Hey family, welcome to the house. We’re so glad you’re here and we are excited about this word that you are getting ready to receive. It’s going to bless you and change your life. And when God speaks to you and it resonates very deeply and there’s a promise, maybe something that you’ve been praying for and believing God for, I want you to sew a seed. Absolutely.
Whenever God meets me, I make it my personal commitment to sew a seed to build an altar. When there’s something in that message that you know the light turns on or it deals with something that you have been struggling with, there is something about having this practical manifestation of that response of what God just said to you. And for me, that comes when I sew a seed.
We love you. God bless you. Watch it to the end and then share this message with somebody. It’s going to change your life and hopefully many others. I want to go to the Gospel of St. Mark 12 verse 1-2 through 12 uh where we left off Sunday. Uh the gospel of St. Mark 12 verse 1 through 12 and uh if once you have it would you stand if you can put it on my monitor to make it easy for me. Thank you so much.
Thank you Jesus. Let let me preface this by saying they were always trying to set Jesus up. Always trying to set Jesus. I’m so glad for the Bible because the Bible lets you know what’s normal. There’s nothing new up under the sun. They were. And right before this, they were trying to set him up. And so Jesus said, they asked Jesus a question.
Jesus asked him a question. He answered a question with a question. He said, “Now if uh if if Is the baptism of John of God or not? And they were in a dilemma because they was they reasoned in themselves. If we say it’s not of God, the people are going to judge us. If we say it is of God, they’re going to want to know why didn’t we participate.
And Jesus had a way to kind of putting them in a stronghold. And he, what I like about him, he had a fierce clapback. Yeah. Yeah. Without being nasty or anything like that, he just had a way of clapping back. So this parable comes at the end of this deliberation and the parable is designed for them to see themselves because if he told them about themselves they would deny that it was true.
But a parable is designed that you can find yourself in the parable. And it’s been a while since I preached something on Sunday that so many people said they saw themselves in the text. Yeah, they saw themselves in the text and uh and that’s a good thing because if you can’t see yourself in the text, something is wrong.
The women used to bre beat brass and fill it with water and it became mirrors for them where they it said you don’t go to the word of God is the word of God is like a woman who goes over to the mirror and and forgets what manner of man she what manner or woman or what manner of man he saw.
The word of God is a looking glass for you to see yourself more clearly and understand yourself more dearly. So it starts out in the first verse. I got to go. Somebody said, “Would you please get past the first verse?” Cuz I could have stayed in the first verse all Sunday long.
