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Thanks for joining. Today, we're studying Mark 4.

What does it look like for Satan to immediately come and take away the word?

Does that mean we can lose our salvation? What are we to

make of verse 15? Ever hear the phrase, in one ear and out the other? When I was a kid, my siblings and I

would get incredibly zoned in whenever we watched TV, so much so that regardless of whether or not

we were watching a new Disney Channel

original movie or something on Animal Planet that was educational, we were absolutely

hooked, zoned in. And this would frustrate my parents time and time again. Because typically

when kids are watching TV, that means one of two things.

Either the parent or parents are getting to rest or they're able to actually get stuff done.

And for my mom, TV time for the kids typically meant getting stuff done, either work,

laundry, or chores around the house.

But often, as we were watching TV totally oblivious to all the work she was doing

right in the other room, she'd be likely to discover a chore we hadn't completed. Say, for example,

taking our clean laundry upstairs and putting it away in our rooms. So as we'd be watching TV,

she'd ask for us to complete the task, and we'd say yes and acknowledge that she'd asked, but we wouldn't get up from the couch and we couldn't take our eyes off the TV.

Her words went in one ear and out the other.

So while we heard her words, we didn't respond to them with action.

We sat there and continued to watch TV like nothing had happened.

Her words went in one ear and out the other.

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