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Seeds of Truth

  - January 2008
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Seeds of Truth

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The Old Testament

Exodus 19:8
All that the Lord has spoken we will do.
Deuteronomy 8:3
Man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Isaiah 55:10-11
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth.
Psalm 119:50
Your word has given me life.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

The New Testament

Matthew 13:3-9
Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Mark 4:26-29
"The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
John 3:27

"A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven."

 

John 15:5
"He who abides in Me and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."
Luke 11:28
"Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it."

The Heavenly Doctrines

Arcana Coelestia 6516:3

When the Word is read, the Lord comes in and teaches.

Arcana Coelestia 29:2 The Lord is He who sows, the "seed" is His Word, and the "earth" is a person.
see De Verbo 2
The life that flows in from the Lord through the Word is the light of truth into our minds and the love of good into our will.
Arcana Coelestia 9382:3

When a person possessing a heavenly love reads it, the Word links him to heaven and through heaven to the Lord.