02-12-2023 Faith Like a Mustard Seed (Matthew 13:24-43)

Sermon Passages and Notes:  Faith Like a Mustard Seed Matthew 13:24-43 Summary of the Sermon on the Mount in Two Points: • Dependence on God. • God's people assume a different stance/posture towards one another. Matthew 13:24-43 Three Parables in this Passage: The Wheat & Weeds The Mustard Seed The Leaven Dependence on God. God's people assume a different stance/posture towards one another. 1 Corinthians 3:4-9 4 For whenever someone says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not acting like mere humans? 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building. "You are God's field..." What am I allowing to take root in my life? God's people assume a different stance/posture towards one another. Matthew 5:43-44 43 “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, Mathew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Matthew 7:1-4 1 “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use. 3 Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye? Matthew 7:12 12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. There are going to be weeds in life.