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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 4:30-34

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Mark 4:30-34(PARALLELS: Matthew 13:31-32; Luke 13:18-19.)The rise and progress of Christianity.—I. Christianity is insignificant in its beginning.—1. Its Founder assumed a humble form. 2. Its first advocates were obscure. 3. Its sphere of action was confined. 4. Its first converts were few. 5. Its mode of operation was unassuming. 6. Its reception was unpopular.II. Christianity is gradual in its progress—1. The difficulties with which it has to contend are... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 4:35-41

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 4:39. Arose.—Awoke. Peace, be still.—Be silent! Be muzzled! Mark alone preserves these words, which were doubtless addressed to “the prince of the power of the air,” by whose agency the storm had arisen.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Mark 4:35-41(PARALLELS: Matthew 8:18; Matthew 8:23-27; Luke 8:22-25.)The storm on the lake.—How pleasant it is to stand upon the beach, when there is a glorious sunset, to look upon the vast expanse, to gaze upon the splendid... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:26-33

Mark 4:26-33 Christ's Idea of Christianity. I. The kingdom of God, or the beginning of a truly religious life in the soul of a man, may be obscure, imperceptible and unconscious. When a man is building a house he sees it as it goes on. That is an outside matter. A man goes into his garden and plants seed. He may sit up all night with spectacles and a lantern, but he will not see anything going on; and yet there is something going on which is vitally connected with the whole operation of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:30

Mark 4:30 The kingdom of God is not the Church, but a far wider, vast, outlying region; where Jehovah's omnipotence and wisdom with, indeed, all His glorious attributes reign absolutely. The Church is the centre of this kingdom; the kingdom, the outlying territory of the Church. I. This doctrine of the kingdom of God as distinct from the Church will assist us in the interpretation of many passages of Scripture, and notably of our Lord's parables. To take one instance, there is the question... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:30-32

Mark 4:30-32 I. Observe the minuteness of the seed which is ordinarily first deposited by God's Spirit in man's heart. If you examine the records of Christian biography, you will find, so far as it is possible to search out such facts, that conversion is commonly to be traced to inconsiderable beginnings, a single word, a solitary verse, a casual expression, one of these it is which, in the vast variety of cases, settles down into the heart, and after lying buried there a year it may be, or two... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:33-34

Mark 4:33-34 This text may be used as supplying three lessons as to the duties of the Christian teacher. I. He must adapt himself to his hearers. II. He must consider his hearers rather than himself. III. He must increase his communication of truth and light according to the progress of his scholars. Parker, City Temple, 1871, p. 82. References: Mark 4:33-34 . Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. xxviii., No. 1669. Mark 4:34 . J. Vaughan, Fifty Sermons, 6th series, p. 191.Mark 4:34-41 . Homilist, vol.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:35

Mark 4:35 Veiled under some real fact in our Lord's life on earth, lie all the revelations of His will in faith and doctrine concerning His Church and His children throughout the ages; so I seem to trace the spiritual teaching of Advent under the storm that befel the disciples on the lake long ago. I. As I see the time when this took place, I learn something. It was eventide nay, it was more than that it was eventide when these disciples braced the halyards and drew up the brown sail, and gave... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:35-41

Mark 4:35-41 There are various instances in Sacred Scripture of the effect produced by the revelation of God to man, sometimes by mere power, sometimes by terror, sometimes, as in the drama of Job, by a long discourse of natural history. But here it was the mercifulness, the sympathy, the succour which were manifested, that touched the hearts of the disciples. He came to their rescue; and although the wonder of His power over great natural laws was not without its effect, yet that which seems... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:36-38

Mark 4:36-38 The toiling Christ. Among the many loftier characteristics belonging to Christ's life and work, there is a very homely one which is often lost sight of; and that is, the amount of hard physical exertion, prolonged even to fatigue and exhaustion, which He endured. "They took Him even as He was into the ship." And many expositors suppose that in the very form of that phrase there is suggested the extreme of weariness and exhaustion which He suffered, after the hard day's toil.... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 4:30-32

DISCOURSE: 1424THE GRAIN OF MUSTARD-SEEDMark 4:30-32. And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.“VERY excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 4:30-34

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 4:35-41

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:26-33

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:30

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:30-32

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:33-34

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:35

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:35-41

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:36-38

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 4:30-32

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