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Originally Posted by bearbear
I like the analogy of the kingdom seed and believe Jesus gave us the parable of the sower to demonstrate the relationship of his free gift of grace and what is required on our behalf for salvation.
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There are two kinds of people in the world and history: believers and unbelievers. This distinction is judged at the Great White Throne. Unbelievers will be lost forever, but believers are saved and can never lose their salvation. Yet believers live in all kinds of conditions: these conditions will be judged at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Most of the contents of the Bible is written to believers, not unbelievers: it mostly addresses the conditions of believers, admonishing them to be faithful and become ready to pass the JSoC, and it also speaks to unbelievers to be saved.
The parable of the sower displays this dyanmic of unbelievers and then the believers with their different conditions. The key to understand is:
life. The seed beside the way never germinates, there is no life, they are not saved, e.g. Pontius Pilate. All the other three cases do germinate: they are saved, they have life.
"He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." 1 Jn. 5.12. But those last three cases address different conditions of believers: 1.) some believers eventually leave the faith, e.g. Demas (still saved, though). 2.) some believers are hindered by all kinds of possible things, they are not healthy, e.g. Ananias and Zaphira, the young widows that turned after Satan. 3.) some believers are healthy and grow and bear much fruit in their life, e.g. Paul.
At the JSoC, the Lord will render to each believer according to their works done after being saved. E.g., those believers that commit fornication or habitually get drunk, or do not forgive others, etc.
and never confess and repent of their sins will render an account at the JSoC. Many will be disqualified from ruling and reigning with Christ in the Kingdom: they will be disciplined to learn the lessons they did not learn during their life. Death will not solve their problems.