Listen Up!
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Opening:
story
A parable is told of a community of ducks waddling off to duck church one Sunday to hear their duck preacher. After they waddled into the duck sanctuary, the service began and the duck preacher spoke eloquently of how God had given the ducks wings with which to fly.
He pounded the pulpit with his beak and said,
With these wings, there is nowhere we ducks can not go!
There is no God-given task we ducks cannot accomplish!
With these wings we no longer need walk through life.
We can soar high in the sky!
Shouts of Amen!¨ were quacked throughout the duck congregation.
The duck preacher concluded his message by exclaiming,
With our wings we can fly through life!
WE......CAN.....FLY!!!!¨ More ducks quacked out loud AMENS! in response.
Every duck loved the service.
In fact all the ducks that were present commented on what a wonderfully convicting message they had heard from their duck preacher....
and then they left the church and waddled all the way home.
Intro
The Sower
The Sower
Listen!
Jesus Teaching - uses Parables (3)
The Key to All the Parables (4:1–9)
The Secret
The Secret
What?
The secret is given to the apostles (4:10–12)
The word is the seed
Jesus is the word- his word is the message
Uh?
The parable is explained (4:13–20)
The focus isnt on the seed its on the sower
the sower needs to sow and not worry about the seed
God will bring the harvest
The Lamp
The Lamp
I Can’t See!
The lamp (4:21–23)
Jesus is the Lamp
are you going to shine him or shun him
Pay Attention!
The measure we receive and use the truth is the measure in which it will be used on us
The Pharisees used the Law to judge, everyone else, it will be used to judge them too
The measure (4:24–25)
The Kingdom
The Kingdom
Automatically
The sower sows the seed and then its out of his hands
he doesn't event understand the process and how it grows
The seed grows (4:26–29)
Blessing In Disguise
The mustard seed (4:30–32)
just like the mustard seed, the church started small but will grow large harvest
God can do great things with the small
Epilogue (4:33–34)
The Storm
The Storm
Peace! Be Still!
The first miracle (4:35–41)
The other validating miracles are in Mark 5