2.6.10 2.3.2019 Mark 4.1-20 Dirt
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Getting our Hands Dirty
Getting our Hands Dirty
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Entice: Last week we mentioned Jesus teaching. And how each of us in our own way and according to our context and gifts is responsible for teaching those around us.
▾ Entice: Last week we mentioned Jesus teaching. And how each of us in our own way and according to our context and gifts is
responsible for teaching those around us.
responsible for teaching those around us.
responsible for teaching those around us.
The key is being…
The key is being…
The key is being…
▾ The key=being…
• Available
• Available
• Available
Available
• Approachable.
• Approachable.
Approachable.
• Approachable.
• Authoritative
• Authoritative
• Authoritative
Authoritative
• The Risk=getting too big for our britches-individually and collectively! Today's text ought to remind us of our place, it should
The Risk is getting too big for our britches-individually and collectively! Today's text ought to keep us in our place, it should remind us where we came from.
remind us where we came from.
Engage: Jesus took the grandest subject of all (the Kingdom of God) and made it understandable, relatable, and transferable. In today’s text He takes us back to mankind’s "Genesis."
▾ Engage: Jesus took the grandest subject of all (the Kingdom of God) and made it understandable, relatable, and transferable. In
this text He takes us back to humanities very "Genesis."
7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Maybe a dirty mouth, a dirty mind, a dirty disposition are neither bad nor good. It's our physical created nature.
Maybe a dirty mouth, a dirty mind, a dirty disposition are neither bad nor good. It's our physical created nature.
Maybe a dirty mouth, a dirty mind, a dirty disposition are neither bad nor good. It's our physical created nature.
created nature. We are animated dirt.
We are animated dirt.
We are animated dirt.
▾ Expand: This well-known parable should be read with this fact in mind. Jesus….
Expand: This well-known parable should be read with this fact, our “dirtiness” (if you will) in mind.
This well-known parable should be read with this fact, our “dirtiness” (if you will) in mind.
Jesus…. Describes a Familiar Scene.
Jesus…. Describes a Familiar Scene.
▾ Describes a Familiar Scene.
1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
2 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.
6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
9 And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Jesus Shares a Fretful Secret.
Jesus Shares a Fatal Secret.
Jesus Shares a Fatal Secret.
▾ Shares a Fretful Secret.
10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,
12 so that “ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ”
Jesus…Tells a Focused Story.
Jesus…Tells a Focused Story.
• Jesus…
13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
• Tells a Focused Story. 13-20
Excite: What is the point to the story? Our response to the truth of the Gospel, is like the response of dirt to seed.
• Excite: The point to the story: Our response to the truth of the Gospel, is like the response of dirt to seed. Is the soil of your heart
Is the soil of your heart
Is the soil of your heart
read for the seed of the Word?
ready for the seed of the Word?
ready for the seed of the Word?
• Explore: Jesus wants our faith to bear fruit.
Explore:
Jesus wants us faithful & fruitful.
Jesus wants us faithful & fruitful.
• Explain: Jesus draws some conclusions and offers us some pretty clear choices…
Explain: Jesus draws some conclusions and provides productive responses…
▾ Body of Sermon:
▾ Execution.
14 The Word of God is powerful.
14 The Word of God is powerful.
Accept it.
Accept it.
• 14 The Word of God is powerful. Accept it.
15 Compacted dirt is vulnerable.
15 Compacted dirt is vulnerable.
Soften it.
Soften it.
• 15 Compacted dirt is vulnerable. Soften it.
16-17 Rocky dirt is insecure.
16-17 Rocky dirt is insecure.
• 16-17 Rocky dirt is insecure. Clear it.
Clear it.
Clear it.
18-19 Thorny soil is distractible.
18-19 Thorny soil is distractible.
• 18-19 Thorny soil is distractible. Weed it.
Weed it.
Weed it.
20 Good soil is fruitful.
20 Good soil is fruitful.
▾ 20 Good soil is fruitful. Harvest it.
Harvest it.
Harvest it.
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Getting Down and Dirty
• 3 Bad dirts. Three harvests. One loving God with an empowering, transforming word.
• He spoke life into Adam, whose name by the way pretty much means "dirt man": And today, if you have prepared the dirt of your heart then you, can have new life, productive life, fruitful life.
• He spoke life into Adam, whose name by the way pretty much means "dirt man": And today, if you have prepared the dirt of your heart then you, can have new life, productive life, fruitful life.
can have new life, productive life, fruitful life.
• Are you willing to get your hand’s dirty?