Sowing the seed of the word.

1 Corinthians 3:6
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

This verse gives us insight into the way that God operates in regards to humans and how indeed he designed the human being to work.  Paul was here rebuking the corinthians on their carnal thoughts in regards to allegiance to particular teachers.  What he wanted them to know was that he planted a seed that was reaped by someone else.

This is an amazing insight because this explains the overwhelming success of the super hero movie genre as of late.  The success of one of these films are almost certain because of the above principle.  Top grossing franchises and films like X-men, Spiderman, Green Lantern, Thor and the like are the end result of a long process.  A seed was sown in the seventies and eighties by Stan Lee when he imagined these characters and drew them in his comic books.  Millions of little kids were fascinated by these characters back them as evident by the success of the comic book sales.  Fast forward two decades and these little children have now grown to adults.  The thing is that most adults DO NOT read comics any longer but they do watch movies.  So beginning with the Spiderman franchise the superhero theme and the seeds that were sown in comic books decades ago were now mature trees with fruit and was now ready for a harvest.  So what was sowed in comics was now reaped in movies.

This principle was initiated by God and no one knows better than him on how to use it.  Consider this:

Romans 14:11
 11 It is written:
 As surely as I live, says the Lord,

every knee will bow before me;

every tongue will confess to God.

And,

Philippians 2:10-11

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

Please note the use of the word EVERY in the above verses.  God is telling us the EVERY human will confess the LORDSHIP of JESUS.  But how can this be?  It will be because of the same principle employed by Stan Lee:

Matthew 24:14
 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

God will sow the seed in the WHOLE world and there will be a harvest eventually.

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