Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study once again. We're continuing to look at the Gospel of Matthew

and our goal here is to do a proper exegesis on the text.

What is the text saying on the literal level? What does it mean in its original context?

And I know so many of you have benefited from studying the scriptures in this way.

And that's the goal, to help people get closer to God and to build the kingdom of God.

So we're going to look at Matthew

chapter 13 verses 47 to 53. Here's the text. Jesus said to the crowds, the kingdom of heaven is like

a drag net cast into the sea that brings in a hall of all kinds. When it is full, the fisherman haul it ashore.

Then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket, and throw away those that are no use.

This is how it will be at the end of time. The angels will appear and separate the wicked from the

just to throw them into the blazing furnace, where there

will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Have you understood all this?

They said, yes.

And he said to them, well then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven

is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom

things both old and new. When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.

So we're in chapter 13, which is the parables chapter in Matthew. So here Matthew has

assembled seven kingdom parables that Jesus gives throughout his ministry. Some of them only appear

in the Gospel of Matthew, including the one we're going to look at today, which is the last one

in the series, which is the parable of the dragnet. It's exclusive to Matthew. This is where exegesis is

really useful. As I've said in the last couple of days, when you're doing an exegesis on parables,

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