i need clarification first off about this first parable. you claim it is all about the kingdom.
but i come up with this reasoning and it is best explained by Matthew Henry
The seed sown is the word of God, here called
the word of the kingdom (v. 19): the kingdom of heaven, that is the kingdom; the kingdoms of the world, compared with that, are not to be called kingdoms. The gospel comes
from that kingdom, and conducts
to that kingdom; the word of the gospel is the word of the kingdom; it is the word of the King, and where that is,
there is power; it is a law, by which we must be ruled and governed. This word is the seed sown, which seems a dead, dry thing, but all the product is virtually in it. It is
incorruptible seed (
1 Pt. 1:23); it is the gospel that
brings forth fruit in souls,
Col. 1:5, 6.
(2.) The sower that scatters the seed is our Lord Jesus Christ, either by himself, or by his ministers; see v. 37. The people are God’s husbandry, his tillage, so the word is; and ministers are
labourers together with God, 1 Co. 3:9. Preaching to a multitude is sowing the corn; we know not where it must light; only see that it be good, that it be clean, and be sure to give it seed enough. The sowing of the word is the sowing of a people for God’s field, the
corn of his floor, Isa. 21:10.
(3.) The ground in which this seed is sown is the hearts of the children of men, which are differently qualified and disposed, and accordingly the success of the word is different. Note, Man’s heart is like soil, capable of improvement, of bearing good fruit; it is pity it should lie fallow, or be like the field of the slothful,
Prov. 24:30. The soul is the proper place for the word of God to dwell, and work, and rule in; its operation is upon conscience, it is to light that candle of the Lord. Now according as we are, so the word is to us:
Recipitur ad modum recipientis—The reception depends upon the receiver. As it is with the earth; some sort of ground, take ever so much pains with it, and throw ever so good seed into it, yet it brings forth no fruit to any purpose; while the good soil brings forth plentifully: so it is with the hearts of men, whose different characters are here represented by four sorts of ground, of which
three are bad, and but
one good. Note, The number of fruitless hearers is very great, even of those who heard Christ himself.
Who has believed our report? It is a melancholy prospect which this parable gives us of the congregations of those who hear the gospel preached, that scarcely one in four brings forth fruit to perfection. Many are called with the common call, but in few is the eternal choice evidenced by the efficacy of that call, ch. 20:16.
btw i read your parable from luke 19 and agree that it is referring to the Jesus and his future kingdom but that does not mean all the rest of the parables are saying or referring to the same thing. also matt 13:33 you have a point. i will do some research on the matter.
God bless