![]() ![]() You will be inflated, shown as somebody great but like a bubble it will be just air. Seek to excel only in knowledge and you will be puffed up. “Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “we all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.” ![]() And how is substance built up? By knowing God and the Bible, some may say. Substance then is what is important not overblown “growth”. They test our foundation, our roots and whether we have built on the rock or just on sand. Persecution and trials test the real substance we have. What proved their shallowness and unfaithfulness? Persecution and trials. It seemed that what they showed on the outside didn’t correspond to what they were in the inside. When the sun came and the wind blew, when tribulation and persecution arose, they withered away. These hearers of the word of God, received it with joy and it sprang up quickly in them they seemed very promising, growing fast. When tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.” (Matthew 13:20-21). ![]() But since they have no root, they last only a short time. As the Lord explains: “The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.” (Matthew 13:5-6). It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. There we find the seed which “fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. In the second category of the parable of the sower there is something similar. It grows and grows but only on the outside and just a little prick is enough to make it collapse and come down to nearly zero. What comes to my mind with these words is a big bubble with nothing inside other than just air. ![]()
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