This parable in the gospel of Mark seems to have been spoken by our Lord at the same time that he spoke the parables of the Sower, the Wheat and the Tares, and the Mustard Seed and the Leaven Parables, which are recorded in Matthew 13. Although this Parable was left out by Matthew, it is placed in Mark immediately before the Parable of the Mustard Seed. It gives us some further additional truths that our Lord would have us to understand about the growth of the seed; that is, the gradual growth in grace of a true Christian in relation to the word being preached to them. And, once again, it also has reference to the growth of Christ's kingdom world wide during this present Church Age.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...