Matthew 13: Conclusions

This is the fourth in a series of posts to examine three parables from Matthew 13. Much of the material in these posts is based on the International Bible Series lesson I used to teach Sunday school at Annual Conference.

So, if we take these three parables together as glimpse of what God’s kingdom is like, we might get a better picture:

•  God’s kingdom is now and in the future. In the now, there are challenges, but we can trust it all to work out in God’s time.
•  We don’t always know how God works, but we don’t have to understand it in order to believe it – to expect miracles – to point them out to others, and to have enough faith to have and bring hope.
•  We can be the yeast that changes the world