January 16 – Stay on the Path

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, January 16th.

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Stay on the path.
Have you ever tried walking

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through your house in total
darkness?

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You move slower, your hands
reach out just in case, and

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every step feels uncertain.
You’re tense because you don’t

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know what’s in front of you.
Life feels the same way.

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When you drift from God’s
wisdom, things that once felt

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clear become confusing.
Choices that seemed small start

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to trip you up, and before you
realize it, you’re wondering how

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you got so off balance.
In Proverbs chapter 4, verses 11

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to 12, God speaks like a loving
guide who knows the terrain

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ahead.
He says, I have taught you the

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way of wisdom.
I have led you in the paths of

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uprightness.
When you walk, your step will

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not be Hanford, and if you run,
you will not stumble.

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Notice what God promises.
Not a life without movement,

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pressure, or effort, but a path
where you can walk and even run

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without constantly falling.
Wisdom doesn’t remove the

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journey, it makes the journey
steadier.

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Then Jesus adds A sobering
picture.

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In Matthew chapter 13, he tells
a story about a farmer who

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plants good seed.
But while everyone is sleeping,

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an enemy sneaks in and plants
weeds among the wheat.

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The danger wasn’t obvious at
first.

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The field looked fine.
Growth was happening, but over

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time, the weeds revealed
themselves.

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That’s how distraction and
compromise often work.

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They don’t always show up loud
or alarming.

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They creep in quietly when we
stop paying attention, when we

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get spiritually comfortable, or
when we assume we’ll notice

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problems before they matter.
Staying on God’s path isn’t

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about fear.
It’s about focus.

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It’s choosing to stay awake
spiritually.

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It’s guarding what influences
your thoughts, your values, and

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your habits.
The enemy loves subtlety, but

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wisdom keeps you alert.
God’s Word acts like a light

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that exposes what doesn’t belong
before it takes root.

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The truth is, everyone is on a
path.

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The question is, who’s guiding
your steps?

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God’s path may not always be the
easiest or the most popular, but

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it is the safest.
It protects you from regret you

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don’t see coming and from
detours that cost more than you

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expect.
When you stay close to God’s

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wisdom, your life may still face
challenges, but you won’t walk

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blindly through them.
You don’t stay on the path by

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accident.
You stay on it by choosing God

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daily, listening carefully, and
refusing to drift just because

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it’s easier.
Wisdom keeps you steady.

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God keeps you guarded.
And when you stay on His path,

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you discover that even in a Dark
World, your steps can be sure.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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teaching me the way of wisdom
and leading me on the right

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path.
Help me stay spiritually awake

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and alert, not distracted or
careless with my heart.

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Show me anything that doesn’t
belong in my life and give me

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the courage to remove it.
I choose your way over every

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shortcut and I trust you to
guide my steps every day.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
What if the ache you feel for

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more is actually God calling you
deeper?

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Thirst for God is a powerful
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inspired by Psalm 63, created
for believers who refuse to live

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on spiritual leftovers.
This is a journey from longing

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to encounter, from dryness to
delight.

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Seek teaches you how to pursue
God with passion and

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intentionality.
Savor trains your heart to

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recognize and enjoy His presence
in every season.

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See opens your spiritual eyes to
God’s power, glory, and beauty

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at work in your life.
Satisfy leads your soul into

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fullness, strength, and deep
contentment in Him alone.

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Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and
worship that rises naturally

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from intimacy with God.
Stay anchors your heart in

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steadfast devotion when
distractions try to pull you

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away, and Stand equips you to
remain firm in God’s justice,

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protection, and victory.
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If you’re spiritually hungry,
weary, or simply longing for

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more of God, this is your
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satisfies.
Now I invite you to spend time

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with God in today’s three-year
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Proverbs chapter 4 verses 10 to
19 World English Bible.

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Listen my son, and receive my
sayings.

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The years of your life will be
many.

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I have taught you in the way of
wisdom.

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I have led you in straight
paths.

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When you go, your steps will not
be Hanford.

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When you run, you will not
stumble.

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Take firm hold of instruction.
Don’t let her go.

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Keep her, for she is your life.
Don’t enter into the path of the

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wicked.
Don’t walk in the way of evil

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men.
Avoid it and don’t pass by it.

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Turn from it and pass on.
For they don’t sleep unless they

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do evil.
Their sleep is taken away unless

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they make someone fall, for they
eat the bread of wickedness and

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drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the righteous is

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like the dawning light that
shines more and more until the

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perfect day.
The way of the wicked is like

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darkness.
They don’t know what they

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stumble over.
Matthew Chapter 13 World English

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Bible On that day Jesus went out
of the house and sat by the

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seaside.
Great multitudes gathered to

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him, so that he entered into a
boat and sat, and all the

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multitudes stood on the beach.
He spoke to them many things in

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parables, saying, Behold, a
farmer went out to sow.

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As he sowed, some seeds fell by
the roadside, and the birds came

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and devoured them.
Others fell on rocky ground

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where they didn’t have much
soil, and immediately they

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sprang up because they had no
depth of earth.

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When the sun had risen, they
were scorched.

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Because they had no root, they
withered away.

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Others fell among thorns.
The thorns grew up and choked

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them.
Others fell on good soil and

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yielded fruit some 100 times as
much, some 60 and some 30.

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He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.

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The disciples came and said to
him, Why do you speak to them in

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parables?
He answered them to you.

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It is given to know the
mysteries of the Kingdom of

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heaven, but it is not given to
them.

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For whoever has to Him will be
given, and he will have

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abundance, but whoever doesn’t
have from him will be taken away

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even that which He has.
Therefore I speak to them in

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parables because seeing they
don’t see, and hearing they

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don’t hear, neither do they
understand.

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In them the prophecy of Isaiah
is fulfilled, which says by

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hearing you will hear and will
in no way understand.

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Seeing you will see, and will in
no way perceive.

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For this people’s heart has
grown callous.

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Their ears are dull of hearing,
and they have closed their eyes,

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or else perhaps they might
perceive with their eyes, hear

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with their ears, understand with
their heart, and would turn

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again, and I would heal them.
But blessed are your eyes for

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they see, and your ears for they
hear.

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For most certainly I tell you
that many prophets and righteous

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men desired to see the things
which you see, and didn’t see

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them, and to hear the things
which you hear and didn’t hear

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them hear.
Then the parable of the farmer.

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When anyone hears the word of
the Kingdom and doesn’t

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understand it, the evil 1 comes
and snatches away that which has

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been sown in his heart.
This is what was sown by the

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roadside, what was sown on the
rocky places.

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This is he who hears the word
and immediately with joy

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receives it.
Yet he has no root in himself,

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but endures for a while.
When oppression or persecution

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arises because of the word,
immediately he stumbles.

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What was sown among the thorns?
This is he who hears the word,

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but the cares of this age and
the deceitfulness of riches

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choke the word, and he becomes
unfruitful.

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What was sown on the good
ground.

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This is he who hears the word
and understands it, who most

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certainly bears fruit, and
produces some 100 times as much,

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some 60 and some 30.
He said another parable before

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them, saying, The Kingdom of
heaven is like a man who sowed

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good seed in his field, but
while people slept, his enemy

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came and sowed darnall weeds
also among the wheat and went

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away.
But when the blade sprang up and

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produced grain, then the Darnell
weeds appeared also.

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The servants of the householder
came and said to him, Sir,

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didn’t you sow good seed in your
field?

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Where did these Darnell weeds
come from?

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He said to them, An enemy has
done this.

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The servants asked him, Do you
want us to go and gather them

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up?
But he said no, lest perhaps

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while you gather up the Darnell
weeds you root up the wheat with

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them.
Let both grow together until the

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harvest, and in the harvest time
I will tell the reapers first

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gather up the Darnell weeds and
bind them in bundles to burn

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them, but gather the wheat into
my barn.

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He said another parable before
them, saying the Kingdom of

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heaven is like a grain of
mustard seed which a man took

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and sowed in his field, which
indeed is smaller than all

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seeds, but when it is grown it
is greater than the herbs and

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becomes a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and lodge

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in its branches.
He spoke another parable to

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them.
The Kingdom of heaven is like

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yeast which a woman took and hid
in three measures of meal until

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it was all leavened.
Jesus spoke all these things in

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parables to the multitudes, and
without a parable.

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He didn’t speak to them that it
might be fulfilled, which was

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spoken through the prophet
saying, I will open my mouth in

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parables.
I will utter things hidden from

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the foundation of the world.
Then Jesus sent the multitudes

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away and went into the house.
His disciples came to him

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saying, Explain to us the
parable of the darnall weeds of

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the field.
He answered them, He who sows

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the good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good

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seeds are the children of the
Kingdom, and the darnall weeds

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are the children of the evil. 1
The enemy who sowed them is the

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devil, The harvest is the end of
the age, and the reapers are

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angels.
As therefore the Darnall weeds

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are gathered up and burned with
fire, so will it be at the end

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of this age.
The Son of Man will send out his

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angels, and they will gather out
of his Kingdom all things that

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cause stumbling, and those who
do iniquity and will cast them

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into the furnace of fire.
There will be weeping and

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gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine

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like the sun in the Kingdom of
their Father.

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He who has ears to hear, let him
hear again.

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The Kingdom of heaven is like
treasure hidden in the field

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which a man found and hid in his
joy.

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He goes and sells all that he
has and buys that field again.

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The Kingdom of heaven is like a
man who is a merchant seeking

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fine pearls, who having found
one Pearl of great price, he

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went and sold all that he had
and bought it again.

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The Kingdom of heaven is like a
dragnet that was cast into the

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sea and gathered some fish of
every kind, which when it was

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filled, fishermen drew up on the
beach.

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They sat down and gathered the
good into containers, but the

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bad they threw away.
So it will be in the end of the

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world.
The angels will come and

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separate the wicked from among
the righteous, and will cast

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them into the furnace of fire.
There will be weeping and

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gnashing of teeth.
Jesus said to them, Have you

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understood all these things?
They answered him, Yes, Lord, He

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said to them, Therefore every
scribe who has been made a

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disciple in the Kingdom of
heaven is like a man who is a

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householder who brings out of
his treasure new and old things.

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When Jesus had finished these
parables, he departed from

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there, coming into his own
country.

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He taught them in their
synagogue so that they were

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astonished and said, Where did
this man get this wisdom and

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these mighty works?
Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?

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Isn’t his mother called Mary and
his brothers James, Jose is

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Simon, and Judas?
Aren’t all of his sisters with

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us?
Where then did this man get all

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of these things?
They were offended by him, but

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Jesus said to them, a prophet is
not without honor except in his

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own country and in his own
house.

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He didn’t do many mighty works
there because of their unbelief.

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