Title: “Seasons” (1st teaching @ Bethel)
Text: Mark 4:1-20; selected
Date: April 27, 2025

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ESV): For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

Mark 4:14-20 (NLT): The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. 15 The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. 16 The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. 17 But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. 18 The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, 19 but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. 20 And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

- Some of you have a “Hard Hearts” (Hard Path/Satan steals it)
- Some have a “Shallow Hearts” (Rocky Path/No Roots)
- Some have a “Distracted Hearts” (Seed choked by Weeds)
- Some have a “Fertile Hearts” (“Hear” & “Accept” what I say)

FOUR SEASONS FOR A FLOURISHING LIFE

1. The season of ____________________________________.

POST: Never despise the hard times in life; God will use all of it to prepare you for what’s next.

2. The season of ____________________________________.

Galatians 6:7-8 (NLT): Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

Key Question: What do we desire to see happen or harvest in the future?


3. The season of _______________________________________.


4. The season of _______________________________________.

VISION SUNDAY, April 6, 2025: bethel.org/vision

Matthew 9:36-38 (NLT): When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. 38 So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.”

“Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.” Oswald Chambers