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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS It will be well, also, to note the dif ference between the earlier teaching of our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount, where all is simple and plain and with out a parable, and the later teaching in parable form. The rejection of His teaching resulted in the change from vs. 10, 11 to that of our lesson, (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14). Outline CD The Scene. “The field is the world,” v. 38. The rule over the earth was committed to Adam (Gen. 1:26). “And God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness; pnd let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over .ail the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” The sceptre was placed in his hand. Satan, by subtlety, won Adam to him self. Adam believed the devil’s lie in place .of God’s Word and became the subject of Satan, a child of the devil, and the sceptre passed into Satan’s hand. God’s purpose, from that day, is fully recorded in His Word, from Gene sis to Revelation. The redemption of the earth by purchase through the death of His Son, is recorded in our next lesson (v. 44).. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hid- eth, and for joy thereof, goeth and sell- eth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” The earth has been the scene of a terrible conflict between the forces of Satan and of God since that day. . Satan is the prince of this world (John 14: 30). Satan knows his doom. He seeks to make the most of his time. He hates the Son of God, the last Adam, who gained the victory over him in the wil (2) The Two Sowers. (3) The Two Seeds. (4) The Separate Harvests. (5) The Sure Prophecy. (1) THE SCENE.
derness, and into whose hand the scep tre must come. He hates the person of Christ. He hates the sound of the word “blood,” and so he has arrayed all of hjs forces against Christa He is the originator of every false cult in both heathen and civilized countries. In these last days he centers his attack through the cults in civilized countries. He originated Unlversalism, Unitarian- ism,‘ Theosophy, Spiritism, Eddyism, Mormonism, Russellism, Bahaism, New Thought, and the rest of the foul nests where have been hatched the eggs from which have been developed the birds of prey, all of whom hate, with Satanic In the first parable, the seed is the Word of God. In this, the seed is the sons of God (v. 38,). The good seed is produced through the Word (Jas. 1:18). “Of his own will begat he us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.” (1 Pet. 1:23). “Being born again, not of corrupti ble seed, hut of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.” Our Christ is sowing good seed. The Bible is good seed. It is life-giving seed. It produces sons of God (John 1: 12). These sons of God are then planted in the world field to sow the seed of the Word, and themselves by lip and life to be fruit-bearing seed. They are no,t of the world (John 17: 16). “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” The command is, “Go ye into all the world." Every believer is bound by this command to do all he can dd, by ,God’s grace, to give to every man in the world the Gospel. “If ye love Me, keep My Commandments.” Someone sowed the seed by which we became sons of God, and gratitude should impel us to sow the seed in turn. We sow the seed in the open. We hatred, the word “blood.” (2) THE TWO SOWERS.
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