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the dust of your feet.”

Christians can inadvertently denigrate

God’s Word by trying to force it on seared

consciences and reprobate minds (Matthew

7:6). In the parable of the sower and the

seed in Matthew chapter 13, the “good

ground” in verse 8 is a receptive soul who

will listen to or read God’s Word, repent and

believe the gospel (Mark 1:15), and

subsequently produce spiritual fruit, “some

an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some

thirtyfold.” God knows where the “good

ground” is, just as Jesus knew where the fish

were in John 21:6, and God will arrange all

the necessary circumstances for a receptive

heart to understand and believe the gospel

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