Jesus often spoke in parables which felt like to many that he was talking in some sort of code. Jesus never intended to hide his wisdom or keep spiritual truth from the listeners. Rather, Jesus wanted people to lean into what he was communicating and think through what it meant for their own lives. In today’s sermon Jesus talked about the potential outcome once a seed is placed in the dirt. His disciples couldn’t understand why he chose to speak in parables which seemed to make it more difficult to understand the spiritual truths that he was trying to convey. The parables, Jesus explained, were not meant to hide the truth but to expose it.