This scripture is frequently touted to illustrate that you must take some seed to sow before you take seed from which to make bread. I submit to you that because Jesus is both the Word of God (the seed) and the Bread of Life (John 6:35), Paul is illustrating to us that Jesus is both our sustenance and our heritage. And the second: 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (Mark 4:27-29) This passage of scripture is used to imply the process of sowing into a particular ministry. Actually, Jesus is illustrating the nature of life and that it is complex to the point it is not understood fully, and that there is a process to the seed sown. I’ve gone through a process, here, of explaining seed. I’d like to take some time to fully uncouple seed from money. There is nowhere in Scripture where seed equates with money. You know what money is? Money is a TOOL. Tools are used to bring about a result.
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