Christ said the seed is the word of God. The soil is our heart, and the condition of the soil refers to our heart condition. The stony heart condition prevents the word of God from taking root in our hearts (Luke 8:11-13). When the word of God cannot take root in our hearts, we struggle against the word of God emotionally. Christ taught us that the Father will reject us in this condition because he does not know us (Luke 13:27).
If we want the word of God to take root in our hearts, we must remove the stones that we place in our hearts. We place stones in our hearts when we practice iniquity. Iniquity is poor judgment. The tolerance of sin hardens our heart. When we make a resolve that is contrary to the commandments of God, we develop stones in our hearts as a result. We often develop these stones in response to the evil in our environment.
The law was given to make peace. The righteousness in our hearts is reinforced by the peace it provides. This peace can be deferred when we are in an evil environment. When we can’t avoid evil, the law may not appear to coincide with our emotional experience. We have to reach a deeper understanding in our minds to suffer for a deeper understanding in our hearts. We have to trust that peace and righteousness (i.e., freedom) kiss one another when they meet (Psalm 85:10). Righteousness of heart and peace work like a magnet, the closer they are, the stronger they pull together. When the two come together they very hard to separate.
Stones in our heart keep righteousness and peace from coming together. The Father taught us how to preserve our righteousness of heart. The good treasures in our heart must be brought out into our environment. These treasures manifest righteous laws that govern our relationships. The righteousness we provide to our relationships allow us to become physically righteous. The Father knows that the existence of the physically righteous and those who are not will be challenged by envy.
The Father teaches the physically righteous to always consider the righteous in heart. The Father teaches the physically righteous not to allow the hard hearted to fool them into trusting in oppression. The Father said, “The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory (Psalm 64:10)”. The Father said the free shall be satisfied abiding in the law, and shall trust in it, and all who are free in heart shall be inspired.
To be glad means to be satisfied and seek more only to serve. After washing the disciple’s feet, Christ said, Truly, Truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If you know these things, you will be happy. Christ taught his disciples that serving the law will make them righteous, and they shall never trust in oppression placing themselves above the law. Christ his taught his disciples to turn and serve after they have been exalted. He said that it will allow them to be (i.e., satisfied).
To be humble means that we are satisfied with peace. Pride is at the threshold of humility. Contempt enters our hearts at the moment we place a desire above peace. The Father instructs us to trust in the law. The law was given to make peace, peace powers light, and light will leave us with nothing to fear. The physically righteous (i.e., free) who can’t trust in the law must trust in oppression. They choose to trust in the power of man rather than the power of peace.
They cannot be satisfied with peace because they turn to an endless desire to fortify themselves. They believe that law can make peace and power light for them, but it can’t do the same for others. This belief is pride because it’s contempt brought about by the spirit of envy. Christ taught us to turn and serve at this pivotal moment. The Father said the solution to their fear would be the inspiration of the righteous in heart.
The hard-heartedness of the physically righteous undermines the inspiration of the righteous in heart. The opposite of inspiration is depression. Depression is a product of oppression. Those who trust in oppression push down those who are supposed to be free to rise up. Those who trust in oppression block the straight and narrow path provided by the law. Men are forced to make exceptions when the law can’t provide a remedy. These exceptions are the stones in our hearts.
To remain righteous in heart, we must be loyal to what is right above everything else. We undermine our righteousness of heart when we are forced to become perversely interdependent. When we are oppressed, we are forced to form an alliance with those we don’t agree with. We become bound by our loyalty to what we believe is the lesser evil. When stones develop in our hearts, we tolerate leaders who speak with a froward mouth. Their issuing of contempt creates a stronger wedge between the good people on either side. Their issuing of contempt unleashes a spirit of envy. This spirit of perceived opposition instigates conflict that wouldn’t otherwise exist. The conflict created by envy is nothing more than evil in our imaginations.
To remain righteous in heart, we have to perceive life objectively to remain inspired. Contempt and the spirit of envy makes it difficult for us to think of life objectively. It gives a face to our hardship. Our first line of defense is to avoid generalization. When we generalize, we judge people based on the actions of an individual. When we do this, we only increase the power of evil. We are at the highest understanding when we can actually separate the evil from all people (Matthew 5:48). We reach this understanding when we seek out the true source of evil. If we are guided by the evil we experience, stone-by-stone we will develop an exceptional ideology to govern our relationships. The greatest exceptional ideology is the Satanic ideology of the hard hearted. The difference between God and Satan is that Satan believes he knows the hearts of man and God really does. We have to reach a deeper understanding in our minds to suffer for a deeper understanding in our hearts. To avoid the stony heart and the spread of the Satanic ideology, Christ taught us, “keep your salt, and have peace with one another” (Mark 9:50).
