The Parable of the Mustard Seed
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our week on Jesus’s parables, we’ll look today at the parable of the mustard seed. As we dig into this rich, beautiful parable, may our hearts and minds be enlightened. Take a moment even now to ask God to give you fresh revelation.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 13:31-32, and today's worship is Faith of a Mustard Seed by Bethel Music.
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| 0:00.0 | Continuing our week on Jesus' parables, |
| 0:05.0 | we'll look today at the parable of the mustard seed. |
| 0:10.0 | As we dig into this rich, beautiful parable, |
| 0:14.0 | may our hearts and minds be enlightened. |
| 0:17.0 | Take a moment even now to ask God to give you fresh revelation. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Matthew 13, 31 through 32, where Jesus says, |
| 0:47.0 | The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, |
| 0:58.0 | but when it has grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the |
| 1:04.2 | birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. Jesus tells a beautiful parable of the kingdom of God |
| 1:14.2 | in the scripture we just heard for today. |
| 1:18.3 | Trees are beautiful pictures of God's ability |
| 1:20.6 | to take what we view as weak or insignificant, |
| 1:24.6 | a seed, and make a magnificent and life-giving creation out of it. |
| 1:31.1 | And Matthew 12 reveals how trees can be viewed as pictures of the very kingdom of their creator. |
| 1:38.4 | It's remarkable that God would begin his kingdom small and grow it by his faithful stewardship into a beautiful and |
| 1:47.0 | life-giving creation. God took the seed of the death of one man, Jesus, to create a beautiful |
| 1:55.7 | tree of salvation for all of humanity. John 317 says, |
| 2:01.7 | for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, |
| 2:07.0 | but in order that the world might be saved through him. |
| 2:12.2 | Our Heavenly Father's wrath over our sin poured out on Jesus, |
| 2:17.3 | allowed God to free the rest of us from |
| 2:20.3 | eternal condemnation. And through the seed of Jesus' death, God has been creating a powerful |
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