-34 for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head." God's kingdom is not a meritocracy. Equality, justice, and opportunity are our birthrights. These are aspects of God's kingdom and purposes. We don't have to earn them.