The Dirt Don't Care!
The David Alliance
Garth Heckman
TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com
In the Parable of the Sower (Luke 8) and the lesser-known Parable of the Growing Seed (Mark 4:26-29), Jesus uses sporos.
The Sermon Point: The power is in the seed, not the dirt.
The Greek Nuance: In Mark 4:28, Jesus says the earth produces crops "by itself". The Greek word used there is automati, from which we get our word automatic.
Application: The farmer’s job is simply to plant and get out of the way. We often exhaust ourselves trying to "produce" spiritual growth, but spiritual transformation is an automatic, organic result of…
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