God's Kingdom Completion

Introduction

Forged in Fire - San Mai technique using mild steel with high carbon steel. If you get the wrong substance at the core, the blade will break. As the judges look at the broken blade and see the make up of the blade and its grain structure, they can see why the blade had a failure.

What makes up something is important. As we close out our Parabolic series on the Kingdom of Heaven, we are going to take a look at a couple of parables where Jesus discusses what the current make up of the Kingdom looks like versus what the ultimate make up of the Kingdom will be.

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43, 47-50

1) God is Still GROWING His Kingdom.

2) The ENEMY is at work in God’s Kingdom.

ILLUSTRATION: Toward the end of the fourth and the beginning of the third century B.C. there was a very famous architect by the name of Sostratos. The king of Egypt used him in order to build the famous beacon light of Alexandria. The king's purpose in building this beacon light was that the ships might find their way into the safety of the port. When the building was completed, architect Sostratos chiseled his own name on a stone that was part of the building. He did not want it to be readily visible and so he covered it with mud and whitewash. On top of that he wrote with gold letters the king's name so that when the waves hit the mud it would wash it away and his own name would appear.

3) COMPLETION is Coming.

CLOSING

ARE YOU FIRMLY ROOTED IN GOD’S KINGDOM? IS YOUR LIFE PRODUCING WHAT GOD INTENDS FOR YOU TO PRODUCE?