Supernatural Gospel

Mark 4:30-32 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.”
 
HAVE you ever been around a mustard plant? They’re not so big. As a boy on the farm I would walk the grain and hay fields to pull up mustard plants and put them in a bag. It was the only way 60 years ago to remove the weed and save the crop. So what, then, is Jesus talking about here? How can a mustard seed grow into a huge plant with branches for birds to perch?  
    The King of the Kingdom is talking about Kingdom of God growing. The kingdom is not a worldly kingdom. It is a supernatural kingdom, where the natural becomes greater than we can know. When Jesus stepped into the world, he taught with many examples to inform us God’s kingdom is a spiritual domain. For example he tells the Pharisee Nicodemus in John 3:5 “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.”  This is our supernatural birth into Jesus’ resurrection.
    Jesus also revealed the kingdom’s supernatural power when he transformed blindness to sight, lameness to strength, leprosy to wholeness, sin to forgiveness and death to life. Jesus’ mustard seed parable expressed God’s kingdom would begin small and then grow to care for all his people.
    That growing process occurs each day. It began with one man – God in the flesh – to teach the kingdom. He expanded it through his disciples. Then the Spirit gave the apostles God’s power to grow the kingdom. From the small seed of 12 men, the gospel has branched into the world. One day all kingdom citizens will be in the eternal kingdom of rest and pleasure at the Tree of Life: Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
    This parable is also a good illustration of your faith experience. Faith is very small when the Spirit plants it into your soul. He then guides your faith to grow as he uses true teachers, his Word and your experiences to understand his supernatural work in your life. At first this is not easy to know. But the Spirit grows your heart to know God, to love God, to worship God, to trust his mercy and to know his grace. You will grow to know your new life is truly born again. Ane you will know rest and shade in Jesus’ eternal protection.