Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. Thank you for hanging

out with me I'm excited because today we're going to start talking about my

favorite parable of all the parables of Jesus. This is the parable of the wheat and the tears. This one

more than any other and I'm not even sure that's necessarily an indicator of me being a person with a healthy mind,

but for me, this is the most formative parable of all of the parables. This shapes more than any other how I do life,

how I think about other people. It affects my ethic of how I interact with a larger world that doesn't believe the same things that I do.

It affects my ethic of the role of the church in society, the state in society, the

individual in society, and maybe the implications aren't that far reaching,

but over the next couple of days you can decide if I'm stretching this a little bit and do with

it what you need to do with it.

So again, this is the parable of the wheat and the tears.

It starts in Matthew chapter 13 verse 24.

You will recall that we are now into the third of the five great speeches that Matthew is organizing his

account of Jesus' life around. The first one is the sermon on the mount.

It is a straight through the front door explanation of the

values of the kingdom. That one runs from Matthew five to Matthew seven. People hear him teach

they're like that was really impressive but can you back it up? Then he does a bunch of

miracles to back it up.

Now it seems like the ball of the kingdom, which was introduced in detail as a concept in the sermon

on the mount, is ready to really start rolling downhill.

And so the next big speech is Matthew chapter 10 where Jesus commissions his inner circle of disciples to go on this big open world quest and do kingdom me things and model kingdom me values and see if people sign up for kingdom

me stuff. The results seem to be middling and after chapter 10

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