The nature of God's Kingdom – Parables E2
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Today we look at the nature of God's Kingdom through the lens of various parables and explore why it was such a big theme in Jesus' teaching. We discuss its countercultural nature and how the reality of the Kingdom was different to the expectations of the original Jewish audience for these parables.
We explore the parables of the sower, the mustard seed and the growing seed, and discuss how these examples reveal the nature of God’s Kingdom. We consider how they would have been understood in Jesus’ day and how we can see the reality of God's Kingdom in our lives now.
We explore the parables of the sower, the mustard seed and the growing seed, and discuss how these examples reveal the nature of God’s Kingdom. We consider how they would have been understood in Jesus’ day and how we can see the reality of God's Kingdom in our lives now.
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- (00:00) - The nature of God's Kingdom
- (02:45) - Why is this a theme in the parables?
- (05:00) - The interior nature of God's Kingdom
- (07:30) - The parable of the sower: Matthew 13
- (09:20) - The context of the parable of the sower
- (10:20) - What is Jesus saying in this parable?
- (22:37) - The parable of the mustard seed
- (25:42) - The pervasive nature of God's Kingdom
- (32:42) - The parable of the growing seed
- (33:27) - God is always working
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Mark is a Baptist minister and sometime journalist, who now heads up Bible Society's comms team.
