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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Romans 8:14-17, what it means to be a Christian, a concept that goes far beyond the language of obedience and disobedience, of right and...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    The carnal mind is not simply a mind that thinks about wrong things, it is a mind that has established its own sovereignty as the final...
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    Luke 18:4-5, this is where the Greek gets sharp, that word “weary” is “hypopiaze,” it is the exact same verb used for a boxer landing a...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    John makes sure you understand the relationship, this is not a stranger in a crowd, this is Martha, this is Mary, this is Lazarus, this...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    So, the question is not only was Jesus sad? Yes, without pretending. The deeper question is this, why would Jesus weep when he already...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Mark 4:1-20, watch what the sower actually does, he goes out to his field, he reaches into his bag of seed, he scatters, then he reaches...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    The seed is the word, the soils are four ways of receiving it and the difference between a wasted life and a fruitful one, comes down to...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Mark 4:1-20, listen to how Jesus opens, the very first word out of his mouth, before the farmer, before the field, is a command. Listen...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Mark 4:1-20, here is where the original setting matters, because the way they farm is not the way you farm and the difference changes...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Consider who was on that shoreline, Galilee was farm country, the hills around the lake were terraced and worked and most of the people...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Mark 4:1-20, four hearts, one word, the only variable is the ground, but Jesus does something between telling the parable and explaining...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    The sower became the seed, Jesus went down into the ground of death, alone, buried and out of that single buried grain came a harvest no...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    There is one more place this parable points and it comes into focus when you remember who is telling it, Jesus is the sower, he is the...
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    newnature replied to the thread Shows Up Or Gets Buried.
    Many people sit on the throne of their own hearts and then wonder why everything feels unstable, scripture is clear about the condition...
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    Luke 18:3, when Jewish society worked the way God had designed it, widows were meant to be at the front of the line, not at the back...