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I'm excited to preach to you 
this morning. 

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This is, uh, my favorite. 
We're gonna, we're gonna get to 

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it. 
My very favorite parable of 

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Jesus and I've been looking 
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So it's gonna be good. 
Matthew, chapter 13. 

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So we're in the middle of seven 
different parables that the Lord

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has been laying out. 
Remember, this is all the same 

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day. 
He's he's going through each of 

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these parables, he's teaching, 
he's instructing, but all still 

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all the same day. 
So if you're watching this and 

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you know, live action, he was 
blowing up the Pharisees earlier

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today. 
That was full nuclear for you 

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and me. 
It seems like a long time ago, 

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but that was earlier. 
And then his mother and brothers

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come say, hey, come on, He's, 
he's out of his mind. 

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They try and seize him and get 
him away and then he separates 

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and he starts speaking in 
parables. 

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Jesus makes a switch in his 
ministry on this day and from 

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this point forward, he begins 
speaking almost exclusively in 

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parables. 
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He does this to conceal from the
prideful. 

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It seems as though something 
happened for him this day and he

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goes, that's it. 
And that's why we have that that

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huge Dylan, that huge 
delineation, that huge marker 

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moment where he goes, there is a
sin that is unforgivable. 

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We're going, Yikes. 
And now you see him start to 

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speak with these, this encrypted
language we call parables. 

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And the disciples going, why do 
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Why are you doing this? 
And he goes because they might 

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see otherwise and go, wait a 
second. 

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I thought Jesus wants everybody 
to see, Well, that's the thing. 

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The humble people do see. 
The humble people still do 

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receive. 
He's saying, but I'm giving them

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what they were pursuing. 
That is the judgement of God to 

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give us the thing that we were 
going after. 

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That's Romans 1. 
That's you want that, you want 

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that, you want that. 
It's the mercy of God that still

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keeps you convicted. 
It's the mercy of God that still

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keeps you restrained. 
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I'll let go of the rope. 
I'll stop playing tug of war 

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with you, and you can have all 
the rope that you want. 

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And then we gobble it up and 
say, finally, I have my 

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treasure. 
Remember Lord of the Rings? 

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Have you seen those movies? 
Gollum in the Ring, it's 

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precious. 
What does it turn him into? 

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It turns him into a monster, 
destroys his soul, destroys his 

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mind, destroys his body, 
destroys ultimately his whole 

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life. 
And you remember how he dies in 

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fire? 
He dies in fire. 

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So this is the judgment of the 
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And also it's still the mercy of
the Lord. 

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Jesus hasn't changed. 
It's that Jesus is dealing with 

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the appropriate audience in the 
appropriate way at the 

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appropriate time. 
Jesus wills that all people 

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would come to repentance, so he 
keeps laying out multiple 

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parables now about the Kingdom. 
He's told us about the sower and

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the seed and the soil. 
He's given us the parable of the

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weeds, and we understand that 
there's different kinds of 

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hearts, and we want to have the 
good soil heart, not the one 

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that is hard where the enemy 
steals it right away. 

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Right away. 
That's what happens when you're 

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speaking to that person and you 
share something with him about 

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the Kingdom. 
Satan literally is instantly 

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stealing that word away. 
You're like, how could I just 

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shared it with them? 
How could there be no faith 

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there? 
The devil who is real, stole it 

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that fast. 
Actually, that's what's taking 

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place. 
They have participation in that 

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because their heart, heartedness
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And yet that is what's 
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You're like, I keep sharing it. 
I keep sharing it. 

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I keep sharing. 
I know I believe you. 

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Have you tried to plant a seed 
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You can, you can, you can fill 
the room with seed and it's not 

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going to take because the 
surface, because the soil is not

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right. 
It's not the right environment. 

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What can we do in a situation 
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You continue to pray, but you 
don't continue to drop seed here

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non-stop, do you? 
Is that the best use of your 

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seed? 
Is that the best use of your 

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time? 
So you can pray that the soil 

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would change, but until the soil
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So we want to make sure that's 
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We want to make sure we're not 
the shallow Stony heart that as 

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soon as persecution comes, I'm a
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around me is a Christian because
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right thing to do. 
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good guy and he died for my 
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And that was nice. 
And, you know, Christianity is 

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cool, but this is the person who
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them enough, if they felt enough
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then they would back away from 
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I go, well, I mean, I don't have
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I'm not trying to be like all 
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know, I'm just the right amount 
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And then there's the other kind 
of soil that says I'm distracted

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by the cares of life and these 
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me. 
So I don't really bear any 

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fruit. 
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distracting and actually more 
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So now we keep on going and we 
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of the mustard seed and the 
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So we're in verse 31, he put 
another parable before them, 

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saying the Kingdom of heaven is 
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that a man took and sowed in his
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It is the smallest of all seeds,
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larger than all the garden 
plants and becomes a tree so 

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that the birds of the air come 
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branches. 
And we'll go to the next one 

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because they're teaching the 
same thing. 

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He told them another parable. 
The Kingdom of heaven is like 

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leaven that a woman took and hid
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it was all leavened. 
The mustard seed isn't 

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technically the smallest seed 
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Some folks have gotten hung up 
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It's this, it's a smaller seed 
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would have been using in their 
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Jesus is not making a botanical 
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He's using hyperbole to make his
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OK, so he's just saying he's 
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Well, it's not a pumpkin seed, 
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You know, it's, it's a small 
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tiny thing, I mean, isn't. 
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still is just amazed that seeds 
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Like, I mean, it's like whenever
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of babies too, you're like, this
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crazy. 
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This is just that's his doing. 
We can plant it, we can water 

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it, but God makes it grow. 
You know, that's like it's, it's

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miraculous and we're used to it 
because it's happening all the 

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time. 
Oh, plant grass seed. 

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Oh, grass comes up. 
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This is insane. 
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This is a miracle. 
So Jesus is making hyperbole as 

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he often does. 
He's going, hey, mustard seed, 

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it grows up to do mustard seeds.
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Technically, Well, no, they 
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they can become big. 
They can become very, very big. 

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They can become 10 feet tall. 
Birds can certainly come and and

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nest in them. 
So again, we're not, we're not 

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taking Jesus's task because his 
point is about something small 

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becoming something great. 
And then he makes the same point

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with yeast. 
Yeast is a single celled 

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microorganism. 
I didn't know that. 

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I thought yeast was like bigger 
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packet. 
But what you're seeing is a lot 

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of microorganisms. 
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OK, well, I learned it this 
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It's a single celled 
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thing, but what does yeast do? 
It completely changes its 

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environment, totally changes the
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around. 
The point Jesus is making here 

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is that the Kingdom of God 
starts small and it grows to 

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take over everything and to 
change the entire environment 

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around. 
It starts small, starts modest. 

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Jesus tells us in John 1224. 
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unless a grain of wheat falls 
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just remains alone. 
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fruit. 
Jesus is that seed that he was 

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talking about when he was 
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Jesus is the seed that dies. 
He goes into the ground, He went

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into the earth and he comes up 
and multiplies and look what 

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he's produced. 
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Look at the whole earth. 
Look at how Christianity 

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continues to spread because of 
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Christians who are making 
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Jesus was buried, Jesus was 
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He reproduces many more of his 
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The Kingdom of heaven is about 
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The Kingdom of heaven is always 
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We look at many parables and we 
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multiplication over and over. 
We see the Lord delighting in 

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multiplication. 
We see the Lord delighting and 

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starting small. 
Whoever humbles themselves 

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before God turns to God can then
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Kingdom that he produces. 
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bringing rest. 
The Kingdom of heaven is about 

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bringing shade. 
The Kingdom of heaven is doing 

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what what a tree would do for 
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We we go under the tree, we get 
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It's the leaves of the tree of 
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nation's. 
We want things to start big. 

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That's how experts tell tell you
that you're supposed to plant a 

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church. 
You're supposed to have a, 

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you're supposed to have a big 
launch group for about a year 

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and you're supposed to have 
$100,000 and you have a great 

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facility and you have all these 
things and boom, now you're 

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ready to to launch a church. 
We often start businesses with a

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grand opening. 
And if I'm honest, and maybe you

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too, if we could just push a 
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growth phase of just about 
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So if there was a skip this part
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non-stop. 
I mean, be like, OK, skip this 

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part. 
Now, this is what I wanted to 

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get to. 
This is what I wanted to get to.

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But isn't it strange that 
everything in life always has 

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that startup phase? 
It's almost as though the Lord 

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wants life to function this way.
It's almost as though that was 

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part of His purpose and part of 
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Because you and I lack the 
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But the Kingdom of God starts 
small because God wanted it that

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way. 
This is the same God who is 

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happy to start life on earth 
with just one family, two people

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in one place and say fill the 
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Lord, you could have been more 
efficient. 

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You could have put couples on 
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You could have put people and 
starting places instead of Adam 

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and Eve. 
Go figure it out. 

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Make no mistake, the mustard 
seed and the yeast like those 

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things. 
Jesus is taking over the world 

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in every way imaginable. 
He rules the heart of his church

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even more as we seek him in 
prayer. 

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He rules the hearts of non 
believers as you make disciples.

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And he will rule the kingdoms of
this world. 

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And the kingdoms of this world 
will become the kingdoms of our 

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God. 
But the Kingdom starts small and

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everything else starts small. 
A baby born in the dark that 

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nobody knew about. 
Few shepherds, that's a small 

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start. 
That's a humble start compared 

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to how I would have done it, 
compared to how everyone 

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expected the Lord to do it. 
And the Lord knows that a lot of

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things are going to keep 
starting small. 

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A mighty prayer life. 
It starts small. 

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A mighty disciple Maker, do you 
start by winning the nations or 

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do you start with one person who
you invite to say, hey, look at 

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the scriptures with me. 
I'd love to pray for you. 

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I'd love to encourage you, would
love to start walking with you 

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and discussing the Lord. 
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domination of Jesus over the 
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that's where Jesus started his 
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That was where his victory was 
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Now the rest of it is just The 
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walking out. 
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because of Jesus's victory on 
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defeating hell, defeating the 
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The sunrise starts small. 
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sunrise? 
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in Boston and just like eagerly 
waiting for, you know, it's 

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just, it's a long night and 
you're waiting and waiting and 

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waiting. 
The hunters. 

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You've been waiting for the 
sunrise. 

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It's a beautiful thing. 
It's starts small, man. 

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It's never going to come up. 
It's freezing out here and 

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finally, finally, finally breaks
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you can't find a shadow. 
This is the Kingdom of God. 

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It's going to continue to grow, 
continue to expand. 

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We should rejoice when we see 
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This is a Kingdom principle, not
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finished yet. 
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Because the Lord has promised to
finish it. 

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And when he finishes it, it will
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blessing to all who come into 
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When they're rebuilding the 
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We see that. 
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encouraging and not to despise 
small beginnings, although some 

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were mourning and weeping when 
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new temple being laid because it
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They mourned and they wept 
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smaller than the original. 
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original still, and they're 
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rebuilding. 
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saying don't despise this. 
I'm still going to work. 

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I'm still going to do a mighty 
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It's still going to be glorious.
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we won't be able to bring 
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I don't want you to take a 
confusing take away from these 

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parables. 
Why, why, why are we saying the 

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kingdom's expand, expanding and 
it can't be stopped and at the 

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same time, not everybody can 
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We'll look at all the parables 
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other. 
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going to be there with the wheat
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So there's going to be the the 
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side by side all the way through
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So the parables aren't saying 
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saved because he's also got 
these other parables that 

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clarify that. 
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and the light of the Kingdom 
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this age. 
We will affect the whole world 

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in this age. 
The yeast of the Christians, the

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yeast of the Kingdom of God, 
which is interesting because 

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most of the time he uses yeast 
in a negative connotation, as 

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Jews often saw yeast. 
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he said, we're going to continue
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continue to grow, and we're 
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And in the next stage, in the 
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light will completely take over.
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grow. 
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influence on the earth. 
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expansion on the earth in the 
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The salt and the light will 
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and take over in every way. 
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sifted and dealt with as he 
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again, so look at verse 34. 
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All these things he said to the 
crowds in parables, indeed, he 

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said nothing to them without a 
parable. 

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This was to fulfill what was 
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I will open my mouth in 
parables. 

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I will utter what has been 
hidden since the foundation of 

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the world. 
Jesus wanting to bring 

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revelation. 
The intention is to to teach and

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to help. 
Analogies are helpful. 

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That's why we use them. 
I don't understand. 

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I don't get it, he said. 
It's like this and somebody 

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goes, oh, oh, I get it. 
That helps. 

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That's a great comparison. 
Thank you for that. 

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So the purposes of the parables,
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they also bring revelation to 
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Why didn't he just spell it out?
He had been spelling it out, but

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as hearts hardened, part of his 
judgment against hard hearts was

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to leave them hard. 
They continually persisted in 

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unbelief. 
And now he'll go on to speak in 

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parables to enlighten those who 
believe and leave those who 

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won't believe in their 
blindness. 

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God is rich in mercy, and still 
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to please Him. 
And now we come to my favorite 

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parable of my Lord. 
Go to verse 44. 

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Why are we skipping that chunk? 
Because we hit it last week when

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we did the parable of the weeds.
And he taught it that way. 

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Verse 44 The Kingdom of heaven 
is like treasure hidden in a 

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field which a man found and 
covered up. 

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Then in his joy he goes and 
sells all that he has and buys 

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that field. 
And then we keep going in verse 

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45 because it's teaching the 
same thing again. 

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The Kingdom of heaven is like a 
merchant in search of fine 

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pearls who on finding 1 Pearl of
great value, went and sold all 

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that he had and bought it. 
The the man digging in the 

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field, he's not looking for 
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the field. 
The man searching for pearls, he

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is deliberately searching for 
pearls. 

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So we got two different kinds of
people pointed out here. 

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One, just by the grace of God, 
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rejoices over it. 
The other one is deliberately 

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hunger, search, looking, seeking
for help, for God, for freedom. 

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We don't know exactly what his 
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it deliberately. 
So it's interesting at this time

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Jesus audience would have 
understood this. 

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You would, you could work in 
someone's field. 

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And if you found treasure in the
field that belonged to the 

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master, to the man's field that 
you were working in, why would 

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you find treasure in the field? 
Because people buried treasure 

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very regularly, especially if 
there was an invading army, you 

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know, for days. 
The such and such's are coming 

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and we're going to have combat. 
We're going to have problems. 

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You would take the goods of your
household, the most valuable 

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things, your treasures, whatever
that might be to you, and you 

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would bury it in a secure place.
Why? 

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In case we have to retreat, in 
case we're on the run. 

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We don't want to leave things in
our home and we don't want to be

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carrying them, to be vulnerable 
as we travel into God knows 

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where we might have to go. 
So I'm going to remember that I 

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buried it in this spot and no 
one else will know. 

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And we hope that soon, hope 
maybe a few weeks when our army 

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pushes them back or maybe in 
years we, when we get to revisit

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this land, if somehow we retake 
it, my treasure will still be 

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secure. 
And I've come back to it. 

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You didn't have a bank, you 
didn't have a safe deposit box, 

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you didn't have a fireproof 
safe. 

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So they buried and hid things in
the ground. 

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So there are treasures all over 
the world still in the earth 

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somewhere that people have 
buried and maybe many will never

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be found. 
But this guy's working in the 

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field for his master. 
He's working in the field for 

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his master. 
And clunk, that felt different, 

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that didn't feel like a rock. 
He uncovers it and he sees what 

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he's got. 
Now, there's a rule. 

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If you lift this treasure out of
the field, it now belongs to the

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master. 
So what does he do? 

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He covers it back up. 
So we're not supposed to judge 

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the morality of this parable. 
That's not the point of it. 

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The point, Jesus, the point was 
not look at this guy. 

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Look what he does. 
The point is, look what he's 

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willing to do to get the 
treasure. 

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That's the point of the parable.
So he covers it back up and he 

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goes and sells everything he 
has. 

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This is a poor man. 
This isn't the rich man who 

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already has many pearls and he's
going, I'm looking for the 

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Pearl. 
This is the poor man who's 

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working in another man's field. 
And he goes, covers it back up 

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he goes, I'm going to sell 
everything I have. 

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And it comes to his master. 
Master, I want to buy that field

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that you got over there. 
Why do you want to buy that 

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field? 
I just want to buy it. 

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I want that field. 
I'll do anything. 

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How do you have the money for 
it? 

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I sold. 
I sold some things. 

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Where's your house? 
Yeah. 

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I don't need that anymore. 
What happened to your shoes? 

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Yeah. 
Who needs shoes, man? 

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It's like I'm not that vain. 
I'm not trying to make a fashion

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statement. 
He gets rid of everything. 

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He's got to be able to buy this 
field. 

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And he gets rid of everything 
he's got. 

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The scripture says. 
With joy. 

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With joy. 
He's not parting ways with all 

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of his stuff going, oh, what a 
sacrifice I'm making. 

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This is the picture of the 
Kingdom. 

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There's nothing you and I could 
sacrifice you, and I can't 

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sacrifice for the Kingdom. 
What could we do? 

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What could you and I lose? 
And he's going. 

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I'm selling it all. 
With joy. 

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They're going. 
You sure you want to sell it? 

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Yeah, I'm sure. 
What are you going to? 

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I'm good. 
I'm good. 

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This is your car, man. 
These are your guns. 

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This is your guitar. 
This is whatever. 

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This is your, your, your 
wardrobe. 

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This is those, those nice shoes.
This is this is your motorcycle.

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It's nothing. 
It's it's no big deal. 

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I'm happy to sell it. 
I'm joyfully selling it. 

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Is it a sacrifice? 
Of course not. 

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Jesus saying the Kingdom of 
heaven is like this. 

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You find the treasure of the 
Kingdom of heaven. 

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You find Jesus. 
What would you not give up? 

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Why wouldn't you give up 
everything? 

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He's worth it all. 
He's worthy of it all. 

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So this man realizes that with 
great joy, sells all he has and 

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buys the field from his master, 
and then he has the treasure. 

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That parable showed us a man 
that wasn't searching. 

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This next one shows us the man 
who is diligently searching. 

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The point of both parables is 
the same, that Jesus and his 

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Kingdom are worth far more than 
everything you have. 

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You and I cannot even sacrifice 
for the Lord. 

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What would you sell for Jesus? 
What would you sell to get Jesus

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and what would you, what would 
you sell Jesus for? 

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Some people have a price. 
Judas had 1-30 pieces of silver.

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That's what he would sell Jesus 
for. 

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What would you sell Jesus for? 
Whenever 30 pieces of silver, 

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it's going to take a lot more 
than that for me. 

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It's going to take fame. 
OK, you know your price. 

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At least, you know, I'll take 
fame over Jesus. 

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Yeah, I'll take. 
I'll take a lot more. 

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It's going to take a lot more 
wealth than that. 

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But yeah. 
Enough money, enough 

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relationships, enough influence,
enough whatever. 

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All the carers, all the idolatry
of my heart, that's what I'll 

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give them up for. 
Not. 

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Not 30 pieces of silver. 
I realize he's worth more than 

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that. 
But others have sold Jesus out 

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as well. 
The shallow soil will give him 

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up soon enough. 
But not the men in these two 

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parables. 
These are the men like Paul in 

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Philippians 3, who said, But 
whatever gain I had, I counted 

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as loss for the sake of Christ. 
Indeed I count everything is 

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lost because of the surpassing 
worth of knowing Christ Jesus my

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Lord, for his sake, I've 
suffered the loss. 

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But the point is, Paul, have you
really suffered loss? 

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And then he goes on to clarify 
of all things, I count them as 

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rubbish. 
Rubbish. 

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That's a word for dung. 
It was actually potentially some

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debate and said it was actually 
a, an unpleasant word. 

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You wouldn't use it in polite 
company, Paul, You shouldn't say

455
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,280
it that way. 
So it could be referencing dung.

456
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,240
Paul's going, but they're like, 
they're going, Paul, look up 

457
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,880
everything you've given. 
He's going that pile of poop. 

458
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,360
Really. 
They're like, that's, that's 

459
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,280
treasure. 
He's going compared to Christ, 

460
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,520
that's not treasure. 
I haven't given up anything. 

461
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,480
Paul, you've been stoned. 
Paul, you've been beaten with 

462
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,320
rods. 
Paul, you've been flogged. 

463
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,200
He's gone. 
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. 

464
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,080
Oh, yeah, that's crazy. 
Oh, yeah, I remember that. 

465
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,400
Now, Now that you mention it, 
yeah. 

466
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:55,600
It just doesn't matter, though. 
It doesn't matter why The 

467
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,960
treasure of knowing Christ, I 
count. 

468
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,800
All that stuff is rubbish in 
order that I may gain Christ and

469
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,120
be found in Him, not having a 
righteousness of my own that 

470
00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:08,360
comes from the law, but that 
which comes through faith in 

471
00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:12,280
Christ, the righteousness from 
God that depends on faith. 

472
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,360
That I may know Him and the 
power of His resurrection and 

473
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,920
share in His sufferings, 
becoming like Him in His death, 

474
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,000
that by any means possible I may
attain the resurrection from the

475
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,360
dead. 
So we don't confuse, we don't 

476
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:28,960
make the parables say things 
that they're not saying. 

477
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,160
The parables aren't saying that 
you can get rid of something in 

478
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,120
order to earn and acquire the 
Kingdom on your own, and yet 

479
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,880
your heart posture is such that 
I don't care about anything else

480
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,800
except Him, and I'll give up 
everything else for Him. 

481
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,240
These parables teach us that you
can have the resurrection of the

482
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,040
dead, eternal life, peace, 
freedom from fear, the 

483
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,920
forgiveness of sins, the 
security of a father, the love 

484
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,360
of the Son, the presence of the 
Holy Spirit, or you can have 

485
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,920
your current life, but you can't
have both. 

486
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,280
Look at both men in both 
parables. 

487
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,840
Neither of them got to have it 
all. 

488
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,720
Both men in both parables had to
give up everything in order to 

489
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,120
get the treasure that they were 
seeking. 

490
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,040
He didn't say. 
The man found the treasure in 

491
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,960
the field and then he went and 
bought the field because he knew

492
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,480
there was a treasure. 
Oh, that's my master's field. 

493
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,200
I'm going to buy it. 
It cost him something. 

494
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,440
What did it cost him? 
It cost him everything. 

495
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,520
The other man is a merchant, a 
wealthy man. 

496
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,880
He's buying and selling pearls 
all the time. 

497
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,120
That's his business. 
He's got a Pearl business, but 

498
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:35,000
when he finds this one Pearl, he
goes, that's the Pearl. 

499
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,880
I've never seen anything like 
it. 

500
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,120
There's a lot of pearls in the 
world, but nothing compares to 

501
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:41,600
this one. 
I'll go sell everything I've 

502
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,720
I've got. 
He has to separate with in order

503
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,040
to gain. 
You cannot gain the Kingdom of 

504
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:54,280
God and keep everything else. 
You cannot have the world and 

505
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,800
keep your soul. 
You have to pick. 

506
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,320
I really kind of want to do both
right, Which which means you'll 

507
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,840
have only yourself and only the 
consequence. 

508
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,360
We'll get to the consequence. 
The other parables that Jesus 

509
00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:12,400
gets to in a moment, both men 
have to give up everything that 

510
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,480
they used to have to get what 
they did not already have. 

511
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,520
And they knew it was a bargain. 
They both felt like this is a 

512
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,760
steal, like it's my secret, this
is my secret. 

513
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:29,080
Like, I feel bad about this. 
I feel bad. 

514
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,760
Like you're selling all these 
pearls. 

515
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,280
What are you doing? 
You're you're liquidating the 

516
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,760
whole business. 
Yeah, but, but you you don't 

517
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,800
know. 
You don't know. 

518
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,720
I've got Miss Linda. 
You've been liquidating the 

519
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,880
business, right? 
Getting rid of all the the 

520
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,120
flags, the banners, all the 
different things, Liquidating 

521
00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,920
everything. 
But what if she was doing it all

522
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,080
because she found the one? 
She's like, what are you doing? 

523
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,680
The business? 
She's like, I've got a plan. 

524
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,280
What is it? 
You don't need to know. 

525
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,520
There's one thing that I'm 
after. 

526
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,800
There's one treasure that I'm 
seeking. 

527
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,920
This is the way that we are to 
look at Jesus. 

528
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,960
He is the treasure. 
He's worth it all. 

529
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,520
He's worth it. 
The persecution that he's 

530
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,280
prepared us for and that we've 
talked about. 

531
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,240
What would it matter? 
I hope that doesn't happen. 

532
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,840
Me too. 
I hope that doesn't come. 

533
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,280
But what if it does? 
So what? 

534
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,080
What a steal. 
What a bargain we got. 

535
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,120
What did it cost my life? 
What did I get? 

536
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:26,760
Jesus's life, I won on that 
deal. 

537
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,680
He sacrificed. 
I didn't sacrifice, He 

538
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,440
sacrificed. 
This is grace. 

539
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,200
This is beautiful, this is 
incredible. 

540
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,960
What's the alternative to the 
treasure? 

541
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:43,160
The next parable tells us again 
in verse 47, the parable of the 

542
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,240
net. 
He keeps going again. 

543
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,560
The Kingdom of heaven is like a 
net that was thrown into the sea

544
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:54,360
and gathered fish of every kind.
No fish escapes the net. 22 

545
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,480
boats would have gotten to the 
sea and they would use a 

546
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,840
dragnet. 
The net is connected to both 

547
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,040
boats and they're just moving 
through the sea. 

548
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,520
Everything's coming in it. 
Eels, snakes, all kinds of junk 

549
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,760
that they don't want, unclean 
things that they're not allowed 

550
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,320
to eat. 
They're catching it all. 

551
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,280
They're catching it all. 
They're catching it all. 

552
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,920
We bring it to shore. 
That's a good fish. 

553
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,800
That's a good fish. 
Get that gross thing out of 

554
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,040
here. 
Trash. 

555
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,320
That's a good fish. 
That's a good fish. 

556
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,480
Nobody escapes the net. 
God's net is coming, He told us.

557
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,600
It's the same meaning as the 
parable that he gave earlier, 

558
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,400
the parable of the weeds and the
parable of the weeds and the 

559
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,400
wheat. 
The angels are going to come 

560
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,760
through. 
The harvesters are going to come

561
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,760
and harvest everything together.
And then God is going to sift 

562
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,920
and divide and say righteous and
unrighteous. 

563
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,600
And we're going to say, I 
thought so, and so was Jesus 

564
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,280
knows everything, and Jesus is 
going to clarify everything. 

565
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,680
The judge is coming, gathers 
fish of every kind. 

566
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,680
Verse 48, when it was full, men 
drew it ashore and sat down and 

567
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,080
sorted the good into containers,
but threw away the bad. 

568
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,080
So it will be at the end of the 
age. 

569
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,840
That's how we know that the 
Kingdom is going to fully come 

570
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,640
in stages. 
It's going to keep coming and 

571
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,240
keep coming and keep 
influencing. 

572
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,320
Or is there a limit? 
No, there's no limit. 

573
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,440
It's just that there's going to 
be a sifting moment, and then 

574
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,640
the Kingdom fully comes forever.
It's going to fully come forever

575
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,440
in that moment. 
So there's a sifting, there's a 

576
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,640
sifting, there's a sifting, and 
then this clear defining moment,

577
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,200
the judgment, judgment day 
comes, and now the eternal 

578
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,720
Kingdom goes on forever and ever
and ever. 

579
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,760
So it will be at the end of the 
age. 

580
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,000
The angels will come out and 
separate the evil from the 

581
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,920
righteous and throw them into 
the fiery furnace. 

582
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,880
In that place there will be 
weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

583
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,520
Jesus talks about hell more than
he talks about heaven. 

584
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,520
Why He wants to warn people 
because it's real, because it's 

585
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,000
terrible, because he doesn't 
want anyone to perish. 

586
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,800
Judgment is coming and Jesus is 
warning and we should do the 

587
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,760
same. 
And now we come to the last 

588
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,480
parable that he gave that day, 
verse 51. 

589
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,160
He says, have you understood all
these things they said to him? 

590
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:21,120
Yes, and he said to them, 
Therefore every scribe who has 

591
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,320
been trained for the Kingdom of 
heaven is like a master of a 

592
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,440
house, who brings out of his 
treasure what is new and what is

593
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,920
old. 
So scribes are students of the 

594
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,480
Word of God. 
You and I want to be scribes. 

595
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,400
We want to be students of of 
God's Word who understand it, 

596
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,240
who recognize it and can 
instruct others in it. 

597
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,720
And now we have rich treasure. 
When you and I have 

598
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,080
understanding and revelation of 
the Kingdom through the word of 

599
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,080
God, you have rich treasure. 
You're This is why I tell you if

600
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,400
you have revelation on the 
Scriptures, you are 

601
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,000
overqualified now to make 
disciples. 

602
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,280
There's nothing else that needs 
to happen. 

603
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,800
You can open the scriptures of 
somebody else to say, let me 

604
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,480
show you how this is all about 
Jesus. 

605
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,880
Let me show you how this is all 
about the King and his Kingdom. 

606
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,760
Let me show you what this means 
for us. 

607
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,760
You're a scribe who brings out 
rich treasures out of his house 

608
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,960
to show and share with others. 
Does anybody else do that other 

609
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,800
than me? 
When you get something new at 

610
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,200
your house and then you have 
friends over at least life, I'm 

611
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,800
like a little boy with show and 
tell. 

612
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,920
Like if I get a new gun or 
something and you come to my 

613
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,320
house like y'all are in the 
front door for a couple minutes 

614
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,760
maybe and then I'm like bro, bro
and Natalie already knows what's

615
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,800
happening, you know, and that 
little tell like the husband's 

616
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280
wife, the wife's like where they
going is like he's probably 

617
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,840
going to show him his guns or 
something like you're correct, 

618
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,160
like these are treasures. 
I'm excited. 

619
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,080
I mean, I used to have guns, 
lost some, of course, in a 

620
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,840
boating accident. 
But these are things that that 

621
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,680
we're we're we're valuing and 
we're saying this is wonderful. 

622
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,000
I'm excited about. 
Am I the only person who does 

623
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,440
this? 
Oh, OK, Kayla. 

624
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:54,800
Kayla shows her treasures too. 
Good. 

625
00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,760
Kayla shows her. 
You'll make me feel lonely there

626
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,360
for a second. 
All right. 

627
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,920
So Kayla and I show people the 
treasures that we have these 

628
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,520
things that we're excited about.
But this is what we have when we

629
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,760
have the Kingdom. 
So the parables, sometimes they 

630
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,200
don't work together. 
Sometimes the point teaches 

631
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,320
itself well. 
And then this one teaches itself

632
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,080
well. 
Because the man with the 

633
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,320
treasure in the field, he's not 
publicizing it, right? 

634
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,720
Like we said, I mean, what was 
the master thinking when he goes

635
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,040
by in his carriage one day and 
he seals, he sees that fool out 

636
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,040
there dancing in the field and 
just like this guy, like he used

637
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,400
to work for me and he bought the
field and like, I don't know 

638
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,880
what the deal is. 
He's like, hey, good to see you.

639
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,360
This dude's a nut. 
Like he's so super excited about

640
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,520
this field. 
Just loves it. 

641
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,960
Like just sits by that sits by 
that one spot all the time. 

642
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,680
It's all I've ever seen doing 
thinks he's got everything he 

643
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,280
does. 
So that parable teaches what 

644
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,640
that parables supposed to teach.
But this one of Jesus saying 

645
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,160
we're supposed to share these 
things with others, we're 

646
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,800
supposed to bring our treasures 
and go, I got to tell you about 

647
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,000
this. 
I got to show you this. 

648
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,240
I'm excited about this. 
I mean, I was more, I feel like 

649
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,200
I was more excited about Elijah 
Fain's dirt bike than he was 

650
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,960
when he got it. 
Like people come over like you 

651
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,240
see Elijah Fain's dirt bike, 
like you got to come see the 

652
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,320
dirt bike. 
Look at the dirt bike. 

653
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,600
Look at this cool dirt bike. 
Hey, how much more so for the 

654
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,800
Kingdom, right? 
Look at, look at what the Lord 

655
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,520
has done for me. 
Let me tell you about Jesus, who

656
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,280
he is and what he's done. 
These are the scribes that we're

657
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,520
supposed to be sharing, 
revealing the treasure that we 

658
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,040
have. 
When you're excited, you'll tell

659
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,800
everyone about the treasure that
you found. 

660
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,080
You'll show them, you'll share 
with them. 

661
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,400
And finding this treasure will 
turn you into what others think 

662
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,040
is a fool dancing in a field. 
But we'll close with this. 

663
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,200
Jim Elliott was a missionary who
lost his life. 

664
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,120
He was murdered by the people he
was seeking to minister to, 

665
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,120
right upon greeting them, 
unfortunately, they speared him 

666
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,960
to death. 
He and five other men died that 

667
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,080
day. 
These 10 warriors came out. 

668
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,720
They went to go preach the 
gospel for them. 

669
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,360
But before he had gone out to 
meet these people and reach out 

670
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,760
to these people, he had written 
in his journal this famous 

671
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,960
quote. 
He said he is no fool who gives 

672
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,320
up what he cannot. 
Sorry. 

673
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,640
He is no fool who gives what he 
cannot keep to gain what he 

674
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,520
cannot lose. 
You're not a fool if you give up

675
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,160
something that you can't keep in
order to gain the thing that you

676
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,680
could never possibly lose. 
It's the treasure in the field. 

677
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,080
You're a fool for getting rid of
all that stuff. 

678
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,960
I'm no fool to give up the 
things that I can't keep anyway 

679
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,720
to gain the one that I can never
lose. 

680
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,600
Believe the word of God, be 
reassured of the promise. 

681
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,000
What am I supposed to do with 
this one, pastor? 

682
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,640
Be thankful again, be refreshed 
again and go, Jesus, you really 

683
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,640
are worth everything. 
And then be open to what the 

684
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,000
Holy Spirit would say. 
Would he bring instruction 

685
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,600
because of that? 
Jesus, you're worth everything 

686
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,520
and the Holy Spirit might have a
therefore for you as an 

687
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,280
individual today. 
Do you mean that son? 

688
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,080
Do you mean that daughter? 
Yes, Lord, good. 

689
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:16,199
Therefore will might the Lord 
prompt you to do now? 

690
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,360
What might the Lord lead you in?
I can't write that script for 

691
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,000
you. 
You have the Holy Spirit. 

692
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,960
But obey. 
And we're going to take a moment

693
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,840
to pray. 
We're going to take a moment 

694
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:38,719
right now, not to dismiss, but 
to seek the Lord God. 

695
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:44,600
You're worth everything, and we 
ask you to reveal to us if there

696
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,560
is anything else that you would 
have us give away, if there is 

697
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:56,199
anything else that we need to 
separate from, nothing that we 

698
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,040
would sacrifice, nothing that 
will cause us to suffer. 

699
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,280
God, we keep our eyes on the 
treasure, not on the thing that 

700
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,920
we would give up, the thing that
we would sell, the thing that we

701
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,080
would crucify. 
We're no fool to give up those 

702
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,880
things, the things that we can't
keep in order to attain the one 

703
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,640
that we can never lose. 
Jesus, we want more of you. 

704
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:28,280
Yes, Lord, I pray you would show
each of us right now. 

705
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,840
Bring us something clear, bring 
us something precise. 

706
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,080
Just commit to obedience to it 
right now. 

707
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:51,840
Saints, what is it the Lord is 
asking of you? 

708
00:35:53,000 --> 00:36:01,610
He's saying, can I have that? 
So I'd give up anything for him.

709
00:36:01,610 --> 00:36:03,810
Well, right. 
But maybe he's not asking for 

710
00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:07,810
for just anything. 
Maybe he's asking for something 

711
00:36:07,930 --> 00:36:08,730
in particular.