Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and this is going to be short and very simple.

We've been talking about Matthew chapter 13, particularly we've been talking about the

parable of the wheat and the weeds.

This is the one where Jesus tells him another parableces. The kingdom of heaven

is like a man who sewed good seed in his field, but while everyone was sleeping,

its enemy came and sewed weeds among the wheat and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads the weeds

also appeared and then the owner's servants came to him and said, sir, didn't you so good seeds in your

field? Where then did the weeds come from? An enemy did this, heed, the master replied.

The servants asked him, do you want us to go and pull them up?

No, he answered, because while you're pulling up the weeds, you may also root up the wheat with them.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time time I will tell the harvesters first

collect the weeds and tie them into bundles to be burned then gather the wheat and

bring it into my barn. Now in our process of working through the book of Matthew together, we're going straight

through the thing, one little chunk at a time every weekday morning, we're not to the

part where Jesus actually interprets the parable of the wheat and the weeds. But you're smart and

literate and you can tell where a story is going and you know how to read a theme. Surely, even if you've

never encountered this parable before before you're already doing the math

on more or less where this is going.

One of the key components that we're going to break down as we get to Jesus' explanation

of his own parable is this business about the servant's attitude

versus his attitude. They want to rip the whole thing up because they're angry and

in that anger and short-sightedness they don't see the redeemability of the

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