Welcome To The Farm

TRINITY WORSHIP NOTES

WHO IS JESUS?

“Welcome To The Farm”

October 29, 2006

“Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge. [2] He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: [3] ‘Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. [4] As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. [5] Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil.  It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. [6] But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. [7] Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.  [8] Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times.’  [9] Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."                                                                             Mark 4:1-9 (NIV)

LISTENING

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I. THE SOWER SOWS

• On road
• On rocky soil
• On bad soil
• In weeds
• On good soil

II. THE STORY IS TOLD

• You must ______________LISTEN____________________

“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.”               Mark 4:3 (NIV)

Listen/Hear

• ____________13_______________ Times in Mark 4
• Means: ___LISTEN TO FOR UNDERSTANDING_____

·         The meaning is ____________HIDDEN_________________

“And He was saying to them, ‘To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, [12] so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.’”                      Mark 4:11-12 (NASB-U)

III. THE UNDERSTANDING

·         Word is sown _____________GENEROUSLY _____________

“The farmer sows the word.”                                    Mark 4:14 (NIV)

·         People are like _____________SEEDS__________________

“Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.”                                                     Mark 4:15 (NIV)

·         Their lives are thrown on the _______SOIL______________

·         On road

·         On rocky soil

·         On bad soil

·         In weeds

·         On good soil

WHAT KIND OF SOIL IS IN YOUR HEART?