MAIN POINT: Patience in
What we see in these parables is that God’s are beyond ours, and God’s sovereign rule over His creation isn’t always as as we want to think it is.
God Himself is the very of patience in ACTION as His kingdom advances even thru trials and tribulations of His people as unseen realities come to be.
PATIENCE in ACTION all of the parables together in some way.
Jesus is teaching thru the weeds and net that God’s kingdom will advance, but the enemy will not be entirely eliminated until the very end, where the final of good and evil will take place once and for all.
Jesus is teaching thru the mustard seed that God’s kingdom will start out by looking very , like a mustard seed, but ultimately will grow to greatness.
Jesus is teaching thru the leaven to not let the present appearance of the kingdom deceive anyone from understanding what it will be in its final form.
Jesus teaches thru the treasure and pearl that whether one is looking or not looking, no is too great for the kingdom as it brings even present value though seemingly small and insignificant.
The parable of the homeowner shows the role that followers of Jesus have now and in the future.
Jesus uses the parable of the homeowner to show that the disciples are being taught so that they can how Jesus fulfills the Law.
What we see here and experience can be summarized by the reality that in this world there is a of Kingdoms.
What we see here is the reality that there are two kingdoms that exist and operate , and we need patience in ACTION as God works it out to His end.
So much about Jesus was not as they expected, and part of the purpose of these parables it to their expectations and even correct them.
As mysterious, challenging, and maybe confusing at times the unveiling of Gods kingdom may be, the one thing you say if you look at the Bible story as a whole is that God doesn’t care or that He doesn’t have a plan He is working out.
God saves His people out of the world and them in the world, in the very presence of those whom He also seeks to save thru patience in ACTION.
Believers are not called to ourselves.
God had patience with you, so Him to be patient with others.
We’re in the world to the world for the Kingdom of Heaven’s good.
We cannot non-believers to live as believers.
We can wait patiently in ACTION because we are promised that one day Jesus will all wickedness.
If you are wheat, a believer, the fact that you are called to coexist in this world and to influence the world for good, rather than be influenced by it.