

Answer 4

It is a simple 'parable' with a simple meaning.

Its reference; spiritually, is to 'Inner Truth.'

With some individuals, a truth could be told but it would mean nothing, with others they will doubt or weaver.

Yet others will hear a truth will recognise it as the truth, and may even be enlightened through that truth.

There is no point in casting words of wisdom upon those who would not understand it, who would mock it, who would ridicule it. Best save it for those who would accept it and learn from it.

Answer 5

Parable of the Sower

THE parable of the sower is found in the gospel accounts of the disciples Matthew, Mark and Luke. Matthew’s history of Jesus Christ introduces it this way: “On that day Jesus, having left the house, was sitting by the sea; and great crowds gathered to him, so that he went aboard a boat and sat down, and all the crowd was standing on the beach. Then he told them many things by illustrations, saying: ‘Look! a sower went out to sow: and as he was sowing, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. Others fell upon the rocky places where they did not have much soil, and at once they sprang up because of not having depth of soil. But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because of not having root they withered. Others, too, fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them. Still others fell upon soil that was right and they began to yield fruit, this one a hundredfold, that one sixty, the other thirty. Let him that has ears listen.’”—Matt. 13:1-9, NW.

2 In Jesus’ home country the sowing season commences in October. About the first of that month Jesus was born in Bethlehem and was baptized thirty years later in the Jordan river. The latter half of October the winter rains begin, but they are not so continuous as to prevent farmers from sowing seed for next year’s crop. The sowing season continues during this rainy period until the end of February. Before the beginning of January the wheat was planted, and after the first of January the barley was planted. But the barley ripened first, by passovertime. The wheat was harvested after the feast of weeks, or Pentecost, some fifty days later. The sower of those days held the basketful of seed with his left hand. With his right he scattered the seed, “drawing it out” or scattering it along the furrows of his plowed land. (Ps. 126:5, 6; Amos 9:13, margin) The illustration of the sower was given by Jesus, not to illustrate the general Christian harvest at the world’s “time of the end”, but the fruitfulness of his faithful followers and the unfruitfulness of others who come in touch with the Kingdom news during the so-called “Christian era”. The fruitful class gains life in the new world; the unfruitful class fails to do so. Why, we shall see.

3 The fulfillment of the parable had its beginning with Jesus Christ, who earned the title “the Son of man”. As stated in his explanation of another parable, “the sower of the right kind of seed is the Son of man.” (Matt. 13:37, NW) He is the one to whom the great Cultivator, Jehovah God, entrusts the seed to be sown. The seed is a message: “the sower sows the word.” It is no message of human origin, but is one of heavenly origin and which men on earth were inspired to give. “The seed is the word of God.” (Mark 4:14, 15 and Luke 8:11, NW) It is particularly the message of God’s kingdom exercised through Christ. This message shows the opportunity for his followers to gain a place in the Kingdom with him by their complete faithfulness to God. This is indicated by Jesus’ expression, “Where anyone hears the word of the kingdom.”—Matt. 13:19, NW.

4 It is true that John the Baptist proclaimed, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near,” but his proclamation did not reveal the sacred secret that the followers of God’s anointed King would have the opportunity to enter into the kingdom of the heavens with him to rule as kings. Jesus, and not John the Baptist, was the one who uncovered the secret: “Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . . Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3, 5, NW) So Jesus is primarily the sower, and God gave him the seed of the Word of the Kingdom to sow. But Jesus takes his faithful followers into the sowing work with him, and through him they receive the Word of the Kingdom to scatter. That is why the apostle says to them: “Now he that abundantly supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating will supply and multiply the seed for you to sow and will increase the products of your righteousness.” (2 Cor. 9:10, NW) Since A.D. 1914, the year when the “appointed times of the nations” ended, the seed has been the message of God’s kingdom as born or set up.

5 Jesus’ illustration of the four kinds of soils shows the four general kinds of persons who receive the seed of the Word or who come in touch with the Kingdom message. This seed is sown in their hearts or minds. Those who receive it and make faithful use of it in the proper way come under special cultivation by Jehovah God. No matter what man or men have to do with sowing the seed and watering it in the hearts of the receivers, these receivers do not become sectarians or followers of human religious leaders. No; they belong to God as his property, for he supplied the seed of the Word and it is his Word that they accepted. To such ones with whom the Word of the Kingdom was sown the apostle wrote