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How Then Will You Understand Any Parable?
Mark 4:1-20
Mr Jimmy Kuswadi
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Response Song >> Benediction
Sermon Outline
How Then Will You Understand Any Parable?
Mark 4:1-20
This is another sandwich style teaching. Whilst Matthew and Luke focus on the 4 types of soil in this parable, Mark wants us to focus on the filling of the sandwich. That filling is the question: are we insiders or outsiders? Insiders hang around Jesus and are hungry to know more, outsiders just leave after hearing an interesting story even if they don’t understand it.
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Prayer and Praise
Next Week: 21 May 2023
On The Road With Jesus: Who Touched My Clothes?
Mark 4:21-43
Mr Jimmy Kuswadi
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