Sept. 9, 2024

Parable of the Sower: A New Interpretation Pt 2

Parable of the Sower: A New Interpretation Pt 2

We conclude our work on a new interpetation of the Parable of the Sower.

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We conclude our work on a new interpetation of the Parable of the Sower.

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All right. Gospel of Mark. Gospel of Mark. One of

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the bad things about continuing from the first hour to

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the second hour is well, everyone from the second hour

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is different from the people in the first hour, So

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that means a lot of times I have to review,

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which then I get Then by the time I get home,

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if I go back and listen, I'm like, gosh, I

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spent too much time reviewing. I should have not reviewed

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so much. So I'm gonna try to condense this as

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fast as best as possible. But I definitely would challenge

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you to go back and listen to the first hour

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when it's uploaded, because it's very very very very very important.

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All right, and you'll see why here. Hopefully we will

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read this verse. If you look at Mark, chapter four,

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verse thirteen. We read these words Mark, chapter four, verse thirteen.

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Here's the words we read, and he said to them,

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this is Jesus speaking. Do you not understand this parable?

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How then will you understand all the parables? All right,

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Jesus is basically saying, or at least this is one

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possible interpretation. Hey, if you can't understand this parable, you

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can't understand any of the other parables. And the parable

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that Jesus is referencing. If you'll go back to Mark four,

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looking at starting a verse three, it's the parable of

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the sower, sometimes referred to as the parable of the

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seeds and the soils, or the sower and the seeds

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however you would like to are the sower and the soils,

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however you would like to describe it. This is the

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parable Jesus is referring to. This is the parable. If

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we can't get this one, we can't get any of them.

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And I will put forth the argument, well, then that

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means Christians can't get any of them because no one

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understands the parable of the sower. Christians claim they do,

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but they do not. All you have to do is

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start listening to sermons on the parable the sower, and

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you will realize no one agrees on anything within the parable.

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It's a free for all. Nobody agrees, nobody understands. The

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typical way this is approached is that this is somehow

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a proof of salvation passage, and I'm going to argue

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it is not. How I ended up here is I

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was reading an article about how to study the Bible,

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and they made the argument that Mark four gives us

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the key to being an effectual Bible student and for

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the Bible to be effective, And the key is you

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don't start with your mind and principles of interpretation. You

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start with your heart. Because if the heart is not right,

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the Bible will be of no value. Because the parable

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of the sower. If you don't know the parable, it

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talks about someone who takes seed, goes out in a sense,

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plants the seed, and then it falls on different soil, right,

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and only one of the soils produces fruit. Okay, So

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the argument is those are the only say people or

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those are the only people who the Bible will be

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of any value to. Well, you can preach that and

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everyone in every church. We could go from church to

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church in Abilene and I could preach it that way

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and everybody would say, amen, Amen amen. I think it's

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the most illogical and ridiculous interpretation of a parable ever

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heard in my entire life. And here's the reason why.

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Just think about this logically, right, if you state that

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to be a good Bible student, for the Bible to

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have any effect of your life, your heart has to

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be right before the Bible will be of any value.

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What do we also say that it's the Bible that

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gets the heart right. We'll have to get the heart

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right for the Bible to have any effect. But the

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Bible is of no effect until the heart is right.

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You're talking in circles and it's illogical and it's ridiculous.

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So I took that interpretation that has used my Christians

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all over the place, gave it to Ai. And AI

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was like, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever

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heard in my life. This is circular reasoning. It's ill logical,

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and it's foolish. And I'm like, well, thank you. Could

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you tell churches all over America all right? Because it's ridiculous.

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The other view is, well, this represents one the hard

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soil where the sea doesn't. They're lost, and the next

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soil they're lost, and the next soil. The only people

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saved in this parable are the people with the good soil.

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I decided all of these interpretations are ridiculous. What some

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people do. Another thing that pastors do, and I heard

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sermons that do this, well, they that one and the

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last part of Mark four, they produce fruit, some thirtyfold,

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some sixtyfold, some one hundredfold. And we know what the

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Bible says by their fruit you should know them. Well,

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guess what, ladies and gentlemen, that's a cross reference to

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the Gospel of Matthew. That cross reference by your fruit

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you shall know them has absolutely nothing to do with

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the fruit and Mark four. You know why, because the

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fruit mentioned in Matthew about buy the fruit you shall

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know them is a reference in knowing if someone is

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a false teacher, not whether someone is saved or not saved. Right,

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So the cross reference doesn't even make any sense. Once again,

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I asked Ai, and AI said it's a bad cross

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reference and it should not be utilized. I'm like, well,

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thank you. I just want AI to preach. I want

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all humans fired, including me, and I just want AI

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to now be the pastor in every church. Okay, that's

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the way it should work. Get rid of human beings.

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We stink at theology. Humans should not do theology. You

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know why, because we always find a self by connecting

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ourselves to a team, and then we preach that team's message.

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AI doesn't have a team. That's what I love about AI.

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It doesn't have a team. Right for the most part,

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if it's open AI, if it's closed AI, then it's

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gonna be what whichever team gave it the information. Right,

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The Bible Memory app just did an AI function. But

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any AI that's connected to a Christian organization, I don't

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want why because it's going to have that team's influence.

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I want open AI where it's pulling from what every

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I want it pulling from everything. I don't want a team, right,

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because teams stink in theology. Right. So I sat out

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and said, you know what I'm going to do. I

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am going to write my own interpretation of Mark chapter

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four and this parable. So I wrote two of them, right.

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The first one. AI was like okay, because I asked

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AI to analyze my interpretations. So the first one, AI

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was kind of like, there's a possible problem here, right,

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and kind of pointed out my possible problem, like, wow, okay,

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we'll get back. I'll get back to you. I'll go

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ahead and write a second interpretation. I wrote a second

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interpretation and AI was like this pretty good, and I

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was like, okay, I'm going to go that. So in

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the first hour I taught my second interpretation. Are you

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ready for my second interpretation? I'm gonna go quickly. Right ready,

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here's my second interpretation. I'm gonna break it down into

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bullet points. Ready, here we go. The seed that is

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zone is God's message to Israel about the kingdom and

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about the covenants, all right, Because the typical interpretation refers

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to the seed as the Word, and we always just

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say it's the Bible, but many argue, even who who

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don't have my interpretation, even they have to agree, Well,

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the word there probably is a reference to Jesus' message

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when he first started preaching, which was the Kingdom is

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at hand, which is a message primarily too to the Israel,

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primarily right right, So because the Messiah has shown up,

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the king has shown up, right, So I believe the

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seed is the message to Israel about the kingdom and

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about the covenants. Can everyone get that? The covenants? All right? Now?

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The different soils represent Israel's historical response to that message,

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from the Exodus all the way to their restoration. All right,

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here's the reason why the different soils. What's the first one?

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Sometimes your Bible may refer to it as the wayside. Right,

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Look at Mark chapter four, verse four. And I know

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I'm not reading all of this, but I got to

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do my review quickly. And it happened as he showed

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that some seed fell by the wayside. Some refer to

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this as the path. We know that this is the

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hardened ground, right, Okay, well, guess what this symbolizes periods

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in Israel's history when the people were hardened and unresponsive

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to God's word, such as during the wilderness wonderings and

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at the time of the Judges, when everyone did what

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was in their own eyes. There's no way you can

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read Israel's history and not say there were time they

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were like what they were like hard ground. They did

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not listen. In fact, Jesus even I think even in

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Hebrews reference in how Israel hardened their hearts. There's times

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they were like the past. And guess what did God

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continue to give seed to Israel. They got seed more

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than anybody else, did they not. They had the law,

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they had the prophets, they had the Tabernacle, they had

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the Temple, they had God's presence. They were getting the seed.

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Come nobody else was getting all of that. And then

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Israel sometimes showed a heart over and over and over

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and over again. All right. The next soil is sometimes

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described as the rocky soil. This could represent times in

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Israel's history where you had initial revival or acceptance, followed

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by very quick apostasy, perhaps reflecting the reigns of certain

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kings who followed God but quickly turned away. One of

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the ones they list is Solomon. Rights. We see that

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in israel history. Right, there's an initial time of revival

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and reform. But how long does it last? It's gone, right,

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So there's the path, there's the rocky soil. The third

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is the thorny soil. This might reflect periods like the

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Divided Kingdom when idolatry and the influence of surrounding nations

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choked out the worship. Right do we not see that

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in Israel's history? Yes, they can become influenced by what

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everything around them, and the true worship is choked out.

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And what do they end up doing idolatry, marrying people

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they're not supposed to marry, making political alliances with knations,

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and they get they choke out. Solomon is a good example,

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the cares of this world. Next thing, you know, he's

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marrying all these women, and what happens turns to idolatry.

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Right then the fourth soil is the good soil. Now

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the good soil. When I read the parable, I immediately

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think this is how I think, Wow, this sounds like

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the New Covenant because it talks about being fruitful. So

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I started thinking about Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty, the

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Land Promise, where God said, hey, Israel, there's gonna come

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a time and if you'll go into the land and

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you'll follow me, then what does he say is going

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to happen? In Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty, which we

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refer to as the Land Covenant, You're gonna be fruitful.

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Everything's gonna the things are gonna grow, Your crops are

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gonna be great. Everything's gonna be good, the fruit of

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your womb. It even uses the word fruit Deuteronomy twenty

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eight through thirty. I'm like, that sounds like Israel. And

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then when you get to Ezekiel thirty six about the

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New Covenant, God promises that there will come a time

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Israel's gonna be restored. They're gonna be brought into the

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land and God God is gonna take their heart of stone,

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oh that's the hard crown, and give them a heart

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of flesh. That's not far out. Let me make it

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very clear, I am sick and tired of every church

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in America who preaches Ezequel thirty six being about for us?

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Every church in abiling does it that they can't read

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because Ezequel thirty six is about whom Israel. There's no

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way you can interpret it any other way. And who

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is going to get a new heart Israel? When when

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God restores them and they're back in the land and

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He's going to be their God and they're going to

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be his people, what does it say when they get

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a new heart, they're no longer going to do sin now? So, therefore,

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Christians who keeps saying we get a new heart, if

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we get a new heart, then we should not sin.

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And how do I know we don't have a new

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heart yet? What's the verse Sarah? We just told everyone

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looking it up Matthew fifteen. Everyone look at Matthew fifteen.

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Everyone look at Matthew fifteen. This is proof that you

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do not have a new heart. I know, if you

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leave this church and you tell anyone you know that

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you went to church and found out you don't have

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a new heart, they're gonna call you a liar. But

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I don't care. They're the liars, all right. Matthew fifteen,

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eighteen and nineteen. I'm not even gonna read it for you.

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Matthew fifteen, eighteen and nineteen. What does it say? Wow,

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all that comes from the heart. Guess what's still in

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your heart? All of those things, even if you don't

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commit the act, they're there. Meaning we don't have a

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new heart. And every Christian who says it is a liar.

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And I don't care. I know that. This, just this

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teaching right here is why I could not go to

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any church a bee because I wouldn't be able to

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fit in. But Juan don't have a new heart. Israel's

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gonna get a new heart, and it's gonna be all

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the heart of stone, there's the path is now gonna

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be a heart of flesh. And what does he say

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in Ezekiel thirty six? We read it in the first hour.

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There's not gonna be any more on righteousness. They're not

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gonna be an idolatry, and they're gonna follow in his judgments.

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They're going to obey him. Well, guess what nobody is

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Israel doing that now? No, we're not even doing that now.

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But they're going to come a time and an Israel

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is gonna be restored to the land that's the good soil,

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and they're gonna produce thirty sixty and one hundredfold. They're

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going to be fruitful. In fact, it even goes on

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to say, and I think get Ezekiel, and you take

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in Jeremiah thirty one. They basically the land that's all

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dry and dead is gonna become like the garden of Eden.

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Wait a minute, that has not happened. And I know

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reform people will say that's the church. I'll give me

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a stink and break. I can't read. I'm so sick

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of hearing it. And it's not even a matter. Look,

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I'm just tired of it. Like if we can't figure

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out when Israel is Israel, then I give up in

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interpreting the Bible, all right, Like that's the one thing

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when you read Ezekiel, and it's like the land I

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gave to your fathers, Like it's clearly language referring to Israel. Correct,

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So the good soil is Israel when they have been restored.

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Does that ever understand that? So my perspective is the

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seed is the message to Israel. The soils are the

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different responses. This aligns perfectly with Deuteronomy twenty eight through

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thirty Jeremiah thirty one, thirty one through thirty four, and

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Ezekiel thirty six twenty six, all the way into like

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thirty four thirty five. It connects all of it. That

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is my interpretation of it. All right, that's my first

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interpretation of the parable. All right, So do you want

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to hear how AI summarize my interpretation? What it said

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about my interpretation? This says by viewing the Parable through

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your interpretation, it serves as a profound teaching on the

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importance of reception to God's word and the consequences of

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different responses. It connects the narrative of Israel to the

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broader Christian message of salvation in God's Kingdom. This approach

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provides a deep, historically rooted and phiologically rich understanding of

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the Parable, bringing old and New Testament themes and emphasizing

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God's on going relationship with his covenant people Israel. And

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I'm like, thank you, Ai. That's what I was attempting

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to do. Right, That's what I was attempting to do. Now,

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how does it relate to us? All right? This is

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how we ended the first I want everyone to pay attention.

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If you draw two lines right, one line starts all

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the way back from the Exodus, so you could write

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on your paper you could start a line all the

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way further back Exodus. The other line begins an acts.

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That's three four. People are gonna lose their minds. Been

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me saying that, But that's okay. Israel from the time

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of the Exodus, they were delivered from Egypt, and from

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that point in time God kept giving them seed, and

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all of those responses parallel Israel's history, and it goes

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all the way from Egypt. Well, refer to the millennial

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kingdom is where we're gonna put it right. But I

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don't even care if you believe in a millennial kingdom

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until Israel's restored in the land and they get a

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new heart and God is their God and they're the people.

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That's when you get the good soil. In the meantime,

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it's a mixture, just like it's always been for us.

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We show up, We'll say, the church shows up in acts, right.

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I know there's debate over that, but we show up

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in acts and guess what we have been delivered from.

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If I'm gonna not lose my voice, we have been

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delivered from bondage, in which sense. No, I know, I'm

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going to take off, you know, Christians, but we have

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been delivered from the penalty of sin, from the condemnation

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of sin. We have not been delivered from the power

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of sin. Every church in Abilin will tell you you've

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been delivered from the power of sin. They are liars.

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You know why. If you've been delivered from the power

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of sin, you should be able to be perfect. If

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you're not perfect, what's keeping you from being perfect? Sin? Well,

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then what's keeping you from perfection? Clearly you are in

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bondage too. That's just logical thinking, right, So guess what

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we parallel Israel's responses. Sometimes we are what hard and

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the sin and the seed, just as what bounce off

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and we don't care. Sometimes we receive the word and

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we're all excited, but at last war thirty minutes, right

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by the time you get home from the sermon, you've

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already forgotten it. Right. Sometimes we believe in the word

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and we we we really get into it. But then

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what happens The cares of the world begin to choke

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it out and in sometimes and ultimately, when will we

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ever be the good soil producing all the fruit? When

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the sin is completely gone. That's my interpretation of the parable.

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It's about Israel first, but we apply to it because

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we live the exact same life they lived. That's interpretation

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number one. All right, what do you think of that one?

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All right, think it's pretty good. I think it's I

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think it's pretty solid. I think it's I think it's

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pretty good. Now the second one, this is thing not

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so okay, okay, but we're gonna work on it. Okay,

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We're gonna see. I'm what I'm going to try to

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I know what you're thinking. Well, if the first one

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was good, why are you gonna give us the second one? Right? Well,

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one because it's a good exercise in hermeneutics, but two

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as I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to

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try to do it right now in real time. I'm

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going to try to connect my second one to the

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first one and try to somehow combine them in to

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our more detailed interpretation. But it's going to happen in

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real time, meaning this may not work very well. So

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for everyone who listening online. I said it in the

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first hour. I'll say it again. I am pretty dogmatic

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about the first interpretation, but I am still classifying it

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as a hypothesis because I think rarely can we ever

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be truly dogmatic with any interpretation. All we can do

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is do the best we can at that time, and

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then the next time we study it, throw out the

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previous and start over. Right. That's how I got here.

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I threw out all my previous interpretations. Right. So, because

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I've preached that parable before and have never preached it

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that way, I've preached it the Lordship way, based off

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MacArthur's book. That's back when I was teaching theology and

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not doing theology, which was the worst thing I should

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have ever done done it. I should never taught theology.

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I should have done theology, right, But it takes a

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lot of work to be able to do theology. And

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you know, and look, if I would have been doing

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theology from the beginning, this church would not exist twenty

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three years later because once I switched from teaching to

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doing theology, we have started losing people because nobody wants

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a church that does theology. What do they want? Here's

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my team. Now, just tell me what my team believes,

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and just give me some three point little service that

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you feel like you had a little church service. And

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now you can feel good about yourself. It's just a

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joke and it's ridiculous. And church that should just close

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down because they're useless. I know that's not gonna go

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over well, but it's just as a waste of time. Right.

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It's like you either go to learn or you just

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go to pretend. Well, you know, I'm not good into

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the pretend thing when it comes to church. I don't

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like the games and the reindeer games. Yeah, I show

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up to learn something and I'm not going to learn

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something I don't want to be it. I used to

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get into that argument all the time when I lived

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in Nebraska. And you know, it's fifteen below zero and

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I'm driving to church on a Wednesday night. You know what,

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I drove to church for Wednesday night for a little

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fifteen minute devotional and then forty five minutes of praying

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for someone's ingrown tone now and I'm like, come on,

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now that I come to church for fifteen minute devotional,

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I could have had the devotional on the drive here.

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And if you want me to pray, just send me

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a list of things to pray for now, well, you

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need that praying with people in the community or your

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Christian life won't be I'll just stop it. If you

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want friends, go find friends. I don't need to be

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your friend. You don't need to be my friend, right,

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We need to just learn. If you want friends, KAO,

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get them right, they're apps, they get friends, Okay, you know,

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but church becomes the how to get friends kind of concept.

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And I know that sounds derogatory, but it just drives

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me crazy, because we're supposed to come to learn, right,

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and that's the whole thing. He gave pastors and teachers

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for what purpose to equip saints, not to do what

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sing kumbaya? Hold hands right? So I've grown tired of

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the learning or just teaching theology and trying to do it.

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But trying to do it is so controversial in our culture.

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Does that make sense? All right? So are you ready

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for this second one? Yeah? Here what we're gonna do.

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I'm gonna start first with the original article that kind

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of sparked my second and well it was actually my

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first interpretation. I'm gonna go through the article and I'm

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gonna show you where I'm Like, all of a sudden,

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I started thinking, huh, maybe this will work. All right?

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So this is how the article begins, Are you ready?

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In Mark four, Jesus begins the parable of the four soils.

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Say they call it the parable of the force. Nobody

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can't even agree on the name of it. Okay, listen,

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behold they sew or went out to sew. Now, this

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one comes from a free grace perspective. It says, anyone

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exposed to free grace teaching in regards to this parable

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understands how misunderstood it is by many within Christendom. So

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let me just start right there. What I find hilarious

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is every book, every commentary always starts with nobody else

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understands it. Okay, because every commentary offers an interpretation that

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almost differs with every other comment So all right right there,

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that should bother you? Why should it bother you? Because

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Jesus said, if we don't understand this parable, we can't

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understand any of them. So that should bother me, because

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then we should all come to how many interpretations so

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that we can understand the rest. But let's see why

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they think everyone misunderstands it. You're ready, Well, everyone agrees

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that the first soil represents unbelievers. Most think that the

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second and third soils represent unbelievers as well, and that

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only the last soil represents believers. Now I'm going to

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stop right there. I already disagree with all of that,

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because I believe it represents, first of all, Israel's response,

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and then it parallels the response of all believers. Those

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three soils represents all of our struggles, and the fourth

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soil represents ultimately glorification. So I'm already I'm thrown. No,

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I don't agree with anybody on it. Okay, so does

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everybody understand that? But let's see how this sparked an idea. Right.

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They do this because the second and third soils do

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not produce much fruit, and they believe that all true

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Christians always produce much spiritual fruit. If we understand the

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difference between receiving eternal life as a free gift and

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bearing spiritual fruit by works after eternal salvation, then it

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is clear that the last three soils all represent believers.

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It is not a question of whether they are believers.

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They all are and have life. All three have a

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plant spring up, but it is a question of whether

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they will produce a great harvest for the coming kingdom.

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more people are saved. I think the I think the

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problem is when you go to this this parable and

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turn it into a soteriological study of who's saved or

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not saved, you've missed the boat. I think you've already

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missed the point. Right, This is about the historical response

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of Israel, and we can then say it parallels us.

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And what can we say throughout our entire Christian life

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there are times where the path and the seed does

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wide bounces right off, and there's time where every one

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of those represents times in our Christian life. Okay, that's that?

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Like that, my, my, my belief parallels reality? Right, Remember

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we talked about faith in reality like what last week? Okay,

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all right, So they go on to talk a little

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bit more. It says, well, we've been exposed, while I

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have been exposed to a correct bas under basic understanding

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of this parable. Recently, I took a closer look look

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at the context. It is always important to do so,

459
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and I found, but not surprisingly, the context supports what

460
00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:15.680
he believes his view. And look what he says. He

461
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:22.400
says Mark three ends right before the parable of the

462
00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:27.640
four soils, and I was like, as soon as I

463
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:31.519
read that, I was like, you know what, we never

464
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:38.799
do We never look at Mark three and how it

465
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:45.400
relates to Mark four. We never do that. Now, let

466
00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:47.960
me just go ahead and get the problem with this, Okay.

467
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.720
So this sparked me, and so I even gave an

468
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:55.240
assignment on the podcast. Everyone go listen, go read Mark

469
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.519
three and see how it connects to Mark four. But

470
00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:03.000
here's where it falls apart. Everybody read. The reason this

471
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:06.599
falls apart to some level is because I can go

472
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:08.799
to Mark three and I think I can come up

473
00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.119
with an interpretation that fits Mark four. But here's the problem.

474
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:22.319
The parable shows up in Matthew thirteen. Well, unless Matthew

475
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:28.920
twelve is identical to Mark three, then I can't interpret

476
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:32.680
the parable based off the previous chapter because the parable

477
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.680
has two different settings. So then what are my options? Well?

478
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.839
Option one, I could say, well, Jesus gave the parable

479
00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:46.640
twice and two different context so then that means I

480
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:50.200
could understand I would interpret the Mark four interpretation different

481
00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:53.480
than the Matthew thirteen interpretation, but it was the same parable.

482
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:57.160
That does not work, and I don't have any proof

483
00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:00.680
that he gave the parable two different times. So then

484
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.720
I'm like, oh, but I'm like, Okay, I'm still gonna

485
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:06.599
work it. I'm still gonna work it. Now I could

486
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:09.119
read the rest of this article, but for time's sake,

487
00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:12.799
i'm gonna skip it. I'm gonna skip it because it's long.

488
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.960
So then I was like, okay, let me start working

489
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.119
on this, right. So I kind of gave again, just

490
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.519
like I did with my other interpretation. I kind of

491
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:26.720
went to AI and was like, hey, here's how I'm

492
00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.640
trying to interpret this parable. What do you think? And

493
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:34.200
so my argue so I started providing an argument that

494
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.640
Mark four was based off Mark three. This is how

495
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.039
AI responded. Now, I did point out the problem. I

496
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:43.880
did point out the problem, but it did say this,

497
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:51.119
it is possible that understanding the parable of the sewer

498
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.359
and Mark four is closely related. Are you ready for

499
00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:02.680
two the different groups of people mentioned in Mark three?

500
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.640
Because my argument to AI was, wait, Mark four has

501
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.079
these different soils, and we think these different soils represent

502
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.960
different people. Well, isn't it kind of interesting that Mark

503
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.400
three has a list of different people. I'm like, boom,

504
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.559
I'm so smart. Okay, Now, at this point I completely

505
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:25.440
forgot that the parable is anywhere else, right, I completely

506
00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:30.720
I completely forgotten. I had no idea, all right, So

507
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.839
here we go. When we consider the context of Mark's gospel,

508
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:38.680
particularly his interactions and conflicts in chapter three, we can

509
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.559
see that the parable may be illustrating the various responses

510
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:46.720
to jesus ministry and message as demonstrated by the group's

511
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.119
present in that chapter. So the way I thought is

512
00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:54.640
what Jesus did is three. He's having these interactions, right,

513
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.839
and the people are doing what responding in different ways.

514
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.119
So then he comes to Mark four and he begins

515
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.920
to give the parable, and he's giving a word picture

516
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:13.319
of what just transpired. It would be like a pastor. Oh,

517
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.839
I know, I won't even say a pastor. It would

518
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.720
be like if some man went out on the roof

519
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:21.400
one night saw a woman taken a bath and said,

520
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:25.000
I want her go get her, has physical relations with her.

521
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:27.559
Then she gets pregnant. Then he comes up with a

522
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.880
plan to get the husband drunk so that he'll have

523
00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:32.160
relations and he'll think the baby is his. But then

524
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.880
they're like no, no, no, that's not gonna work. So

525
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:36.519
then he kills the husband, covers it all up, and

526
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:38.680
then someone comes knocks on the door and say, hey,

527
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:44.039
I've got a story for you about a sheep a

528
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:49.359
rich man, and then David's like, the man needs to

529
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:53.319
be put to death, but basically because he just hears

530
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:59.240
the story, and then finally you are the man. Pastors

531
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.519
can do the same thing, right, You can be getting

532
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.400
frustrated by issues in the church, so you try to

533
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.680
tell it in a picture. You kind of paint a picture,

534
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.160
try to tell a story. Now, sometimes you do that

535
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.079
and you look in the congregation and realize no one

536
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:17.039
catches hont to what you're doing here, like unbelievable. The

537
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:19.680
people are like, yeah, those people need to be poished,

538
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.240
like I'm talking about you, okay, right. But sometimes you

539
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:25.240
can try it with your kids as well. Let me

540
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:31.640
tell you this story, and they're like, yeah, those kids

541
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:35.039
are bad, I'm talking about you, okay, right. Well, maybe

542
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:38.960
that's what Jesus is doing. That's my that's my theory.

543
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:43.559
Maybe he's like all those reactions, let me paint that

544
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:49.759
picture in a parable possibly, all right, so you ready

545
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.759
to kind of work on this, all right, So let's

546
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.000
overview the different groups. So mark four. Everybody, Remember we

547
00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:59.119
got the different soils, right, how do we kind of

548
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.480
break down the different sol We'll call it the path,

549
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.319
the rocky ground, the thorny ground, and the good crown.

550
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:12.319
Everybody got that, all right? So look at Mark three

551
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.839
and tell me who we encounter in verses one through six.

552
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.519
Mark three, And he entered in the synagogue again, and

553
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:35.720
a man was there who had withered hands. So he

554
00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:38.799
watched him closely whether he would heal him on. So

555
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.839
they watched him closely, whether he would heal them on

556
00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:45.960
the Sabbath. Okay, right, well, I'm just we'll get there.

557
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:48.880
I'm trying to help you walk through it. So they

558
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.440
that they were there, Well, what are they watching for?

559
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.000
He's gonna heal in the Sabbath. Do they care about

560
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.079
the man with the withered hand? They could care less.

561
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.400
What are they looking for? If he heals him, we

562
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.880
can call him a Sabbath breaker, and then therefore he's

563
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:11.800
not the Messiah. Right now, remember who is Jesus? In

564
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:15.480
the beginning was the word was with God? It was God.

565
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:18.840
The sower goes out to sow the word Jesus. Is

566
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:21.400
that word? He's right there in front of them, And

567
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.159
what do they see? Do they see the word? They

568
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:26.239
are so hard. All they want to do is find

569
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:29.639
a way to make an accusation against the word. That's

570
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.519
the path, is it not? Look what happens. And he

571
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.280
said to the man who had the withered hand stepped forward.

572
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.159
Then he said to them, is it lawful on the

573
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:39.199
sabbath to do good or to do evil? To save

574
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:41.800
life or to kill? Jesus knows exactly what's going on.

575
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:45.039
He's setting up the entire situation. And when he had

576
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:50.360
looked around at them, and when he had looked around

577
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:56.199
at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of

578
00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.920
their hearts, he said to the man, stretch out your hand.

579
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.679
He stretched it out, his hand restored them. Then the

580
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:09.079
Pharisees went out immediately plotted with the Herodians to destroy him.

581
00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:11.920
Ladies and gentlemen, If that's not the hard ground, I

582
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:19.159
don't know what is is Jesus in Mark four, I mean,

583
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:21.239
come on, when you see that, you can't you can't

584
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:26.079
just ignore that. I mean it usually it literally says hardness, right,

585
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.199
I mean, come on, like, you gotta think that's at

586
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:33.880
least impressive, somewhat right, Okay, because almost inevitably we have

587
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:38.400
a tendency to forget that. Right, Because what do we

588
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:40.599
do when we come to a passage what do we

589
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:48.480
look for? We always look for us. I think Jesus

590
00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:50.719
starts off the parable by pointing out to the people

591
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:54.920
he first had conflict with. Right, Ai said this, the

592
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.960
Pharisees and the Herodians conspire against Jesus, seeking to destroy

593
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.360
him after he heals. A man on the Sabbath present

594
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.159
outright hostility and rejection of Jesus and his message. Now

595
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.079
Ai does not immediately use the same language, but I

596
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.800
would say, go look at Mark four. That's the hard sore,

597
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.159
that's the hard ground. There's no way to get around that.

598
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:18.039
Everybody got that. Look that went. I think we can

599
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:22.239
be dogmatic about that's pretty sure, right, Okay, Now, how

600
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:30.400
about look at Mark three seven through twelve. Mark three

601
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:37.760
seven through twelve. Who do we find here? We have

602
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:41.159
a large crowds following him. Right when Jesus withdrew, great

603
00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.800
multitude followed him and beyond the Jordan tire side, and

604
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:48.320
great multitudes when they heard how many things he was doing,

605
00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:51.239
came to him. So he told his disciples a small

606
00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:54.039
boat should be ready, because the multitudes unless they should

607
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:56.519
crush him, for he had healed many so as many

608
00:36:56.599 --> 00:37:01.599
had of afflictions pressed about him, to and the uncling spirits,

609
00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:03.760
whether they saw him fell down. We have all of

610
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:07.840
this going on, right, Okay, Now, what do we know

611
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.360
about the crowds following after Jesus? What do we know

612
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:14.559
about the crowds? They are initially very excited about him, right,

613
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:18.039
But they don't seem to have much root because they

614
00:37:18.119 --> 00:37:23.079
don't last, do they? They fall away quickly? Right? In fact,

615
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.280
it's not very long that we read things like in

616
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:28.719
the Gospel of John that they walk away and don't

617
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.039
follow him anymore. We know ultimately they're going to be

618
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:35.599
screaming crucify him. That don't last very long, right, Ai

619
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.559
said this about the crowd. Large crowds follow Jesus from

620
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:43.199
various regions, attracted by his miracles and healing power. While

621
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.159
they are interested in Jesus, their interest seems primarily focused

622
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:47.800
on what he can do for them, rather than a

623
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:51.440
deeper understanding or commitment to his teaching. So the crowd

624
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:55.400
represents what the rocky ground where there's no actual route

625
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:01.239
fits Pretty good? Does it? Not? So far? So good?

626
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:04.400
All right? How about the third what do you have?

627
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:13.199
In Mark three thirteen through nineteen, he chooses the twelve

628
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:17.119
apostles says he not right. They're sent out to preach

629
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:21.039
and cast out demons. They represent those who have responded

630
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.000
positively and committed to following Jesus. And if they do

631
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:27.039
not fully understand, even if they do not fully understand

632
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.119
everything at this stage mark three thirteen through nineteen. Now

633
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:33.199
here's what I would say, Yeah, because you kind of

634
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:36.000
want AI wants to kind of put them where with

635
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:39.400
the good soil. I would say, maybe there's a little

636
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:40.960
bit of the good soul in them, But what do

637
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:45.760
we know about the disciples themselves. They're gonna They're all

638
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.639
over the place, right, I mean, it's not gonna be

639
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.400
long that one of those people chosen. Peter is gonna

640
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.719
do what that I'm three times most of them are

641
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:58.880
gonna run and hide. Thomas is gonna have doubts. Right,

642
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.159
we know they're gonna have issues, right. We know letter

643
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:03.760
on the apostle, Paul is going to say the things

644
00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:05.400
I want to do I don't do. We know that

645
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:09.039
even as the apostles, they're human beings. Then they struggle,

646
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:11.760
Paul and Peter get into an argument. We know all

647
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:14.960
of the issues that happen. But I think so, I

648
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.199
think in some ways the disciples kind of represent all

649
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:22.280
the soils to some level, all right, But once again,

650
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.360
it's a different group of people, is it not? How

651
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.679
about Mark three twenty through twenty one and thirty one

652
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:37.639
through thirty five. Mark three, twenty through twenty one and

653
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:47.559
thirty one through thirty five. Who is this twenty to

654
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:54.280
twenty one, thirty one to thirty five? Yeah, I know

655
00:39:54.519 --> 00:40:00.639
who is this? It's his family. His family shows up, right,

656
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:02.840
and they come to taking him away, believing he's out

657
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:04.800
of his mind, which versus they think he's out of

658
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:14.480
his mind verse twenty one. Right, they that's his own family.

659
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.480
His own family thinks he's crazy. So their rejection is

660
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:23.519
just as as now. They may have some understanding, right,

661
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:26.880
as Ai says, They're depicted as having partial understanding of

662
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:30.199
who Jesus is and are confused or concerned by his ministry. However,

663
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.280
Jesus redefines his family as whoever does the will of God,

664
00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:37.960
including a spiritual kinship beyond biological ties. But they show

665
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:42.360
up once again. Not a great response, is it? So

666
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.920
what do we have? Mark four? The different soils are

667
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:51.239
actually representation of the groups of people in Mark Chapter three.

668
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:54.199
Let's look at hang on look at verses twenty two

669
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:56.360
through thirty. I think we have another group of people.

670
00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:59.519
It would be perfect if it was four and four,

671
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.760
wouldn't it. It's not form for, But I don't think

672
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.760
it's supposed to be form for because I think what

673
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:08.639
it's demonstrating is all these people have various different responses,

674
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.840
just like what he's trying to do. What's the point

675
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:14.519
he's trying to get across to the parable? Remember the

676
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:18.679
parables have one main idea basically the different responses. And

677
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:28.159
what's interesting is all the people in Mark three are Jewish?

678
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:34.320
Do they not represent Israel? And all the different responses

679
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.519
from Israel. See, I think it's gonna fit my fat

680
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:39.079
You say, how now I'm going to try to connect

681
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.000
it to my first interpretation. Right now, Look, who do

682
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:46.519
we have in twenty two to thirty the scribe? So

683
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:48.800
we have describes, and so now we have all the

684
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.960
religious leaders of Israel, do we not? The scribes accuse

685
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.719
Jesus of casting out demons by the power of Beel's above,

686
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:58.440
attributing his works to demonic influence. Jesus strongly rebukes them

687
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.760
and warns them of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, which

688
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.480
is an unforgivable sin that represent a hardened and spiritually

689
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:08.960
blind response to jesus work and words. Does everyone see

690
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:12.480
how that you have describes and the Pharisees, you have

691
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:16.880
all the religious leaders, you have the crowds, and you

692
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:20.360
have Jesus' own family. You have the totality of Israel

693
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:26.199
represented in Mark three, which I believe Mark four the

694
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:31.480
soils represent the historical response of Israel through from the

695
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:35.119
Exodus all the way time to the restoration in the Lane.

696
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.079
So the parable I think that you can connect it

697
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:39.960
to Mark three, but I'm going to use it to

698
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.199
verify my initial my interpretation I already gave, which this

699
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.960
is all about Israel's response to the Word. And guess

700
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.840
what it played out in real life? Because the Word

701
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.960
became flesh and dwelt among them. He came to his

702
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.320
own who's his own, Israel, and they received him. Not

703
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:10.519
the Gospel is first to the jew. This is simply

704
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:15.320
Mark Iree just proves my point. I'm going to argue,

705
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.199
originally I had it as a separate interpretation because I

706
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:21.000
didn't look at it from a dispenser. I mean, I

707
00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:23.320
already had the dispensational idea, but I couldn't get it

708
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:25.360
to work out at first. So now I was like,

709
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:30.480
this is perfect. There's Israel and actually responding. Now Jesus

710
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:32.880
is gonna say, you guys have been responding to the

711
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.199
seed all the way from Exodus, and you're going to

712
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.880
continue to respond this way until the New Covenant is implemented,

713
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.679
and then the heart of stone will be replaced with

714
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.719
a heart of flesh, and then you'll be changed. And

715
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:57.519
it parallels Us. It parallels Us. I know we don't

716
00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:59.760
want to admit that, but Christian So look at some

717
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:03.920
of the those responses come on sometimes do we really

718
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:06.039
care about people? Or do we want to get into

719
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:09.800
a religious argument and win? Oh that sounds like the Pharisees?

720
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:13.039
Does it not? Come on? Sometimes? Do we follow Jesus

721
00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:16.280
for what we can get? And we get kind of

722
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:21.440
upset when we don't get what we want right? And

723
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:23.199
we have to kind of hear you get what you

724
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:26.880
get and you don't throw a fit because sometimes we're

725
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:29.440
just like the people. And sometimes or are we not

726
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:32.280
confounded and confused by what Jesus does or doesn't do?

727
00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.599
Or are we not sometimes I know we're not supposed

728
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:37.639
to say this, do sometimes we think God is out

729
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:41.599
of his ever living mind. Sometimes I think I don't

730
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:46.880
get it. I think it parallels Us And guess what

731
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:49.719
We're gonna have all these responses throughout our Christian life,

732
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:55.559
all the way to our restoration, our glorification. It parallels

733
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:01.719
Israel identically? All right? Does it make sense? So I

734
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.920
asked Ai? How does this work? So this? Ai gave

735
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.199
me this the possible correspondence between the groups and Mark

736
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.360
three and the soils and Mark four. So then asked

737
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:14.320
Ai for some help. Right, I had already done the work,

738
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.199
but I needed I wanted to make sure. So this

739
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:19.519
is what he Ai he This is what AI did,

740
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:23.840
Mark four fifteen. Are everybody look at Mark four to fifteen.

741
00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:31.719
What does it say? Mark four to fifteen? Okay, these

742
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.039
are they by the wayside? So this is who he puts.

743
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:41.960
This is who AI puts in that category, the Pharisees,

744
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:47.159
the Herodians, and the scribes. The seed is sown on

745
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:49.800
the path, representing those who hear the word, but Satan

746
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.039
himself immediately takes it away. This could correspond to groups

747
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:55.360
like the Pharisees, the Herodians, and the scribes who hear

748
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:58.320
Jesus teaching but outright reject them. Their hearts are hardened

749
00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.920
and they are spiritually blind to how the seed is

750
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:05.079
snatched away before it even penetrates the ground. So that's

751
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.639
who they put all there. And does that not represent Israel?

752
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.239
Many cases? Yes, that complete rejection and hardness of heart.

753
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.079
Next the rocky ground, Martin look at Mark four sixteen

754
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:23.760
through seventeen. Does it not describe the rocky ground? He places?

755
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:29.400
Ai places the crowds there. The seed sown on rocky

756
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.159
ground represents those who receive the Word with joy, but

757
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:34.599
have no root and fall away in times of trouble

758
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:38.639
of persecution. This could respond could correspond to the crowds

759
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:41.599
who follow Jesus for his miracles and healings, but lack

760
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:46.199
a deep committed faith. They are interested and enthusiastic initially,

761
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.119
but their interest is superficial and does not endure through

762
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:55.519
the challenges. Now, the thorns, the thorns, they say, that's

763
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:59.719
Mark four eighteen through nineteen. Everyone see the thorns right,

764
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:04.000
Ai says, this is Jesus' family. The seeds sown among

765
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:06.599
thorns represents those who hear the word, but the worries

766
00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.719
of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, desires, for other things,

767
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.719
choke the word, making it unfruitful. Jesus family who came

768
00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:14.920
to take him away because they think he's out of

769
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.000
his mind could be seen as being caught up in

770
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:21.119
concerns or misunderstandings about jesus mission, reflecting a divided loyalty

771
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:25.320
or a distracted response. And then the good Soil Mark

772
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:31.280
four twenty. They say, that's the disciples, all right, So

773
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:34.920
in some ways, what did AI do? They grouped him

774
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:40.559
into four? They put in four. So I do like that.

775
00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:44.440
I just don't like the disciples necessarily being the good ground,

776
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:49.760
because I think the good ground represents why glorification. That's

777
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:51.760
what I think. I know. Not everyone's going to agree,

778
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.280
but especially when as it pertains to Israel, all right.

779
00:47:54.679 --> 00:48:00.719
So then I asked Ai, why might Mark three? Why

780
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:03.280
Mark three might be the key to understanding the soils

781
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:05.079
and Mark four. So I wanted Ai to see if

782
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:09.599
it could respond. Ai said, this contextual flow in thematic connection.

783
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:13.320
Mark three sets the stage for understanding the very varying

784
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:16.000
reactions to Jesus and his ministry. By the time we

785
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:18.719
get to the parable and Mark four, readers have already

786
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:22.519
seen examples of different responses to Jesus helping illustrate the

787
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.920
type of soil. The parable then can be seen as

788
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:28.400
a continuation of this theme, explaining why some people respond

789
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:33.840
positively and others negatively to Jesus' message. All right, so

790
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.480
ais like it makes sense. It flows. By the time

791
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:39.480
you read mark four, you should already go, well, I

792
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:44.519
already know these responses. I just read them. Now. My

793
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.719
issue with way the way even AI kind of states

794
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.559
that is all those different responses. What we typically, what

795
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:56.000
pastors try to do is, hey, we've got to fix

796
00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.199
these responses, and how do we fix these responses? This

797
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.000
is where pastors all over the place, and all the

798
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.880
sermons I listen to, some say you've got to do it.

799
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.239
You've got to break up the hard ground. You've got

800
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.280
to pull out the thorns. You've got to clean it

801
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:11.840
all up so it'll be good. And if you don't

802
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:13.840
clean it up, the word of God won't do anything

803
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:15.599
for you. And then it's like, how am I cleaning

804
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:18.079
it up Apart from God's word? It makes no sense.

805
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:22.320
One sermon that I reviewed yesterday went so far to

806
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:25.960
say that your heart can get so hard that not

807
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:31.920
even God can break it open. Yeah, And I was

808
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.639
like what has happened here? I am so confused. So

809
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:42.480
but you see why this all falls when we put

810
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:44.760
it in those categories. That falls apart because we got

811
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:47.239
to figure out how do we fix the soil. To me,

812
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:49.800
it may if you go with my interpretations, is its

813
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:53.239
simple right? I've been set free from the penalty and

814
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:56.480
condemnation of sin. And guess what all of these responses

815
00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:59.320
are going to show up in my Christian life all

816
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:05.679
the way to glorification. Why because God did not give

817
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:13.960
us a new heart. That's my per And I know, look,

818
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.519
I'm telling you, just you leave. Go tell other Christians

819
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:18.360
today what you heard. They will say that you're in

820
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:20.639
a heretical church and we're false, false, and we're not

821
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:24.199
even Christian. That's okay, but you know what they will

822
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:27.119
prove probably within fifteen minutes have they continued a gossip

823
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:31.880
in slander that they still have a sinful heart. And well,

824
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:37.000
you talk a big game, but look, once you demonstrate

825
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.000
to me you still have a fallen heart, you prove

826
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:48.880
whose interpretation, we don't have a new heart. So because

827
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:51.079
we don't have a new heart, do all of those

828
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:53.480
responses sound similar to you in your Christian life? At

829
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:56.079
different times. Come on, have you been so hard that

830
00:50:56.159 --> 00:51:00.239
you just wouldn't listen? Have there's been times? I mean,

831
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.400
I've already repeated this. I'm being repetitive, but I'm being

832
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:04.320
for Are there times where kind of like the rocky

833
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:06.920
soil where we're like, yeah, I'm gonna do it, and

834
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.679
and it doesn't last? And at times are you like, man,

835
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:12.440
I'm reading and studying the Bible, but then the cares

836
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.840
of life, you got this, you got this, you got this,

837
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:19.559
and it kind of jokes it out. I don't think

838
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.119
we ever get the thirty sixty one hundredfold. I know

839
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:25.000
MacArthur would lose his mind right now, but I don't care.

840
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:30.480
We don't. And even the fruit that we think is

841
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:32.960
so good that we so bragg about it. Remember I

842
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.599
talked about the Remember you see sometimes the layers that

843
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:39.039
I add to and are teaching. Remember I did that

844
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:42.119
teaching about spiritual fruit. And can we really say that

845
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.039
spiritual fruit because we looked at the spiritual fruit listed

846
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:49.159
right love joy, I'm like, that can show up in

847
00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:53.679
anyone's life. So then how do we understand this fruit?

848
00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:58.440
Right now? It becomes almost how do we decend well

849
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.639
it comes from God, my love should be perfect, my joy,

850
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:05.159
Well it's not perfect. Well, then we know that you

851
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:09.079
can have what appears to be external fruit, but it

852
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:12.960
actually is a spiritual fruit. So then like even to judge,

853
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:19.599
fruit almost becomes white impossible, right, it becomes a fruitless exercise,

854
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:22.880
it does, right, But what do I know? I do

855
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.440
know what? There will come a time when there is

856
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:27.440
no more sin, no more pay, no more suffering, no

857
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:29.480
more debt, and then basically the garden of Eden is

858
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:34.199
restored and everything will be fruitful. So that makes more

859
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:39.000
sense to me, right, so he says, so our Ai

860
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.480
says the context flows. Next Ai says it's an illustration

861
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.119
of different heart conditions, and then it says it's a

862
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:50.400
call to reflection, conclusion, understanding the parable of the sower

863
00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:52.280
and a lot of different groups in Mark three offers

864
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.320
a compelling interpretation to suggests that the parable reflects the

865
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:59.239
various Well, but then I was like, well, wait a minute,

866
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.920
than me and Ai I started having a conversation here

867
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:07.159
about but wait, Mark three is the context for Mark four.

868
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:11.199
But Mark three is not the context for Matthew thirteen.

869
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:14.840
So everybody go to Matthew thirteen. I don't have to

870
00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:29.039
go through this quickly. Okay. So I started challenging me

871
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:31.639
and AI started having some back and forth. Right, So

872
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:35.199
this is what AI finally said, you ready, you are correct,

873
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:38.360
and noting that if the key to interpreting the parable

874
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.559
of the sewer and Mark four was exclusively tied to

875
00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:43.360
Mark three, then the approach would not necessarily work in

876
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:48.760
Matthew thirteen unless the context of Matthew twelve was similar

877
00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:52.440
to that of Mark three. So then AI said, let's

878
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.400
break this down and see what would happen. All right,

879
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.360
So here's what the first thing they said. Comparing the

880
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:03.760
context and Mark three and Matthew twelve, Mark three contexts

881
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:06.639
Mark three, we see various groups responding differently to Jesus.

882
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.360
All right, can we agree to that this context highlights

883
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:14.079
that diverse reactions to Jesus ministry, which can help explain

884
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:17.559
the different soils and the parable Matthew three. Now here

885
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:20.079
we get our Matthew twelve. I'm sorry, Matthew twelve. This

886
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.599
is what AI says about Matthew twelve. Everybody got it open,

887
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:26.840
you're scanning it really quick, all right, Here's what AI says,

888
00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:32.320
Matthew twelve. The context is somewhat similar, but it's not identical.

889
00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:38.199
Matthew twelve also shows increasing opposition to Jesus. For example,

890
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.960
the Pharisees plotting against Jesus. In Matthew twelve fourteen, the

891
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:46.119
Pharisees conspired to destroy Jesus after he heals on the Sabbath.

892
00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:49.559
Is that not like Mark three? All right? Blasphemy against

893
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:53.000
the spirit? Matthew twelve. The Pharisees accused Jesus of casting

894
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:55.800
out demons by the power of beiels above, prompting Jesus

895
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:57.880
to speak about the bleshemy against the Holy Spirit? Is

896
00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:02.320
that not like Mark three? Okay? Those are very close parallels,

897
00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.480
are they not? All right? I was gonna help must

898
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:07.800
break Gus down a lot more, but time wise, I

899
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:09.880
just now have to go through it, all right? How

900
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:13.639
about Matthew twelve forty six through fifty. Is that Jesus family, Oh,

901
00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:18.840
that's just like Mark chapter three? Right. While these elements

902
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:21.760
are present and both twelve and three, Matthew does not

903
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:24.519
include the scene with Jesus family thinking he's out of

904
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:27.320
his mind, and the order of events different they do.

905
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:30.760
There is a different order, but it's still very similar,

906
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:36.199
is it not. It's still showing what different responses, and

907
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:41.519
those responses all flow from Jews, which parallel the historical

908
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:45.280
responses of Israel to the Word to the Seed. All right,

909
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:48.800
has everybody got that? Both Mark three and Matthew twelve

910
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:52.599
depict a range of responses to jesus ministry, rejection by

911
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:57.519
the Pharisees, misunderstanding or partial acceptance by the crowd Jesus' family,

912
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:00.639
and a commitment by the true disciples. However, the chapters

913
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.360
are not identical in the content or sequence, given that

914
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:08.559
both chapters cover various responses to Jesus. Now, this is

915
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:11.119
where Ai wanted to push back on me, because I

916
00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:13.719
was kind of like, well, this doesn't work. And this

917
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:15.760
is where Ai was like, well wait a minute here,

918
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:18.719
So this is what Ai said, all right. Given that

919
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:23.320
both chapters cover various responses to Jesus, one could argue

920
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:26.559
that the interpretation of the parable the Sower could still

921
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:30.800
be informed by the broader context of the differing responses,

922
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:35.079
even if the specific details differ in the gospels. So

923
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.079
AI wanted to kind of stand a little bit more

924
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:39.360
firm and go, wait, this could work, because at this

925
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:41.559
point I was already like, well it doesn't work. I

926
00:56:41.599 --> 00:56:43.320
was already ready to throw it out because I was

927
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:47.079
already ready to move on to my dispensational approach, all right,

928
00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:50.320
So but then it made me go, well, wait a minute,

929
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.320
can I connect all of this together? And I think

930
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:56.239
you've already seen them already connecting it together. Am I not? Right?

931
00:56:56.679 --> 00:56:59.599
So this is so? Then I asked Ai, well, does

932
00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:03.920
this mean the theory wouldn't work? AI says, not necessarily,

933
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:07.159
but it would be limited. The theory that Mark three

934
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:09.480
is key to interpreting the soils in Mark four works

935
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:13.599
well within Mark's gospel, where the parable immediately follows examples

936
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.760
of diverse response to Jesus. However, it wouldn't mean that

937
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:20.199
this is the only way to interpret the Parable and Matthew.

938
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:24.199
The context of Matthew twelve, highlighting both rejection by the

939
00:57:24.199 --> 00:57:28.119
religious leaders and varied responses, can still provide a backdrop

940
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:32.719
for understanding the different soils. Matthew's gospel, like Marx, shows

941
00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:35.960
the tension between those who accept and those who reject

942
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:40.320
Jesus' ministry. Now, Ai goes on to say, but it says, hey,

943
00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:44.880
this could work. So here is my ultimate Are you

944
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.280
ready for I'm going to just summarize it. You're ready,

945
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:54.360
all right. The seed represents the message that went to Israel.

946
00:57:55.760 --> 00:58:01.440
The soils represent Israel's reaction to the message of the

947
00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:06.599
Kingdom and the Covenants, going all the way back to Exodus.

948
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.880
You do not get to the good soil until the

949
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:14.519
fulfillment of the New Covenant, where Israel is restored. They

950
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:16.679
receive a new heart. The heart of stone has been

951
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:19.480
replaced with a heart of flesh, and there is fruitfulness

952
00:58:21.039 --> 00:58:28.000
in Mark four and in Matthew thirteen. It flows from

953
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:35.039
responses of people of Israel to the living Word, to

954
00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:38.679
the incarnated Word that had been there, who had brought

955
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:44.679
the Kingdom message to them physically. And although those responses

956
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:51.880
parallel perfectly to Israel's historical responses, so primarily the entire

957
00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:55.320
parable is about Israel's response to the Kingdom and the Covenant,

958
00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:59.599
and they're never going to respond right until the New

959
00:58:59.639 --> 00:59:03.320
Covenant is fulfilled. So all of that combines to give

960
00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:06.119
us a picture of Israel. Where do we come in, Well,

961
00:59:06.159 --> 00:59:09.840
we don't start at Exodus. We'll say we start an acts.

962
00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:17.320
We have been redeemed from what the penalty and condemnation

963
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:19.760
of sin. I have to say that because if you

964
00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:22.199
go to any other church, everyone will say we've been

965
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:27.480
redeemed from the power of sin. I preach that forever. Okay,

966
00:59:27.639 --> 00:59:31.039
but if I any logical person should be able to

967
00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:34.360
figure out it kind of ticks me off that religion

968
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:38.599
makes us abandon logic. It kind of ticks me off,

969
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:42.119
right because any logical person. In fact, I struggled with

970
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:43.800
my whole Christian life. Well, if I've been delivered from

971
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:48.760
the power of sin, And why do all Christians tell

972
00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:50.920
me we can't be perfect? Well, if I can't be perfect,

973
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.159
the thing keeping me from being perfect is in power.

974
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:01.119
This is stupid. Oh sometimes Christianity it makes me mad.

975
01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:04.039
How stupid it made me? Right? Okay, so so, and

976
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:06.360
I don't blame it. It's just because when we get

977
01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:10.239
to religion, we stop thinking in normal terms, do we not? Right,

978
01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:13.000
We just stop thinking? So, but you gotta get your

979
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:16.079
thinking back. So to me, just parallels the same thing.

980
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:19.119
I was set free from the penalty and condemnation of sin.

981
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.159
But guess what, I still have a sinful heart. How

982
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:24.199
do I know I have a sinful heart because it's

983
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:28.760
from the sinful heart from which sin flows. If I sin,

984
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:35.159
I have a sinful heart. Do you see how that works, right,

985
01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:40.119
he does everybody understand that logical idea. Sarah's taught logic. Right,

986
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:44.280
that's a logical concept. Right? Do you sin? Where does

987
01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:49.679
sin come from? Therefore have a sinful heart? WHOA? That's

988
01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:52.800
basically I don't know why that is beyond Christians are

989
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.119
like like a cow looking at a new gate, like

990
01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:57.480
what is that? I don't know what that is because

991
01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:02.039
it's called logic. A sinful heart. Now, since we have

992
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:04.360
a sinful heart, what is gonna be true of your

993
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:08.000
entire Christian life? Are you ready? From your entire Christian life?

994
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.320
There's gonna be times you have a hardness to the

995
01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:12.440
things of God and listening to God and you kind

996
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.440
of do your own thing, right? I mean, come on?

997
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:18.239
Does the Bible say you should love God's word more

998
01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:22.159
than food and gold and silver? You know that? And

999
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:25.519
what sometimes? What's your reaction to that? Gonna do? What?

1000
01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:31.039
Where's Lacey? Do what I want? Lacy was teaching truth

1001
01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:36.159
theology before I was Okay, do what I want that.

1002
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:40.519
There's a truth to that. We all do that. That's

1003
01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:43.320
that hardness that's still there? Why is the hardness still there?

1004
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.079
We have a sinful heart? Oh wait, sometimes we're like

1005
01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:52.480
the rocky ground. We hear the sermon and we get excited.

1006
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:54.480
And there are times you get those those periods of

1007
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.039
excitement in your Christian life. Ooh, I'm gonna read, I'm

1008
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.840
gonna study, I'm gonna go to church, I'm gonna listen

1009
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:06.119
to sermons. Then the sun comes up. It's all the

1010
01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:10.519
excitement is gone. And in other times you're like, really going,

1011
01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:12.519
it's going really good. Man. You bought a new Bible,

1012
01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:15.079
you got a notebook, you've been listening, you've been praying,

1013
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:18.159
you've been man, things are going really good. And then

1014
01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:29.719
what happens life, work, sickness, life, emotions, care, and all

1015
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.719
of a sudden, thorns are all over the place, and

1016
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:38.599
what happens chokes it out. That's that, to me is

1017
01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:43.639
the Christian life. When do I want to get where

1018
01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:50.719
the ground is perfect and it's just fruit? Now I know,

1019
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:53.840
MacArthur says that's the normal Christian life out of his

1020
01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:59.719
ever living mind. I wanted it to be true. Look,

1021
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.320
make it very clear anyone listening to me online. I

1022
01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:06.039
want that to be true. I want it to desperately

1023
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:08.280
be true that I have a new heart, that I'm

1024
01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:11.559
a new creature. The oldest God. Everything is new. I

1025
01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:14.159
don't sin. All I care about is God. I don't

1026
01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:17.639
need anything else. I don't want anything else. My commitment,

1027
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.440
my contentment is found in Christ alone. That's all I

1028
01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:23.119
care about. That's all I want, That's all I need,

1029
01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:26.519
and I dedicate my life to it. That's I want. That.

1030
01:03:27.239 --> 01:03:34.360
It's never been that way. Why Because something in me

1031
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:49.880
is filled with lost adultree, blasphemy, wickedness, backbitding, gossip, slander, deceit, bitterness, hatred.

1032
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:56.960
All of that is inside where me, and it shows up.

1033
01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:02.280
Forget all. I've got all the external working against me,

1034
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:05.159
and I've got all the internal wanting, all the external.

1035
01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:15.800
But the day is coming. We're just like Israel. I'll

1036
01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:20.400
get a new heart, meaning my flesh will be removed.

1037
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:23.400
I'll get a new body, and that body will no

1038
01:04:23.480 --> 01:04:32.519
longer have what sinful nature. And then thirty sixty one

1039
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:38.960
hundredfold it'll be perfect. I wish it was now. We

1040
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:43.840
condemn charismatics for taking the promise of a new body

1041
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:49.760
in perfect healing and pulling it into the present. Every Christian,

1042
01:04:49.840 --> 01:04:53.760
you know, just like the charismatics. They take the promise

1043
01:04:53.800 --> 01:05:01.480
of glorification and pull it into the now, and they're

1044
01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:04.840
delusional to think that. What do I say about charismatics,

1045
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:07.920
I think they're insane. What do I say about charismatics,

1046
01:05:07.960 --> 01:05:10.360
I think they need mental health. They don't need theological health.

1047
01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:12.760
You think you hear from God, you think people are

1048
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.360
being here, you need counseling. Well, I think most of

1049
01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:19.079
our Christian friends need counseling because you think you're a

1050
01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:21.400
new creature and the oldest passed away and everything is new.

1051
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:23.719
But then five seconds later you say you still struggle

1052
01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:26.239
with sin? What sinner you struggling with? If you're a

1053
01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:29.320
new creature? Do you not utter sound how utterly insane

1054
01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:33.239
you sound? Do you not hear it? Well, I've got

1055
01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:37.800
a new heart. Well then why do you sin? Het?

1056
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:42.039
Do we sin? Where does sin come from the heart?

1057
01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:47.559
Therefore I have a sinful heart? Wow? Yeah, everybody should

1058
01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:52.840
write that or on the refrigerator. And You're Christian friends

1059
01:05:52.840 --> 01:05:58.840
will be like antinomian heretic. They'll just find some philological

1060
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:02.119
word they heard somewhere what it even means, but they

1061
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:05.599
can sound philo logical. You'll be like, no, I think

1062
01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:08.400
that's just the reality. I don't like it. I don't

1063
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:11.760
like the reality. Again, I want the reality. And so

1064
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:14.679
how did I convince myself? I convinced myself by saying,

1065
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:17.920
I read more, I study more, I listen to sermons more.

1066
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:20.400
I haven't missed church no matter what. I can work

1067
01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:23.039
all night and I still go to church. I'm better

1068
01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.840
I do it. I've been changed. But I had to

1069
01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:30.119
pick in reality. I had to pick what I was

1070
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:35.760
already good at in my flesh, and then amazing, sometimes

1071
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.599
the things were good at spiritually, or what we were

1072
01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:43.760
already good at. Isn't that true? Look, I was already

1073
01:06:43.800 --> 01:06:49.119
reading and studying. I didn't need Christianity for that. Christianity

1074
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:51.119
just now, get let me focus in a little bit

1075
01:06:51.119 --> 01:06:56.119
more on it, right, Okay, Right? I was always emotional

1076
01:06:56.119 --> 01:07:01.000
about people suffering, always bothered me. Okay, when now look,

1077
01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:04.599
I look, all of that is just my own fleshly thing.

1078
01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:09.199
Those things I was struggling with before I was saved.

1079
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:14.840
I still struggle with him. Oh come on, you can

1080
01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:18.679
be the same way. You can be the same way. Right.

1081
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:20.920
I don't know your personalities, but I bet some of

1082
01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:24.559
your personalities, some of those strengths were some of those

1083
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:28.639
strengths you already possessed before you got saved and some

1084
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:39.760
of those weaknesses are still there. Right, Oh me, all right,

1085
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:44.119
there's my new interpretation of Mark chapter four, the Parable

1086
01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:47.400
of the Sword. Does it make sense? Took us two

1087
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:49.239
hours to go through all of them. If you missed

1088
01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:52.559
the first hour, that's the dispensational one. The second hour.

1089
01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:55.480
I was referring to it as the Mark three is

1090
01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:58.679
the key version. But now I'm taking the Mark three,

1091
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.079
Mark twelve and cannecting it to the dispensational so that

1092
01:08:02.159 --> 01:08:05.840
it just adds layers to it. Matthew or Matthew. Matthew

1093
01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:10.599
twelve and Mark three simply show in real time the

1094
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.079
actual historical response to Israel, and now they're doing it

1095
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:29.560
while the word is actually present there. Oh okay, Tyles,

1096
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:34.640
good point. So we could say it's the historical response

1097
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:38.840
of human beings, right, and it's going to be that

1098
01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:44.039
way until glorification. I know that goes. I look, every Christian,

1099
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:46.520
I just I look. I have no problem admitting. I

1100
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:48.000
just want you to know because I don't want you

1101
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:50.880
tossed to and fro. Nobody will agree with my interpretation.

1102
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.720
Everyone will say I'm wrong. So don't think. Don't think

1103
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:56.800
anyone's going to agree but I just I've listened to

1104
01:08:56.800 --> 01:08:59.960
all the other interpretations and they're just circular reasoning and nonsense.

1105
01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:03.800
And then they convince themselves that they're the good soil,

1106
01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:05.840
and they aw and that's how it always ends. The

1107
01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:08.199
preacher and the people in the church think that they're

1108
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.159
the good soil producing all the fruit. And they'll say, well,

1109
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:13.239
it's not perfect. Well, then how did you become the

1110
01:09:13.239 --> 01:09:16.279
good soil? Well, I got a new heart. That's immediately

1111
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:19.880
where it falls apart. If you got a new heart,

1112
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:24.960
then you should be perfect. If you're not perfect, then

1113
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.000
you don't have You can't be the good soil unless

1114
01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:31.319
the good soil doesn't represent a new heart. So now

1115
01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:35.199
it comes even more convoluted, does it not? I A right?

1116
01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:38.520
So there you go, and the seed should go to everyone,

1117
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:41.600
no matter the condition of your heart, because it's the

1118
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:46.159
seed that ultimately works in the heart. All right, you

1119
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:47.760
don't have to get the heart right before you read

1120
01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:49.720
your bile. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard

1121
01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:51.319
in my life. All right, let's prayer. Look, got we

1122
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:55.960
com before you this afternoon, two long, very difficult hours

1123
01:09:55.960 --> 01:09:58.399
of trying to figure this out. Lord, we know that

1124
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:01.119
we have failed in the past understand it. We may

1125
01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:04.079
be felling right now, we may have spent two hours

1126
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:08.479
felling again to understand it. But Lord, we know we

1127
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:10.920
need to understand it because we can't understand any of

1128
01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:13.239
the other parables without it. So forgive us for our

1129
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:16.640
past misunderstanding, forgive us for maybe even our current misunderstanding.

1130
01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:20.159
The Lord, let us all just commit ourselves to continuing

1131
01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:23.239
to try to understand it because of the importance of it.

1132
01:10:23.279 --> 01:10:25.079
And we asked this in Jesus name, and God's people

1133
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:25.359
said