Mar 3:9-11 KJV And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should
wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
(10) For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for
to touch him, as many as had plagues. (11) And unclean spirits, when
they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son
of God.
Mar 4:1-2 KJV And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. (2) And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Mar 4:35-36 KJV And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. (36) And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. Mar 5:1-2 KJV And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. (2) And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Luk 11:20 KJV But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Jesus began to teach the people and used parables.
All of this is a grand picture of who effective the Word of God is to people, and a warning as to how those who do not let His Word into their hearts will never PASS OVER into the power of the Kingdom of God. When Jesus healed;led a man with a whithered arm in Mark 3, he was angry at the notions of the Jews there in the synagogue that sabbath day when they wondered if he would break sabbath by healing a man.
Mar 3:5 KJV And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. The HEART is the whole point of this message tonight.
We read he then healed many people and cast out devils, and went to a mountain and chose 12 disciples and gave them power to minister. Then he was accused of casting out devils by the prince of devils.
Notice the words used here. Mar 3:23 KJV And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? Before he spoke what most consider to be the first parable of the sower and the seed, he spoke parables to those who accused him of being possessed. Parables are interesting things. In Mark 4:1 we read he stood in the boat he told them to have waiting for him, and began to teach parables.
Mar 4:10-12 KJV And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. (11) And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: (12) That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Now the first major parable was actually about PARABLES!
But this was a parable about parables!
Such people are never going to pass over into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is basically "where it's at!" in regards to the will of God.
The parables caused the disinterested and uncommitted people to simply not comprehend God's word, but it does something more for those hungry for God. Mar 4:21-25 KJV And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? (22) For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. (23) If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. (24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. (25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. He was trying to tell them that when God's word is given in parables, it is not given that way in order to hide it from everyone.
Parables are not intended to HIDE the truth from believers.
4:11... all these things are done in parables: (12) That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Unbelievers will not get them. (24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. (25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. Notice this.
I want to hear all I can from the Lord, and that is the reason my heart is fully focused on the word of God when it is preached in the church. He gave a few more parables about the kingdom, and then took off in his boat and traveled over the sea of Galilee. This represents those who truly receive God's word being people who take a journey. Now, first base is to receive the word.
This is just like Israel's opportunity to enter into Canaan and set up the KINGDOM!
"Stay where you are! DO not cross this sea! See the storm that you get yourself into when you seek to advance into the Kingdom? Go back and go home!" So says the devil. Mar 4:37-38 KJV And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. (38) And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? Sounds a lot like: Num 14:3 KJV And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? Num 13:33 KJV And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. Mar 4:38-40 KJV And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? (39) And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (40) And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? Notice this: Mar 4:41 KJV And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? They could not believe it when they saw Jesus calm the storm.
But they went on and came to the shore and saw the demon possessed man.. Mar 5:13 KJV And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. Jesus cast over 2000 demons out of the demoniac. That tells us something about the kingdom. Luk 11:20 KJV But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Those who RECEIVE God's word are not just getting serious about a religion.
Take heed how you hear.
This is what God's Word does to you when you seek to receive it with everything you can muster up. Its' getting His word into your hearts. Putting His word into your hearts CAUSES you to continue in the covenant. Heb 8:7-10 KJV For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. (8) For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (9) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (10) For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: If the first covenant had a fault that moved God to make a new one, because the people could not continue in the first, then the new one causes us to be able to continue in it.
Hunger for the word and get your mind off people and things that upset you.
Heb 12:1 KJV Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, THE SIN THAT DOTH SO EASILY BESET US.
Gal 5:7 KJV Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? Consider the deliverance of a man possessed by over 2,000 demons in light of Jesus' words about receiving the Seed of truth into the soil of your heart.
All of this is a grand picture of who effective the Word of God is to people, and a warning as to how those who do not let His Word into their hearts will never PASS OVER into the power of the Kingdom of God. When Jesus healed;led a man with a whithered arm in Mark 3, he was angry at the notions of the Jews there in the synagogue that sabbath day when they wondered if he would break sabbath by healing a man.
Mar 3:5 KJV And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. The HEART is the whole point of this message tonight.
We read he then healed many people and cast out devils, and went to a mountain and chose 12 disciples and gave them power to minister. Then he was accused of casting out devils by the prince of devils.
Notice the words used here. Mar 3:23 KJV And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? Before he spoke what most consider to be the first parable of the sower and the seed, he spoke parables to those who accused him of being possessed. Parables are interesting things. In Mark 4:1 we read he stood in the boat he told them to have waiting for him, and began to teach parables.
Mar 4:10-12 KJV And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. (11) And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: (12) That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Now the first major parable was actually about PARABLES!
But this was a parable about parables!
Such people are never going to pass over into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is basically "where it's at!" in regards to the will of God.
The parables caused the disinterested and uncommitted people to simply not comprehend God's word, but it does something more for those hungry for God. Mar 4:21-25 KJV And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? (22) For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. (23) If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. (24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. (25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. He was trying to tell them that when God's word is given in parables, it is not given that way in order to hide it from everyone.
Parables are not intended to HIDE the truth from believers.
4:11... all these things are done in parables: (12) That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Unbelievers will not get them. (24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. (25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. Notice this.
I want to hear all I can from the Lord, and that is the reason my heart is fully focused on the word of God when it is preached in the church. He gave a few more parables about the kingdom, and then took off in his boat and traveled over the sea of Galilee. This represents those who truly receive God's word being people who take a journey. Now, first base is to receive the word.
This is just like Israel's opportunity to enter into Canaan and set up the KINGDOM!
"Stay where you are! DO not cross this sea! See the storm that you get yourself into when you seek to advance into the Kingdom? Go back and go home!" So says the devil. Mar 4:37-38 KJV And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. (38) And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? Sounds a lot like: Num 14:3 KJV And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? Num 13:33 KJV And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. Mar 4:38-40 KJV And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? (39) And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (40) And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? Notice this: Mar 4:41 KJV And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? They could not believe it when they saw Jesus calm the storm.
But they went on and came to the shore and saw the demon possessed man.. Mar 5:13 KJV And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. Jesus cast over 2000 demons out of the demoniac. That tells us something about the kingdom. Luk 11:20 KJV But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Those who RECEIVE God's word are not just getting serious about a religion.
Take heed how you hear.
This is what God's Word does to you when you seek to receive it with everything you can muster up. Its' getting His word into your hearts. Putting His word into your hearts CAUSES you to continue in the covenant. Heb 8:7-10 KJV For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. (8) For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (9) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (10) For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: If the first covenant had a fault that moved God to make a new one, because the people could not continue in the first, then the new one causes us to be able to continue in it.
Hunger for the word and get your mind off people and things that upset you.
Heb 12:1 KJV Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, THE SIN THAT DOTH SO EASILY BESET US.
Gal 5:7 KJV Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? Consider the deliverance of a man possessed by over 2,000 demons in light of Jesus' words about receiving the Seed of truth into the soil of your heart.
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