1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome back to How to Say the Bible. 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: I'm your host, Nicole, and it's been so fun to 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 2: study Gospel of Mark with you. I've been really enjoying 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: it in my own personal study as well, and I've 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: been loving hearing from you guys, So always reach out. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: You can find my email in the show notes if 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: you have any questions, if you want to share any 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: of your own revelations that you've been learning as we've 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,639 Speaker 2: been in the Gospel together, and of course you can 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: always share this episode whether you're here on YouTube or 12 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: any of your audio platforms, if you want to invite 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: a friend. This is a really really good place for 14 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 2: people who are curious about faith but maybe not committed, 15 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: maybe kind of wondering about who Jesus is. 16 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: I love love. 17 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 2: Coming to the Gospel of Mark is a great starting point. 18 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: So today we're going to be in Mark chapter four, 19 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: So even if you're joining us for the first time, 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: you can just jump into Mark chapter four and go 21 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: backward from here. By just know that Mark is an 22 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 2: action gospel. Everything that we're reading is going to be 23 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: a lot of quick movement, but we're going to see 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: a change here in what we're learning today from all 25 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,199 Speaker 2: of the action that we've been seeing up to this point. 26 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: So I've titled this chapter how to Be Wealthy, and 27 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: we're going to look at some of the things that 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: Jesus thought were so important to teach, because this chapter 29 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 2: really is focused on Jesus's teaching. So if you turn 30 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 2: to mark chapter four, if you haven't read it yet, 31 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: definitely pause the podcast, take a look, maybe jot some 32 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 2: of your own notes, and make sure you understand, Okay, 33 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 2: what's happening here, what does this really say? And any 34 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: time that you pay attention to the Bible, you should 35 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 2: expect to have questions. The Bible is full of layers. 36 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: What's beautiful about the way scripture works is that there 37 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: are things that you can grab out of the top 38 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: of it, even if you don't know very much at all, 39 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: and you haven't been studying the scriptures, are understanding the 40 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: faith at all, there's always something there for us. Of course, 41 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: think of John three sixteen that so many people know, 42 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: for God so loved the world that he gave his 43 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish 44 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: but have eternal life Like that is right there for 45 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 2: the taking it's very very clear to understand. But as 46 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: you become a student of the Scripture, and as you 47 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: become a student of the Word, you're going to see 48 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: that there are layers, layers, layers of understanding that are 49 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: here this book. So you know, the Bible is a 50 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: series of sixty six books that we're put together over 51 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: the course of sixteen hundred years. This is many different authors, 52 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: and yet they're telling this cohesive story about a God 53 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: who loves his people, who intervenes on their behalf so 54 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: that he might be in a relationship with them and 55 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: that we might experience the fullness of our life, both 56 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: here on earth and in eternity. And that is the 57 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: big story. So in the midst of the little stories 58 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: that we read in the chapters in the gospels, we 59 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: also know that we're talking about a bigger story of 60 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 2: what's really happening here, so we can address those layers. 61 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 2: That's a long way of me say to you that 62 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: if you are a student of the Word, you should 63 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: have questions virtually every time you come to Scripture. There 64 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: really probably isn't a place where you might not have 65 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: like a huh, I wonder about that, Like I wonder 66 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 2: what that meant to the original listeners. I wonder about 67 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: that concept. I wonder why Jesus did that, Like, why 68 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 2: are these things happening? There's a lot of mystery here, 69 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: and we have to be okay with being a little 70 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: uncomfortable with what we know and don't know when it 71 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: comes to the Bible, because we're not mastering the scriptures. 72 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: The scriptures are reading us. 73 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 2: We're not in a position to be like, I'm going 74 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: to be able to lock this thing down and understand 75 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: all of it. I want you to know because the 76 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: Bible is living and active, it is reading us. That's 77 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 2: Peter Kraft is actually the one who said that as 78 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 2: you are reading the Bible, it is in fact reading you. 79 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 2: And so this is an engagement with a letter that 80 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: is a relationship right that points us to a relationship 81 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 2: with God, which is what this is ultimately about. We're 82 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: not here to just be built up in knowledge. We're 83 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: here to be built up in love. And so if 84 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: the Word of God is not true transforming your life 85 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 2: on an everyday basis, then it's something's not right. We're 86 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: not here to just gather Bible knowledge so that we 87 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: can be people who are good at Bible trivia, or 88 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: we can be people who feel good about ourselves because 89 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: we know more than the person next to us. That's 90 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 2: not what this is about at all. This is absolutely 91 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: about a discovery where God is drawing us closer to 92 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: the heart of Him, where he is offering direction, a framework, understanding, purpose, 93 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 2: belonging comfort through his word. So every time we come 94 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: to his word, there are layers of understanding, and we 95 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 2: might be right here at the top, or we might 96 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 2: be students of the Word for decades and we're finding 97 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: new things to discover. So we're going to ask those 98 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 2: questions of the scriptures every time we come. So here 99 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 2: we are in chapter four. Hopefully you've read it by now, 100 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 2: and this is how chapter four opens up. It says 101 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd 102 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: that gathered around him was so large that he got 103 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: into a boat and sat in it out on the 104 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: lake while all the people were along the shore at 105 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 2: the water's end edge. And he taught them many things 106 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: by parables. And then we're going to go into these parables. 107 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 2: So this is my first stopping point where I underlined 108 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: verse two. He taught them many things by parables, and 109 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: you might ask the question, why why did Jesus always 110 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: teach in parables? So why was he always teaching in stories? 111 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: And there's a couple of different reasons and ways that 112 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: we might understand that, which we're going to get into 113 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: for a minute. But first of all, when we just 114 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 2: asked the question, what does it say, we're just writing 115 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: down questions that we have. And then we're going to 116 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 2: hear about parables. And this is a very this might 117 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: be kind of one of the top two parables that 118 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: people know is the parable of the Seed and the 119 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 2: sower and the parable of the prodigal sun. The seed 120 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: and the sower is here, so we're going to read 121 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: about the parable of the seed and the sower. And 122 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 2: actually we're going to get the explanation of what this 123 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: parable means as well, because when Jesus goes away with 124 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: his twelve disciples, they ask him what it means. So 125 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 2: we're going to get an understanding of what that parable means. 126 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: And then we're going to hear about a lamp on 127 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 2: a stand, the parable of the growing seed, the parable 128 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: of the mustard seed. And then Jesus is going to 129 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: calm the storm that his disciples are in. So most 130 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 2: of the chapter is going to be on these stories, 131 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: these parables. Now, what a parable means is it actually 132 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 2: is the same word that we use. If you remember, 133 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 2: if you were in calculus in high school, the word parabola. 134 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: It was like that. 135 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: If you remember what a parabola looks like, it kind 136 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: of looks like an arch And the concept of a 137 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 2: parabola or a parable is two things lying side by side. 138 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 2: And so the idea here is that Jesus is going 139 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: to throw down an analogy that would make sense to 140 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: the listeners at the time in order to illustrate a 141 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 2: spiritual truth on one side. Is the analogy on the 142 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: other side as the spiritual truth. So we want to 143 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 2: know that with a parable, there is always going to 144 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: be that concept that this thing is not. Jesus is 145 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: not like recounting facts. He's not a journalist talking about 146 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: something that happened yesterday. He's telling a story. He's using 147 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: a story to illustrate a spiritual truth. To connect from 148 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: the story to the spiritual truth takes what well. It 149 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: takes attention, it takes curiosity, it takes openness. And so 150 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 2: perhaps many commentators would say one of the reasons that 151 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: Jesus spoke in parable parables is because he was asking 152 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 2: the question, are you interested enough to discover what this 153 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: actually means. Jesus wasn't going to lay down doctrine and 154 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: sort of nail truths down like this, and in fact, 155 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: many the ways that we teach today. Jesus was like, 156 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a story, and it's going to 157 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 2: be a story that sticks with you. It's going to 158 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 2: be a story that you think about. It's going to 159 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,119 Speaker 2: be a story that might evoke emotion or provoke thought. 160 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: And the question is are you willing to wrestle with 161 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: what that story means? And these parables are powerful and 162 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,559 Speaker 2: what we have here, and the reason why I titled 163 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 2: this how to Be Wealthy is that we have parables 164 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: of abundance Happy Day in March chapter four. Every single 165 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: one of these stories, the sower and the sea, the light, 166 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: the growth of the kingdom, the mustard seed, all of 167 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: these are stories of abundance, about surprising ways that things multiply. 168 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: And specifically, when we read about parable of the Sower 169 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: and the Seed, we know what Jesus is talking about 170 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: because he describes it to his disciples, and we know 171 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: that he's talking about what happens in people's heart as 172 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 2: they receive the word of God. So let's read the parable. 173 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 2: I'm gonna read this part of the chapter to you 174 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about what does it mean for us. Okay, 175 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 2: So in verse three it says this, Listen, a farmer 176 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 2: went out to sow his seed, and as he was 177 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: scattering the seed, some fell on the path, and the 178 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 2: birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky 179 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: places where it did not have much soil. It sprang 180 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: up quickly because the soil was shallow, But when the 181 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 2: sun came up, the plants were scorched and they withered 182 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, 183 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: which grew up and choked the plant, so they did 184 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: not bear grain. Still, other seed fell on good soil. 185 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: It came up, grew and produced a crop. Some multipli thirty, 186 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: some sixty, some one hundred times. And then Jesus said, 187 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: whoever has ears to here, let him hear. And this 188 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 2: is something that Jesus would often say, and this is 189 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: kind of the invitation. He's like, Hey, I've laid down 190 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 2: something for you. Are you interested enough? Are you curious enough? 191 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: Are you open enough to want to wrestle with. 192 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: What this means? 193 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: And so he leaves the crowd with that parable. And 194 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: remember this would have been very real to them. This 195 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 2: is an agrarian culture, so everyone would know what it 196 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: meant to scatter seed. And it wasn't just about being 197 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 2: like a person who wants to have a nice looking yard. 198 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 2: This would be sustenance. This would be provisioned. This would 199 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 2: be their economy. Like if you can't grow food, you 200 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 2: can't eat. So this would be very real on what 201 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 2: you're doing with seed and how you are cultivating soil 202 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 2: so that seed can produce, because you want to be 203 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: able to produce for your family, but also produce so 204 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 2: that you have money so that you can sell something 205 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 2: in the market, so that you have an opportunity for 206 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: agency for wealth. Right, and so this would be very 207 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 2: real to the listeners of the day, not maybe as 208 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: close to us, but let's keep in mind that that 209 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 2: would be sort of the spirit of the parable. And 210 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: then Jesus says, let if you've have you ears to hear, 211 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: you can hear this. But then the disciples say to him, 212 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: can you teach us about what this means? And so 213 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 2: Jesus says, do you not understand? How are you going 214 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 2: to not If you can't understand this parable, how are 215 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: you going to understand any parable. Jesus does not play 216 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 2: like we've talked about in this other gospels, like he's 217 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 2: looking right at them, like, are you guys focused. 218 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: On what is actually happening here? 219 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 2: But he of course explains the parable to them, and 220 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 2: this is what it says. Starting in verse fourteen, the 221 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: farmer shows the word, So immediately we're like, okay, we 222 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: don't have to go deep on levels here to understand. 223 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,079 Speaker 2: Jesus is making it really clear if this parable is 224 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 2: not anything, It's not about anything except for this concept 225 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: of hearing what Jesus is teaching, of understanding what God 226 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 2: has said to us. So many of us are like, oh, 227 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 2: if God would only speak to me, Like if God 228 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 2: would just tell me. 229 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: What to do, I would do it. 230 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: And I'm like, y'all, God has told us what to do. 231 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: He gave us this huge book we have the. 232 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: Opportunity to read, to learn, to wrestle together, to discern, like, yes, 233 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 2: God does speak specifically and the Spirit does move us 234 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 2: in specific directions, but how will you know God's voice 235 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 2: if you don't know what it sounds like. The way 236 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: we know what God's voice sounds like is by being 237 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 2: in the thing that He gave us. And so Jesus 238 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: is like, Okay, I'm gonna make it really clear. This 239 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: is about the word. Like this whole parable is about 240 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: what happens to the Word of God in your soul. 241 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: It says. 242 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: The farmer shows the word, and some people are like 243 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 2: seed along the path where the word is sown, and 244 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 2: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes 245 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 2: away the word that was sown in them. And others 246 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: are like seeds son in rocky places. They hear the 247 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: word and at once receive it with joy, and since 248 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 2: they have no root, they last only a short time. 249 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 2: When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they 250 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 2: quickly fall away and sot. Others, like seeds sown among thorns, 251 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 2: hear the word verse nineteen. But the worries of this life, 252 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things 253 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 2: come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 254 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: Meaning. 255 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: The word is there, it is growing, it is it's living, 256 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 2: but it's not manifesting in any abundance. At all, it's 257 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 2: not showing any fruit. And then finally, others, like seeds 258 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 2: sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it and 259 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 2: produce a crop some thirty, some sixty, some one hundred 260 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 2: times more. 261 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: Than what was sown. 262 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: Now, this is a very convicting parable and I think 263 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 2: also it can really throw us off. We might immediately 264 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: ask ourselves, well, kind of see tom My, we're what 265 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: kind of see to my? How am I receiving the word? 266 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: But remember this is an ongoing process, This is an 267 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 2: ongoing way of being. There can be times where things 268 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 2: are snatched from you, and there can be times when 269 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: things are fruitfully abundant, and we have to ask ourselves, well, 270 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 2: what can anyone do? In this passage, it feels very 271 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 2: passive in many ways, like Jesus is just talking about 272 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 2: people as if they already are scattered and they're already 273 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 2: experiencing these things. 274 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: But there are a couple of things that we can. 275 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 2: See that happen that we can immediately pull to say, Okay, 276 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: here's what we want to watch out for, and here 277 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 2: is action that we can take. You can always do 278 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 2: that with scripture. You can ask the question what does 279 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: God do? What do people do? Okay, So when we 280 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 2: hear about the first two parts, we understand that there 281 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: are going to be ways that people are not going 282 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 2: to receive what Jesus has to offer. And that's really clear. 283 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 2: Jesus himself is saying, hey, when this seat is thrown out, 284 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 2: there's going to be some that snatched up. There's going 285 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: to be some that might spring up quickly, but it 286 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: won't last because it's not formed. And I started my 287 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:28,719 Speaker 2: ministry life and student ministry spend a lot of time 288 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 2: with teenagers and this verse always got me because I'd 289 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: be at some event, some weekend, some experience, and these 290 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 2: kids are like saying yes to Jesus. They're like, oh 291 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 2: my gosh, is this word going to be able to 292 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: root in their soul? Or when it gets hard, are 293 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 2: they going to fall away? And it was just such 294 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 2: a moment of conviction, just even as a leader and 295 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 2: as a mom, what am I doing to help spiritually 296 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: form the people around me? Because we can receive the 297 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: Word with joy and say yes to it, but we 298 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 2: all know that trouble will come into our life. We 299 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 2: know that there are times where we may far from God. 300 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: And the question is do we have enough root. Are 301 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: we building practices that give us enough root to really 302 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 2: know God's love, to really believe in his forgiveness, to 303 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: really experience his freedom. And it's very clear that Jesus says, yeah, 304 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: for some people, they're going to receive the word and 305 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 2: they're going to fall away. It's just not going to 306 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: last in them. But what about the next two? Because 307 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 2: the next two are places where we see things that 308 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: people do, things that people don't do, and things that 309 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: people do. And so that third seed, the one that 310 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: falls in soil, but it begins to get choked out. 311 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 2: Look at what it's choked out by. And this feels 312 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 2: so relevant to twenty twenty six. It's just fascinating that 313 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: it was written in such an ancient time and it 314 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 2: really speaks to the fact that. 315 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: Our paths are wayward. 316 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: Ways of trying to get our desires met have been 317 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: like a tale as old as time. This has been 318 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: around forever. And so Jesus says, here's the things that 319 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 2: will choke out the word in you. The first is 320 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 2: going to be worries. Worries from this life will choke 321 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: out the good word in you. The second thing, he 322 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: says is the deceitfulness of wealth. Now, what makes wealth deceitful? 323 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: Notice he doesn't say the evil of wealth. He doesn't 324 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 2: say that actually being wealthy is evil. What he says 325 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 2: is that what wealth can do and the way that 326 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: it creates pathways that feel like they're leading to the 327 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 2: good life, can deceive you from what the actual good 328 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: life is. That it's very easy to fall onto pathways 329 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: that actually end up choking the abundance of the word 330 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 2: out of you because all of these easy comforts are 331 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: in front of you that feel like they're leading to 332 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: good life. And I think we can look at celebrity, 333 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: we can look at wealthy people and understand and obviously 334 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 2: I've talked about this a lot over the years, that 335 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: wealth does not equal happiness, and that's very clear. Some 336 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 2: of the most tortured people in our culture are very wealthy. 337 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: And so it's easy to be deceived by the idea 338 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: that if only I had more money, things would be easier. 339 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 2: If only I had more money, this would all work out. 340 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 2: And what Jesus is saying is that is very deceitful. 341 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 2: It's not that money money isn't helpful. It's not that 342 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: money isn't a tool that we can use. It's not 343 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: even that money is inherently evil, but the love of 344 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: money and the deceit of money is a real thing 345 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: that we want to be aware of. And then finally, 346 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: he says, and the desires for other things, these desires 347 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: for other things come in and they just choke out 348 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: the abundance of the word. Notice, none of these things 349 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 2: are bad in it of themselves. It's when they choke 350 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: out the primacy, the allegiance, and the abundance of what 351 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 2: God's word says in our life. And so then that word, 352 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 2: although it's in the person, it's been sowed, it's not fruitful. 353 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: And then finally, the last one here is where we 354 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 2: have our only action. This is the action that we're 355 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 2: given in this whole parable. In verse twenty, it says others, 356 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 2: like seeds sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, 357 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: and produce a crop. So the only thing that happens 358 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: in this parable people can do is they can be 359 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: choked out by these other things that we talked about, 360 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: or they can hear and accept the word. And honestly, 361 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: I love the practice of just in my prayer saying, Lord, 362 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 2: I hear your word and I accept it actually speaking 363 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: that truth over myself and even over you know, my 364 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: listeners as we're preaching in worship service. God help us 365 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: to not just hear your word, but actually accept it, 366 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 2: accept it for what it is, because when we accept 367 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,479 Speaker 2: the word, we will be changed by the word. You 368 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: can't accept a good word from someone without repentance, and 369 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 2: repentance just means turning away from what you are already believing. 370 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: The concept of repent just means to turn. So oftentimes 371 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 2: what the word does is it reframes our understanding of 372 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 2: reality and of truth. And so even when we take, 373 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: for instance, deceitfulness of wealth, to hear the word is 374 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 2: to hear okay, that's what Jesus said. To accept the 375 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 2: word is to say, oh, no one is outside of 376 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: that possibility. Anyone can be deceived by wealth, including myself. 377 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 2: It's to accept the word is to ask, how might 378 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 2: I also be being informed and influenced by the culture 379 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: around me that says if I have more money, or 380 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: more power or more control, I'm going to be Okay, 381 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 2: how am I also drawn to that idea? So that's 382 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: what it means to accept the word. That's what we're 383 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 2: called to do here in this passage. So those are 384 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: the things it means. Let's talk about what are some 385 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: of those like takeaways that we could think from this passage. 386 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 2: The first is this abundance is in God's hands. Abundance 387 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 2: is always in God's hands. The parables that come after 388 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: the Sower and the Seed I love. They talk about 389 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 2: this idea that the Word of God is like this 390 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 2: little tiny thing that spreads sort of underground and then 391 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 2: builds up and flourishes in massive ways. And I have 392 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,239 Speaker 2: to tell you, for those of you who have been 393 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 2: walking with Jesus for a long time, if you've been 394 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 2: faithfully following Jesus, not perfectly, but faithfully, if you've been 395 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 2: available to God, you start to see the abundance of 396 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. To hear the stories of the 397 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 2: way that God connects believers, the way God uses amazing 398 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: people and relationships, and he draws his kingdom together, and 399 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 2: it truly is this magnificent, invisible kingdom of love, of mercy, 400 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 2: of justice that's happening in our world. 401 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: And all you have to do is stick. 402 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: Around, be faithful to Jesus, not perfectly, but be faithful 403 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 2: to Jesus. And as you walk with him, you'll get 404 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: to begin to experience all It's so beautiful, the way 405 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 2: that God cares for his people, the way he brings 406 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 2: his people together, the way he heals his people, the 407 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 2: way he uses his people to manifest his glory in 408 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,719 Speaker 2: the world. And we really see that abundance. That that 409 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 2: is what wealth really means. To be wealthy is to 410 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 2: experience the abundance of the Kingdom of God. And that 411 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: abundance comes in all forms, not in money, not in 412 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 2: power necessarily, but in all the ways that we experience 413 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 2: what a rich life really feels like. Rich in relationship, 414 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 2: rich in beauty, rich in connection, rich in freedom. That 415 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 2: is the message of this chapter. The second thing that 416 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 2: I think we can take from this is actually a 417 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: quote straight from study notes in the Gospel of Luke, 418 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 2: where this same parable is told, and in the study 419 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: notes it says this the quantity of increase depends on 420 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 2: the quality of the soil. In other words, I once 421 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 2: had a mentor say to me, you are responsible for 422 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 2: the depth of your relationship with God. God is responsible 423 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: for the breadth of your influence. You're responsible for the 424 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 2: depth of your character, of your relationship, of your connection 425 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 2: God is responsible for the abundance. And when we get 426 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 2: that ratio right, when we recognize I'm not responsible for 427 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: the breath of my influence. I'm not responsible for the 428 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 2: breath of my platform, of my places, of my whatever 429 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 2: that might be for you. You are responsible for the 430 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 2: depth of your relationship with God. That is what it 431 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: means to cultivate good soil. And when Jesus says, seek 432 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 2: first the Kingdom of God, and all these things will 433 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: be added to you, he makes it very, very personal. 434 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 2: If you get caught up like I do, and what's 435 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 2: my calling? What's God calling me to do? How's the 436 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: active asking me to be? I want to remind you 437 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 2: that what God's asking you to do is be faithful 438 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 2: in the life that He's given you today. 439 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:12,880 Speaker 1: That in the. 440 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 2: Place of our families, of our workplaces, of our schools, 441 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 2: of our communities, with our neighbors, right here in your moment, 442 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 2: this is where God's asking you to cultivate good soil. 443 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: He's responsible for the abundance. You're responsible for the death. 444 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 2: So my question when we ask what does this mean 445 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 2: for me today? And this is what I'll leave you with, 446 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 2: I just would ask you what chokes out the word 447 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 2: in you? And how can you cultivate and prepare the 448 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 2: soil of your heart? What chokes out the word in you? 449 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: Is it busyness? 450 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: Is it worry? 451 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 2: Is it anxiousness? Is it distraction? Jesus is very serious 452 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 2: about saying anything that chokes out the word in you 453 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: you should remove from your life now. Doesn't mean you 454 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 2: have to remove it forever. But if your social media 455 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 2: is not bringing you toward fruit of the spirit, you 456 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: know you can stop, or you can stop for a time. 457 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 2: If being distracted and compare yourself to others is choking 458 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: out the good word and you you can stop, or 459 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: you can stop for a time. There are all these 460 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 2: ways that God says you have got to be so 461 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 2: serious about cultivating the soil of your heart. You have 462 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 2: to be so serious about that part, because I'm going 463 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 2: to take care of the rest, and I have promised 464 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: you abundant life and he will bring it all right. 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