Unseen Potential: The Parable of the Mustard Seed

Follow Along with the Message

 "Not failure, but low aim is crime."--James Russell Lowell

It was not a plan that looked like it would work.  Jesus. The disciples. The movement stalled. Discouragement came.

"Do you want to leave, too?"--John 6:67

Huge difference between appearance and potential.

Small seed.  Big plant packed inside it.

--ONE PERSON

     "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one."--Ezekiel 22:30

--OPEN TO CHANGE

     Abraham surrendering Isaac.  Give it UP!

     "Faced with the choice between changing our minds and proving there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof."--John Kenneth Galbraith

     passive verb--being caused to grow

     "The problem of the present hour is not the heathen who have sabotaged the kingdom, rather the large number of Christians who have not planted themselves in the rich soil of God's word, nor gone through the steps of growth that take them toward maturity."

--BLESSING TO OTHERS

--MIRACLE OF GRADUAL GROWTH

     "Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."--James 4:17

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     "Truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."--Matthew 17:20