The Parable of the Sower E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Seitenzahl: 29

Beschreibung

The Parable of the Sower is one important bible study about the faith in Jesus Christ. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about faith, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon,19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist , defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. It is estimated that in his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people,Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature.

Leseprobe

INTRODUCTION

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER

BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON

“And when a great multitude had gathered, and they had come to Him from every city, He spoke by a

parable: a sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was

trod down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it

was sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns;

and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and

sprang up and bore fruit an hundredfold. And when He had said these things,

He cried, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Luke 8:4-8.

IN our country, when a sower goes forth to his work, he generally enters into an enclosed field and scatters the seed from his basket along every ridge and furrow. But in the East, the corn growing country, hard by a small town, is usually an open area. It is divided into different properties, but there are no visible divisions, except the ancient landmarks, or perhaps ridges of stones. Through these open lands there are footpaths, the most frequented being called the highways. You must not imagine these highways to be like our paved roads.

They are merely paths, trod tolerably hard. Here and there you notice byways, along which travelers who wish to avoid the public road may journey with a little more safety when the main road is infested with robbers hasty travelers also strike out short cuts for themselves and so open fresh tracks for others. When the sower goes forth to sow, he finds a plot of ground scratched over with the primitive Eastern plow; he begins to scatter his seed there, of course, most plentifully, but there runs a path right through the very center of the field, and unless he is willing to leave a broad headland, he must throw a handful on the pathway.

And yonder, a rock crops out in the midst of the plowed land, and the seed falls on that; and there, too, fostered by the negligent farming practices of the East, there is a corner full of the roots of nettles and thistles, and the sower sows his seed there, too; the corn and the nettles come up together, and as we know by the parable, the thorns, being the stronger, spring up and choke the seed, so that it brings forth no fruit unto perfection. Remember that the Bible was written in the East, and that its metaphors and allusions are fully to be explained to us only by Eastern travellers it often helps us to understand a passage far better than if we think of English customs.

Now the preacher of the gospel is like the sower. He does not make his seed it is given him by his divine Master. No man could create the smallest grain that ever grew upon the earth, much less the celestial seed of eternal life! The minister goes to his Master in secret, and asks Him to teach him His gospel, and, thus, he fills his basket with the good seed of the kingdom of God. He then goes forth in his Master’s name and scatters precious truths of God.