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Openness of the Kingdom
Mark 4:21-34
*21*And He was saying to them, "lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed?
Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
*22*"For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.
*23*"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
*24*And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to.
By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
*25*"For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."
*Parable of the Seed*
*26*And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
*27*and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.
*28*"The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
*29*"But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
*Parable of the Mustard Seed*
*30*And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?
*31*"It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,
*32*yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."
*33*With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;
*34*and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.
*Introduction*
We have been looking at the gospel of Mark and way in the beginning we are told in a nutshell of the Gospel that kingdom of God was near.
But there has not been much explanation until we get to chapter four.
In chapter 4, there are series of likeness images parables about kingdom of God.
There are at least two difficulties with this.
The first is, that although /kingdom/ can refer to the *area* ruled by a king (e.g., "kingdom"); it can also refer to the *power* or *authority* to "rule" as king.
The idea of "kingdom" can make us think of a place -- such as a place we go when we die.
More properly, I think, we should think of /kingdom/ as the ruling power that emanates from God -- perhaps translating the phrase as "God rules" or "God's power."
As such, it is more about our relationship -- being under the "king's" authority, than about a place.
The second difficulty is the complete lack of experience of most of our members of living under an absolute ruler.
Living under the authority and power of a "king" or "lord" or "master" is foreign to most of us.
Whatever the /kingdom/ of God is, it is not a democracy.
Reading through Mark from the beginning, this phrase is uttered by Jesus in 1:15; but it is not said again until 4:11:
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret [or mystery] of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables."
There is a distinction between insides and outsiders.
Because of that you might get the impression that Jesus was trying to hind the meaning or Christianity was a secrete society but as you can see in verse
*21*And He was saying to them, "lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed?
Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
So the kingdom of God is here to reveal.
Through these parables He is trying to give us an understanding about the kingdom of God.
1. Importance of Kingdom
2. Basic organization of Kingdom
3. How we get the power to live according to that principle.
First importance of Kingdom?
If I were to summarize what kingdom of God is like, I would use verse 32
*32*yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."
When Jesus said that his hears knew what he is referring to but we don’t because many of us don’t know the Hebrew text like his hearers.
What Jesus was saying is that he has come to bring the great world tree of the prophet of old.
When you look at the prophets like Daniel and Ezekiel, they refer to this great tree what we call the world tree.
A connector between heaven and earth.
That which connect heaven and earth.
In Daniel 4; vision of a tree in the middle of the earth, its height was enormous visual between heaven and earth.
Its leaves were beautiful and fruitful and under it “the birds of the air and nest under its shade” under it all creature is feed.
Ez.
17 gives you the same vision
Now these are not literal tree but symbolism.
*Explanation of the tree: *
Originally God drew among us.
The world was garden… No death, poverty, no hunger
Because God’s face his presence is like the soil that everything grows and flourish.
BUT human being wanted control, we wanted to our own master.
As a result the presence of God is withdrawn.
As a result we live in a broken world.
When we became alienation from God, our social, physical, everything is broken.
*Illustration*: We are like fish, flopping and gasping in little puddles that are barley enough water to keep us alive but small for our being.
We weren’t built for anything other than God.
Many of us living for ourselves, relationship, and all of it is too small for our soul.
But, the prophet saw a day when God will build a tree
Someday God will connect us to heaven.
That’s why it uses an illustration of a garden, tree where the new tree will come and give us food shelter.
Home for the creature.
But the kingdom of God is reintroduction God’s presence back into this world.
That this world is cleanse of decay death and restored to the garden again.
And Jesus is saying I am bring that…
Now I said earlier that kingdom of God is difficult to grasp for many of us because we lack the experience of living under an absolute ruler.
Living under the authority and power of a "king" or "lord" or "master" is foreign to most of us.
Whatever the /kingdom/ of God is, it is not a democracy
What does it mean that kingdom of God is not democracy?
Well we living in America land of democracy its all about our freedom, pursue of happiness.
You look at the bill of rights its all about us.
But kingdom of God..
1. Means that God’s salvation is not just about you but about the world.
God’s salvation is not mainly making you happy that someday you will go to heaven.
When you get to the end of revelation you don’t see us escaping the world and going to heaven.
You see God coming down and renewing the world.
Purpose God’s salvation is to renew this world.
God’s salvation plan is not just to save soul and that important but to bring justice for the poverty, broken and injustice of the world.
You out to do housing health and education.
Its not just about you but also about the world.
2.
means its not about you but about God.
God is a king.
Why do you enter relationship with a God.
You don’t come to a relationship with a king because he provides all your need (he can)
You don’t come to a relationship with a king because he makes you happy (he can)
You come to a relationship with a king because it is his due.
because you must.
Psalm 100 says “He who made us not for ourselves therefore we are his”
How do you come to a king?
When you come to a king you loose control.
You loose control of your sex life, money, and future.
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