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do you do The first followers of Jesus expected the Messiah would usher in a powerful earthly kingdom, but of course that's not what happened and today on

truth for life Alistairbegg breaks down the parables of Jesus to explain

God's far greater purpose and the secrets of His Kingdom.

March, chapter 4, and we're going to read from verse 26. Jesus is speaking he also said

this is what the kingdom of God is like a man scatters seed on the ground, night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up.

The seeds sprout and grow, though he does not know how. All by itself, the soil produces corn, first the stalk, then the ear,

then the full grain in the ear.

As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it because the harvest has come.

Again he said, what shall we say the kingdom of God is like or what

parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground.

Yet when planted it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants with such big branches

that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.

With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them as much as they could understand.

He did not say anything to them without using a parable, but when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.

Amen. We pray before we look at the Bible.

Father, what we know not, teach us, what we have not, give us what we have not make us for your son's sake, amen. History records that in the spring of 1630 on the deck of the Arbella a small

sailing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, the leader of this little group of pilgrims,

stood on the deck and preached essentially a sermon to them. Not all of that has been left for us, but part of it has been

recorded and is as follows. Addressing the group on the deck of his boat, he said

we shall be as a city on a hill the eyes of all

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