Hearing the Code of Kingdom

Mark 4:1-20

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War –

“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.’” Mark 4:11

The Structure of This Parable

The scene is described. (1-2)

A Markan Sandwich

The of the parable (3-9)

of parables (10-12)

The of the parable (13-20)

1. The of the parable (3-9) Listen!

• Some seed fell on birds devoured (4)
• Some seed fell on sprang up, withered away (5-6)
• Some seed fell among choked it (7)
• Some seed fell into produced grain (8)

“And he said, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’” (9)

2. The of the parables (10-12)3. The of the parable (13-20)

Four types of hearers:

• hearer – Satan takes away (15)
• hearer – Receive it with joy, fall away (16-17)
• hearer – cares, lies, desires choke (18-19)
  • cares of the world –
  • deceitfulness of riches –
  • desires for other things –
• hearer – accept it and bear fruit (20)

What kind of “hearer” do you tend to be?

What is dynamic hearing? Dynamic hearing is . (1-20)

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A few takeaways –