Summary: <p class="chapter-1"><strong>If we hear and receive the Word correctly, we will always bear fruit.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Mark 4:1-20. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-41-20/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/mark-41-20/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Mark-4-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24322" class="text Mark-4-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:</span> <span id="en-ESV-24323" class="text Mark-4-3"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>“Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.</span></span><span id="en-ESV-24324" class="text Mark-4-4"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24325" class="text Mark-4-5"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24326" class="text Mark-4-6"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24327" class="text Mark-4-7"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.</span></span><span id="en-ESV-24328" class="text Mark-4-8"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24329" class="text Mark-4-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>And he said, <span class="woj">“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”</span></span></p> <p><span class="text Mark-4-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.</span> <span id="en-ESV-24331" class="text Mark-4-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>And he said to them, <span class="woj">“To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24332" class="text Mark-4-12"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>so that</span></span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Mark-4-12"><span class="woj">“‘they may indeed see but not perceive,</span></span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Mark-4-12"><span class="woj">and may indeed hear but not understand,</span></span></span><br> <span class="text Mark-4-12"><span class="woj">lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”</span></span></p> </div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"><span id="en-ESV-24333" class="text Mark-4-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And he said to them, <span class="woj">“Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24334" class="text Mark-4-14"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>The sower sows the word.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24335" class="text Mark-4-15"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-24336" class="text Mark"></span></p>
