The Wicket Gate

373.769 - 406.222 Derek Thomas

He was never burdened by the sense of his own sin, so he's like the seed in the Lord's parable of the sower in Matthew 13. He that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receives it. Yet has he not rooted himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation and persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended by them."