Jesus Warned About This Kind of Christian

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What does Jesus warn about in Matthew 13 and why is it relevant to modern Christians?

Bryce Crawford 0:00

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are going to be talking about, I think, the most practical, easily understandable. Terrible. That actually has to do with evangelism. We're gonna be in Matthew chapter 13. If you want to open your Bibles and read out of the ESV. Now, I just want to preface something really quick. Whenever we read the scriptures, right? Like especially with parables, sometimes we take a parable or a passage of verses or a chunk of verses out and then we wrestle with it. Jesus actually explains this parable after he shares the parable. But I want to give some context around what's being said, and then we're gonna get there and we're gonna talk about it because

Bryce Crawford 0:37

I love this passage. I think it's so practical, but we need to understand something. Jesus has been doing a bunch of miracles, he's been doing a ton of ministry. All right. He's been healing the sick, healing the guy with the withered hand, talking to the Pharisees about Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath. And so literally in the chapter before 13. You have the scribes and the Pharisees, they're begging for a sign from Jesus. Now keep in mind, Jesus has been doing signs, miracles, and wonders all this whole time. And you know actually, earlier, a couple chapters earlier, Jesus actually gave woes to some cities. He's like, Look, listen, you guys aren't appreciative for the signs and wonders I'm doing.

Bryce Crawford 1:19

Because if you were, right? If you were, then I would have done these signs and miracles in Sodom and Gomorrah and all these other wicked cities. Like he guys, you guys aren't appreciative, but if I did these signs and miracles in Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared. You know, so so they're begging for signs. Okay. And he's he's about sick of it. So now we get to chapter 13, verse one. And it says that same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea, and great crowds gathered about him. So he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the beach. So the crowd got so big, Jesus had to go into a boat. To preach to them so that he could get back and see the whole crowd and focus on the crowd and

Bryce Crawford 2:01

Break down the secrets to the kingdom to these guys. Now I think it's very important pause and and we and we can reflect on this. Let me ask you. This question. Are you part of the crown? Were you a disciple? And we'll explain that here in just a moment. Verse three, and he told them many things in parables, saying, A sower went out to sow, and as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun when the sun rose, they were scorched. And since they had no root they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Bryce Crawford 2:48

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears let him hear. Then the disciples came and said to him, Why do you speak to them in parables?

How did the religious leaders’ demand for signs set the stage for the Parable of the Sower?

Bryce Crawford 3:02

Let's pause right here. This is why I asked the question: Are you a part of the crowd or are you a disciple? Because if you read this account in the Gospel of Mark, what happens is Jesus says this. So all these people were coming to see Jesus because they were bringing the sick, someone had broken legs, you know, you never know. They had heard all these things about Jesus. So they had come. This instance right here is one of Jesus' like. Like Big presidential campaign speeches, right? He's in front of a large crowd. People are coming. They want the sick healed. They want their elements fixed. They want, you know, healing for their daughters, their sons, their cousins, their moms, their aunts, their uncles.

Bryce Crawford 3:36

So they're coming to get something physical from Jesus. And they've heard all these miraculous, wonderful things about his teachings and his miracles. So they're coming expecting something physical from Jesus.