Mark 4:1-20
Choose Your Response to God’s Word:
Rejecting without considering: Word is STOLEN
Mark 4:15 “The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away.”
Not going deep: SHORT-LIVED growth
Mark 4:16-17 “The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.
Crowding it out: CHOKES growth
Mark 4:18-19 “The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced.”
Hearing & accepting: MULTIPLIES growth
Mark 4:20 “And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”