Bible Memory Verse
“So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who makes things grow.” 1 Corinthians 3:7
Mark 4:26-29
“This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed in the ground.
(27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. (28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel of the head. (29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest is come.”
1. Who plants the seed? Does the man cause the seed to grow?
2. What else does the man do? When does he put the sickle to the grain?
3. What does the harvest represent? (“…The harvest is the end of the age…” Matthew 13:39)
4. Who do you think the man represents?
John 4:37
“Thus the saying, ‘One sows and another reaps is true.’”
1 Corinthians 3:7-9
“So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
When Jesus was explaining the Parable of the Weeds, He said, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man." Matthew 13:3 He puts the sickle to the harvest—or judges the earth.
However this parable says the man does not know how the seed grows, but Jesus knows everything.
5. What is the seed? What makes the seed grow? “…here the mysterious power of the seed itself is emphasized. The gospel message contains its own power.” NIV Study Bible
6. What is the meaning of the Parable of the Growing Seed?