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 New Wine by Hillsong Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | Continuing our week on Jesus' parables, we'll look today at the parable of the mustard seed. |
| 0:11.0 | As we dig into this rich, beautiful parable, may our hearts and minds be enlightened. |
| 0:17.0 | Take a moment even now to ask God to give you fresh revelation. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Our scripture for today comes from Matthew 13, 31 through 32, where Jesus says, |
| 0:48.0 | The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. |
| 0:55.0 | It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, |
| 1:03.0 | so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. |
| 1:09.0 | Jesus tells a beautiful parable of the kingdom of God in the scripture we just heard for today. |
| 1:17.0 | Trees are beautiful pictures of God's ability to take what we view as weak or insignificant, |
| 1:24.0 | a seed, and make a magnificent and life-giving creation out of it. |
| 1:31.0 | In Matthew 12 reveals how trees can be viewed as pictures of the very kingdom of their creator. |
| 1:38.0 | It's remarkable that God will begin his kingdom small and grow it by his faithful stewardship into a beautiful and life-giving creation. |
| 1:50.0 | God took the seed of the death of one man, Jesus, to create a beautiful tree of salvation for all of humanity. |
| 2:00.0 | John 3.17 says, For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. |
| 2:12.0 | Our Heavenly Father's wrath over our sin poured out on Jesus, allowed God to free the rest of us from eternal condemnation. |
| 2:23.0 | In through this seed of Jesus's death, God has been creating a powerful and eternal global movement, |
| 2:30.0 | bringing people to restored relationship with himself across thousands of years. |
| 2:37.0 | Just as the mustard seed grows large enough to become a tree in which birds make their home, |
| 2:43.0 | the kingdom of God has transferred our citizenship to a new home with him. |
| 2:50.0 | Philippians 3.20 says, But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 2:59.0 | In John 1519 says, If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. |
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