{"content":[{"text":"We are so completely occupied in the affairs of men, that it is no wonder that we \n have so little of God in our lives, when we know and see so little of what God has \n made.","bbox":{"left":0.058814,"top":0.06681,"width":0.872771,"height":0.064093}},{"text":"In a Psalm David could say:","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.152264,"width":0.29417600000000005,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"Psalm 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast \n set thy glory above the heavens.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.194991,"width":0.8596720000000001,"height":0.04272999999999999}},{"text":"Psalm 8:3-4 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and \n the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? \n and the son of man, that thou visitest him?","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.259082,"width":0.8649180000000001,"height":0.06409400000000004}},{"text":"In the 7 parables of Matthew 13 Jesus calls us back to the natural examples of \n nature to show us how natural and spiritual the Kingdom of God works.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.344537,"width":0.8488060000000001,"height":0.04272900000000002}},{"text":"Matthew 13:1-2 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea \n side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went \n into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.408628,"width":0.850859,"height":0.06409300000000001}},{"text":"The Hearing Heart","bbox":{"left":0.401372,"top":0.494082,"width":0.19713399999999998,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"JESUS receives unprecedented popularity, great multitudes come.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.53681,"width":0.722133,"height":0.021365999999999996}},{"text":"GOD speaks and we have the responsibility to listen. \n Had these people used their GOD given hearing? How serious were they?","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.579537,"width":0.784133,"height":0.04272900000000002}},{"text":"Matthew 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a \n sower went forth to sow;","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.643628,"width":0.8715090000000001,"height":0.04272900000000002}},{"text":"A parable is a comparison or a similitude where one thing is compared to another \n … especially whereby spiritual things are better understood.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.707719,"width":0.875172,"height":0.04288100000000006}},{"text":"A parable is literally something laid alongside of another thing to compare it or \n explain it.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.771961,"width":0.846349,"height":0.042729999999999935}},{"text":"In the New Testament a parable is an illustration drawn from natural thing to \n instruct us in spiritual things.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.836052,"width":0.8268030000000001,"height":0.04272900000000002}},{"text":"Those who heard Jesus could see in their memory and imaginations the common \n occurrence of a sower casting seeds to the ground.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.900143,"width":0.869548,"height":0.04272900000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}