I am unashamed. What about you?

So welcome back to unashamed. We're in Mark chapter 4 in our study of the book of Mark.

And at the end of the last episode, we read the parable, the Sower, which we talked about

back in our Matthew study as well from Matthew 13. So really interesting. It's kind of a pivot

for Jesus because up to this point, he's been casting out demons, he's been healing people,

and he has been teaching and preaching it says. But we haven't really known what he was

talking about until from Mark's perspective until we get here to chapter 4. And then

we were talking about how, on the last podcast, we were talking about how that he uses these

parables as his way of teaching. And it's interesting as to the live that we kind of got

in that a little bit over time. So you were making a, you never quite got to your point.

No, we ran out of time. It's hard to get a word in edge wasn't this stage. But I just

find it fascinating that one, you know, here's a, Jesus should have been the greatest political

figure ever because he just completely changed the culture and locally in that he is,

healing diseases, he is casting out demons, he is trying to change the hearts of people

doing sinful things from the tax collectors and the mismanagement of money and all the

corruption that goes with all that. And then the next chapter is going to raise the dead.

He calmed the storm. I mean, you just think about all the things in life that cause this

problems. He had the power and, and showed it to do all this. And people are not accepting

him as the son of God. They're trying to plot and kill him. The religious leaders and

political parties and he's a threat. He's viewed as a threat, not, not this fix of the

world, even though he's fixing the world, which I find fascinating. So he, he gives the

insight to the, his disciples about using parables where that it reveals the overall message

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