Regardless of how things look at any given time, will anything ultimately prevail against Christ’s Church? How large will the kingdom of heaven eventually grow? How completely will it spread and how will it be like leaven? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week's edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Matthew 16:18
Matthew 16:18
18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Connection Passage #1: Matthew 16:15–17
Matthew 16:15–17
15 “But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
Connection Passage #2: Matthew 16:19
Matthew 16:19
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Connection Passage #3: Matthew 13:33
Matthew 13:33
33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Connection Passage #4: Matthew 13:31–32
Matthew 13:31–32
31 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
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