Did you know the Lord likes to farm? His field hands are very effective bringing in a harvest. I can’t remember a single sermon preached from this passage from Mark 4: 14-20. Holy Spirit please preach it now.
14The sower sows the Word.
15The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown [in their hearts], but when they hear, Satan comes at once and [by force] takes away the message which is sown in them.
16And in the same way the ones sown upon stony ground are those who, when they hear the Word, at once receive and accept and welcome it with joy;
17And they have no real root in themselves, and so they endure for a little while; then when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended (become displeased, indignant, resentful) and they stumble and fall away.
18And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word;
19Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.
20And those sown on the good (well-adapted) soil are the ones who hear the Word and receive and accept and welcome it and bear fruit--some thirty times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some [even] a hundred times as much. Amplified Bible
Hopefully every Christian would identify with the good soil group. If they do, isn’t it obvious the Lord is “expecting” them to bring the lost to Him? I suppose those who “just” love Him would be satisfied with 30 but those who “really” love Him would want at least 60. However, those who’ve spent time with Jesus at His Cross and have “fallen in love” with Jesus want 100 at the minimum. How about you? How many do you want to bring?
In His Service,
Capt. Ben Marler
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