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I get distracted from God by : A . What everybody else is doing .
B . My problems . C . Trying to get stuff I want .
Jesus Calms the Storm
35 That day when eve ning came , he said to his dis ci ples , “ Let us go over to the otha crop , some mul ti ply ing thir ty , some sixty , some a hun dred times .”
9 Then Jesus said , “ Who ev er has ears to
hear , let them hear .”
10 When he was alone , the Twelve and
the oth ers around him asked him about the par a bles . 11 He told them , “ The se cret of the king dom of God has been giv en to you . But to those on the out side ev erything is said in par a bles 12 so that ,
“ ‘ they may be ever seeing but never perceiving , and ever hearing but never understanding ; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven !’ a ”
13 Then Jesus said to them , “ Don ’ t you
un der stand this par a ble ? How then will you un der stand any par a ble ? 14 The farmer sows the word . 15 Some peo ple are like seed along the path , where the word is sown . As soon as they hear it , Sa tan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them . 16 Oth ers , like seed sown on rocky plac es , hear the word and at once re ceive it with joy . 17 But since they have no root , they last only a short time . When trou ble or per se cu tion comes be cause of the word , they quick ly fall away . 18 Still oth ers , like seed sown among thorns , hear the word ;
19 but the wor ries of this life , the de ceitful ness of wealth and the de sires for oth er things come in and choke the word , mak a 12 Isaiah 6:9,10
ing it un fruit ful . 20 Oth ers , like seed sown on good soil , hear the word , ac cept it , and pro duce a crop — some thir ty , some six ty , some a hun dred times what was sown .”
A Lamp on a Stand
21 He said to them , “ Do you bring in a
lamp to put it un der a bowl or a bed ? Instead , don ’ t you put it on its stand ? 22 For what ev er is hid den is meant to be disclosed , and what ev er is con cealed is meant to be brought out into the open . 23 If anyone has ears to hear , let them hear .”
24 “ Con sid er care ful ly what you hear ,”
he con tin ued . “ With the mea sure you use , it will be mea sured to you — and even more . 25 Who ever has will be giv en more ; who ever does not have , even what they have will be tak en from them .”
The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 He also said , “ This is what the kingdom of God is like . A man scat ters seed on the ground . 27 Night and day , wheth er he sleeps or gets up , the seed sprouts and grows , though he does not know how .
28 All by it self the soil pro duc es grain —
first the stalk , then the head , then the full ker nel in the head . 29 As soon as the grain is ripe , he puts the sick le to it , be cause the har vest has come .”
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 Again he said , “ What shall we say
the king dom of God is like , or what para ble shall we use to de scribe it ? 31 It is like a mus tard seed , which is the small est of all seeds on earth . 32 Yet when plant ed , it grows and be comes the larg est of all garden plants , with such big branch es that the birds can perch in its shade .”
33 With many sim i lar par a bles Jesus
spoke the word to them , as much as they could un der stand . 34 He did not say anything to them with out us ing a par a ble . But when he was alone with his own dis ci ples , he ex plained ev ery thing .