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Mark chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Mark chapter 4, let's pray. Our Father who's in heaven, we
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  love you. Jesus, we love you so much.
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  Lord, I decrease as you increase.
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  Holy Spirit, you teach us today. Holy Spirit, you be the guide
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  today. Holy Spirit, you come have your
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  way today. We love you.
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  Jesus, we love you so much. Teach us your eternal truths and
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  increase our obedience. Father, increase the love that
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  we have for you. God help, help us to love our
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  neighbor as ourselves. We love you, Jesus, we love
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  everything about you and to send your holy and precious name that
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  we pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And he began again to teach by the seaside, and there was
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  gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered
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  into a ship and sat in the sea. And the whole multitude was by
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  the sea on the land. So we know that Jesus here he
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  was using a boat as a backdrop. We know that this was
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  unprecedented in the land. They would teach in the
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  synagogues or in the temple. And here Jesus, He flips the
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  script and he has a way about him that is fresh and new.
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  And if we'll keep following after the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  you're going to see that he leads you in heavenly places.
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  He leads you in paths that are uncharted, and it's a great
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  adventure when we follow after the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Verse 2 And he taught them many things by parables and said unto
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  them in his doctrine, Jesus Christ, He is the word Jesus
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  Christ. He gets to call the shots.
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  Jesus Christ is the one who commands everything all around
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  us. He is omnipotent and omniscient
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  and omnipresent. He's everywhere.
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  He's all powerful and all knowing.
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  And here he is encapsulated all man and all God.
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  And he's going to open his mouth.
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  And the same mouth that created you and me.
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  The same mouth that created the mountains and the oceans and the
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  galaxies above our heads and the microscopic organisms beneath
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  our feet. Here he is.
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  He's going to open his mouth and he's going to reveal to us
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  eternal truths. And we would do well to lock in
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  and pay attention. Friends.
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  Three, listen. Behold, there went out a sower
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  to sow 4 And it came to pass. As he sowed, some fell by the
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  wayside, and the birds of the air came and devoured it up.
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  So we know that he's going to start talking about these four
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  different soils that the seed falls upon.
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  And we're going to see that these birds are actually Satan
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  and the seed is the word of God and it's going out.
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  And every time that this doctrine goes out and people are
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  listening to it, as soon as they get done listening to it, here
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  comes Satan, and he snatches it out of their minds and their
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  hearts. They're trying to digest it,
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  they're trying to discern it, but without the Holy Spirit,
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  they will not be able to understand it.
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  Friends 5 And some fell on Stony ground where it had not much
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  earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of
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  earth. 6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because
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  it had no root, it withered away.
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  We know that these are some great enemies of us, the Satan.
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  And then here's the flesh. And then we're going to see that
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  the world and the cares of the world next.
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  But what you need to know about this seed here is these people
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  receive it and they receive it quickly and they are so excited
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  about it. But as soon as persecution
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  comes, as soon as hard times come, as soon as they are
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  offended by Jesus because they prayed the paint off the wall,
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  and nothing happened, they fall away, friends, and you see it
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  every day. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up
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  and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 And other fell on good
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  ground, and it did yield fruit, sprang up and increased, and
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  brought forth 30 and 60, and some 109.
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  And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
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  And he says the same thing today, friends, He's telling
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  you, he's telling me, if you have ears to hear, if you can
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  discern these things, bless it, are you?
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  Listen up, friends. There are so many people that
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  you're going to meet today. And as the word goes out, as the
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  seed gets scattered, it's going to fall.
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  And you can see that three of these, this is the wide Rd. that
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  leads to destruction. And there's only 1/4 of them.
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  This is the narrow straight path.
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  This is the narrow gate. And you can see that only 1/4 of
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  them receive it. But you can see out of that
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  quarter that every single one of them produces fruit.
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  And that is the indicator that is, is the marker.
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  Friends, look at the fruit, you know, even the tree that
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  produces no fruit, not just the bad fruit, but even the tree
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  that produces no fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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  10 And when he was alone, they they that were about him with
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  the 12 asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, unto
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  you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God,
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  but unto them that are without all these things are done in
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  parables. So here what you need to know
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  about the word of God and what you need to know about these
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  parables is you don't get to come to the parables and judge
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  them, that parables judge you. And so Jesus here, he's bringing
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  you to the door. He's bringing you all the way to
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  the entrance, but you have to make the decision if you want to
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  enter in. And these parables were meant to
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  be shrouded to those who did not care to enter in, but for those
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  who actually felt the prompting and the calling.
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  And they decided to lock in and pay attention, which is if you
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  have ears to hear, then you need to.
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  And so once they entered in and they started to listen to the
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  parable, what it would do is it would produce a mirror and they
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  would see themselves as one of these.
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  And then they would have to make a decision, friends.
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  And that's what the parables were meant to do. 14, 12 That
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  seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may
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  hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be
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  converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
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  So Jesus here he was saving the people from a higher level of
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  accountability that if they were to lock in and to listen, and if
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  he was to make it plain for them, there would be a massive
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  amount of responsibility to them if they chose not to obey.
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  And it's no different today in our day and our our friends.
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  If the skies were to RIP back today and God Almighty was to be
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  revealed, every knee would bow and every tongue would confess.
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  We are shrouded and clouded and we are.
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  We are trying to believe that life just goes on and on and
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  that we evolved from some kind of cell and that there's all of
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  these wild ideas out there. But the reality is that all God
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  has to do is reveal himself and every man, woman, child, beast,
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  every living thing that teams in the water or above us would all
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  shout out His praises because He is real and He is watching.
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  And the only reason that we even think that we have free will,
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  the only reason that we even think that we can make all of
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  our own decisions and go our own way is because God Almighty is
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  allowing us to have that free will.
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  God Almighty is allowing us to send ourselves to hell and that
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  is what you need to know here is that all he has to do is reveal
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  himself. And for the moralistic mind, you
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  would say, well, that is insanity, that why wouldn't God
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  just reveal himself And it is because he does not desire false
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  allegiance. Friends, God gets the most
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  amount of glory whenever we choose Him, when we choose to
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  love Him, when we choose to follow Him, when we choose to
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  obey Him. He could make us at any moment,
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  at any point, at in any day, in any time frame.
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  He could make us obedient. He could make us follow Him.
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  He could make us see Jesus Christ as the Son of God, but He
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  has given us every tool and every resource.
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  He has given us the Holy Spirit to draw us unto Himself, and we
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  would do well to lock in and to give Him full obedience.
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  We would do well to love Him to the utmost, Love Him above our
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  own lives, love Him above every pleasure, love Him above every
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  single thing that tries to distract us.
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  And that is what brings Him the most amount of glory is when
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  we're sold out to the King of Kings friends. 13 And he said
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  unto them, no, you not this parable.
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  Then how then will you know all parables?
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  So this is like a entry level parable.
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  It's going to explain so many of the other parables.
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  And Jesus here, he's talking to his disciples, and he's saying,
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  do you not even have the discernment to understand this
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  very simple parable about the four soils that the seed falls
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  on? How will you know the other
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  parables? But he's so long-suffering with
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  us. 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are they by the
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  wayside where the word is sown. But when they have heard, Satan
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  comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their
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  hearts. 16 And these are they likewise which are sown on Stony
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  ground, who, when they have heard the word, immediately
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  receive it with gladness, 17 and have no root in themselves, and
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  so endure. But for a time afterward, when
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  affliction or persecution arises, for the word sake,
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  immediately they are offended. We need to guard ourselves from
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  that offense. Friends, blessed are you, if you
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  can go through this life and not be offended. 18 And these are
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  they which are sown among thorns, such as hear the word,
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  and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and
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  the lust of other things enters and chokes the Word, and it
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  becomes unfruitful. This is by and large what you're
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  seeing in our day and our hour. Yes, we can see the first one.
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  Yes, we can see the second one. But by and large, the people who
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  claim to be believers, they are stuck in in this perpetual
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  choking out and there is no fruit in their lives because
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  they care so much about money, they care so much about being
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  rich, they care so much about the things of this world and
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  they're being choked out, friends.
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  They're unfruitful. 20 And these are they which are sown on good
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  ground, such as hear the word, receive it.
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  They bring fourth fruit, some 30 fold, some 60 and some 100.
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  Every single one of them bears fruit.
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  Friends, just remember that. 21 And he said unto them, Is a
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  candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed, and not
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  to be set on a Candlestick. Just remember that we are the
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  light of the world. We cannot be hidden friends.
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  We cannot hide our light. We cannot be so mixed up in the
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  world that we do not even have the fruit.
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  We do not even shine our light. 22 For there is nothing hid
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  which shall not be manifested, neither was anything kept
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  secret, but that it should come abroad.
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  Just remember that what is done in the dark will be talked about
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  in the light. What is done in the closet will
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  be talked about from the rooftop.
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  There is nothing hidden to God, friends.
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  Everything will be laid bare and exposed, and God will make sure
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  that that happens. You will be found out.
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  Be sure that your sin will find you out, friends.
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  But he's telling his disciples here that they need to be the
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  light of the world. He's telling them here.
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  And 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear. 24 And he
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  said to them, Take heed what you hear.
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  With what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you, and
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  unto you that here shall more be given.
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  So here's what you need to know is that if you will believe
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  every single syllable inside of this good book from Genesis to
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  Revelation, God is going to be well pleased to continue to pour
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  out his mind and his heart and to give you new doctrine to give
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  you new revelations. But for those who think that
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  they have this book all figured out and they can just button
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  every little thing up, even what they have will be taken from
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  them. Don't forget that, friends, when
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  we think that we have it all figured out, you're going to get
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  confounded. You're going to get perpetually
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  frustrated with this word because you are approaching it
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  from a scholastic approach, as if it's just something that we
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  could learn. And then all of a sudden we're
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  done with it and we try to go around talking about it, but our
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  doctrine is heretical because we are not tapped into the power
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  source. And if we will trust every
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  single word and if we will not call any of it into question,
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  what you will see is that even the things that you do have will
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  continuously grow and they will only become more and more
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  refined as time goes on. That you will see that there is
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  the Mariana Trench that is unsearchable in this Word of
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  God. That it is alive and active, and
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  it is reading you, friend, as you read it, even more shall be
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  given to those who trust in it. 25 For he that has to him shall
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  be given, and he that has not from him shall be taken even
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  that which he has. 26 And he said, so is the Kingdom of God,
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  as if a man should cast seed into the ground, 27 and should
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  sleep and rise night and day, and the seeds should spring and
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  grow up, and he know not how. So we can see here that God puts
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  all of the energy and life into a little seed and we cannot
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  manufacture that. It is a miracle.
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  It's like a baby growing inside of the womb.
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  It is a miracle, friends. This is miraculous.
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  Life only comes from life, friends, and this is God
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  ordained and it is beautiful. And here Jesus is showing them
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  that this farmer goes and sows the seed, but he cannot make it
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  grow. Yes, He can cultivate the
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  environment that he thinks that it's going to grow the best, but
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  he cannot make it grow. Only God can do that. 28 For the
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  earth brings forth fruit of herself, first the blade in the
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  ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit
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  is brought forth, immediately he puts it in the sickle, because
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  the harvest has come. This is such a reference to what
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  is going to happen at the end of days, when God calls in the
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  harvest, and He knows the complete number before he brings
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  about the final coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that we
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  will be with Him forever and ever, and the harvest will come
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  in. 30 And he said, What shall we like in the Kingdom of God,
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  or with what comparison shall we compare it?
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  31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in
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  the earth is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. 32
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  But when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all
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  herbs, and shoots out great branches, so that the fowls of
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  the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
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  And this we know, these fowls of the air.
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  This is what happens whenever you have so many false religions
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  spring up out of Christianity. Jesus here is showing us that we
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  need to be careful. As the Kingdom grows, there are
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  going to be deceivers that come in these false teachers, this
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  false doctrine, these people that try to drag you away.
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  And if you'll study the authentic word of God, you're
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  going to know when the counterfeit comes across.
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  Friends, that is how we safeguard ourselves is by
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  getting in this book and not just popping on some sermon that
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  sounds good and has a catchy little Jingle.
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  And then over time what happens is you're LED away, the ring is
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  put in your nose and you are LED away into captivity.
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  Friends, we need to be like the Bereans and study the Word of
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  God for ourselves. Know the Word of God for
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  ourselves. Make sure we're teaching the
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  Word of God, the authentic, pure Word, Word of God, from Genesis
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  to Revelation, nothing added and nothing subtracted.
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  Friends 33 and with many such parables spoke He the Word unto
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  them, as they were able to hear it, 34.
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  But without a parable spoke He not unto them.
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  And when they were alone, he expounded all things to his
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  disciples. So we know that Jesus was very
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  intentional about speaking to the masses through these
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  parables, because if he made it as plain, all He has to do is
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  say I am, and everyone will fall backwards.
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  He has all that power and we know that He is shrouding all of
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  His glory in this moment and He's speaking to those who will
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  listen, and He knows that only a few will find it. 35 And the
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  same day, when the evening was come, he said unto them, Let us
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  Passover unto the other side. So here Jesus is making them a
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  promise that they're going to make it to the other side.
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  But let's see what happens. 36 And when they had sent away the
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  multitude, they took him, even as he was in the ship, and there
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  were also with him other little ships.
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  So we know that these disciples are crossing over 37 And there
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  arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship so
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  that it was now full. So these waves are in danger of
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  capsizing this boat, and the disciples look around to see
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  what Jesus is going to do. And this was a test of their
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  faith. They had heard all these
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  parables. But it's one thing to hear it,
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  and it's another thing to put it into practice.
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  And that's what we need to understand, friends.
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  We need to know that if we have faith, we can find peace in the
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  midst of the storms, the chaos, and we need to be able to put
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  our faith into practice and hear Jesus leads them out into the
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  middle of the water and he goes and takes a nap because He is
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  perfect peace and He is in the Father's will.
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  And when you are in the Father's will, you can find peace in the
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  middle of a chaos. We need to know that there's so
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  much going on around us, but Jesus offers us peace. 38 And he
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  was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.
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  And they awoke him, and said unto him, Master, do you not
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  care that we perish? 39 And he arose, and he rebuked
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  the wind, and that said to the sea, Peace be still.
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  And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said
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  unto them, Why are you so fearful?
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  How is it that you have no faith?
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  41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, What
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  manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey?
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  We blew through some verses there, friends.
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  But what you need to know here is that they had not yet figured
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  it out. They said, what manner of man is
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  this? They had not said that you are
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  the Christ, the Son of God. They have not yet seen the deity
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  of Him. They're following a rabbi who
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  can perform miracles and perhaps is their Liberator, and Jesus
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  needs them to know that his main mission was to be the savior of
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  the world, and they are his ambassadors.
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  They are the apostles, and they are sent out into the whole
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  world to flip the whole world upside down.
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  What an amazing chapter here. It's one thing to profess to
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  believe in Him, and it's another thing to practice it, friends,
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  to put our faith into practice in the middle of the storm.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you and so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.