Right up front, full disclosure. I have no idea what we're talking about today. The term that we're going to be looking at is

gnashing of teeth, but I intentionally did not in any way investigate what teeth gnashing

actually means because I thought would be more fun to discover it together.

So you hear up front, this is what I picture.

When I hear the term gnashing of teeth, I picture Marge Simpson being upset at her family and me don't know what sound teeth gnashing

makes. It was like the grinding maybe that you do at night when you're

sleeping and you're having some kind of aggressive dream I really don't know but I assume it

means some kind of angsty, grouchy thing that maybe people in the ancient

near east did when they were mad about stuff? That's my guess. The reason I bring it up is because

we are in Matthew Chapter 13 and this is called the Kingdom Parables discourse and we're

looking at an oft forgotten overlooked parable called the

parable of the net. So in the sermon of the mount he gave us details on what the

kingdom is, what the values of the kingdom are and he did it overtly. Kingdom Parables discourse on the other hand is more anticipatory in nature as it anticipates

what questions honest people were going to ask about what they're seeing.

So it's stories that mean something and Jesus fully acknowledges to his disciples.

Yeah, some people are going to get it and some people are going to not get it.

And if you are here and hanging out with me, it means that we are people who would at least like to have eyes to see and

ears to hear we would like to understand what's going on here I don't know if that

means we're actually gonna get it but I feel like we're doing well.

So the question that we dealt with yesterday is, why is the parable of the net and the parable of the wheat and the weeds? Why are they both in this same larger discourse?

It looks like they're saying roughly the same

thing and as we broke that down the conclusion that we came to and by we I mean I

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