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Who is this Man?
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Who is this Man?
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The growth and reach
God cannot be stopped.
▪Jesus is sowing seeds ▪The seeds are people ▪The field is the world ▪Devil is sowing seeds too
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Matthew 12:30
Intermixed within the Kingdom are followers of Jesus and followers of the enemy.
So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29But he said, ‘No
Matthew 13:28b-29a
Reason #1
Uprooting the weeds endangers the wheat
18 What then? Only that in
every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
Philippians 1
Reason #2
Jesus loves them both, wheat & weeds
Parable of the mustard seed Parable of the leaven
The mustard seed demonstrates the growth of the Kingdom
The leaven/yeast demonstrates the reach
The weeds will not hinder the growth or the reach of the Kingdom
10 For if while we were
enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Romans 5