Snapshot10 Mark 4:21-34 “Is It Hidden?”
Community Group Questions
1. Have you ever had the opportunity to share the Gospel with a friend? What happened?
2. How does it make you feel to know that God is the one who makes the Gospel take root in a person’s life?
3. Who has helped you grow as a disciple of Jesus?
4. Have you had the opportunity to help another person grow as a disciple of Jesus?
5. Who in your life seemed to be the biggest “miracle”?
• We make the message known. Verses 21-25
Vrs 21 the question (observing everyday life)
Vrs 22 The Gospel brings things to light.
Some people will change when they see the light. Others change only when they feel the heat.
I want to help you feel the heat.
There is a problem with the world and us SIN (describe the crucifixion and how ugly sin is), The light is shed on the problem and we need to respond to the light. GOSPEL
Vrs 23-24a Listen up
Vrs 24b-25 We have a responsibility to make the Gospel known and God rewards those actions
The more you use your gifts the more the Lord will give you gifts to use…why? Because He knows His investment is being well used, you are a faithful steward. Remember the parable of the talents Matt 25:25-30 buried it.
Illustrations about the youth ministry and sharing the light.
Not only did sharing the Gospel benefit their friends it also benefitted them because now they had an entire crew of Christian friends.
I don’t share these things to say look at us look at our church look at the youth ministry. I share them to remind you and myself that this is a work of the Lord, which the next passage teaches us.
• Jesus makes the message take root. V 26-28
What did the guy do? Planted seed and went to sleep.
Vrs 27 It is a mystery how this happens, but it does. This is why we continue to proclaim the message… because we see the fruit of it.
This farmer would not continue to do what he was doing if it never worked. This does not mean what he was doing was not hard work, but in the end he sees fruit.
The same could be said of our efforts. We all have seen friends and family members or people in the community come to Jesus, we are not sure exactly how but we know it works.
Michael Pupin Inventor
Look at those cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
Vrs 28 The kingdom of God grows steadily even among and adverse environment.
• We are called to disciple.
Vrs 29 Discipleship, for us as Christians part of a church we can understand this point to be what we do with those who do come to know Jesus.
We disciple them!! We harvest the gifts that the Lord blessed them with and help them to understand how to use them, we help them grow by offering opportunities for growth.
DL Moody said it this way…”It is better to train ten people than to do the work of ten people. But it is harder.”
So now we are at the point in which we realize we share the GOSPEL Jesus impacts the hearts of people and makes that seed take root and now we have another job to harvest (disciple). But we have to understand that all this occurring is a miracle.
People we know becoming Christians, growing and learning and changing and being agents of change.
I have to say that the more you see this and are a part of this the more this becomes the norm in your life.
• We see the miracle
Vrs 30-34 and guess what it gets bigger then you can ever imagine or plan. Our problem is we plan and forget about being the light and planting the seed and allowing the Lord to do the work. We fall into the trap of thinking this entire thing depends on us…but it doesn’t
So we see in this parable a summation of what the message will do…it will grow bigger then you can ever imagine and it will be a miracle.
The amazing thing is if we are obedient and don’t hide it we can be a part of it.
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