Jesus tells us in Matthew 13:24 about the Kingdom of Heaven.
To help us understand spiritual things, Jesus tells us about natural things.
In the first mystery, Jesus told us about different soil.
Now He explains what grows in his field.
There is wheat and tares (a poisonous grain).
Someone came in at night and sowed the tares with the wheat.
Jesus said, let them grow up together and at harvest time we will burn the tares and store the wheat.
Verse 38 explains that the field is the world,
the good seed (wheat) are the children of God,
the tares are the children of the wicked one.
At the end of time, the righteous will shine as the sun and the wicked will be gathered into a furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Only through God's great salvation by Jesus Christ can any one avoid being a tare in God's field.
Jesus says, If you have and ear, then hear!
God pours out His Great Love to mankind, calls out to people who only stumble in darkness, and shines His Great Light of Love through the Cross of Christ.
Anyone who is thirsty can come and drink from the water of life that is freely given.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven
The mysteries of the kingdom are in Matthew 13.
Jesus tells us about different kinds of soil, the hearts of mankind.
The word of God is sown by Christ, the sower.
4 kinds of ground are mentioned: wayside, stony, thorns and good ground.
The wayside lacks the spiritual understanding to accept God's Salvation.
The stony ground accepts the Gospel, yet does not grow because of persecution and lack of root.
The ground full of thorns is very common, I believe. Hearing and receiving, yet the world
chokes out the goodness of the Gospel in them, and the cares of this life become more important than serving Christ.
The good ground is what we want to be. There are various levels of growth in the good ground, yet it is still all of God.
A prayer the Lord gave me goes like this, "Lord, give me ears to hear, a heart to understand and endurance to bear fruit."
We should desire to be "good ground" and "profitable servants".
Remember, the trials of this life are not worthy to be compared to the glory that will one day be revealed in us.
Take comfort in knowing that God looks forward to eternity so that He can show us His great kindness through Jesus Christ
Jesus tells us about different kinds of soil, the hearts of mankind.
The word of God is sown by Christ, the sower.
4 kinds of ground are mentioned: wayside, stony, thorns and good ground.
The wayside lacks the spiritual understanding to accept God's Salvation.
The stony ground accepts the Gospel, yet does not grow because of persecution and lack of root.
The ground full of thorns is very common, I believe. Hearing and receiving, yet the world
chokes out the goodness of the Gospel in them, and the cares of this life become more important than serving Christ.
The good ground is what we want to be. There are various levels of growth in the good ground, yet it is still all of God.
A prayer the Lord gave me goes like this, "Lord, give me ears to hear, a heart to understand and endurance to bear fruit."
We should desire to be "good ground" and "profitable servants".
Remember, the trials of this life are not worthy to be compared to the glory that will one day be revealed in us.
Take comfort in knowing that God looks forward to eternity so that He can show us His great kindness through Jesus Christ
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