Listen Up!

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

Listen!

Jesus Teaching - uses Parables (3)

The Key to All the Parables (4:1–9)

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

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

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

Peace! Be Still!

The first miracle (4:35–41)

The other validating miracles are in Mark 5