Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Billy Dawson, that great natural orator, had a wonderful sermon on the "Sower and the Seed." With every stroke of the hand in imitation of the act of sowing, the speaker would drop some blessed passage of Scripture. The Methodist chapel in one of the midland counties not being big enough, the use of the Particular Baptist Chapel was secured. The minister of the chapel was upon the platform. Dawson gave this "sowing speech," and went along the platform scattering the seed and giving one passage of Scripture after another: "God so loved the world;" "Come unto Me, all ye that labour;" then there came another handful; "If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." "There, it's out," he said, "and you can do what you like." When remonstrated with for this breach of ministerial propriety he said, "I did not think about the chapel, nor the parson! I thought about the seed." (Handbook to Scripture Doctrines.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. |
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