Mark 4:2 And He taught them many things in parables and said to them in His teaching: 3 Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed… 11 And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things are in parables, 14 The sower sows the word. 1Pet 1:23 Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.
[Part 1 of 4] Let us begin our consideration of the kingdom by asking the following question: What is the gospel? We may say that the gospel is a wonderful Person, a wonderful God-man. The gospel tells us that one day the very God became incarnate [became man] . This wonderful One, God incarnate, was the God-man. When He reached the age of thirty, He came forth to preach the gospel. The gospel is the replacement of the entire Old Testament, for it is the fulfillment of the promises, prophecies, and types and it is also the removal of the law. With the coming of the God-man, Jesus Christ, the Old Testament was over. This One is Himself the gospel. The gospel, therefore, is this wonderful God-man. The gospel is the wonderful God-man coming to sow Himself as a seed of life. This seed of life is conveyed in the Lord's word. The word "sower" indicates that the Slave-Savior, who was the Son of God, came to sow Himself as the seed of life in His word (v. 14) into men's hearts so that He might grow in them, live in them, and be expressed from within them. The seed sown here is the word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Slave-Savior. Hence, His word is the seed, and in this seed is the divine life. Actually, this seed of the divine life is the Lord Himself. His gospel service was to sow the divine life into the people whom He served. The Lord Jesus sowed the seed into the human heart. In Mark 4 and Matthew 13 the human heart is likened to soil. Our heart is the field, the soil, into which the Lord Jesus has sown Himself as the seed of life, which is the seed of the gospel. [Continued on Monday] (c) Living Stream Ministry.
Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-study of Mark, pp. 125-126. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].
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