The Kingdom Expected - NT - Part 2

So, so just to bring you in in mindset into chapter 13 if you don't mind brother Donald Do you see that there are three great sevens in the scriptures? We've got Leviticus 23 And we've got the seven feasts and then we've got Revelation 2 and 3 and we get the seven churches And then here we've got Matthew Matthew 13 and like yourself. I'm happy to say we've got the seven parables But you know that those divide And how they divide are you happy here that in this chapter? we've got a division of four and a division of three four parables and then a Split if you want and then the further three parables, I would lean to the four and three. Yes I'm happy in this so I'm a con I don't know how William would divide it up now because he sees it here Would you mind just telling the believers how we get four and three go ahead? Oh, so so what our brother mark has showed us from Matthew 13 look at verse number one It says the same day went Jesus out of the house and he sat by the seaside Then he went into the ship and he spoke to the multitude on the shore from the ship Now when we move down just look down at verse number 34 all these things speak Jesus unto the multitude in parables Look at verse number 36, then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house So he's given four parables He's given it from the ship Then he goes into the house and he gives a further three parables So it suggests to us a division in the chapter of four and three of the seven the division No doubt occurs there for that reason.

Yes, but to balance the ministry John I would see it four and four. Okay If you notice the last the last one there in Where am I at now? The householder where am I at? Yes verse 52 Then said he unto them therefore every scribe which is instructed on to the kingdom of heaven is like unto Now that little formula of words introduces all the other Seven Parables the kingdom of heaven is like unto so you have it again. You have that formula of words a householder And he brings forth from his treasure things old and new I link that with There's a chiasm in these four So the first one matches in with the eighth the second with the seventh and the third with the fifth Sixth Oh third and six So the first the first parable is to do with the seed the sowing of the seed The last one in my view the eighth one has got to do with the old and the new Old Testament New Testament.

There you go That's simple to see that and he's drawing from his treasure Things both old in relation to the kingdom and things that are new in relation to the brother Donald's only got eight minutes And we're we're in trouble So, let me ask you the bait one of the big questions You've emphasized this does not tell us about the kingdom and mystery It tells us about the mysteries of the kingdom mystery something that has been concealed and is now revealed new information What's the new information in these parables? Amen? I? Take it the new information these powers primarily is that there is going to be a kingdom It is going to have tremendous growth and there is going to be an end to it that will bring judgment and will burn blessing Right if you want to put it into a smaller sentence with it given the time we've left Go further on that brother mark So so you you don't think then do I take it that the the new information so that the Jews knew there was going to Be a kingdom they knew much about the characteristics of the kingdom and so on But what they didn't know was that there was going to be a delay in the in the manifestation of a kingdom, right? So I think the delay is what? Is that what the focus is centrally on here? Right? So in the wheat and the terrors let both grow together until The time there is the delay until the time of harvest and then it'll be sorted out That matches in with the dragnet the good fish and the bad and it's brought to shore and it's sorted out So there's the second the second and the seventh area and the Lord asked them if they understood and they said they did and yet With all when we get to Acts chapter 1 But a slave will still say will bow at this time and restore So would I be okay to suggest? I thought why I believe it so I'm going to suggest it anyway, but I Would suggest brother Donald that what we're looking at is the time frame from the beginning of the public ministry of the Lord Jesus Right until the manifestation of his kingdom Yes, I think so a soar went forth to so yeah, right and the soar that went forth to so is the Lord Jesus in his public ministry and these seven parables and the addendum Help me brother John I didn't make this point at the start that I want to hear your views on Is it looking at the period from Christ's public ministry? Right through to millennial kingdom including the little period of the church Or is it surely? The period excluding the church given that for example in chapter 13. We have no mention yet of the church Yes, I think so Well haven't we haven't we decided that those that are born again are Prepared for that coming kingdom. Yep and all through the dispensation of grace people have been born again prepared for that kingdom Mm-hmm and the subjects that will be in that kingdom Has been growing all the way Right, so I would take it's got to include the church age, right? So while it would include the church age then and this is going to maybe drop us into the parables in particular Do you feel that any of the parables are particularly the church or do you believe that it is the response to the message? In its entirety between the two events The latter last one the last one, okay, I'm happy with that.

Yes Well, go ahead. Maybe it maybe this is a this is a very simple point, but it's maybe worth just emphasizing here Something that's been kind of implicit in what we've been saying, you know when we when we encounter parables in Sunday school We think about them as a way of communicating divine lessons and of course They are that here but the the point that the Lord makes is that for a nation who have rejected the the Overt message who have refused to believe the evidence of all those miracles that are performed what is commuting? communicating information to the disciples and what the Lord interprets for the disciples Actually is a judgment on the nation because Christ is no longer teaching clearly He's teaching in a parabolic form. That is a prophesied judgment on a nation that has rejected Christ Yeah, I think that mean the time is virtually gone I think what we've got to just keep in mind with all these parables and we've talked about it already One is it is not the kingdom now existing in mystery form.

Okay, we're happy enough with that It is the mysteries of the kingdom and what he's doing is he is unfolding to them as It were things that will happen That will in in principle many of them running to the very end for example in the parable of the sower What is he looking at? He's looking at the fruit in the parable of the mustard seed He's looking at the final growth in the parable of the wheat and the tears He's looking at the judgment that is going to take place not the salvation But the judgment is going to take place in the parable of the pearl and the parable of the treasure He's looking at the final taking to himself of that Which he has invested so much money to get and in the parable of the dragnet He's looking at the principle in the dragon is actually Dealing with the fish that are not suitable so that the very emphasis in all of these parables is more towards judgment at the end Than the blessing side of it, even though the others are included within it And that's why I take it. It would carry us right to the very end. Good.

I can take an 11 Sorry, I think you left out the leavened on all the left out the leaven Let's see what you're gonna say about that. Yeah Sorry, can I have a minute? 30 seconds go ahead Let me flesh out those contrasts again further as we move on just for any that are interested The mustard seed that grows into something something small that grows into something big big, right? Would match in in our analysis with the pearl Something is small But of big value something that's large, right now relate this to the kingdom that's coming Right forget about the church has been the pearl forget about that. Whoever mentioned that Yeah, nobody mentioned that but the Bible says the kingdom of heaven is like on condemning himself So be clear what the Bible says now then the last one then would be the leaven and the treasure Well in both you have the thought of something hidden The leaven was hidden in the meal Right and with the increase in size you have the increase in corruption We're gonna level 11 in the normal way.

It's a principle of corruption, right? So keep that in mind then when you come to the treasure, you have something hidden The treasure is hid in the field. And what do you have there? You have a man active In the one corruptions act but here is the securing of the treasure and there's that action that's going on What is the treasure the treasure would be that what the Bible says it is. It's the kingdom of heaven Those the Bible.

Hey, I quote the Bible Our brother jar others might think it's Israel doesn't say that in my Are you having you can think it'll be ready for behavior It's virtually a quarter past and Marcus just bursting to get in on the Levin Go ahead, we should introduce another Bible reading and have a go at that tomorrow. I Became a Serdo nerd during lockdown and my wife tells me I'm not allowed to talk about 11 and meetings because I get boring on the subject So go ahead. No, I'm I would be and I think I agree with you that 11 I certainly agree with William that 11 is is Seen here negative as it is elsewhere in scripture.

I think this is corruption spreading Sorry asked you because I don't Would you mind brother Donald if I suggested just just for a few minutes? I personally don't see what our brother William has told us. I Personally see God's kingdom As the great viewpoint of the chapter, I see the first four parables as problems objectives I See the last three parables telling how God is going to accomplish it And so just for balance in the Bible reading that's how I see wouldn't God be Accomplishing his purposes through the sowing of the seed. Yes, but with that then there's profession and The second one there's imitation in the third one.

There's corruption and We go through it and we can see things which are against and mitigate against the kingdom of heaven Different ways of looking at levels of truth Sure, that would certainly be that would certainly be the way that I would have normally have held that Except that I I do not see in the kingdom of God in the kingdom of heaven anything That is unseemly anything that is corruption I See it as that which has come from God and that which is holy and that as mark is going to take us to that In the future. In fact, I I see the kingdom of God And I will declare it now I see that the Millennials only the part it only the start of it I see it running right on into the eternal state and As far as the leaven is concerned just quickly and I know the clock has gone. I do not see the leaven in the negative corruption sense Leaven is something that is used to in a hidden way permeate the whole of the loaf and produce in it a growth and It doesn't necessarily need to be that which is corruptive It is something that once it started once it's in it can never be stopped and listen The kingdom of God will not be stopped.

It cannot be stopped. It will achieve it will achieve its full growth We see that in the mustard seed But it is something that it will just quietly go on as 11 and it will reach its full Potential and there is nothing once leaven starts you can't stop it So I don't see the leaven in this particular case as something that is speaking of corruption I think that it's something that is quietly working that cannot be stopped. That's the slight difference I would take to you on that the fire was Thank you very much brethren for your help