Bible

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This Morning I went to the Epistle of Hebrews for my reading, I have made comments on chapter 2 verse 1 a few times in the past....this morning it spoke a little differently, maybe more clear---"Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away." My focus has always been mostly on that last part--"Lest we drift away,", but in my study it is pointed out that the author writes---"THEREFORE"--- SO--- therefore what? I was referred to Mark 4: 3-20 of which I have cut and pasted below, the parable and Jesus explaining. As I went through the parable and the explanation I got to thinking on where do I & other folks fit in.....I think all of us, or at least most of us have heard the Christian versions of life in general----this would be the planting of seeds, as you read the the parable think on life & how it surrounds us today......It also says much concerning "drifting away", we just have to think on it a bit.------I suppose the question is what in here leads folks to drift away?
God Bless.



Mark 4:3-8
New King James Version

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. 5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”


Mark 4:14-20
New King James Version

14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; 17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. 18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, 19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”