Hello, Passion.

It's great to see you all after having prayed for you for so long,

and if you got a copy of your scriptures with you,

can we just praise God that we have a copy of scriptures with us?

I want to read to you starting in Mark Chapter 4.

I want to read us a section of scripture from Mark chapter 4.

We'll pray and then talk about it together.

So if you've got a copy, I'm going to begin in verse 1.

If you don't, just listen.

I'm going to read it.

And I think it'll be on the

screen, and let's hear the Word of God together. Mark chapter 4, verse 1, speaking of Jesus,

says, again, he began to teach beside the sea, And a very large crowd gathered about him so that

he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

And he was teaching the many things in parables. And in his teaching, he said to them, listen,

behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil.

And immediately it sprang up since it had no depth of soil, and when the sun rose, it was scorched,

since it had no root, it withered away.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked

it, and it yielded no grain. And other seed fell into good soil and produced grain growing up

and increasing and yielding 30-fold and 60-fold and 100-fold. And he said, he who has ears to hear,

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