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Number for begin reading.

Inverse number 30 is we're continuing our study to The Gospel, According to mark.

Mark chapter number 4. And verse 30.

It says then he said Jesus is speaking.

Do, what shall we liken the kingdom of God?

Or with what Parable?

Shall we picture it?

It is like a mustard seed which when it is sown on the ground.

It's smaller than all the Seas on Earth.

But when is, but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs.

And shoots out large branches.

So that the birds of the air made a nest under its shade.

And with many such Parables, he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.

But without a parable, he did not speak to them.

And when they were alone, he explained all things to his disciples.

Let's pray together, Our Father or we are so grateful or for this day that you given us,

To come in as your children.

As your people.

The fellowship one with another.

The sing the songs of praise unto you that remind us of your character remind us of Who You Are. and father, as we are able to listen to your word, I pray that you would feed us.

That you would give us some nourishment.

I pray that the Christian would be encouraged and be strengthened in the faith.

And Lord, I pray for those that are here that are lost.

And never been saved.

Father I pray that today would be the day of salvation.

I pray that the holy spirit of God would do his work and drawing and convicting.

Father, I pray that you would bless this time of preaching.

Lord, fill me with your spirit.

Hide me behind the cross.

We ask all these things at Rice name.

All God's people said, amen, and amen.

Jesus is still teaching in Parables, is a something that he has started in the latter part of chapter 3, as he was speaking to the Pharisees.

He spoke to them in Parables.

And then as we have seen in chapter number 4 as he speaking to the massive crowd, To the public, he started preaching in a different way, he's instead of teaching.

And the normal way that he had started now, he is teaching the public in parables.

And as verses 33 and 34 talas Parables were our Lourdes primary means of teaching his truth from this point on it.

So here in 4:30 Jesus begins this parable Using.

An illustration of the kingdom of God.

He says, what shall we liking or what shall we compare the kingdom of God to Or what, Parable shall we picture it?

He did this for a reason.

You see the disciples, his followers had their own ideas about how the kingdom of God was like now they believe that Christ was the Messiah.

They believed that he was the Christ.

The anointed one who was starting his kingdom here on this Earth.

But Jesus disciples imagined the kingdom of God, like a mighty Mountain, a high mountain, that would soar above the world and sore above the Roman Empire.

Displaying all of its glory and power and Majesty at that very moment.

His disciples.

They imagine the kingdom of God, as a mighty river, that would flow over anything and everything in its path.

And they pictured in their minds.

A picture of the kingdom of God being as a Mighty Oak Tree.

one, that was stand tall and one that would be unmovable And so I am sure that when Jesus likened the kingdom of God to a mustard seed, I'm sure they were very, very surprised and shocked.

It's on Jesus began to speak.

He didn't compare the kingdom of God to a high mountain.

He did not compare the kingdom of God to a mighty River.

He did not compare or like in the kingdom of God to a my oak tree.

Instead, we see that Jesus compare the kingdom of God to a tiny small mustard mustard seed.

we notice that Jesus uses the image of something small, the teacher, something large, so that we can then comprehended, I remember a parable, the word Parable means to cast alongside The cast of alongside something else.

Jesus was casting alongside a physical truth, something that they could identify with in order to teach his disciples a spiritual truths as a parable Someone that's very quickly this morning to look at this Parable and see the lessons that Jesus wants to teach us about the mighty growth of the kingdom of God.

Three threatening through three things.

I want us to notice this morning.

Notice number one, How the kingdom begins.

How does the kingdom begin?

What's important for us to understand that?

When Jesus compare the kingdom of God to a tiny Mustard Seed, Jesus, here he was using a very powerful illustration.

Notice again, verse 30.

It says, then he said to what shall we liken the kingdom of God, or with what Parables, how we picture it, it is like a mustard seed which when it is sown on the ground is smaller than all the seeds on the Earth.

The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds known to man.

It was a smallest seed, certainly in Jesus day, and all the gardens that were planted in Jesus day.

If you had one seed, one mustard, seed on the tip of your finger, it would look just like a little speck.

As a matter of fact, the mustard seed is so small but it takes about 750 of them to make up one single gram.

Think about this, there are 28 grams in 1 oz.

And so it would take some 21,000 mustard seeds to make just one ounce.

So that is a tiny sea.

But here's the thing, it produces, it can produce a very large Plant and I'll say more about that in just a moment.

But Jesus compared the kingdom of God to that little sea.

And truth be known most people in Jesus day.

Believe that nothing would come of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe nothing would come of his ministry.

Because all the people could see was just a tiny see, they could not see a great tree.

All they could see.

And all they knew is that Jesus was born in a little town called Bethlehem.

He was born in poverty, he was laid in a Manger.

All they knew was that he was reared in Galilee and no one believed that a man of God to Come From Galilee.

Remember what they said in John chapter 7, that nothing good can come out of Galilee.

He was raised in Nazareth.

He was raised in Nazareth where they happened and so that city were considered by the Jews to be Wicked.

He had no family connections, he had no money.

He had no support from the religious leaders of the day.

Beloved.

Jesus.

What was considered to be a nobody from nowhere?

Who would amount to nothing?

His followers.

Those few who followed him for the most part, where the dregs of society.

His own people rejected him.

He was despised and rejected by men.

The Romans eventually would arrest him and nail him to a cross and bury him in a borrowed tomb.

Oh, my dear friend.

Listen, this is what the average Jew in Jesus day saw in him.

So there is no question.

There is no question that the kingdom of God was just like, that tiny insignificant Mustard Seed in the very beginning.