Posted by Chester Morton / Saturday 25 March 2017 / No comments
The parable of the Mustard seed
Introduction
Jesus’ use of the mustard seed in a parable was to draw a
comparison between the small mustard seed growing into a big tree and the word
of God starting from a small beginning and growing into a global religion.
Jesus did a thorough mental search for something or a parable
with which he could compare the Kingdom of God and settled on the mustard seed.
According to Jesus, the Kingdom of God could be compared to a mustard seed. He
said when one puts a mustard seed in the soil; it is the smallest seed, of all
the seeds in the world.
However, when this seed germinates and grows, it grows into a
giant tree, according to him, the greatest of all trees. It develops huge branches
on which birds of the air come to perch and make their nests.
In this parable, the mustard seed represents the Kingdom of
God while the spread of the branches represents how the gospel was going to
spread throughout the world, reaching all the nations of the world.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
1. a. Narrate the parable of the mustard seed.
b. How does it
illustrate the concept of the Kingdom of God?
