Welcome to Edgemont Bible Church in Fairview Heights, Illinois, where our mission is to glorify God by guiding people into a discipleship relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Let's listen in to today's message by our pastor, Douglas A. White. We're going to be in Mark chapter 4, so if you want to turn your Bibles there. This week, what we're looking at is Jesus' explanation for the parable he gave last week. Last week, we looked at his talking about the seeds that he was sowing. And this week, we're going to look at what that means. But it's more than that, because this, I've entitled this series, Who's Listening? Because the real question isn't about the seeds, it's about Jesus is explaining to them why people are paying attention to him and why people aren't. He's explaining to them why there are people who are opposed to him. He's explaining to people, to his disciples especially, but he's doing so through parables. And he's calling on them to see just how much is God revealing to you. Now, I want you to get this picture. When Jesus was sent here, he was sent by the Father to declare the Father's wishes, to declare the Father's will, to declare the peace treaty, to declare what Father was calling. He's come to declare the kingdom of God. But he's coming as a human. And he has said that he would humble himself before the Father and not take upon himself all the faculties of being God. He's going to be God in the flesh, but he's submitted to the Father. So he's not going to act independently of the Father. But as he's doing what the father told him to do, the father has said, I'll draw people to you, I'll open it up, I'll show people what you're all about. So Jesus is going to spend some of his time testing people to see, what has my father shown you? What has my father shown you? Are you grasping it right now? Because Jesus is not going to count on his own intellectual abilities to convince people of the gospel. This is a teamwork thing. It's the Holy Spirit working in people's hearts. It's the Father drawing people to the Son. It's the Son speaking the truth. It's the Spirit of God opening them up. It's the Father revealing that truth. Everybody see where I'm coming from? It is a teamwork situation. Jesus is not doing this by himself. If you remember, after he was baptized, he was filled with the Spirit at that point. And it's the Spirit that's now going to empower him the rest of the way. May I tell you this? Why did he do it that way? Because he's calling on you to be just like him. You follow that? He's showing us what can be done to a human being that submits himself to God Almighty. He demonstrated by his very life what it is to have a Spirit-filled life. So if you would, in Mark chapter four, in verse 13, listen to what he says. And he said to them, because the disciples said, can you tell us what these parables mean? And he said to them, do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? How are you going to understand anything else I say from this point? What's he doing? So I want you to know in letter A, he tests how much revelation the disciples have been willing and therefore enabled to receive. He's asking this question, what has my father shown you? What has my father shown you? What have you learned so far? What has my father revealed to you? I'll show you how this worked in another situation. You'll remember this, where the disciples were talking to Jesus one day, and Jesus said to them, hey guys, got a question for you. Who do people say that I am? Oh, well, you're the prophet, you're this, you know, you're Moses come back, you're John the Baptist, you're all these things. Who do you say I am? Peter says, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And then Jesus responds, flesh and blood did not reveal this to you. In other words, intellectual arguments didn't show you that. It wasn't your observation that told you that. He said, flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. There's another episode where Jesus had been in Capernaum, Chorazin, a whole bunch of those cities that were along the lake, the Sea of Galilee. And they're seeing all the miracles and they're loving the miracles. And they even like some of his teaching. He taught really good stuff. And they loved his miracles. They loved seeing the demons flee. It was great. But when it came down to a commitment to him, they didn't have it. Jesus said to them, woe to you. Because Sodom's going to raise up one day. And when they do, they're going to have a better deal than you do. They didn't have all the revelation you did. And yet, They would have repented if they'd had what you did. You haven't got it. And then he said this, Father, thank you that you have revealed this to babes, but have hidden it from the wise and the intelligent. You understand where we're coming from? So I'm going to just start right now. Everything that we know about the living God should be coming through the living God. It's not just us talking together and having little intellectual philosophical discussions. It's God opening us and revealing these things to us. And that's why he's trying to show us what the soils were. That's what's so important about it. So he's asking this question. He tests how much revelation the disciples have been willing and therefore enabled to receive. Let me say this, number one, it's easy to get trapped in our own preconceived notions. It's easy to get trapped in our own preconceived notions, or as some might say, our presuppositions. We do not like to think outside the box they create. So I call that our comfort zone. And all I mean is simply this. You pick up little things along the way. And so have the disciples. Disciples have picked up things about what the Messiah was going to be like. That the Messiah was going to be somebody who rides in on a horse and runs the Romans out and sets up a new Jewish kingdom that's to rule the world. That's what they're expecting to come from the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, so they're not seeing the horse just yet. But they are seeing that he's got power. He's got angels. He's got everything that he needs. But their preconceived notions kept them from understanding what is the real mission of Messiah. That kept them from listening to what Messiah is having to say and let Him tell them what to do. That's why they're going to argue with Him when He says, you know, I'm going to be going to Jerusalem. I'm going to be taken captive there. They're going to put me on trial. They're going to crucify me. And they're arguing with him about it. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what we're going to let happen. No, no, no. We know that you're the Messiah that's going to take it out. Why? Because they had a preconceived notion. And with that preconceived notion, they were not listening to anything else. Brothers and sisters, can I tell you, we have preconceived notions and lots of them. We have things that we think God should be doing. This is how God ought to do this. This is how God ought to do that. This is something Ron Broadwater and I, one year, To be in this building right now took more than many of you will ever get to know because that was all a bunch of very internal things that were going on. I had already said we had a big building project in mind and it was coming up close to a million or so dollars. And I knew I already had a conviction that we couldn't do anything without having the money. And I knew we didn't have a million dollars, but I stretched the imagination. So I just had said, guys, I can't do this. And it scrapped the whole building program. Everybody just got upset. And I said, no, no, no. You don't have to have me as the pastor. I'm just telling you, I'm not a fundraiser. I don't know how to raise funds. I'm not even willing to learn. I've seen all kinds of things like that, but I don't know how to raise funds. So, I'm not going to be under the gun every week of the $20,000 of payment for this month and trying to say, rah, rah, rah, you're not doing good. Let's get whatever we need up here because we got to get $20,000. I'm going to live under that. That's not freedom. That's burden. Well, that scrapped the whole building program. So, man, I was really feeling dumb because I had wiped out everything for this congregation. So I went down to see my dad. My dad told me at 16, at 17 years old, when I had surrendered to be a preacher, he said something that stuck with me. Son, you ain't cut out for that. Okay. All right. So? I kind of toyed with the idea. I tried to go ahead with the pastor thing, but I knew it didn't have Dad's support in the thing. So, now this is a number of years later, because this was early 90s, something like that. I went down to see Dad to say, you know, Dad, I want to quit. I have ruined it for these people. They want a building, and I can't give it to them. I just can't be a pastor like that. But Dad, if I wasn't cut out for this, what was I cut out for? He said, well, I might not know everything. He said, it does look like you could teach a little bit. He said, I don't know if you're suited for the rest of it, but you can teach a little bit. So I told him I want to quit. He said, are those people out of debt? I said, well, no, sir. You can't go until they're out of debt. What? You told him you'd help him get out of debt. I said, okay. Well, he said, so you're telling me you're a little depressed right now? No, sir, I'm really depressed right now. And he said, bad time, make a decision, don't do it. I get a phone call from Vance Lineberger, some of you won't remember Vance, and it says, Pastor, we think you're ready to quit. Yeah, don't quit. What if we could build a church with the money we have right now? That sounds good to me. Would you stay? Yeah, I'd stay. So I did. And they did. That's the building you're in right now. It went up debt free. And one day, Ron Broadwater and I were standing just about right over there, looking at a skeletal structure over here, and he's saying, who would have thought this would come up? This is really something, isn't it? And he said this, Doug, we have been trapped by sovereignty. Trapped by sovereignty. You see, we've all had preconceived notions of what this building ought to be, about how the ministry ought to go, all these kind of things is, but God just took our little heads and went, whoop, go this way. And none of us really wanted to go that way. But that was what God did. That's what I mean by this. When you're trapped in your own preconceived notions, you can't hear God's word. That's why he says, I give grace to the humble. That's why he says that the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are poor in spirit, who don't think they know everything, who don't think they've got all the answers already. The disciples thought they had things figured out. They didn't. And many of the people they were working with here didn't either. Number two, it is difficult, if unaided by the Spirit of God, to grasp divine revelation due to the trap of preconceived ideas and are bent away from Him. It's hard to understand what God means. 1 Corinthians 2.14 says, the natural man cannot receive the things of God. Romans 8, 5 and 8, 5 through 8, say that there are those who walk in the flesh and those who walk in the Spirit. Those who walk in the flesh only mind the things after the flesh. Those who walk in the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. He said those who walk with the flesh are dying. The ones who walk after the Spirit have everlasting life with the Lord Jesus Christ. The ones who walk in the flesh cannot please God. It's difficult, impossible to receive the things of God if you're going to walk in the flesh. Can't be done. That's the preconceived notions. Number three. He is not working independently of the members of the Trinity, counting on his reasonable presentation to be convincing of the truth. Kingdom truth is a teamwork objective. Fair enough? So then Jesus gets started, since he's asked us in this question, he's trying to figure out how much have you understood. So let me tell you what the parable means. See if you can follow this. Are you listening to what the Father says? Do you have ears open so you can hear what the Father says? The sower sowing the word, all right? He says, the sower sows the word. So let me just start with that. Explain the characters of the parable. The sower is someone actively presenting the Word of God. Notice, the sower is sowing the Word. He's not just got a nice big bag full of it talking about what a wonderful bag of stuff I got. Can I tell you this? We have this treasure hidden in earthen vessels, but it is a treasure to be shared. What we have, the Word of God, must be shared. every kind of situation. Not just about Jesus Christ as Lord. Sometimes it means you can't do that. The Word of God forbids that. The Word of God says we can do this. The Word of God says praise the Lord. We have a huge bag full of seed and that the sower, he says, is the one who's actively sowing the seed. So get busy is what he's saying. So he says that he's actively sowing the Word. Go on with me further. And these are the ones by the wayside where the Word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that is sown in their hearts. So it fell on this ground. It's by the wayside. It's hard ground. And because it's hard ground, the seed doesn't go anyplace. So when people have a hard heart already, and they're not ready to receive the Word, Satan takes it away immediately. He comes right down and snatches it away. Now if I can go on a little further with that, these are not people who are doubters. These are not agnostics. These are deniers. It's not doubters, it's deniers, okay? So that's number two in your Outline there, those beside the road are those not willing to receive the word and Satan takes it away quickly. They're not doubters, they're deniers. I'm sure you've run across people just like that. I went to speak to a man one day and I was talking to him about the Lord Jesus Christ and he just stopped me right, looked me right square in the face and said, don't even go there. I don't want to know any of that stuff. I've heard all I'm going to hear, not going to hear it. That's this one. He's along the roadside. He doesn't want to hear it at all. It's taken away from him immediately, all right? Number three in your outline. Jesus says this. These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness, and they have no root in themselves, so they endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. Let's just, let's go back to that little seed thing. When that little seed falls on where a shallow soil is, the sun's there immediately. Any water that comes on it, it's going to sprout up right away. But it doesn't have any place to go. And because it doesn't have any place to go to get more nutrients, there's nothing deeper there for it. The sun comes up, hits it, it burns it up. It's just going to be dehydrated immediately, and it won't live anymore. That's what happens to people who, when they hear the Word of God, listen, you've run across this yourself many times. You've told somebody the Word of God, and they got all excited about it. Wow, that really sounds good, because it meets an immediate need. What do you mean? Things falling apart for me? If I just trust Jesus, they'll be back together again? No, I can't promise you that exactly, but I think they will. So they trust Jesus for that immediate need. And if that immediate need gets met, they're done. They don't go any further because they have nothing they're committed to. They won't go any further with it. I bet you run across people just like that. You told them the gospel, you told them wonderful things about the gospel, and they received it right away. They were glad to have it. It was great news it was, but they didn't go anywhere with it. because they had an immediate need, it met the immediate need, now it's done. There are others I ran into in college, who when they'd hear the word, they liked the word they were hearing, that's really cool, and then it might come up two weeks later, or not even two weeks, two days later, saying, do you think aliens maybe are the ones that planted the pyramids? I'm thinking, what? How did you go from the gospel of Jesus Christ saving your soul to wondering if aliens put the pyramids up? Then I realized, this reminds me of Acts chapter 17, there were people who hung around all the time to hear any new thing. Any new thing they can hear sounds wonderful. So I got to hear this, this gospel sounds really cool. Oh, by the way, did you hear what the Hindus do? They do some really cool stuff too. And I love the mystics over here. Oh goodness, just get back to the truth. But they can't. because they're in that stony ground and the sun's burning them up. Brand new ideas, wipe them out. So if I can say it this way, the rocky soul folks are those who, when hearing the word, see it as an innovative, fresh idea and grasp it. But due to no commitment and implications, do not follow it. and it dies with them because they cannot resolve it with their troubles and reputation onto the next faddish idea. Yeah, that was cool for a while, but I'm onto this right now. This is what I'm doing right now. I've become Har Krishna. Number four. Number four in verse 18, now these are the ones sown among thorns. They are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitful of riches, and the desires of other things enter in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Number four, those who like the word and took it in while among the thorns are those who cannot get past their own desires and lust to have things here. They cannot see beyond this current world system long enough to envision the kingdom of God. They let the word die for lack of attention. They hear it. It really sounds good to them. They even receive it for a while. Matter of fact, like the plant would be this planted among the thorns, it's got some depth to it. And so it does come up. It's now a green plant, kind of spindly, but it's a green plant. It's coming up. It's never going to go to fruit. Because the cares that it has, there are some who would like to trust Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, they make a profession of faith. Now, I want to just say this as one word of caution. A profession of faith is not faith. Okay? A profession of faith is not faith. Now, I'm saying that because we're anxious to get a profession of faith. If we can just get somebody to say, yep, I believe him, then we're done. We feel like they're forever saved. That's not true. These soils are demonstrations of it. Do you follow where I'm coming from? God's looking for fruit. It's got to be fruit. Fruit comes from continuous stuff, not from a profession. After somebody makes a profession, then we start putting pressure on them that they've got to act like that now. From now on, you've got to act like that. You made a profession. I heard you. You said it. Now you've got to keep acting right, and I'll tell you how to act right. That's hypocritical. You don't know whether they trusted anything at all. You don't know if they just trusted to get you off their back. I think I have seen people in the past that I've presented the gospel to, and I think they said, yes, just so I'd stop talking about it. Once you had that little decision made, then there's nothing else to talk about. But there was no hunger. They didn't want the Word. They couldn't go any further. They didn't want to be around other believers. What was going on with that? Something was wrong. The cares of this world choke them out. The desires they have to be successful here oftentimes choke out the value of the word of God. Everybody follow where I'm at? If you are, kind of go like this a minute. All right, all right, good enough. We're fundamentalists and I don't want you to say hallelujah, okay? All right. Praise the Lord, don't say that either. Amen means let it be. All right, let's pick up this last one, number five. He says this in verse 19, I'm sorry, 20. But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit, some 30 fold, some 60, some 100. Do you hear that? That when people receive the word, it doesn't all produce the same thing. It produces fruit, but it's not always the same quantity. You are not responsible to produce the same quantity everybody else does. You're responsible to produce the fruit that your plant is capable of in the area and the stuff you're in. Does that make sense? So let me just, the good ground folk are the ones who take in the word and let it do its work in spite of the challenges presented in this current world. They stick it out to bear fruit. Now, they have yielded to the plow of life to break them into ground that can receive the gift of the word." Now look, here's what I mean by plow of life. I put that in parentheses because that's a Dougism. That's one I don't know of anybody else who uses that one, but I use it because it's about seeds and about soils, okay? The plow of life is the circumstances that come up in your life. That you are not just a random thing happening in this world. There is a living God that's walking with you where you go. He teaches sinners in a way. Sometime read Psalm 25 and you'll see what I'm talking about. He teaches sinners in the way they're going. He is the one who has got compassion, long-suffering, and mercy, and knows that foolishness is bound on a heart from childhood. and that we're gonna make foolish decisions unless something turns us. Well, there's gotta be something that turns us, and I just call it the plow of life. It's the things that come up in our life that dig deep into us. It's the things that break us. It may be that time when you finally came to your senses and realized you're not all that you thought you were. Matter of fact, what you thought you were just fell apart in maybe a job interview. Maybe you thought you were really qualified for a job. You went for the job interview, and just a few questions into it, you realized, good grief, I can't answer any of these questions. I sound like a dummy. And that was enough to break you. Maybe it was a relationship that went sour that you thought was really a good relationship, but the plow of life was digging right into you, and you got through that relationship, realized, they weren't really committed to me at all. They weren't loving me, they were loving a few good times or whatever else could be had, but they were loving me. Ouch, who am I? And you begin to feel it. Sometimes the plow of life is when you're alone by yourself at night and you realize, man, my life has fallen apart. Maybe you're looking for anything out there that you could redeem yourself with, anything out there that could say, this is my good reputation, this is what I have, and you're looking to realize, and nobody feels the way I do. They don't look at my life as a good reputation. As a matter of fact, most of them don't look at my life at all. I'm the one looking at me, not them. Some of them don't even know I exist. I know I was, I had this best buddy all through high school. And we lost track of each other over the years. And I finally found his sister. I asked his sister, could I talk to you? Oh, yeah, yeah. Here's his phone number. I called him and I said, you know, I really appreciate you so much. I'm so glad to get in touch with you again. And you were my best friend. And he said, that's not the way I saw it. What? We were always in competition with each other. What? Yeah. And now, nearly 50 years, this was high school, so that's 50 years ago. Nearly 50 years later, I'm scratching my head and saying, I've lived 50 years thinking he was my best friend. Was I ever wrong? How did I come to that conclusion? And I looked back and thought, how many others that I thought were my friends weren't at all? I was more alone than I realized. That's my sympathy story. You're supposed to now go, Pastor I feel for you. Not at all. I'm just telling you the plow of life goes through that soil and it breaks it up for what reason? Seed. The seed of the Word of God. Because your friends are never going to redeem you. There's not a single relationship you're ever going to have that's going to get you into heaven except the one with the Lord Jesus Christ. There's not an event going on in your life. There's not a reputation that you have in life that's ever going to get you anywhere except where that reputation got you. It'll never get you into God. But the Word. Oh, that Word. When it gets in there, it changes you. You become a whole new person, and a plant starts coming up out of you, and you start to grow up. Is there wind? Yes. Is there sun? Yes. Is there thorns? Yes. All of those things are out there. But this is more important. And you're committed to this one thing. You're gonna let the Word of God abide in you. Your soil of your heart was broken up by the plow of life. And instead of trying to resist the plow, instead of trying to fight the plow, as the other did, no, you're letting it work through your life. And now you're ready to receive the Word. And the same plower that plowed it up is now saying, here's a little rain. Here's a little nutrient for you, son. This is what I got for you here. Here's the right kind of light for you right here. You're going to produce some fruit. No, I'm going to say, you're going to bear some fruit. Okay. Let me go on further with you. Here's some observations. It's the seed that has the power of life, not the soil. The soil is the medium in which it's planted. So let me just say this. You don't have the power of life. The seed planted in you has the power of life. If I can say this, you're born dead and you're going to die that way if you don't have life in you. All right. Number two. The ground bears the fruit of the seed. The ground does not produce the fruit. It is the end process of the seed. The fruit that God wants isn't coming from you. You're the medium that it's sitting in. The fruit that God wants is coming from the seed. That's the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God that's planted in you. If you have that medium, let's let it sit there and abide there. That fruit that comes up, that fruit that's produced, is coming from the seed, not from us. Further. The fruit is produced by the seed in the ground that lets the seed abide in it. That's why Jesus says to me, you can do nothing apart from me. Unless you abide in me, you cannot bear fruit. It is an ongoing action and it is to be seen as such. Number four, only the good soil can be commended for allowing the seed to finish its product. God's not looking for pretty plants. Obviously in the first one, when Satan took it away, that seed didn't get to do anything. In the second one, when it's on stony ground, it came up quick, but went away. Never got to be fruit. On the third ground, when the thorns choked it out, it never got to be fruit. God planted for fruit. Does that make sense? He's looking for fruit. Because that's the stuff that comes from him. That comes from a person that's yielded to that seed, that's yielded to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how fruit comes. We used to put a sign up here that said, fruit happens. And that's a correct estimation. Fruit happens when you abide in Christ, fruit happens. You don't produce it. If you're producing it, you're trying to save yourself by works. That isn't the way it works. You are abiding in Christ, and Christ produces fruit, and you bear it. Going a little further with it here. Jesus is the light brought into the world to give it the understanding the darkness has hidden. So, since this is all about who's listening, since this is all about how is God revealing things, I want you to come to look at verse 21. Also he said to them, is a lamp brought to be put under a basket, under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lamp stand? So he's asking, why do you think I'm doing things publicly? Why do you think I'm out here where I can be seen by everybody? I am the light of the world. I have come here to give light in all the darkness out here. It would be a mistake to cover me up. Do you understand that's exactly what the others are trying to do, is cover me up. Even my own family is trying to cover me up. The demons want to cover me up. They don't want me to be seen. The scribes are trying to completely malign me so that you'll be covered up. You won't be looking at me. And the Pharisees and the Herodians are trying to kill me so that I'll completely be gone. He didn't come to be hidden. He's come to be a light. And now he's trying to find out from the disciples, are you listening? Are you going to let that speak to you? Are you going to understand what this parable? Would you say that you're this kind of soil or that kind of soil? Are you worried? Paul writes about a guy, Demas, who was with him and was doing good work. But then he said, all of a sudden, Demas has forsaken me. He's gone. Having care for this world. Here's a thorny ground dude. He cared for this world and making it good in this world, and he walked away from the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said that about many rich people, that their concern for the riches of this world, they have stowed their faith away. I ask this question this day. Who's listening? Who's paying attention? What kind of soil are you? Are you letting it stick? Are you letting it abide? For that's the only kind that'll produce fruit. Are you allowing the Word of God to have fruit in you? When little things come up that seem like objections, are you noting whether they're your preconceived notions? And if they are, which of those have to be cast away? Which of those do you need to say, you know, I've always thought this, there's no reason for me to think that at all. Jesus says it's this way, and Jesus is the truth. Father, thank you for who Jesus Christ is. Thank you that he is the truth. And thank you that he is the one who saved us and redeemed us. Thank you that he's the one who speaks the truth. He's the sower of the word. We want to be people who follow him. So please open our hearts to the truth of this. In Jesus' name and for his sake. Amen. You may have come across something today and you may say, wow, I don't know where I'm at in this whole situation. Now hear me out. Life is not about what you do at this moment. It's a whole that you're looking at. Maybe for a few weeks here, maybe a few months, maybe a little while, you've kind of been in one of those slumps where you've not really been putting trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. You got all bothered by the events of the world going on around or maybe some pursuing some relationship or pursuing this any number of things and it's got you off track. What's beautiful about the Lord Jesus Christ is how easy it is to get back on track. This is the most wonderful Savior you could possibly have. You can't be employed by an employer like this one, who's got, gave you all the tools, gave you everything you need, and now says, come on back, use my tools. I got them right here. Here's your workshop. Come on home. Why mess around out there any longer? If you've got enough sense to know that that's what happened to you, then use enough sense to come on home. Put trust in him today. Start again. You've got everything to gain and nothing to lose. Don't look over your shoulder and say, yeah, but forget that. Nothing you can do about that. You can't change it all, but you sure can change what's in front of you. So move ahead. Father, thank you so much for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for what you're doing in each of our lives. We give you praise that you gave us such a Savior as this in the Holy Spirit and the Word of God and your precious promises and trust. What a great gift trust is. Father, thank you for that. Now we ask that you'd bless us and as we depart here together in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen. We hope God has encouraged you with today's message by Pastor White. Thank you for joining us at the Edgmont Bible Church. We'd love to have you visit us if you're ever in the area. For directions, more information, or to support the ministry of Edgmont Bible Church, please go to our website at edgmontbiblechurch.org. That's edgmontbiblechurch, all one word, dot org. 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