What does First B Jackson teach about parables of the kingdom?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on the parables of the kingdom works through Matthew 13 and Mark 4 as a connected series, building each parable on the one before it. The parable of the soils sets the frame: God's word can be hardened against, it can find shallow ground, or it can be choked out by wealth and the concerns of this world. The wheat and tares parable adds a harder truth, that in this age the kingdom and its counterfeits grow side by side, nearly indistinguishable, but a harvest is coming with real and permanent consequences.
Pastor John continued that series by pressing through five more parables, returning again and again to the question of what it actually means that the kingdom works the way Jesus describes. The mustard seed begins as something that looks like nothing and grows into something large enough to bless people far beyond its own immediate reach. The leaven works internally, invisibly, changing everything it touches. The treasure in the field and the pearl of great price sit together to make one point: the kingdom is of surpassing value, and nothing in this world should be allowed to crowd it out.
Pastor Randy and Pastor Ray each brought the wheat and darnel parable into focus on its own terms, spending real time on the Greek word for weeds, explaining that darnel looks nearly identical to wheat through most of its growth, turns black only just before harvest, and carries a poisonous, inebriating effect. The landowner's word is to let both grow until the harvest, because pulling the weeds risks tearing up the wheat alongside them. The reapers will sort them out at the end. The consistent weight across all these messages is that what a person does with the word of the kingdom carries eternal consequences, and the faithful response is to receive it, trust God to produce what only He can produce, and hold the kingdom above everything else this world offers.
Taught from Matthew 13:31-32 · Matthew 13:24-30 · Matthew 13:36-43 · Matthew 13:44 · Mark 4:26-29
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:11
11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- May 15, 2022 Have You Understood All These Things? The pastor walks through seven parables of the kingdom in Matthew 13, exploring what Jesus taught about growth, judgment, and the surpassing value of God's kingdom.
- May 8, 2022 Allow Both to Grow Until the Harvest A Mother's Day sermon on Proverbs 1 and the parables of the wheat and weeds in Matthew 13, exploring wisdom, the kingdom of God, and eternal destinies.
- May 8, 2022 The One Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear Pastor Ray walks through two parables of the kingdom in Matthew and Mark, exploring how God grows His church and what the harvest means for wheat and weeds.