4:26-29 What is Jesus likening the kingdom of God to here?

This is called the parable of the seed sown into the ground.

Jesus told this parable immediately after admonishing believers to heed what they hear, and warning them that rejecting any truth would result in them losing what they already had.

Jesus used this parable to illustrate the truth that as surely as seed sown in good soil will germinate and grow to produce fruit of itself for harvest in due course naturally, outside of any human agency, so the manifestation of the kingdom of God will follow in due course the faithful ministry of God's word.

Once the word is sown in the hearts of men the fruit it produces will be the result of the word itself, not the human agent who sowed it. God's word has the power within itself for its own fulfilment (cp Nu 23:19; Isa 55:10-11; Col 1:1-6; He 4:12-13; 1Pe 1:23-25).

God's word is a reproductive organism that is constantly bearing fruit. But for that to happen it must be preached, and it is incumbent upon every Christian to do this.

That is the Christian calling (cp Col 1:3-6 with Mt 24:14; 28:19-20; Mk 13:10; 16:15; Lk 24:46-48; Ac 1:8; 10:42; Ro 10:14-17).

See also comments on Mt 28:19-20 (A); Ac 1:8; Ro 10:14-17

4:30-32 See comments on

Mt 13:31-32.

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