Gospel of the Kingdom: The Parable of the Weeds of the Field (Matt. 13:24-43)

In this message on the Parable of the Weeds of the Field (Matthew 13:24-43), we explore Jesus's strange picture of the kingdom of heaven as a field where wheat and toxic weeds grow together until harvest — a warning that the church will always contain a mix of true and false believers until the final judgment sorts it out. We look at what it means to be a "son of the kingdom" versus a "son of the evil one," and what Jesus's repeated phrase "weeping and gnashing of teeth" actually means.