Mark 4:1-20

This man had a Spiritual Problem.

1 Peter 5:8-9 Be sober-minded, be alert. Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. 9 Resist him, rm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

That’s why the Apostle Paul said this:

Ephesians 6:11-12 Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against esh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.” - C.S. Lewis

Ephesaians 2:1-3 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our esh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

Spiritual Problems require Spiritual Solutions.

Spiritual Problems are no match for Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-9 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, 5 made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! 6 He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast.

Not everyone is ready to accept Jesus’ help.

Jesus gives us a story to tell.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.