MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN-THE SEVEN PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM. Matt. 13:1-57

May 21, 2019

Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts”

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER continues Matt. 13:3-9, 18-23.

The temporary Christian receives the gospel promptly, joyfully, with rich apparent effects upon his life. He however, abandons the gospel certainly before long, as soon as serious trials comes, and without any permanent benefits to his character.

  1. The four types of ground continues.
  2. The thorny ground continues. Some fell among the thorns continues. Matt. 13:7, 18, 23. What are these choking thorns?
  3. The deceitfulness of riches. CHYRYS: “There is a way, if thou wilt, to check this evil growth. And make the right use of wealth. Therefore he said not ‘the world’ but ‘the care of the world’; nor ‘riches’, but ‘the deceitfulness of riches.’ Let us not, then, blame the things, but the corrupt mind. For it is possible to be rich and not to be deceived; and to be in the world, and not to be chocked with its cares.” ORIGEN: “The apostle’s ‘anxiety for all the churches’ is not ‘anxiety about the world.
  4. Christ said, “You cannot serve God and mammon” –mammon- wealth, riches. “Mammon” and “Caesar’s” are demonic principalities which controls money. Deut. 32:37-38, Col. 3:5-6. What we love we serve and obey. Jn. 14:15, Rom. 6:16. When we love money we worship it and the spirit behind it.
  5. Paul said, “The love of money is the root of all evils”. 1Tim. 6:10. Money is “mammon of unrighteousness”. Lk. 16:9. “Money in its essential character is evil…In God’s sight money is dirty” – Watchman-Nee. Mammon and God are never on the same side. Money is opposed to God. Money leads away from God. 1Tim. 6:10 It is “Caesar’s” Lk. 20:24-25. 
  6. Money as goal leads to turmoil, anxiety and ends in frustration. Eccl. 2:5-12.
  7. Your life for Christ must go out with your money. Mk. 12:43-44, 2Cor. 8:5. “you and not yours”- 2Cor. 12:14. “Unless your life for Christ goes with your money in the journey to heaven, it cannot be released from the kingdom of Satan and transferred to the kingdom of God. 
  8. Lloyd John Ogilvie in his book, “Autobiography of God” said “We all want to be the one thing we can never be: god over our own lives…What we could not emulate we have to eliminate”. The thought of self-gratification and indulgence can bring happiness. “There is the one taproot of sin of willful rebellion. The desire to be great on our own.