The Upside Down Kingdom: Wheat & Weeds and the Kingdom of God

Jesus shared another “agricultural” Kingdom Parable in Matthew 13 that speaks to this concept of the Upside Down Kingdom on two levels.

The Upside Down Kingdom: The Mysteries of the Kingdom Revealed

In Matthew 13, Jesus shared a parable about a sower and seed, and four kinds of soil.  In this parable and His discourse with the disciples that followed, we learn the reason some have responsive hearts to the Kingdom message, and others simply do not.

The Upside Down Kingdom: The Kingdom Gives Us Worth

One of the most powerful truths about the Upside Down Kingdom of God is the value and worth it places on us as God’s creation.  We look at how this is related in two of Jesus’ “kingdom parables” in this week’s lesson.

The Upside Down Kingdom: Hungering & Thirsting To Be Satisfied

Jesus spoke about how He desires to fill and satisfy the hunger and thirst we have in our souls with Himself.  But in order for Him to fill us, we must first be emptied.

Perhaps the most 'upside down' of all the Beatitudes is the last one, in which Jesus tells us to rejoice when we are mistreated, misunderstood, or treated unfairly. But as we'll discover, Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about!