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The Parables of the Kingdom: Transforming Our Actions

Explore the parables in Matthew 13:31-33 and discover how they illustrate the truths about the Kingdom of God, aiming to change our perspective on reality and transform our actions. Learn the recipe for experiencing the Kingdom and the definitive good it brings.

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The Parables of the Kingdom: Transforming Our Actions

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  1. Matthew 1-13 - Jesus is King  Matthew 14-20 - What is his kingdom like?  Matthew 21-28 - King over sin, and death and king of our hearts April 28, 2019

  2. 3 Basic Features of Parables: • Analogies taken from everyday life. • Illustrate and teach truths about the kingdom of God. • Aim to change the way we see reality and transform our actions.

  3. 3 Basic Features of Parables: • Analogies taken from everyday life. • Illustrate and teach truths about the kingdom of God. • Aim to change the way we see reality and transform our actions.

  4. April 28, 2019

  5. April 28, 2019

  6. What does the scripture say? What should we do? How are we going to do it?

  7. Matthew 13:31–33 31He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

  8. How will God’s Kingdom Come?

  9. Matthew 13:31–33 33He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

  10. What “recipe” do we try? 1. Virtues 2. Knowledge 3. Religious Activity 4. Spiritual Disciplines

  11. What “recipe” do we try? 1. Virtues 2. Knowledge 3. Religious Activity 4. Spiritual Disciplines

  12. The Kingdom of God does a definitive good for: 1. Us

  13. The Kingdom of God does a definitive good for: 1. Us 2. Those closest to us

  14. The Kingdom of God does a definitive good for: 1. Us 2. Those closest to us 3. The Kingdom

  15. The Kingdom of God does a definitive good for: 1. Us 2. Those closest to us 3. The Kingdom 4. The World

  16. "Observing how often students interact with others can predict student retention and graduation rates"

  17. 3 Basic Features of Parables: • Analogies taken from everyday life. • Illustrate and teach truths about the kingdom of God. • Aim to change the way we see reality and transform our actions.

  18. Who is King Remember

  19. From Rudy "Son, in thirty-five years of religious study, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I’m not Him.” Father Cavanaugh

  20. Be Surprised Don’t

  21. Be Surprised Don’t 20Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”  - Luke 17:20–21

  22. Be Surprised Don’t 20Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”  - Luke 17:20–21

  23. Grow Weary Don’t

  24. Grow Weary Don’t

  25. the Right Kingdom Live for

  26. the Right Kingdom Live for • 22And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them. 24For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. [25] But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. - Luke 17:22–25

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