The Parable of the Mustard Seed
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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.
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | As we dig into this rich, beautiful parable, |
| 0:15.0 | may our hearts and minds be enlightened. |
| 0:19.0 | Take a moment even now to ask God to give you fresh revelation. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:59.5 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Matthew 13, verses 31 and 32. |
| 1:01.4 | Scripture says, |
| 1:09.9 | The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. |
| 1:13.6 | It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, |
| 1:15.6 | it is larger than all the garden plants |
| 1:18.6 | and becomes a tree |
| 1:20.6 | so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. |
| 1:45.0 | Jesus tells a beautiful parable of the kingdom of God in Matthew 12. He teaches, 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, but when it is grown, it is larger than all the garden plants |
| 1:53.0 | and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. Trees are beautiful pictures of God's ability to take what we view as weak or insignificant, |
| 2:08.6 | a seed, and make a magnificent and life-giving creation out of it. |
| 2:15.3 | And Matthew 12 reveals how trees can be viewed as pictures of the very kingdom of their |
| 2:21.8 | creator. It's remarkable that God would begin his kingdom small and grow it by his faithful |
| 2:29.9 | stewardship into a beautiful and life-giving creation. God took the seed of the death of one man, |
| 2:39.4 | Jesus, to create a beautiful tree of salvation for all of humanity. John 317 says, for God did not |
| 2:50.2 | send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order |
| 2:54.7 | that the world might be saved through him. Our Heavenly Father's wrath over sin poured out on Jesus, |
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