TRUE Bring Continuance Crop Ear Fast Forth Fruit Ground Hearing Heart Hold Honest Listened Message Minds Noble Ones Open Patience Patiently Perseverance Persevering Produce Quiet Retain Return Seed Soil Spirit Stands Strength Tightly Upright Yield
8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an {d} honest and good heart, having heard the word, {e} keep [it], and bring forth fruit with patience.
(d) Who seek not only to seem to be such, but are indeed so: so that this word honest refers to the outward life, and the word good refers to the good gifts of the mind.
(e) With much difficulty, for the devil and the flesh fight against the Spirit of God, who is a new guest.
8:15 Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.
8:4-21 There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear; to take heed lest we hear carelessly and slightly, lest we entertain prejudices against the word we hear; and to take heed to our spirits after we have heard the word, lest we lose what we have gained. The gifts we have, will be continued to us or not, as we use them for the glory of God, and the good of our brethren. Nor is it enough not to hold the truth in unrighteousness; we should desire to hold forth the word of life, and to shine, giving light to all around. Great encouragement is given to those who prove themselves faithful hearers of the word, by being doers of the work. Christ owns them as his relations.
Anxieties Crop Ear Earth Fast Fell Forth Fruit Good Ground Hear Heard Heart Hold Honest Means Message Noble Patience Perfection Perseverance Persevering Produce Quiet Retain Seed Stands Strength Thorns Tightly Time Upright True. Way Wealth Word Yield
Anxieties Crop Ear Earth Fast Fell Forth Fruit Good Ground Hear Heard Heart Hold Honest Means Message Noble Patience Perfection Perseverance Persevering Produce Quiet Retain Seed Stands Strength Thorns Tightly Time Upright True. Way Wealth Word Yield
