Jesus continued His parables saying that the kingdom of God is like a man who planted a mustard seed in his land: it's the smallest but grew to be a tree where birds of the air came and settled. Comparing from the previous parable of the sower and the interpretation Jesus gave> see (Mat 13:4,19, Mark 4:4,15, Luke 8:5,12). We see that the birds of the air refers to demons.
He continued saying that the kingdom is like a woman who hid leaven in three measures of wheat and the whole lump got leavened.
Paul in 2Cor 5:6-8, and Gal 5:9 says that a little leaven leavens the whole lump. We should purge out the old leaven of malice (hidden desire to see other suffer) and wickedness. God desires sincerity and truth.
Thus we conclude from these two parables, that if we hide sin in our lives, it will grow and will destroy our whole Christian characters and finally we'll become a habitation of demons.
Therefore let us not hide sin but seek to find deliverance from it in our secret place.
IF WE DEAL WITH SIN PRIVATELY BEFORE GOD; HE WILL NOT EXPOSE US; but if we live in hypocrisy and harbour grudges and bitterness; and evil attitudes, one day they will grow and be manifest to all.
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit.( Our inner wrong attitude and motives and outward evil actions)in the fear of God( since God is watching us and He will judge us in the last day)., as Paul exhorts us in 2Cor 7:1
The disciple asked Jesus the meaning of the parable of the tares Nd He explained to them. It's interesting as we'll see, that Jesus always answered whenever His disciples asked a question no matter how insignificant it seemed to be but not so with others. Let us seek to be disciples; and Jesus will answer our every question.
We saw earlier that a disciples is one who loves Jesus above everyone and above everything else, even his own life.
The wheat are the children of God and the tares are the children of the devil; and at the end of the age; the children of the devil (Vs 41> those who cause others to sin and those who live in sin. See also 1John 3:9-10) will be gathered and thrown in fire where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The righteous will shine forth like sun.
The kingdom of God is like a hidden treasure which a person found and in his excitement went and sold all that He had and bought that field.
It is also compared to a merchant seeking pearls and on finding one of great value, went and sold all that He had and bought it.
This shows the value of God's kingdom if you have truly found it: you will be excited and will be willing to lose everything for you to gain it. Paul says in Philippians 3:8 that he counted everything to be loss.
*Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ*
Have you found in your life that the most valuable thing you can do is having an intimate relationship with Christ where He is everything to you? May God open our eyes that we may see the value of things as God see ms them that we may have the right value system.
Jesus asked His disciples whether they understood the parables andd they say yes and He said to them that those who read and teach the bible, if they become disciples: that it to love Christ above everything else; God will give them revelations from what tey have already read and in other parts of scriptures as they continue to study God's word
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