Parable of the 4 Soils
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Jesus brings the kingdom
Jesus brings the kingdom
14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Jesus talks to us about who will be a part of the Kingdom of God
Jesus opens up the mystery of the Kingdom of heaven
Jesus opens up the mystery of the Kingdom of heaven
The difference is between those who use their ears and those who don’t
revealed to those on the inside use their ears
Those on the outside the Kingdom dont use their ears 4:9
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
This is the key verse here for us tonight
There will be a challenge to us tonight to open our ears and listen to Jesus afresh again tonight.
The danger is that we think we know what he is going to say.
This parable is going to challenge us to never stop listening to Jesus.
Fullfills Isaiahs prophecy Isa 6:9-10
9 He said, “Go and tell this people:
“ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
People become like their own idols who cannot hear
18 “Hear, you deaf;
look, you blind, and see!
20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;
your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
Jesus uses parables to explain the mystery of the Kingdom of God
Jesus uses parables to explain the mystery of the Kingdom of God
2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:
He teaches the Disicples through Parables while the crowd is there and then when alone with the Disicples he explains the parables
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that,
“ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
Parables are not ment to make the mystry plain
but to make the mystery a mstery
THe disicples ask him?
Others are ment to come and ask him too, if they do they wil understand but they don’t?
Jesus is quoting Isa
9 He said, “Go and tell this people:
“ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
The crowds listenand then went home, But disicples listen and ask why.
They have used their ears.
Why do some open their ears and some close their ears the parable:
The 4 Soils
The 4 Soils
3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
A farm in Jesus’ time
PATH
4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
ROCKY
Mark 4:5–6 (NIV)
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.
Turn the Soil
17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
Shallow People fall away
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
THORNS
7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.
Inspect the fruit
5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
GOOD SOIL
8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
Patch Adams
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
Your Heart Blocks Your Ears
Your Heart Blocks Your Ears