The Parable of the Sower

Hello again, friends. If you've got your phone close by, your computer, you can open up your Bible app, or maybe you've got your old-fashioned Bible, open that up to Chapter 4 of the Gospel of Mark. I want to say, to me, the teaching in this chapter is some of the most inspiring, some of the most important teaching regarding the Kingdom of God. I'm Dave Scherrerrer, and here at Kingdom Offerings, this is the podcast environment of A Hundred Full Ministries, and we're starting a series on the parables of the Kingdom of God.

And in my mind, you would do well to consider the Gospel of Mark, the whole Gospel, as a primer on the Kingdom of God. Mark is establishing Jesus' place in that Kingdom, in that Kingdom of God, and our place in that Kingdom, for that matter. Mark, which most of the scholars believe was the first of the accounts of Jesus' life to be written, was written to celebrate, to promote the authority of Christ, and to establish in the minds of the readers this true status of Jesus as King of Kings, and that was the point that Mark wanted to make all along, and he wants to drive it home. I think it's interesting that in all the Gospels, Jesus will often introduce a conversation about the Kingdom by saying, the Kingdom of God is like, and then he proceeds to tell a story, Kingdom, so Kingdom, the Kingdom of God.