Ezekiel 12:1-28, NIV
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Living among rebellious people..have eyes to see but do not see…ears to hear but do not hear..vs 2. Thought: selective seeing and hearing..rebellious people.
..will go to exile as captives……disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries..spare a few from the sword, famine and plague vs 11-16…. will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair…vs 19…..there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations among the people of Israel..
Mark 4:1-29, NIV
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Loc: Sea of Galilee; also called Lake Tiberias
..attracts a very big crowd..crowd gathered around him was so large…taught them many things by parables…farmer sowing the seeds:..
1) ..fell along the path..represents Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
2)…fell on rocky places..not much soil..sun came up..scorched and withered..no root. Represents hear the word with joy…no root..lasts only a short time..
3)..fell on thorns…Represents hear the word: but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth anf the desires for other things..choke the word..making it unfruitful vs 19
4..)..fell on good soil…cane up, grew and produced a crop..multiplying thirty, sixty or even a hundred times…Represents hear yhe word, accept it, and produce ..
Which type of seed are you? Can this also refers to different types of Christians today.
Observation and thought: interesting my late Dad loved to tell us in parables.
1 Timothy 5:1-24, NIV
Paul gave instructions on rebuke..exhort..an older man..Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity vs 2…widows..in need vs 3-16; conduct of elders…muzzle the ox while it is treading out the corn.vs 18 (Deuter 25:4)..the worker deserves his wages..accusation against an elder..witnesses vs 17-21