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Matthew 13

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 1: The Sower –…

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 13, as we continue our study in this great gospel. We already said that in Matthew 11, the majesty of Christ was set forth in each of the events recorded there. In Matthew 12, His character is over and over again contrasted with the character of His opponents, the Pharisees and the scribes. And in Matthew chapter 13, Matthew gives us a glimpse of the method of His teaching. Jesus teaches in parables. Matthew 13 is somewhat of a turning point for the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew has recorded a few parables up to this point. Remember, for instance, the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7, verses 24 to the end of the chapter, and a parable, the parable of the man who built his house on the sand and the man who built his house on the…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 2: Jesus speaks in…

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew, chapter 13. Matthew 13 contains seven great parables of the Lord Jesus Christ. In each of those parables He speaks about the nature of the kingdom. Remember that the disciples were expecting a Messiah, and they were expecting the kingdom, but they were gradually learning from Jesus that the Messiah was different from the way they had expected Him. And they were now learning, too, that the kingdom was going to be a little different than they expected it to be, in fact, each of the seven parables about the kingdom found in Matthew chapter 13 tell us something different, unexpected, about the kingdom. In the parable of the sower, which we saw a couple of weeks ago, in verses 1-9, and in the explanation of that parable, which…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 3: Tares among wheat:…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 13. We will begin in verse 24. In the midst of our study of Matthew 13, we have said that in this passage are contained seven parables, all focused on the subject of the kingdom. Each of these parables is designed to bring to Jesus' disciples certain facts, certain truths about the kingdom which they may not have expected; in fact, which may seem to be contradictory to what they were expecting about the kingdom. In the Parable of the Sower, for instance, Jesus makes it clear that there will be a mixed response to Him and to His preaching of the good news. His disciples, on the other hand, were expecting that when He established His kingdom, He would bring all of Israel and all of the Gentiles to…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 4: The Mustard Seen…

If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 13. Matthew 13 contains a series of seven parables, all of which focus on the theme of the kingdom of God, and all of which are designed to teach us about unexpected aspects of the kingdom. The disciples themselves expected the Lord Jesus Christ’s kingdom to come in a different form in which it appeared. And so the Lord Jesus used these parables to teach His disciples and us about things in the life of the…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 5: The Treasure, the…

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with met to Matthew chapter 13 beginning in the 44th verse. As we have studied Matthew 13 in these kingdom parables, we have noted that there are seven parables of the Lord Jesus in this passage, and that all of them contain descriptions of the way the Lord Jesus' kingdom is. And the reason each of these parables describe different aspects of the kingdom is because the disciples had certain expectations about the kingdom that were…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 6: The Scribe of the…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 13. We have already surveyed 7 kingdom parables in this great passage, and we refer to them as “kingdom parables” because each of these 7 parables are designed to teach us unexpected qualities of the kingdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God. They are designed to correct misunderstandings that we might have about the nature of the kingdom that the Lord Jesus Christ came to set up. And this is obviously…

The Parables of the Kingdom, Part 7: No Honor in…

If You have your Bibles Id invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 13. In this great passage we have seen seven kingdom parables of our Lord in which He teaches us about unexpected qualities of the kingdom. Now in this final passage in Matthew 13, beginning in verse 53, Matthew records the Lord Jesus' movement to the town of Nazareth, His hometown, to preach the gospel there, and we see the response of the people, or rather the lack of response of the people to the gospel that was…

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