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[3114.52 --> 3114.66] Right? |
[3114.70 --> 3116.04] And especially about how this, |
[3116.04 --> 3117.36] farmer goes about, |
[3117.72 --> 3118.10] sowing. |
[3118.98 --> 3119.18] Right? |
[3119.24 --> 3120.46] Some of you have heard this parable, |
[3120.56 --> 3121.16] so many times, |
[3121.22 --> 3121.58] that you've been, |
[3121.64 --> 3122.88] been trained to think, |
[3122.96 --> 3124.20] that the farmer just goes out, |
[3124.24 --> 3125.30] and he wantonly, |
[3125.46 --> 3126.72] is flinging seed, |
[3126.96 --> 3128.12] wherever he needs to go, |
[3128.28 --> 3129.74] liberally casting it aside, |
[3129.82 --> 3131.78] without a care for where it may land. |
[3132.06 --> 3132.98] Maybe he's hoping, |
[3133.10 --> 3134.60] just to see what sticks. |
[3135.52 --> 3136.58] And then we ask the question, |
[3136.64 --> 3137.54] is that responsible? |
[3139.02 --> 3140.70] Would a farmer really do that? |
[3141.02 --> 3141.30] And then, |
[3141.54 --> 3143.36] seeing maybe that it's not responsible, |
[3143.54 --> 3144.18] what we end up doing, |
[3144.24 --> 3144.36] right, |
[3144.38 --> 3145.78] is we turn this parable, |
[3145.92 --> 3146.62] into sort of a, |
[3146.62 --> 3148.42] a Christianese moralism, |
[3148.42 --> 3148.96] that says, |
[3149.10 --> 3150.54] just push the gospel out, |
[3150.60 --> 3151.52] wherever you can, |
[3151.80 --> 3152.44] without thought, |
[3152.54 --> 3153.28] or without discipline, |
[3153.42 --> 3154.40] or without discipleship, |
[3154.44 --> 3155.58] and see what sticks. |
[3156.02 --> 3157.84] That part's not my responsibility. |
[3159.34 --> 3160.32] You see what we do, |
[3160.36 --> 3162.44] when we read the parable that way. |
[3163.16 --> 3165.38] We absolve ourselves of responsibility, |
[3165.38 --> 3166.88] for discipleship, |
[3167.20 --> 3167.92] and for discipline, |
[3168.24 --> 3169.00] and for connection. |
[3169.28 --> 3170.10] We just throw it out, |
[3170.16 --> 3170.28] and say, |
[3170.34 --> 3170.52] whatever, |
[3171.42 --> 3172.06] that's on you, |
[3172.48 --> 3172.70] neighbor. |
[3173.26 --> 3173.84] That's on you, |
[3173.94 --> 3175.30] not yet believing friend. |
[3175.38 --> 3175.96] That's on you, |
[3176.36 --> 3176.68] stranger, |
[3176.82 --> 3177.72] on the street corner. |
[3177.72 --> 3179.46] Now, |
[3179.54 --> 3180.28] let me quickly, |
[3180.44 --> 3181.98] give you three things, |
[3182.06 --> 3183.18] in response to that idea, |
[3183.30 --> 3184.22] that reading of the parable, |
[3184.28 --> 3185.08] which is so common. |
[3186.28 --> 3186.64] In fact, |
[3186.70 --> 3187.52] when I was in seminary, |
[3187.56 --> 3188.72] I wrote a sermon on this parable, |
[3188.84 --> 3191.06] and that's the tack I took with it. |
[3191.68 --> 3191.92] But, |
[3192.00 --> 3193.14] let me say this. |
[3193.30 --> 3193.56] First, |
[3194.38 --> 3196.52] the text never actually says, |
[3196.56 --> 3197.76] or really even implies, |
[3197.86 --> 3198.60] that the farmer, |
[3198.60 --> 3200.62] is just flippantly throwing seed, |
[3200.72 --> 3201.96] without regard for where it lands. |
[3203.42 --> 3203.56] Right, |
[3203.56 --> 3204.00] and so, |
[3204.18 --> 3204.76] even though, |
[3204.92 --> 3207.66] the liberality of the act, |
[3207.78 --> 3207.92] right, |
[3207.98 --> 3209.16] the image of the sower, |
[3209.30 --> 3210.58] just throwing it, |
[3210.62 --> 3211.52] wherever it will go, |
[3211.62 --> 3212.50] whatever it may do, |
[3212.78 --> 3214.46] even though that's a good preaching device, |
[3214.62 --> 3214.68] like, |
[3214.94 --> 3215.24] I mean, |
[3215.28 --> 3215.86] that'll preach, |
[3215.96 --> 3216.08] right, |
[3216.10 --> 3217.80] that's a good rhetorical move, |
[3217.90 --> 3219.56] it's not actually clear from the text, |
[3220.04 --> 3220.96] that that's Jesus' point. |
[3222.60 --> 3222.92] Second, |
[3222.92 --> 3225.28] what we know, |
[3225.58 --> 3227.40] from the farming practices, |
[3227.90 --> 3228.86] in Palestine, |
[3229.04 --> 3229.48] and Galilee, |
[3229.56 --> 3231.28] around the time of Jesus, |
[3231.52 --> 3231.88] is that, |
[3232.16 --> 3232.82] a farmer, |
[3232.82 --> 3234.34] would walk the field, |
[3234.52 --> 3235.48] with his seed, |
[3235.88 --> 3236.84] scattering it out, |
[3236.92 --> 3237.60] into rows, |
[3237.76 --> 3238.90] and then another farmer, |
[3238.90 --> 3240.74] would follow closely behind, |
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