page 187 the parables of the kingdom I don't want to spend too much time talking about this but I want to just kind of wrap our subject up what we'll do is we'll try to quickly get through this part of the study and then we will well man these parables might suck us in we'll see if they do it might be a few more weeks in this part of the study but we'll just follow the Lord but But we'll have question and answer, and if it's needed, then we'll continue question and answer next week as the Lord leads. So the parables of the kingdom, as we've looked at all the basic things about the kingdom now, we want to look at these parables just as an overview. So his introduction to this section here, he says, the kingdom of God has mysteries according to Matthew 13, 11 says, and he answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not given, I'm sorry, but to them it is not given. In other words, he's speaking here about, they asked him, why do you speak in parables? He says, well, because the mysteries, you're allowed to know, but they're not. He didn't point me out. Oh, you did. Oh, you did point me out. All right, we'll get our sound working here. He's my, he's my warner. He tells me when I mess it up. He's gotta throw something at me. I didn't even look over there, my bad. All right. I was wondering, I was like, man, I'm like hollering and stuff and I'm not even hearing myself. Yeah, all right, we got it going here. Brother Ted Alexander told me he was watching our Sunday evening message. He said, I noticed some people were giving you some feedback. I was like, feedback? Was there something wrong with the mic or something? He said, no, no, no. He said that people were talking or whatever. I said, yeah, it's an interactive study usually. He's like, oh. He's used to the, you just get up, holler for an hour and a half, and then sit down. So we do interactive. I want to make sure you guys are getting it, right? All right, so other passages here that deal with this idea of mystery. Mark chapter 4 verse 11 says, and he said unto them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables. Luke chapter 8 verse number 10 says, and he said, unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. So mystery is defined by Romans chapter 16, verses 25 and 26. And just to give you a hint here, letter M, mysteries of God. So we'll talk more about mysteries then. But here we have, it says it's defined as a truth. a truth not revealed in the Old Testament, but which has been revealed in the New Testament. These mysteries are given in the parables of the kingdom, found chiefly in the gospel according to Matthew, but also in Mark and Luke. So we can look at these various examples, Matthew chapter 13 verses 10 through 17 we could look at Mark chapter 4 verses 10 through 13 And Luke chapter 8 verse 10 we looked at the specific passage there that references the mystery Or the parables being hidden. I'm sorry rather the mysteries being hidden in the parables. So that's why I didn't include those up here So the truth Actually, no, I probably did probably did include them Because I mentioned this verse and I didn't read it now to him in Romans chapter 16 verse 25 26 is now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which is kept secret since the world began but now is made manifest and by the scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God made known to all nations and the obedience of faith and then these are the passages and I'm not going to read through all of those but you guys I kind of gave the context there of those when Jesus said because it is given to you to understand the mysteries you see the disciples asked him why do you speak to him in parables and that's the answer that he gave and You know, I'll read this here After verse 13, which is what we read earlier. I'm sorry. No, we read verse 11. Yeah after verse 11 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance. But whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I unto them, or to them in parables, because they seeing see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, or Isaiah, which saith, by hearing you shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing you shall see and not Receive for this people's heart is wax gross and their ears are dull of hearing their eyes have They have closed less than any time. They should see with their eyes And hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them But blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear For verily I say unto you That the many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them To hear those things which you hear and have not heard them this here referring to that which was not revealed to those before and And of course Christ speaks of that again in Mark chapter 4 verses 10 to 13 Again, the same it's it's a parallel there. And then also we already read Luke chapter 8 verse 10 So the truth Not explicably, I'm sorry, explicitly. Explicitly, yes, that's exactly it, explicitly, is the season for my sneezing and my drainage and stuff. I took an allergy med this morning. I should have dealt with it. I should have had honey, right? It was extra high today? Yeah, I wouldn't even really out in it but Yeah, that's why that's why we're that's why we did the beef I Had creamy sriracha for lunch, so Anyways Yeah, not so much The truth not explicitly revealed in the Old Testament Matthew 13 17 and also 34 and 35 This is for verily I say unto you that Many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye See and have not seen them and hear those things that you hear and have not heard them and also verse 34 and 35 all these things fake Jesus under the multitudes under the multitude of parables and Without a parable spake he not unto them That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of by the prophet or spoken by the prophet saying that I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." So he says that this that was not explicitly revealed in the Old Testament was the spiritual nature of God's kingdom. And rather also he says the requirement that its subjects be born again. Matthew chapter 13 verse 16 says, for they see and your ears for they hear. Rather, he's saying your eyes, your ears, not just eyes in general and ears in general, but theirs particularly because they had trusted in him. And so because they trusted in him, they were able to understand or give, they were able to be given the understanding of these parables. And just the same, he gives those to us today. Old Testament prophets foretold Glorious earthly millennial kingdom of Christ the present visible. I'm sorry the present invisible intangible form Was the mystery okay, so they were able to see and and I've got a little like a picture thing where Might be able to pull it up just real quick here. I know I'm getting sidetracked, right? I So, looky here. There you go. This is kind of like the, anybody ever seen this before? All right. This is kind of like the way the Old Testament prophets saw things. Okay, so they could look and they could see. This is how they could see the birth of Jesus. They could see the cross. They could see the descent of the Holy Spirit. They don't see this because it's in a valley in between the mountains. They're seeing a cross. They see the Antichrist. They see Christ's return to Mount Olives. They see the kingdom. There's some things that they don't see also that we don't see that's in this valley. Things like details of the kingdom. Thousand years. That's all we get. So the rest we have to figure out when it happens. And then, of course, we have, you know, new heavens and a new earth. We don't know really. We know the description, but other than that, we don't know what else is going to happen after that. So we see what the prophets see in some sense, but we're privy to this information that they're not privy to because we're right in the middle of it. Right. And not only are we right in the middle of it, but he gave it right here. Right about this spot, right, maybe here. And we're over here somewhere. Don't pay attention to that building. It's not a church. It's just a building there representing a church. So this is what they didn't see. But along with the church, the institution of the church, of the local church, that they didn't see, they also didn't see the kingdom of God operating during this time. They also didn't understand the way the family of God would work. And many Jews, in fact, that's what part of one of the threads through the Book of Romans is about how God grafts in the Gentiles. Because the Jews needed to understand that, right? Whereas they didn't know in time past. This was a mystery to them. So, there you go. If anybody needs that, it's in the study materials folder under charts. And then prophecy. That's the third file over from the folder. By the way, when you open this tribulation here, there's a lot of stuff in there. Some I agree, some I don't agree with. So if you go there and you look at that, just know that if it's in there, it doesn't mean that it's right. So there's some things like that that I have thrown into my study materials folder. If it's in there, it might not be right. So I put different... Part of the reason I do that is because so you can see the chart what other people believe and you know kind of say okay that's what they believe okay I see I understand what they're saying there and here's why it's wrong so like if we do a well not if but when we do a study through the through the book of Revelation or through tribulation prophecy and so forth at some point while we're doing a study through that I'll pull up those other charts and I'll say see here this is what they say here this is why this verse does not apply to that in the way that they're trying to apply it. And then we can look at their, see, I like to look at the other position and explain why it's wrong instead of just saying, yeah, that other position is wrong. Because then when you're dealing with, you know, somebody's like, well, I believe this. You're like, well, it's wrong. Why? I don't know. It's wrong. Yeah, exactly. Because my way's right and your way's wrong. That's why. No. No, you've got to have reason. You've got to have a reason behind it. So anyways. So we have these things that they didn't notice. And so the Old Testament prophets, they foretold the glorious earthly kingdom, millennial kingdom of Christ. But the present intangible, invisible form was a mystery. The true kingdom of God is not seen in an outward form, but in the hearts of men. Only God knows his true subject that is today. Now, of course during the Millennial Kingdom when he rules on earth Everybody's a subject of the kingdom. However You're gonna have Two types of subjects you're gonna have subjects that are subject because they happen to be on the planet at the time You're gonna have subjects that are subjects from the heart just like in in Israel of old you had Israel and that was Israel because they were born into Israel. Then you had Israelites that were Israelites indeed because they were Israelites from the heart, that they followed the God of Israel from the heart, and not just because they happened to be born into Israel and they happened to follow the rules, so to speak. So just the same, we're gonna have that during the kingdom age as well, or the millennial kingdom there as well. So in these parables, The key word is like. I want you to remember that. If you've got your book there, circle it. Like. They describe the perceived appearance or manifestation of the kingdom of God during the course of the present age on the major, I'm sorry, one of the major, yeah, he says on of the major themes. That's why I was confused. One of the major themes in these parables The kingdom is that there are within the kingdom of heaven two spheres the sphere of religious profession or the sphere of profession and the sphere of Possession that's actually for next week, but you can take it fine Peek over Mike's shoulder or something if he's got one So you have those two spheres possession profession possession that's the The religious and the regenerated y'all know the difference between the two when you're going into that you have those that profess Christ By the way, some that profess Christ also possess him however, some that profess don't possess and So you have those that are regenerated and those that just profess And then you have those that are regenerated and perfect. Actually, I guess if you're regenerated you're going to profess Christ. So obviously Those possessors are also professors but there are those that are only professors and not both. Right. So, letter A, the necessity of regeneration in the kingdom. Remember, we already talked about this in previous lessons on this, but we'll talk about the necessity of regeneration again from the perspective of parable. Excuse me, sorry. The parable of the four soils. This is a fun one. especially since I just tilled up, well, he started it. We tilled up the yard yesterday, and it was a blessing. And so, you know, you, what's that? I feel pretty good after doing that, so, good. So, you have four soils. Let's look at it. Matthew chapter 13, verses three through nine. He spake many things unto them in parables, saying, behold, a sower went forth to sow. And 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 deftness of earth. When the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away. Some fell among thorns, and thorns sprung up and choked them, Other fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." Son, that's why I said you gotta let it dig deep, right? You let that tiller get down there so that there's depthness of earth. Because you go planting plants in there and if you just hit the surface this far down, well, Your plant's going to grow. It's going to grow up and it's going to die. Because when the sun comes out and hits it, it's going to say, oh, I can't handle it. Or the wind's going to blow and it's going to just fall over because there's no root in it. And so that's why we go at least 12 inches down into the ground. So there's your spiritual lesson to your labor yesterday. All right, so Matthew chapter or verse number 18 through 23, he gives the explanation. Okay, the spiritual application. Hear ye therefore, the parable of the sower. When any man, or when anyone, heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it, then cometh the wicked one. I'm sorry, understandeth it not. You know, you just leave words out sometimes. I try to be real careful not to do that. When anyone 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. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Yet he hath no root in himself, but doereth for a while. For when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that receiveth seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, toke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that receiveth seed, rather he that receiveth seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth some Hundredfold some 30. I'm sorry some 60 and some 30 so We have here the seed the debt or the explanation of it numbers a through e the seed is the We're the kingdom okay, and first we have a picture of those who don't understand and that is that is those who receive the seed by the Wayside out there by the wayside. And then we have those that it represents a shallow, emotional hearing of the Word of God. They received it by the, or in the what? The stony places, yes. Then we have the thorny ground pictures the hearer who is choked. Choked out by cares and riches, he becometh unfruitful. Very good. Unlike the choking out that I'm having from pollen. All right, so then the next parable we have is in Matthew chapter 20 verses 1 through 16. The kingdom of God is like unto a man that is an Householder, I'm pausing for the blank that's there then we have Welcome come on in we have the householder and then It says which went out early in the morning the higher Laborers I Put down a different word I put servants Servant is mentioned later too all right, so and When he had agreed with the laborers for penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. And he said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. He went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise in about the eleventh hour. Long day. He went out and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye all the day idle? All the day idle. Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is ripe, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard, saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came, that were hired, about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. And notice he didn't say how much he was going to give everybody else, but he told the first group, right? He goes out there. Get some laborers. And he says. They agreed with the laborers for a penny a day. Told them a penny a day. But then. He gets out there. And. Starts to pay him. It was the last ones that have been there for just an hour. A penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more. They likewise received a penny, every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house. I like how it does that. They murmured against the good man of the house, saying, these last wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them and said, friend, I do thee no wrong. It's not thou agree with me for a penny?" And then the servants started a labor union. That's what we do, right? Just take that as thine and go thy way. Take your check and get out of here, man. Not your check, I guess. It's just a penny. Well, I say just a penny. A penny was an average day's labor at the time. So it was fine. He paid them. You know, paid him what he agreed to pay him. He says, I will give unto this last, even as unto thee, is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good? So the last should be first, and the first last for many be called, but few chosen. So there's the neat thing about, and I don't want to get too deep into that, one yet. Maybe we can talk about it after, but neat thing about this is that just the same as, you know, there's some who, and that's what some people, you know, some people get saved early in life, you know, and they, they say, well, you know, uh, God didn't save me from all that stuff that he saved you from and all this. And, and, uh, you know, but we all get the same reward for our salvation. One penny. Now, we all get the same reward for our salvation, and that is to enter into the kingdom. We all get that same reward. We're all counted, able to enter into heaven because of not even our own merits, really. We didn't even work. We didn't even work the day away. In fact, we entered into his rest. We took his yoke upon us. You know, he says, come all you that labor and are heavy laden. I will give you rest. He says, take my yoke upon you. He says, my yoke is easy, my burden is light. And so we rest in him and he works through us. And then he rewards us for what he did. But there will be some that day that are going to say, they're going to go, they're going to walk by, they're going to see my dad rewarded. I'm going to say, he got saved four days before he died. We spent our whole life serving you, Lord. Don't we get more? It's the same salvation he did. The problem is people go back and say, wait a minute, I did all this. You did all that, but none of that had anything to do with you getting saved. That was God working in you. And praise God. Similar to the prodigal son's brother, yeah. Yeah, he looks and he says, well, I mean, why does he get to get away with all that? What is it he said? Is thine eye evil because I am good? God's good. That's all we can say. He's good. You see, he could just say, ah, these guys out there on the 11th hour, yeah, forget them. They wasted their life away. They wasted their day. Sun's about to set. Time's up. Should've got the work earlier. Should've entered the kingdom earlier. Should've entered the vineyard earlier. Nope. He said, hey, I'm not willing that any should perish. What does he say? He says, count that the long... How does that go? Count that the long-suffering Lord is salvation, I think it says in 2 Peter. In other words, he's holding out so that people can be saved at the end. He's holding out. He's waiting so that people can get saved. Amen. Did you want to say something? You know, it goes the other way, too. Because some people that got saved young look at these great testimonies. I'll tell you, brothers and sisters, a great testimony is one that says, God gave me a Christian home to be born in, to be raised up in. I never dealt with drugs, I never dealt with alcohol, I never dealt with running around doing this or that. My parents taught me the Bible from my youth. All I can remember is the Bible from when I was a child. And got saved at a young age, stayed out of all that mess, lived for God. That's a good testimony. Now, seeing God's power and grace in a life that was filled with sin, now of course that kid was just as bad a sinner. You know, even though they got saved young, I mean, they were still sinners, deserving of hell. But it's no better testimony. It's not better that I went out and did stupid stuff for 15 years of my life and then got saved, and some for longer. It's not a better testimony because I had more sin in my life. No, it's actually a worse testimony But Praise God I got saved and then I mean I I you know wish it was sooner earlier, but I'm saved but then there's those that it gets saved young and they'll say and then they'll be proud of it, you know So either side, you know Some people glory and how much sin God saved him out of and then other people glory and how much sin God didn't save him out of Or rather how much? Sin they didn't have to be saved out of or they'll glory in. Oh, you know, I've been saved since I was five years old. Bless God. You know, I don't know any of that stuff you're talking about, which is great. But it's not anything you can glory in. You can say, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You kids that don't have to deal with those things, you praise God for it. Thank God for it. That's stuff that you don't want to have in your memories. Stuff that you don't want to have back there tucked away that pops up every once in a while and you got to say, wait a minute, no. No, I hate that I did those things. I hate that I was involved in those things. And those are the kind of things that you don't want in your testimony. Yes, sir. Some of those are professors and not possessors. They're just putting on a show for their parents and the people that are around. And then they get to an age where they can get lost, literally. They prove that they were lost all along. 18. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, they give them a year or something I think it is or maybe it's a month I don't I don't remember but yeah some all the Anabaptists of today do that they'll say, you know, because the thing is they grow up in In a completely sheltered environment they say you go out and see what's out there don't go out and sin but go out and see what's out there and You know see the craziness of the world and then come back and they go out and sin. Yeah. Right. Right. It's totally wrong. But, you know, and then, you know, you have to. So, see, that's man's way of dealing with, well, we kept them sheltered, so they have no idea what the world's like. Well, I mean, so why don't you keep them sheltered? to help them understand what's going on in the world around them. You can point out, you can tell them, look, you know, these are these are the things that are happening in the world. That's why we encourage people to give their testimonies, because then, you know, the children can see. The things that God is saving people out of, and hopefully they can see, you know, the tears in grown men's eyes and in ladies eyes as they as they weep over the wicked sin that they were in, and they see that that's no joke, that's not anything to play around with. Problem is, the Amish generally just shun those people. You have to be a part of our society to be a part of our society. And that's their way of, hey, go out and see what they're all out there doing, and you'll see that it's crazy and come back. And then a lot of them don't. come back so it's called rum springer yeah but but it's yeah it's that's it's wrong there's no scriptural nothing scriptural about it basically encouraging a prodigal is what it's doing so then you have then you have the Catholics who will you know try to put put them in right in the beginning and then they get a certain age and they say well we want to make sure and so we're going to confirm them So there's all that. And then they'll try to, through the confirmation process, they try to do some recruiting as well. They try to recruit people for whether it's, usually they have to be like an altar boy or something during confirmation and stuff. And so you have to have a certain task that you do. And then they try to recruit priests and nuns and stuff like that. So anyways. Oh, crazy. Crazy. So, we're going to wrap up here quickly. Let's try to get through. We've got another page still. The parable of the marriage. I just gave you the answer. The parable of the marriage. Matthew 22, verses 1 through 14. Jesus answered and spake unto them, again in parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son, Now, we're just going to read these because we don't go into explanation all of these. So I'm just going to read them and we'll move on. And if you have questions after then, that's fine. All right. And send it forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they would. They would not come. Again, he send it forth other servants saying, tell them which are bidden. Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready. Come on to the marriage. Man, I'll tell you what, you don't, I mean, like, listen guys, I made a steak dinner, come on. And people are like, eh, yeah. I'll tell you what, I'm with it there. But they made light of it, went their ways. One to his farm, another to his merchandise, and the remnant took his servants and treated them spitefully and slew them. Ouch. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Man, there's so much here. Man. And he's got one line. We'll just keep on rolling. Y'all just think about it as we read it, all right? You think about the things I'm thinking about. But I'm not gonna tell you what I'm thinking about. Then saith he, whose servants the wedding is ready, But they which were bidden are not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways and hedges, and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all, as many as they found both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests. I'm sorry, I've got to go back there. It's a picture of what God did to Israel. There you go. All right. Anyways, yeah. All right. Man, this is so hard because I want to keep going, but I also want to stop. When the king came to see the guests, he saw a man which had not on a wedding garment. Hopefully he doesn't have on a woman's garment. A wedding garment. Verse number 12, and he saith, Uninbred, how camest thou in hither? Not having a wedding garment, he was speechless, Said then said the king to the servants bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness for there should be weeping and Ashing of teeth for many are called pure chosen of chapter 25 verses 1 through 13 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like and notice a lot of these say like and like and like and it's this isn't an exact okay, so when we start tearing these things apart and Trying to apply every little piece you can get into trouble. And so, look at it on a surface level and understand that it's a likeness, not an exact replica, okay? Some people will tear these things apart to the point where, and they'll try to apply every little point, every little thing, and you end up with all kinds of false doctrine coming out of it. And so, yeah. So, then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened, unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them. Now, see, some people will try to, like, again, pick it apart. What about, OK, 10 and 5 and 5. OK, so what's the representation there? I don't know. I don't know that there is a representation there of the numbers. I don't know. We just know that some of them were foolish and some of them were wise. And why? Because of the matter of the oil. But the wise took the oil, or took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight, there was a cry made. Behold, bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him. That was quoted at Luke's wedding Saturday. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you. But go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgin, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh. The point here was the oil, the oil representing the spirit of God. They had their vessels, but they didn't have the oil. They had the outward appearance, but they didn't have the inward. Possession Okay, so Yep, gotta be gonna be ready gonna have the spirit of God now that's don't don't get that mixed up either because some people are You know, and they'll I don't want to open that can of worms right now, but they'll try to make further application than what's given here Simply a matter loud. Just put it real super simple. You gotta be saved There you go. All right mark Chapter 4, verse 26 to 29. Sorry, I turned the page. No, I didn't. I was looking at the top of that page. Parable of the cast seed. Very good. And he said, so is the kingdom of God. So is the kingdom of God. It's like this. As if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep and arise night and day. And the seed should spring and grow up. He knoweth not how. It's interesting. He says, I don't know how that works. It just happens. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear. After that, the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. I was thinking that there was more to that. All right, so this is the cast seed. You guys know the likeness, right? It's the seed being the word of God. Then you have the plants spring up and so on. So, excuse me. Man. Necessity so so this was talking about the necessity of regeneration in the kingdom. So each one of those parables we have the matter of the word we have the I'm sorry the the matter of the seeds of the soils rather the seed being the word of the kingdom you have those wayside the stony places and and so again you have a necessity of being born again a necessity of being regenerated or made alive and Then you have the parable of the householder and the servants. Again, everybody gets the same reward concerning the kingdom. You have the marriage. They had to come under the wedding. You have the 10 virgins. They had to be possessors of the spirit, possessors of the oil. And then the seed cast. You have fruit coming forth. You have a harvest. Again, this symbolizing the seed going forth and fruit coming as people to be harvested. There's many others that we could talk about as well, but he's gonna mention a few more. Here it says, the true and the false kingdoms, terrible the tears among the wheat, which is one I was thinking about while I was reading this one. In the next passage, Matthew chapter 13, verses 24 through 30, There's another parable, put he forth, saying unto them, you know what? Let's talk about these other parables. We'll just do this one next week. We'll do letter B. You know what's funny? Does your book say A, the necessity of regeneration in the kingdom, B, the true and the false kingdoms, and then D? Okay, yours says C. Okay, it's been corrected then. Good. Mine says A, B, and D. What's that? Under A, I have A, B, C, D, E. Did I skip E? Okay. E was the good ground represents the hearer who brings forth much fruit. All right. Sorry. I did have it. I just skipped it. So, we'll stop here on our parables concerning the regeneration there. That's the downside. I've got the the print copy. It's a little older than the digital copies that you guys have and so what we'll do is we'll stop here and we'll do a seventh session next week or willing with the the true and false kingdoms and then the blessings of the truth our kingdom truth and It just seems like it stops abruptly right there but We'll deal with it. Questions? Answers?