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All right, let's open up. We'll
be in two main places tonight. Matthew 13 and Revelation 2.
So mark those spots in your Bible. But we're going to turn to a
few other places kind of as an introduction here. We're dealing
with the seven parables that we find in the mysteries of the
kingdom given in Matthew 13 by Christ. And in these parables,
we understand from comparing Matthew, Mark, and Luke, that
the parables are given not just to relate to the kingdom of heaven,
but also to the kingdom of God. Now having said that, I know
there's a lot that goes behind those two ideas and concepts,
but if you can think about it like this, you think about the
kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. The kingdom of heaven
is a physical kingdom. And so Jesus Christ is the king
of both kingdoms. So as he presents the gospel
of the kingdom, he presents both aspects of that, physical and
spiritual. Now, we don't preach a physical
kingdom as far as saying, hey, you need to make sure you move
to the state of Florida because we're gonna serve Jesus, and
anyone who hates Jesus is gonna have to leave. And we're gonna
set up our capital in Monticello. And this is gonna be the place.
That's not how we operate, although there have been religions and
denominations that have operated that way. Catholics and Protestants
certainly have done that. They fought, and other religions
have operated that way when you think of Muslims and Islam and
all that kind of stuff. But the scripture is a lot different
when you see how the Jews reject the physical kingdom, so God
brings the spiritual kingdom to the Gentiles. The only time
the physical kingdom shows up is when the king is on the earth,
in the flesh, physically. But Jesus is not in the flesh
physically now. He is here among us spiritually. Where two or three are gathered,
there is he in the midst of us. So that's why we preach the kingdom
of God, the gospel of the kingdom of God, and it's also called
the gospel of the grace of God. And so you need to understand
that aspect because when we look at the parables, tonight we're
gonna talk about the parallels of the parables. And we're going
to look at each of the seven parables, how they relate in
the kingdom of God, specifically the church age in which we are. But by way of preface, I want
you to see how this kingdom of God is present. Turn over to
Romans. We're going to flip through just
a few of Paul's epistles and see this present reality of the
kingdom of God being preached. Look in Romans 14. Now, if you
recall, when John the Baptist began to preach before Christ
did, he said, repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and that's
what he preached. But when Christ shows up, he
preaches both the kingdom of heaven is at hand and the kingdom
of God is at hand. John the Baptist never preached
that. It's Jesus Christ that preached both kingdoms. John
only preached that physical kingdom. So John gets locked up in jail
and that's kind of a preface, a telltale sign of what was to
come. The Jews were like, we're not gonna listen to John. And
Jesus is saying, hey, if you're not gonna listen to John, you
sure aren't gonna listen to me. And they didn't. And by Matthew
chapter 12, they, as a nation, committed the sin of the blasphemy
of the Holy Ghost. They said Jesus Christ was casting
out devils through the devil. That he had a spirit of the devil.
And Jesus says, you're gone. This thing's done. And you begin
to see a shift with how the nation responded to Christ, and eventually,
of course, he goes to the cross. What did I tell you? Romans 14.
Let's look at this kingdom of God. I want you to see in Paul's
epistles, in application for us today, the kingdom of God
is still here and we are preaching this kingdom, this spiritual
kingdom. Romans chapter number 14. If
you'll come down a few verses in here, notice in verse number
seven, none of us live to himself, no man dieth to himself. Whether
we live, we live unto the Lord. Whether we die, we die unto the
Lord. Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's, okay? I keep reading, he's talking
about how some people judge one another. He says, so then every
one of us should give account of himself to God, verse 12.
Verse 13, let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but
judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion
to fall in his brother's way. Don't trip somebody up. Verse
14, I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is
nothing unclean of itself, but to him that esteemeth anything
to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother begreed with
thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably, destroy not him with
thy meat for whom Christ died. So he's dealing in the physical
realm. He's talking about these physical things. Some people
go over there and they say, hey, these idols are nothing, even
though they're selling meat that's offered under idols. I'm going
to I want to be a good piece of steak. And now that even though
I'm a Jew, I'm saved, I can eat pork. I'm going to get me a slab
of bacon. And he's like, hey, when you do that and you cause
your brother to be weak and offended because he sees you standing
in line at the pagan meat market, he thinks, oh no, this guy's
worshiping false gods now. He goes, you're destroying your
brother. And I remember hearing this years ago, so I like to
use it. Old preacher used to use this. He was a football guy. He loved college football. And
he says, you know what, there's a place. Or he said, what if
there was a place? They used to sit back before
they had internet, you know, you waited for the schedules
to come out. And there will be certain places that would put
out the college football schedule. He says, you know what, there's
this ABC liquor store down here that puts out the schedule before
anybody else. What would you think if you saw
me coming out of that liquor store? Yeah, that would hurt
a young Christian. You say, well, he just goes in
there to get a schedule, so it's no big deal. I'm going to go
down here, and I'm going to sit at the bar. I'm going to go to
Applebee's or Longhorn's or whatever, and I'm going to sit at the bar
and eat my steak. Yeah, you can do that. You're not going to
go to hell, but if somebody sees you sitting at the bar, what
are they going to think? So he's dealing with the physical realm,
that's the context, and he says, hey, one day you're gonna stand
in front of the Lord, but notice, as we keep reading, that's kind
of the context. Verse 16, let not then your good
be evil spoken of. So just because you can do it
doesn't mean you're supposed to. Verse 17, for the kingdom
of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost. It's a spiritual kingdom. But
the idea I'm trying to get across to you is it's presently there
as Paul's speaking to these Romans. Keep turning, go to Colossians.
So the kingdom of God is certainly pertinent in the church age.
And so don't buy into the idea as we go through these parables
that there's no application for us in the church age because
these parables are given by Christ in the earthly ministry before
the cross. Nothing could be further from the truth. I mean good night
if you take that line of reasoning then John 3 is not for you either.
John 3 he told Nicodemus you had to be born again and he gave
the great greatest verse one of the greatest verses as far
as salvation is concerned John 3 16 well that was before the
cross so that refers to the conversion of Israel. Cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo. You can't do that. But people
do it. The kingdom of God is being preached
by Jesus Christ and the kingdom of heaven, so you're gonna find
that overlap that has application in the church age. Colossians
1, look at this, look at verse 13. Present tense, talking to
Christians, who have delivered us from the power of darkness
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son. So if
you're saved, you are in that kingdom now. Now you pull out
your driver's license, it'll have Florida on it. You have
an earthly citizenship, but you have a spiritual citizenship
in heaven. Keep turning to the right, look
in Colossians 4. Colossians 4. The kingdom of
God is applicable for us. So when you see this pop up in
the Gospels, take notice. Look in Colossians 4, verse...
11 he's giving his last words talking
about some of the different people greeting great so-and-so notice
he says in Jesus which is called justice who are of the circumcision
those two guys these only are my fellow workers unto the kingdom
of God which have been a comfort unto me and so they were working
with him as he preached look in first Thessalonians chapter
2 first Thessalonians chapter 2 each chapter in 1 Thessalonians
will end with a reference to the Lord's return. And as you
draw closer to the end, you'll begin to see that in each chapter.
But notice in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, he goes back some
of the history of how he visited and ministered to them. Verse
number 11, as you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you as a father doth his children that you would
walk worthy of God who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. That's a present calling. And
that is the kingdom. All right, so let's go to Matthew
13 and Revelation 2 and let's look at these parables. These
are the parallels. What we're going to do is we're
going to look at each of these parables briefly in comparison,
there are seven of them, with the seven churches that are given
in the book of Revelation. And I don't know that all of
these match up 100%. I saw an article actually which
got my mind kind of thinking about this idea from actually
brother Donovan in the Bible Believers Bulletin last year
sometime. And then I began to look at some
old books and I found Gabilon. He was an old dispensational
author. He actually influenced C.I. Scofield
to do the Scofield Reference Bible. Some of you have a Scofield
Bible. He influenced Schofield to do that. And Gabaline in 1910,
I found his commentary on Matthew and he had the same thing laid
out. So it must have been a pretty common thing to do, which is
pretty neat when you think about it. You think about numbers and
you know all these sevens pop up everywhere and you say, man,
Jesus gives seven parables. So what other sevens are laid
out? Well, there are seven churches laid out in the book of Revelation.
And so when you think about the church age, which is in the kingdom
of God, and these parables have an overlap to the kingdom of
God, it's possible that each of these parables would match
one of those successive church periods. All right, so Revelation
2, real quick, let me give you this. In Revelation chapter 2,
we know that these seven churches, we have a primary association.
Some of you, you've already learned all this. I taught it in Revelation
class. And I've done a whole series on the seven churches,
so a lot of this is review. In other words, when John wrote
the thing, he sent it out to seven churches that were there.
That's in history. That's a primary association. But then we know
there's a prophetic association. He said, I'm writing this book
Revelation of Jesus Christ, of the things which must shortly
come to pass. So that's a prophetic book that
is at the end times. John writes it in 95 AD, but
that thing is written there, but it's prophecy. And it really
has the application even after the rapture of the church. So
we know that these are tribulation churches that have to overcome
and endure to the end. That's the prophetic application.
Then we have the personal application. You can read each of these little
letters to the seven churches, and you can say, oh, that's me.
Man, I got a name that I'm Lib, but I'm really dead. I'm a dead,
dehydrated Baptist, as Harold Sightler used to say. You dead,
dehydrated Baptist, you need to get right with God. And you
read these things and he says, he that hath an ear, let him
hear. So if you got an ear, it's the same thing Christ says actually
in Matthew 13. But if you got an ear, you gotta listen. So
there's a personal application. And then we have what's called
the parallel application. That's where we're gonna look
at it tonight. And that means each of these seven churches,
they depict and portray a period of church history, starting from
the early church after the resurrection of Christ, going through the
successive periods all the way to the last church age which
is right before the rapture of the church of the church of the
latest scenes which is apostasy which I believe we're in now
if you back up just a little bit you'll get into the Philadelphia
age and that would have been the turn of the century and there
have been more there was more evangelism more revivals more
missionary endeavors you know in that last period capping off
in the early 1900s and petering out in the end of the fundamentalist
movement in 1920, that was pretty much it. And we've just been
on a downwards spiral ever since. So that's how we're gonna look
at it in comparison to these parables. Everybody, does that
make sense to everybody? Glad, hope it does. Okay, if
it don't, sorry. Too bad, so sad. So let's look
at the first one. Matthew 13, we have the parable
of the sower. Matthew 13, the parable of the
sower. and we'll compare it to Revelation chapter 2. So Matthew
13, you'll notice the parable, verse number 3. He spake many
things unto them in parable, saying, Behold, a sower went
forth to sow. When he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside,
and the fowls came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony
places, where they had not much earth, and forthwith they sprung
up, because they had no deepness of earth. When the sun was up
they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered
away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and
choked them. But others fell into good ground, and brought
forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Who hath the ears to hear, let him hear." All right, come down
to the explanation of the parable that Christ gives. Look in verse
18, "'Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth
the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, Then cometh
the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
This is he which received seed by the wayside. So that tells
us that the word is the seed, right? Does that make sense?
There's another passage that actually tells us that the sower
soweth the word. That references in Luke 8, verse
11. The seed is the word of God,
he says, in Luke's gospel. And so he sows the word and then
it falls on the wayside, the devil comes and gets it. Verse
number 20, but he that receives seed in stony places, the same
as he that heareth the word and anon, with joy receiveth it. If you compare it to Mark he
says at once, so anon means immediately or at once. Verse number 21,
yet hath he not rooted himself, but doreth for a while, for in
tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by
he is offended. Verse 22, he also that received seed among
the thorns is he that heareth the word, and the care of this
world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and
he becometh unfruitful. But he that receives seed in
the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it,
which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth some a hundredfold,
some 60, some 30. All right, so let's go to Revelation
chapter number two. Revelation chapter number two,
and look at the first church, which is the church of Ephesus.
And this is the church that, with the time period, would go
approximately to about 200 A.D. It would be the early church,
the apostolic age. Verse number 1, Unto the angel
of the church of Ephesus write, These things saith he that holdeth
the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks. I know thy works, thy labor,
thy patience, how thou canst not bear them which are evil.
Thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not,
and hast found them liars. And hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast labored, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless,
I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first
love. Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent,
and do the first works, or else I will come unto thee quickly,
and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou
repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the
Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, and that overcometh
will I give to either the tree of life, which is in the midst
of the paradise of God. And so you'll notice that we
have the first church, this will be the apostolic church, and
we have in the first couple of verses he mentions their labor
and patience and they tried some, they couldn't bear those that
were evil. Some people were saying they were apostles and they weren't,
verse number two. So that shows us it's the apostolic
age. And those apostolic signs were dying out with the apostles.
Paul the Apostle says at the end of his ministry, he says, He told Timothy, use a little
wine for thy stomach's sake, which was what they thought was
a medicinal remedy back in the day and because evidently there
was The apostolic sign gifts of healing was disappearing.
So some people were claiming to be apostles and the early
church says, you're a fake. You're not a real apostle. And
so you see that. So you also see that you have
some good seed that does remain, but there's obviously some bad
seed. There's some people that left their first love. So when
you think about the parable of the sower, if you try to make
a connection, you've got What is it? Three quarters of it that
really doesn't do anything. It's only a quarter of it that
brings forth some fruit. But the fruit it brings forth
is in those three stages. Called, chosen, fateful. Peter,
James, John. There's all kind of threes that
you see that thing play out as. And it's 30-fold, 60-fold, 100-fold.
And so that'd be the early church and that's a possible match for
that apostolic age. Now let's go to the second parable
and check it out. Go to Matthew 13, Matthew chapter
13. And I don't have all of these
details worked out. You can spend a lot more study
time on it and see if you can get more comparisons. But this would just be an overview
of the parables and a comparison. Now, the second church will be
the church of Smyrna. And notice the parable of the
tares among the wheat. Look down in Matthew 13, verse
number 24. Another parable, put he forth
unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his
enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went in his way.
But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder
came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed
in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servant said unto
him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said,
Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the
wheat with them. Let both grow together until
the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles
to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn. I always
think about those fields. A lot of times you'll see a field
that nobody's cut in a long time, and you'll see this stuff, and
it kind of looks like wheat, but it's just a weed. I don't
know what it is. You farmers know. I always think of it being
something like that. I know this. When you plant a
garden, and you're all excited, and you put it in the ground,
and Brother Hightower tells you how many days before it's supposed
to come up, so you're out there looking, you counting it off,
you know. and you're all excited. There will be little stuff that
will pop up and it will look kind of like the, like the real
deal. It's not going to be a copycat. And you have to watch it and
you have to wait. And that's kind of a similar thing here.
And let's look at the interpretation Jesus gives. He doesn't give
interpretation for all of them but He does these couple ones.
Look down in verse 24. I mean is that where we were?
Where were we at? We were in 24, 36, 36. Then Jesus sent the multitude
away, and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him,
saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He
answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed
is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good
seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares of the
children are the wicked one. The enemy that sowed them is
the devil, the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers
are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather
out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the Son in the kingdom of their Father, who
hath ears to hear, let him hear." All right, so we have the parable
of the tares among the wheat, and let's look at the Church
of Smyrna in Revelation 2.8. This would be the time period
going approximately 200 to 325 AD. Revelation 2.8, "'Unto the angel
of the church of Smyrna write, these things saith the first
and the last, which was dead and is alive. I know thy works,
and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich. And I know
the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not, but
are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which
thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you
into prison, that you may be tried. And you shall have tribulation
ten days. Be thou fateful unto death, And
I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. He that overcometh
shall not be hurt of the second death. So this time period again
would be around 200 to 325. And you'll notice this evil seed. The parable of the tares shows
that The tares and the wheat are both growing together and
he says you're going to have to wait until the end because if
you go out and try to get it out now you're going to mess
up the tares before the fruit comes up. So there's some evil
seed that's sown among the good seed. So what we will find in
church history as we go through and you remember back way back
I don't know, about a year and a half ago when I taught Revelation,
we stayed on church history for a little while in Revelation
1, 2, and 3, and we talked about these different heresies as they
began to pop up in the early church, and how what began to
take place was these tears that were coming up among the wheat.
So you had some things that were true, like you take Christianity
in general, and when I say that I mean Catholicism and Protestantism. And you take Greek Orthodox,
you take Lutheran, you take Roman Catholic, and you begin to look
at some of their fundamental beliefs, and they're 100% accurate. They testify that Jesus Christ
died on the cross, that he died for sinners, that he was buried,
that he rose again from the dead. They testify that he is going
to return again one day. Okay, those things are true.
But boy, in the middle of all that wheat, there's a whole lot
of tears coming up. And you begin to see that stuff
crop up in church history. And you'll notice just for if
you want to write down these two names, this would be a fellow
named Cyprian of Carthage in 250 A.D. approximately. He made
the statement that the church was built on Peter, the apostle.
You ever heard that before? And he said Peter was actually
in Rome, which the Bible does not teach. Roman Catholics do
teach that. And he actually said the Lord's
Supper was a sacrifice, not a memorial. That's the first time you see
that pop up. So in other words, every time you come and you have
the mass, the sacrifice of Christ is taking place over and over
and over. And that's how you have eternal life is you put
Jesus's body in you and you drink his blood. Then there's another
fellow named Origin of Alexandria around 225 AD. He did a lot of
corruption with the Bible manuscripts. And he taught salvation through
water baptism. But he also taught the fundamentals
of the faith. The virgin birth, death, burial, and resurrection
of Christ. But you have to be baptized to go to heaven. So
there's the evil seed cropping up among the wheat there. All
right, let's go back to Matthew 13, look at our next one. Our
next parable is the parable of the mustard seed. Matthew chapter
13. seed in verse number 31. Now
let's look over at the Church of Pergamos in Revelation 2,
Pergamos. That word pergamos can be translated
to mean, as far as a meaning, it means to be married or to
be twice married or much marriage. Revelation 2.12, And to the angel
of the church in Pergamos write, These things saith he which hath
the sharp sword with the two edges, I know thy works, and
where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. And thou holdest
fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days
when Antipas was my fateful martyr, who was slain among you where
Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to
commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold
the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent, or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with
the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. To him that overcometh
will I give to eat of the hidden manna. and will give him a white
stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth,
saving he that receiveth it." So here we have the Church of
Much Marriage, and this would match 325 to about 500 AD. The reason I say that is because
you have a fellow named Constantine show up, one of the Roman Emperor's
there and he says you know what all these this paganism around
here is bad You know people do this stuff on December 25th,
and they worship these false gods and stuff like that So let's
just change all of these this pagan stuff this this you know
worshiping the dead and not and let's turn it into a Worshiping
the Saints holiday all you know and things like that so you begin
to see a lot of these holly holy days from holidays And you begin
to see paganism turned into Christianity. The idea of lighting candles
for somebody that's dead. All these kind of things, they
come from paganism. And Constantine, what he did
is he slacked off all of the persecutions on their true Christians
and said, hey, if you can't beat them, let's join them. Let's
just change all of these pagan rituals and rules into Christianity. So you have the world and the
church marrying up. And you begin to have that with
Constantine, also a fellow named Augustine. You ever heard of,
of course, a place right over here, the oldest city in the
country, St. Augustine, named after the guy.
And he wrote a book called The City of God. And really, he's
what we would call the first Catholic and the first Calvinist.
You've heard of Calvinism before. Calvin's in the 1500s, but Augustine's
in the 300s. And he actually teaches Calvinism.
And he didn't even know John Calvin. In other words, the ideas
that Calvin really pushed out there were actually developed
by Augustine way back in the 300s. And he had a fellow named
Jerome, and you have Jerome's Latin Vulgate, which was a corrupt
Latin Bible. And that's down this time period
as well. Notice down, if you will, you
have Balaam mentioned, which goes back to the Old Testament. And we get into that whole mystery
religion of Babylon, but then notice also verse 15, the doctrine
of the Nicolaitans. That means to conquer the laity.
You see that word laity? You've heard of laity? That means
the regular church people. Nico means to conquer. So there
were some people that were saying, you know what? We're better and
we're higher of authority than the lay people. I mean, you don't
need to read the Bible on your own. You come to me and let me
tell you what the Bible means. That's exactly what they began
to do, the bishops and so forth. They read the Bible and they
would interpret it and they would do all of their religious ceremonies
in Latin and things like that, based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.
So you begin to have this type of thing creep into the church,
325 to 500 AD. And with that comes the next
church age, Thyatira, which it goes from bad to worse and you
get a lot of the persecutions. All right, come back to Matthew
13. Let's see if we can squeeze through all of these. Matthew
13, we have the next parable of leaven. The parable of leaven,
look in Matthew 13, 33. Matthew 13, 33, another parable
spake unto them, the kingdom of heaven is like an eleven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the
whole was leavened. Now Paul mentions leaven on a
couple of places in Corinthians and also Galatians. He said a
little leaven leavens the whole lump. And he referred to false
doctrine. And Jesus actually did the same
thing when he told the disciples one time. I don't have the reference
off the top of my head. I want to say Matthew 14 maybe. But he said, he said, beware
of the doctrine of the Pharisees, of the leaven of the Pharisees.
Here it is right here, Matthew 16. Matthew 16, 11. There's a
good verse. How is it that you do not understand?
I spake it not to you concerning bread, that you should beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Then understood
they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the doctrine. So leaven is false doctrine,
just a little bit corrupts. Like I told you before, you got
all this wheat, but then you got the tares coming in the middle
of it, it messes it up. Well, you know, Mormons believe
in Jesus Christ. Okay, great, let's all just join
hands and sing kumbaya. They don't believe in the same
Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ and Lucifer are brothers in the Mormon
religion. And the Mormons believe in other gods. And the fact that
you're going to become a god and a goddess one day if you
follow their teachings and you'll populate your own planet one
day. And so that's crazy teaching. And so when you say, well, they
believe such and such, yeah, there's false doctrine coming
in and just a little bit can really twist it up. They may
use the same names and terms, but it just takes a little bit.
And so notice another element here, this parable, this woman
is mentioned, a woman in teaching is always a bad thing because
a woman is told not to teach nor usurp authority. Now notice
Revelation 2 with the church that we have of Thyatira. Look
in Revelation 2.18. angel of the church of Thyatira
write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes
like unto a flame of fire, and his feet as like fine brass.
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy
patience, and thy works, and the last to be more than the
first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because
thou sufferest that woman Jezebel." Was Jezebel good back in the
Old Testament? No. Remember she stirred up Ahab
to do evil. She was the daughter of the king
of the Zidonians and they worshiped Baal. wicked woman. And Elijah, she went against
Elijah and tried to get his head. Verse 20, that woman Jezebel
which calleth herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Verse gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented
not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent
of their deeds. And I will kill her children
with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He which
searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will give unto every one
of you according to your works. But unto you I say, and unto
the rest, and Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, there
is a doctrine issue, which have not known the depths of Satan
as they speak. I will put upon you none other
burden, but that ye but that which ye have already hold fast
till I come and he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the
end to him will I give power over the nations and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall
they be broken to shivers even as I have received of my father
and I will give unto him the morning star he that hath the
near to let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches so here
we have the church of thy retire which matches the time period
around five hundred to one During this time, about 850, Charlemagne,
800 Charlemagne was crowned by Pope Leo. welded in when you
really begin to see the church state system in other words the
pope was doing his thing but not without the king and the
king and the pope and the pope had power over the king and you
begin to see the crusades come to bear in the early crusades
alright so we have the parable of leaven that seems to match
up really well now we have three more left I don't think we can
get them done unless we just rush through them so we probably
ought to put on the brakes Let me give you this real quick and
I had done this outline of the churches before. If you are taking
notes, the Church of Ephesus will be the departing church.
They start off good, but then they depart. You have a quarter
that does well, but then three quarters of it departs. That's
the early church. The Church of Smyrna would be
the discriminated church. So the departing church, the
discriminated church. The Church of Pergamos would
be the deviating church. And then the church of Thyatira
would be the deceived church. So you can see this thing progressively
gets worse. What you'll notice in each church
age however you'll notice there's always a remnant. God always
leaves himself a witness. And I don't know about you but
I want to be in that remnant. I want to be in that group that
the Lord says there's a few of you that are still toeing the
line. You know the rest of them are gone off there they're doing
whatever and they've thrown doctrine out the window they've thrown
the Bible out the render and they're all just worshiping and
entertaining and doing all that kind of stuff. You're you're
towing the line. Here's my question to the majority
of what's called evangelical Christianity today. If they are
not the worldly church where are they. Or are there no bad churches.
You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like, okay, where
are they then? The Bible prophesies at the end
of the age, and we'll see it when we get to the Revelation
church age, the thing goes to pieces. It's apostate. And somebody's
left holding the bag, and I want to be in that group left holding
the bag, doing the right thing, serving God, and staying the
course. And so I think when we look at these parables in a whole
panoramic view, I know it's a lot to kind of soak in, but we can
get from that this overlap from the kingdom of heaven and kingdom
of God there are there is application with these parables and I'm gonna
break them down we're gonna after we get done with all of this
we're gonna have one message per parable and we'll get some
real personal application from that so it's a lot of real helpful
I think material for us all right let's all stand to be dismissed
The Parallels of Parables Pt. 1
Series Kingdom Parables
| Sermon ID | 8282505234722 |
| Duration | 35:35 |
| Date | |
| Category | Bible Study |
| Bible Text | Matthew 13:33 |
| Language | English |
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