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IBS 51 - Mark 4:10-11

Mark 4:10-11
“When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables.”

The secret of the Kingdom of God has been given to you. Given; I didn’t have to do anything to receive that, except for believing faithfully in Christ. He paid the price and suffered and gave me a way to Heaven. Christ took horrible beatings, lashes, and a gruesome death on the torturous cross so that I could know the secret. So that the Kingdom of God would be open to me. I didn’t do anything to deserve that, yet the love He has for me made it all worth it to Him. His love is stronger then any other love out there. I don’t have to earn it or work for it, it is given. 
He made it clear to me, the secret, when I believed. And the stronger my belief gets the clearer the secret gets. When my faith was weak and I didn’t have much of a relationship the secret and the parables never really made sense. I didn’t fully get it. I was confused and most of the time just didn’t really care to understand. As my belief grows my understanding grows. I understand and want to learn more. I’ve gotten a desire to know. 
But to those on the outside everything is said in parables. Like I said, when my faith was lacking, the parables didn’t make since. So when people don’t have faith or don’t believe, they will not understand the parables and the secret of the kingdom of God will not be given. You can only gain that secret when you believe. 

Application: I’ll draw mountains and write in it the secret on a piece of paper tomorrow and put it in my Bible in this chapter as a reminder that I know the secret of the kingdom of God and it’s been given to me, and that His love is everlasting. I don’t earn His love.

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