Mon Mar 17

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words sowed and seed.

Reading

Matt 13:24-28, 36-39—Two Seeds Sown, Plants Grown

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

Jesus tells about two seeds.
Jesus tells about two plants.
Jesus tells about two harvests.

Questions

(some read these before notes, then ask them after)

What were some (or all) of the comparisons Jesus made?
Who were the two sowers?
Why can’t the weeds be pulled up?

Notes

(Today’s notes are from a commentary on Matthew by Iain D. Campbell) Jesus tells another story about sowing. In the first, only a small percentage of the seed fell onto good ground. In this parable, even the good seed is compromised. As the result of a covert operation by an ‘enemy’ of the sower, the field is sown with weeds among the wheat. To the suggestion that the servants go into the field to take out the weeds, the master says, ‘No; you could root up the good growth with the bad. We will separate them at harvest time.’ Jesus makes the following point-by-point comparison: Element of story Spiritual meaning Sower Son of Man (i.e. Jesus himself) Field The world Good seed Children of the kingdom Weeds Children of the evil one Enemy Devil Harvest End of the world Reapers The angels The comparisons are skilful and simple, and the message is that, in the experience of the kingdom of God in the world, the children of God and the children of the devil co-exist, without separation, until the end of the world comes.

Jesus is the eternal king!

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday reading for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 1a, 133a

Prayer

Ask God that you will grow strong in spite of weeds.
Pray for a specific application from yesterday's sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.

Notes this week are drawn in part from commentaries by John Calvin, William Hendriksen, Kent Hughes, Iain D. Campbell, Douglas Sean O’Donnell, John Legg, Gary Inrig, Roger Ellsworth, the Theological Dictionary of the Old and New Testaments (TDOT, TDNT) and notes from the CSB Study Bible, and the Reformation Study Bible (RSB).