How does a Calvinist rectify Mark 4?

One of many knock-out punches in the Bible to obliterate Calvinist doctrine is Mark 4. Verses 11-12 read: [11] And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
[12] That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

“When Christ refers to ‘them that are without,’ these are the ones who are rejecting the claims of Messiah,” explains Preacher Alex Kurz. “The Lord Jesus is using different language when it comes to the unbeliever as an act of judgment against a Christ-rejecting nation.

“Notice the sequence. What proceeds conversion and forgiveness? Hearing it, seeing it. But more importantly, the Lord Jesus says, ‘If they understand what I’m saying, they’ll be converted and forgiven.’

“Did you catch that? Jesus says, ‘I’m deliberately going to communicate so that they CAN’T understand, because if they understand, they’re going to respond and I’m going to have to forgive them.’

“Wait a minute! I hope you catch the implication here. According to the Calvinist doctrine of ‘Total Depravity,’ God has already predetermined who’s going to be regenerated. What happened to the regeneration of the spirit?!

“Aren’t they, by default, ‘those that are without,’ and incapable of believing and responding? According to the philosophy of ‘total depravity,’ they already have no capacity. So why would Jesus say, ‘I’m going to use parables so that they cannot understand it’? Because if they understand it, they’re going to believe it!

“This passage is such a powerful argument against the philosophy called ‘total depravity.’ The Lord Jesus is deliberately not communicating to keep them blind. Isn’t that interesting? In other words, if you understand what He’s saying, you might believe it and be converted.

“If they’ve already be preordained to be without, how can Jesus say ‘they MIGHT be converted’? If they’re ‘the elect,’ is there even the possibility ‘lest at any time they should be converted’? Listen, to me that just blows Calvinism teachings right out of the water!

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“Mark 6 reads, [4] But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. [5] And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
[6] And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.

“Why did Christ marvel? He says, ‘I marvel,’ but I thought they were dead? Why should He marvel and whose fault is it that they don’t believe? If you’re going to believe the first tenet of High Calvinism, which demands that God has to regenerate you first, why doesn’t the Holy Spirit regenerate them so that they can believe? I marvel at the fact the Holy Spirit’s NOT making these people 'born again.'

“Did you catch that? Why is Jesus stunned at the rank unbelief? Wait a minute, by default they’re already dead! He’s marveling because nobody’s responding.

"You see, the way the Lord is even conducting His ministry, how anybody can conclude that there is this divinely elected group of people God now has to regenerate so that they can believe . . .  It just defies the way the Lord even conducts His ministry.

“Matthew 23 ends with Christ saying, [37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

“This is an explicit will. 'I want to gather you people, my children, and ‘ye would not.’ He's saying, ‘I want you!’ Isn’t that the eternal decree and counsel and good pleasure and will of Almighty God? What’s the problem? ‘You don’t want it! I marvel at your unbelief.’

“You see, this is the fallacy. How can God have this expectation of belief when God already fixed it so that you can’t comply? Bizarre.

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“Here’s another one that’s a real common passage a High Calvinist will use. John 6:37 says, [37] All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

“Here’s the Father who’s going to give His Son people, so if you’re stuck in this philosophy, this Calvinism philosophical system, well, I wonder who the Lord’s going to send?! Go down to verses 44-45: [44] No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

“The Lord says nobody can come unless the Father draws him. It’s painfully obvious what the Lord is saying. Do you read anything about God unconditionally preordaining and predestinating anybody to get regenerated and then be 'born again'?

“The Lord Jesus is actually explaining how the Father is going to draw men to an understanding. How is the Father doing it? [45] It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

“Wow, it’s not that complicated. You know how the Father’s going to draw these people to Jesus? ‘I’m going to tell you who He is and if you, by faith, believe what I’m telling you . . .’

“If you go the Old Testament, Jesus Christ’s fingerprint is all over the Bible. That’s why Jesus spoke in parables. It was, ‘I don’t want the unbelievers to get this as an act of judgment against a Christ-rejecting nation.’

“But if you believe the claims of the Father as stated in Genesis through Revelation, how can you miss them? Remember how Jesus says, ‘Ye do error in Scripture. Don’t you know they’re talking about me?!’ Even His disciples struggled with that.

“Christ tells them that, ‘The psalms are talking about me,’ and then the Lord opens up their understanding. How did He do that? He tells them, ‘You see what Psalms 22 says? That was me, guys. You know what Isaiah wrote over there? That was me, guys. Remember what we read in Genesis 3? That was me, guys.’ He’s connecting the dots for them. The dots are there.”