"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Afflictions" Series, titled "Seek First"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Afflictions" Series, titled: "Seek First" (Broadcast #6396)
Scripture References: Mark 4:1-19

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright thank you very much, and hello again radio friends. How in the world are you? Doing all right? Bless your heart. Yes, this is your friend Dr. Cook, and I’m glad to be back with you once again. We’re looking at the gospel of Mark these days. We’ve come now to chapter 4. This chapter contains some of the parables that our Lord Jesus spoke. I want you to see the rationale behind His speaking in parables. It doesn’t seem fair at first. He says in effect, I’m using parables so some people will understand and others won’t. Strange isn’t it? They were asking the 12, ask Him about His parables, and He said, “Unto you”, this is verse 11, we’ll come back to it later on, just want to touch on it now, “Unto you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without”, that means outside, unsaved people, Christ rejecting people, “All these things are done in parables, and seeing them you see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them”. Now, isn’t that strange? Doesn’t God want everyone to be saved? That’s of the Bible says, “God who will have all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth”, Bible says that. Why then, would God hide anything, the meaning that is to say, of this blessed message from anyone? Well, I think it’s wrapped up in the very nature of human nature, and let me show you this. Paul talks about the natural man, the carnal man, and the spiritual man. The natural man is a person who has not been saved, he has not been born-again. The carnal person is the one who’s living the Christian life on the basis of his own ideas, and efforts, and as a result is producing his own faults, reproducing his own faults. The spiritual person is one who’s filled with the Holy Spirit and who has been given that blessed discernment, to understand the things of God. But I’m looking now at 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14, “The natural”, that means the unsaved person, “receive not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them”, that word know is the Greek verb ginosko, which means of a personal knowledge of, “neither can he have a personal knowledge of them, because they are spiritually discerned”. “He that is spiritual discerns all things yet he himself is discerned of no man”. Then he goes on and chapter 3 to say, well now, Brothers, you folk, Corinthians, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people, but as carnal, as babes in Christ”, and so on. Now he says, “The natural, the unsaved person, receives not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him and he can’t have a personal knowledge of Him because they are spiritually discerned”. You see, we come down to the fact that until you make the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of your life, you don’t really understand the great principles of eternal truth and life. You can study all you have. I have,

I’ve sat under unsaved professors who were expert in the biblical matters, and in Bible history, and who knew all sorts of philosophy, and yet they had no comprehension of the gospel, and when I would speak with people like this, through the years, they would shake their hands and say, “I just don’t, I don’t get it Bob. I don’t get it”.

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”