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We take you to the pulpit of the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ back to just talking about some sermon full sermon planning and looking ahead to the year and just thinking about what what in the world do we do, we talk about, you know, what?

What do we what do we spend time on, in this, In This Moment, In This Moment that would bring about Unity, that would bring about growth that would bring about understanding.

That would maybe bring about peace, that would bring about even moments of challenge it.

In a way of teaching, you know, there are so many, I mean, from from start to finish, there are so many different themes that we could look at and that we could study and that we could do, and Work through in scripture together, there those books of the Bible, there's topics.

There's just there's all kinds of things, but in our conversation together, both of us, kind of felt like continuing, just with Jesus was a very important thing, just continuing with Jesus and even know where can we kind of been in this?

He said, why those kind of our idea as we began the year, but the more that we both have been studying Jesus, and talking about Jesus and then teaching and preaching Jesus in Sunday morning.

We just, I just felt compelled to just for a.

Of time this year for the front end of the first half of the year, which is really hard to believe.

Almost halfway over anyway, is to just continue to spend time with Jesus and that's not just a Matthew.

I did.

That's not just a Jonathan idea how I look at it.

And to me the idea originated with Paul.

What does Paul say, he says, I preach what Christ and him.

What?

Crucified.

And I think we can get off on a lot of different things in a lot of different directions and there's a lot of hand and they're still going to be a lot of time to meeting times together that we have time to talk about different things.

But I just don't think that there's anything more important than Jesus.

And so we're going to stay with that four times together for, for several more months, which which, which means we're going to come across a lot of different things.

But today we find ourself in Mark chapter 4, Mark chapter 4 and we're starting read this first section together on the parable of the sower.

It said 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 or sat in it.

I don't know, they were set.

Sat in it out on the lake.

While all the people were along the shore at the water's edge of the things that I think.

It's so amazing that every time Jesus spoke.

What happened?

Crowd gathered.

And that's another reason that I want to just spend time with Jesus because I want people to come in here.

Not Matthew, not Jonathan.

The elders, not the different Bible School teachers.

I just want them to hear.

You know, who Jesus.

That's what we're trying to do.

He taught them many things by Parables and in his teaching.

He said, listen to Farmer went out to sow his seed as he was scattering.

The seed, some fell on the pass in the birds came up and ate it.

Some fell on Rocky places where it did not have much.

So let's bring up quickly because the soil was shallow, but when the sun came up the plants scorched, the plants were scored.

And they withered because they had no rude other seed fell among Thorns which grew up and choked the plants so that they did not bear grain.

Still other seed, fell on good soil.

It came up and grew and produced a crop sum multiplying 30, some 60, some a Hundred times, then Jesus said, whoever whoever has ears to hear, Let Him hear, Let Them hear.

So Jesus starts this, this he gets up in a boat in Jesus.

Does this Jesus?

Is it as much as we talk about?

How great the teachings of Jesus Works.

What we have written with us here.

In this particular, passage is the explanation.

We're going to get to that in a second destination about he was talking about, but Jesus does these type of things.

Jesus is walking along the road and people follow him and they, they come from miles and miles and miles to hear him.

And he turned around, he just goes

But you had your father and mother.

You can't have anything to do with me.

You starting to walks off.

What if you had walked 3 Days To Hear Jesus?

And you finally get there and he stands up in the boat and you're at youth, heard all these great things about Jesus.

You've heard all these great things about all these wonderful things that this new rabbis teaching and all these things and he gets up and he starts talking about planting a garden.

He starts talking about planting a garden.

How many of you?

Just enjoy Garden, talk.

Just enjoy Garden, talk.

How many feet like so I've had this bright idea that I want to plant a garden this year and we've had guard, we had Gardens growing up.

I never had anything to do with the gardens accept eat out of them.

Okay, my favorite part of the garden, just eat out of them.

But, you know, I just kind of, you know, I'm just, I want to do something different this summer.

I want to have a little bit of fun.

I want to, you know, and I may get into it.

You may look at me go.

Matthew Garden is not any fun.

Some people think it is.

I don't know.

I'm just trying to figure out something new to do, you know?

Because I've got so much time so much time, and I've got kids, and they need something to do.

You know, it sounds like a good idea.

Sounds like something that I'm going to let die.

This Summer's, let's go to sound like But so, I've been watching YouTube videos about gardening and I have yet to find one YouTube video about gardening.

That is exciting.

That is exciting, but just gets my blood pumping about planting a garden.

Okay.

So far, the most exciting thing is, I get to use a tiller, could use a power tool and that's it.

That's, that's, that's the most exciting thing so far, you know, but I'm still at Campbell to do this, but imagine you walked all this way to hear Jesus and Jesus spins, 45 seconds.

Talkin about what planning a Garden, and I'm pretty sure some of these people walked away and they go, he said, what I've, I've waited all this time to the hear this and Jesus does that.

But then Then, the good stuff happens.

Okay, then the life-altering moments conversation, happened to things.

That make us think the things that make us search our soul, and then, as we get ready to read the second part of this, as we get ready to read the second part of this, I want you to just take first off.

Do this with me.

Take a deep breath.

A deep breath.

And I want you to open your heart to what he's about to say.

Okay, because we're fixing talk about all these good types of soul.

And what we tend to do is Christian's, is we tend to read this next part and many of you are familiar with this next part.

And we automatically say this, I'm good Soul.

I'm good.

I'm a Christian.

I'm good soul.

But I would venture to say and challenge you with this idea that we may not all be as good as good of soil as we want to think that we are.

And so passages like this, maybe help us re-evaluate and and refocus in a spiritual way back where we need to be.

So let's keep going.