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.
[Part 2 of 4] We need to realize that this kingdom of God is not something of organization. No, this kingdom is something of the inner life, a life which is actually the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He has been sown into our being as a seed, and now He is growing and developing within us. Praise the Lord that this seed is in each one of us and is now growing and developing in us! The growth and development of this seed will issue in the kingdom. Furthermore, this kingdom will bring us to the destination so that God's goal may be reached. Do you know what this goal is? This goal is the full development of the kingdom of God. According to this chapter, the gospel is the seed of life sown into those who believe in the Lord Jesus so that this seed might grow, develop, and issue in the kingdom. Apparently, the gospel is a matter of preaching and teaching. Actually, the intrinsic element of the gospel is the divine seed, the God- man, the incarnated God, sown into our being. This intrinsic element of the gospel has been neglected by many of today's Christians. Within the gospel there is an inner seed, and this seed, the intrinsic element of the gospel, is the God-man. Whenever we preach the gospel, we need to minister Christ to those who listen to us and receive our word, for within the gospel there is an intrinsic element. Whenever a person receives the gospel, he receives God incarnate as the intrinsic element, the seed, of the gospel. This means that as long as a person receives the gospel, he receives the seed of the gospel. Through the gospel the incarnated God is sown into his being. [Continued tomorrow] (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. 128-129. 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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