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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “The kingdom of heaven”?
2. For many people there is confusion when they think about the kingdom of heaven.
3. They think about the conditions of heaven eternal and expect those should be the conditions of things now, here on earth, and they are greatly confused as to why that is not so.
4. And so they ask questions like, “Why do the wicked prosper?” “Why does it seem that injustice is growing?”
5. Fortunately, God does not want to leave us in a state of perpetual confusion.
6. In the three parables we will study, Jesus described the kingdom of heaven so that we may understand what it is and not be surprised at what is unfolding here on earth.

Matthew 13:24-43

Context
1. In Matthew 13:1-3, we’re told that Jesus taught the crowds many things using parables. What is a parable?
2. By way of review, the word parable comes from two Greek words, para and ballō, which together means “to throw alongside”.
3. A parable, like a story or an illustration, makes a comparison between a known truth and an unknown truth. It “throws them alongside” each other.
4. A parable teaches one main truth, though there might be many parts or different characters used to develop the main truth further.
5. Jesus used familiar things like sowing seed to reveal spiritual truths that had never been revealed to Israel in the Old Testament, truths about the kingdom of heaven.
6. Because parables use something familiar in story-form to make a point, the parable draws the listener into the story in order to bring them to a point of decision!
7. Why did Jesus shift His approach to teaching and use parables?
8. Remember in Matthew 12, the scribes and Pharisees accused Jesus of using Satanic powers to heal people and deliver demoniacs from evil spirits. Their accusation was an official rejection of Jesus by the religious establishment. In essence, they declared that Jesus was not Israel’s Messiah, the promised King of the kingdom of heaven. He was from hell.
9. Matthew gave gave two reasons for Jesus’ use of parables:
a. First, parables reveal spiritual truth about the kingdom of heaven to those who earnestly seek it. At the same it, parables conceal spiritual truth about the kingdom of heaven from those with rebellious hearts. Thus, parables reveal and conceal spiritual truth.
b. Second, by using parables, Jesus fulfilled Messianic prophecy. In verse 35, Matthew quoted Psalm 78:2.

Psalm 78:2, I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old…

Transition – With that understanding, let’s look at the second, third, and fourth parables in Matthew 13.

I. The Kingdom of Heaven will have Tares

• In verse 24, Jesus presented a parable that revealed another facet about the kingdom of heaven.
• Starting in verse 36, Jesus explained the meaning of the parable by defining the different elements.
• The sower is the Son of Man, meaning Jesus (37).
• The field is the world, not the church (38).
• The good seed are those who come to faith in Jesus after hearing God’s Word. These are the “sons of the kingdom” who are scattered throughout the world so that God has a continual witness (38).
• The tares are the “sons of the evil one”, planted by the devil to counter the “sons of the kingdom” (38-39).
• The harvest is the judgment at the end of age and the reapers are God’s holy angels (39).

A. Wheat and tares must grow together
1. In the parable Jesus explained that the servants discovered tares growing amongst the wheat and asked if the landowner wanted to root them out.
2. Tares are darnel weeds that look very similar to wheat as it grows, but it is very poisonous.
3. In that culture, a mean-spirited farmer might sow darnel into his competitor’s field to make it poisonous. As a result, the farmer would either have to painstakingly remove the darnel at harvest time or destroy the entire field and lose the crop.

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