Poetry

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JESUS WAS TEACHING BY THE LAKE
THE CROWD AROUND WAS SO LARGE.
A NEW WAY HE DID UNDERTAKE
GET ME A BOAT WAS HIS CHARGE.

PEOPLE STOOD ALONG THE SEASHORE
HE TAUGHT PARABLES TO THEM.
LISTEN HE WOULD THEIR MINDS IMPLORE
AS HE TAUGHT THEM THIS GREAT GEM.

2.
A FARMER WENT OUT TO SOW SEED
SOME OF COURSE FELL ON THE PATH.
BIRDS CAME AND ON IT THEY DID FEED
IT'S CHANCE TO GROW WAS A LAUGH.

SOME SEED FELL ON ROCKY PLACES
WHERE IT DID NOT HAVE MUCH SOIL.
IT SPRANG UP QUICKLY IN CASES
BECAUSE SHALLOW WAS THAT SOIL.

3.
BUT THOSE PLANTS WITHERED IN THE SUN
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE ROOTS.
THEY WERE SCORCHED AND THEIR GROWTH UNDONE
THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE THEIR FRUITS.

OTHER SEED FELL AMONG THE THORNS
WHICH GREW UP AND CHOKED THE PLANTS.
FRUITFULNESS COULD THUS BE BORN
BEARING GRAIN THEY HAD NO CHANCE.

4.
STILL OTHER SEED FELL ON GOOD SOIL
IT CAME UP, PRODUCED A CROP.
THIRTY, SIXTY, AS IT DID TOIL
IT COULD REACH THE HUNDRED, TOP.

JESUS SAID WHO HAS EARS NOW HEAR
THE TWELVE CAME TO HIM ALONE.
ASKING COULD HE MAKE HIMSELF CLEAR
THIS HE TAUGHT TO THOSE HIS OWN.


5.
I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE SECRET
OF THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD.
BUT PARABLES IS ALL THEY GET
OUTSIDERS JUST NEED THIS PROD.

EVER SEEING NOT PERCEIVING
HEARING THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
OTHERWISE THEY'D BE RECEIVING
FORGIVENESS FROM GOD'S OWN HAND.

6.
JESUS SAID DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND
THIS PARABLE I HAVE TAUGHT?
LET ME IT'S MEANING NOW EXPAND
SO YOU GRASP IT AS YOU OUGHT.

SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT PATH SEED
WHEN GOD'S WORD IS SOWN IN THEM.
THEY HEAR BUT SATAN COMES WITH SPEED
AND HE TAKES AWAY GOD'S GEM.

7.
OTHERS ARE LIKE ROCKY PLACES
THEY HEAR AND RECEIVE WITH JOY.
IT LIFE'S TROUBLES SOON REPLACES
THEIR ROOTLESS JOY DOES DESTROY.

OTHERS ARE LIKE SEED AMONG THORNS
WORRIES AND WEALTH CHOKE THE WORD.
WHAT THEY RECEIVE NOW THEY JUST SCORN
JUST AS IF THEY NEVER HEARD.

8.
OTHERS LIKE SEED SOWN IN GOOD SOIL
HEAR THE WORD AND ACCEPT IT.
THEY PRODUCE BY CONSISTENT TOIL
FRUITFULNESS THAT JUST WON'T QUIT.

THIRTY, SIXTY THEY MULTIPLY
EVEN ONE HUNDRED TIMES MORE.
THEY GREAT FRUIT TO MANY SUPPLY
WHO HAD BEEN BARREN BEFORE.



9.
HE SAID DO YOU BRING IN A LAMP
TO PUT IT UNDER A BED?
OR WOULD YOU ON A STAND IT CLAMP
WHERE LIGHT COULD BE SEEN INSTEAD?

WHAT IS HIDDEN MUST BE DISCLOSE
WHAT'S CONCEALED BE BROUGHT OUT.
THOUGH LAMP LIGHT IS MEANT TO EXPOSE
THOSE WHO HEAR WILL HAVE NO DOUBT.

10.
LISTEN CAREFULLY SO YOU HEAR
AS YOU MEASURE SO YOU GET.
YOU'LL GET EVEN MORE SO DON'T FEAR
GIVERS JUST DON'T NEED TO FRET.

WHOEVER HAS WILL BE GIVEN
MORE WILL EVER COME THEIR WAY.
BUT TO WHOM MUCH IS NOT GIVEN
THAT LITTLE'S TAKEN AWAY.

11.
JESUS SAID GOD'S KINGDOM IS LIKE
A MAN SCATTERS SEED AROUND.
HE CAN SLEEP OR GO ON A STRIKE
THAT SEED GROWS AND WILL ABOUND.

NIGHT AND DAY IT KEEPS ON GROWING
THOUGH THE MAN DOES NOT KNOW HOW.
STALK, THEN HEAD, THEN KERNELS SHOWING
RIPE GRAIN MEANS IT'S HARVEST NOW.

12.
AGAIN HE SAID WHAT SHALL WE SAY
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE.
NO SMALLER SEED CAN YOU DISPLAY
MUSTARD SEED HAS NONE ALIKE.

BUT WHEN PLANTED IT GROWS LARGEST
OF ALL OTHER GARDEN PLANTS.
IT'S BIG BRANCHES BECOME THE BEST
SHADE FOR MANY BIRDS IT GRANTS.



13.
WITH PARABLES HE SPOKE THE WORD
AS FAR AS THEY UNDERSTOOD.
HIS PARABLES IS ALL THEY HEARD
FOR HIS OWN, EXPLAINED IT GOOD

THAT EVENING HE SAID LET'S GO
OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE.
THEY LEFT THE CROWD, BEGAN TO ROW
THERE WERE OTHER BOATS BESIDE.

14.
A STORM AROSE PRODUCING WAVES
SO THEY NEARLY SWAMPED THEIR BOAT.
NOW FEAR THESE DISCIPLES ENSLAVES
THEY FEAR THEY CAN'T STAY AFLOAT.

JESUS WAS SLEEPING IN THE STERN
BUT THEY WOKE HIM UP AND SAID.
TEACHER DO YOU HAVE NO CONCERN
THAT WE ALL WILL SOON BE DEAD.

15.
JESUS GOT UP, REBUKED THE WIND
TO THE WAVES HE SAID BE STILL!
THEIR THREAT THE SAVIOUR DID RESCIND
ALL WAS CALM NOW BY HIS WILL.

HE SAID WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID
DO YOU NOT HAVE FAITH IN ME.
BUT THEIR TERROR JUST WOULD NOT FADE
THEY ASKED WHO CAN THIS MAN BE?

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