Carrot and stick,both work,but if your be donkey which would you choose?
This worlds carrot is eating,drinking,property,and sex/marage.Just look at your TV guides!
God at times used a stick to later give a carrot,as at first the carrotwas rejected.
Here is the world's carrot
Here is God's carrot
and the warning of the stick.
Luke 11:28 ESV
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Proverbs 8:34 ESV
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
James 1:22 ESV
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Jude 1:18 ESV
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV
Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Matthew 24:37-39 ESV
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Proverbs 14:6 ESV
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding
I am but a sower of seed,God is the farmer
The Parable Of The Sower And The Seed (Matthew 13:1-23)
https://bible.org/seriespage/20-parable-sower-and-seed-matthew-131-23
On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea.
2 And great multitudes were gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat down; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed, some
seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
and seeing you will see and not perceive;
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for the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
so that I should heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;
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or assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous
men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
18 Therefore, hear the parable of the sower:
19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful,
23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
