The When we hear news from around the world we sometimes are given the impression that

Christianity is in decline. Today on Truth for Life we'll find out why we can rest assured that God's kingdom will triumph.

Alistairbegg is continuing our study in Jesus' parable about the sower and the seeds.

We're looking at Mark chapter 4, focusing today on

verses 26 through 34. A man scattered seed on the ground. It's sewn quietly, it's sewn routinely,

it's sewn progressively, and all of this takes place mysteriously and it yields a harvest.

In the beginning the activity of the sore may appear to be making little impact. After all you just see the person

going along the place and scattering the seat in Jesus Day they would have the

the bag that would be attached around them they they would be reaching in, taking handfuls,

and scattering them willy-nilly around. You could say, wow, what a waste of seed.

And you couldn't hear anything. You couldn't hear the seed hitting the soil.

When you went to bed at night and you got up in the middle of the night perhaps for a glass of water and you looked out of the window, there was nothing there either.

In fact, somebody could say to you, you know, I don't think there's any possibility of anything

coming about.

And then one day you were out and there were little shoots and stocks.

Before you knew where you were driving your car along the back way here to Parkside

and the corn that had gone, it looked like it had gone forever and ever, is now as high as an elephant's eye and you're

looking up at it rather than down at the fallow field and the sore has

contributed nothing to the germination.

The sore significance is only in the scattering and then ultimately in the harvest.

But from the outside, it looks as if nothing's happening.

That's what Jesus is saying.

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