1. Roman Catholic teachings about Mary attribute divine attributes to her that are unique to Jesus Christ, such as her immaculate conception and sinless life. This leads Catholics away from devotion to Christ. 2. Catholic leaders are promoting increased veneration of Mary as an "evangelist" and "best evangelist" who can guide Catholics in the "new evangelization." They encourage daily prayers and conversations with Mary. 3. The Catholic tradition of Mary's perpetual virginity, which holds that she remained a virgin even after giving birth to Jesus, is considered by some to be one of the most bizarre of Catholic teachings about Mary.

1. Matthew 13
This, the 3rd. Of Jesus’
5 Large Discourses,
Is Possibly The Most Difficult

2. Matthew 13:1, Jesus Went Out
• Matthew 13:1 On that day Jesus went out of
the house, and was sitting by the sea.
• What house?
• What sea?

3. Matthew 13:2, He Got Into A Boat And
Sat Down
• Matthew 13:2 And large crowds gathered to
Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and
the whole crowd was standing on the beach.
• Why sit down in a boat?
• “large crowds”= not just the 12

4. Matthew 13:3, Sow Your Seed
Recklessly
• Matthew 13:3 And He spoke many things to
them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower
went out to sow;
• Greg Koukle did a great video clip about a
woman who interrupted his reading to ask
what he was reading. He recommended a few
books, she got saved.

5. Matthew 13:3-9, Sower, 4 Soils
• Matthew 13:8 "And others fell on the good
soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold,
some sixty, and some thirty.
• 4 soils or yielding a crop
• Explained in vss. 18-23

6. Matthew 13:10, Why Speak In Parables
• Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came and
said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in
parables?“
• Matthew 13:11 …to them it has not been
granted.
• Matthew 13:12 …whoever does not have,
even what he has shall be taken away from
him.

7. Matthew 13:15, Dull Hearts, And Ears,
And I Would Heal Them
• Matthew 13:15 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS
BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY
HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES,
OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR
WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR
HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.‘
• They (indicative, not a passive) have made a volitional
choice to reject Jesus
• NET Notes (Mat 13:15)…A quotation from Isa 6:9–10.
Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on
whether one is open to hearing what they teach.

8. Matthew 13:15, Dull Hearts, And Ears,
And I Would Heal Them
• Matthew 13:15 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS
BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY
HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR
EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR
EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND
WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL
THEM.
• Matthew 23:37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the
prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How
often I wanted to gather your children together, the
way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you
were unwilling.

9. Matthew 13:17, Last Days
• Matthew 13:17 "For truly I say to you that
many prophets and righteous men desired to
see what you see, and did not see it, and to
hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
• If this was true then, how much more now, in
these “last days”?

10. Matthew 13:19, Who’s To Blame?
• Matthew 13:19 "When anyone hears the word of
the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
one comes and snatches away what has been
sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed
was sown beside the road.
• 2 Corinthians 4:3 And even if our gospel is
veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in
whose case the god of this world has blinded the
minds of the unbelieving so that they might not
see the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God.

11. Matthew 13:21, Because Of The Word
• Matthew 13:21 yet he has no firm root in
himself, but is only temporary, and when
affliction or persecution arises because of the
word, immediately he falls away.
• The “the word” (τὸν λόγον, accusative) is not
capitalized in any of the translations that I
checked, but it has the definite article
• Concerning the word “persecution” Gingrich
says “persecution (for religious reasons only)”

12. Matthew 13:22, Worries Of The World
• Matthew 13:22 "And the one on whom seed was sown
among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and
the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth
choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers
• Mark 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things
enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• Luke 21:34 "Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be
weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the
worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly
like a trap; 35 for it will come upon all those who dwell on
the face of all the earth.

13. Dangers Of Wealth
• Matthew 13:22 …the deceitfulness of wealth
choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• One of the dangers of having a lot of money is
that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of
happiness money can give and so fail to realize
your need for God. If everything seems to come
simply by signing checks, you may forget that you
are at every moment totally dependent on God.
C. S. Lewis
• Matthew 6:24 …You cannot serve God and
wealth.

14. Mat 13:23, The Man
understands, Bears Fruit
• Matthew 13:23 "And the one on whom seed was sown on
the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and
understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth,
some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.“
• 4920 συνίημι suniemi {soon-ee'-ay-mee}
• Meaning: 1) to set or bring together 1a) in a hostile sense,
of combatants 2) to put (as it were) the perception with
the thing perceived 2a) to set or join together in the mind
2a1) i.e. to understand: the man of understanding 2a2)
idiom for: a good and upright man (having the knowledge
of those things which pertain to salvation)…
• Usage: AV - understand 24, consider 1, be wise 1; 26…
• 5723 Tense - Present (See 5774) Voice - Active

15. Matthew 13:24, Another Parable,
Seed, Or Wheat And Tares
• Matthew 13:24 Jesus presented another
parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of
heaven may be compared to a man who
sowed good seed in his field.
• Explained in vss. 36-43

16. Matthew 13:31, Parable Mustard Seed
• Matthew 13:31 He presented another parable
to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is
like a mustard seed, which a man took and
sowed in his field;

17. Matthew 13:31, Parable Mustard Seed
• Matthew 13:31 He presented another parable to them,
saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed,
which a man took and sowed in his field;
• John MacArthur study Bible on page 1418 says, “Here
the kingdom is pictured as yeast, multiplying quietly
and permeating all that it contacts. The lesson is the
same as the parable of the mustard seed. Some
interpreters suggest that since leaven is nearly always a
symbol of evil In Scripture (note on Mark 8:15) it must
carry that connotation here as well. They make the
leaven some evil influence inside the kingdom. But that
twist Jesus actual words and violates the context, in
which Jesus is repeatedly describing that kingdom itself
as the pervading influence."

18. Matthew 13:31+33, Parables
• Parables are meant to carry one plain sense
meaning. You should not dig deep into
them, or stretch them to fabricate some not
obvious meaning. You should not stretch
words out to derive the meaning from other
contexts. Birds and yeast are used sometimes
to represent sin, but in these two
parables, the plain sense meaning is that the
Kingdom of God started out as one tiny
family, Israel, and will grow into the entire
world.

19. Matthew 13:33, Fellowship Offering
• NKJ Matthew 13:33 Another parable He spoke to
them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures
of meal till it was all leavened."
• Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to
Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three
measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread
cakes.“
• [GING] σάτον
σάτον, ου, τό seah, a Hebrew measure for grain

20. Matthew 13:36-43, Parable Explained
• Matthew 13:36 Then He left the crowds and went into the
house. And His disciples came to Him and said, "Explain to
us the parable of the tares of the field.“
• The church is not in view; Matthew 13:41 "The Son of Man
will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His
kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit
lawlessness,
• Who’s coming for the church?
• John 14:3… I will come again and receive you to Myself…
• 13:36 is about Matthew 25:32 "All the nations will be
gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one
another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the
goats;

21. Matthew 13:44-46, A Treasure
Hidden/Found
• Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like a
treasure hidden in the field, which a man found
and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and
sells all that he has and buys that field.
• Count the cost.
• Matthew 10:37 "He who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who
loves son or daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me.

22. Matthew 13:44-46, A Treasure
Hidden/Found
• Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like a
treasure hidden in the field, which a man found
and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and
sells all that he has and buys that field.
• MacArthur Study Bible on page 1418, 13:44 – 46,
says, “These two parables have identical
meanings. Both picture salvation has something
hidden from most people (see note on verse 11),
but so valuable that people who have it revealed
to them are willing to give up all they have to
process it."

23. Matthew 13:47-50, Like A Dragnet
• Matthew 13:47 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is
like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish
of every kind;…
• Matthew 13:49 "So it will be at the end of the
age; the angels will come forth and take out the
wicked from among the righteous,
• Another reference to the Matthew 25:32, Sheep
And Goat Judgment. When; "All the nations will
be gathered before Him; and He will separate
them from one another, as the shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats”

24. Matthew 13:51,
• Matthew 13:51 "Have you understood all
these things?" They said to Him, "Yes.“
• I sure wish they would have said “No”

25. Matthew 13:53, Departed From There
• Matthew 13:53 When Jesus had finished
these parables, He departed from there.
• Matthew 13:1 That day Jesus went out of the
house and was sitting by the sea.
• “the house”= Capernaum (by the sea)

26. Matthew 13:53, Departed From There

27. Nazareth, His Hometown

28. Nazareth, His Hometown

29. Matthew 13:54, His Hometown
• Matthew 13:54 He came to His hometown
and began teaching them in their synagogue,
so that they were astonished, and said,
"Where did this man get this wisdom and
these miraculous powers?
• “His hometown”= Nazareth

30. We looked at Jesus’ Mother And Half
Brothers in Matthew chapter 1
• Matthew 13:55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His
mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph
and Simon and Judas?
• Matthew 12:46 While He was still speaking to the crowds,
behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside,
seeking to speak to Him. 47 Someone said to Him, "Behold,
Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside
seeking to speak to You.“
• Mar 3:31 And His mother and His brothers arrived, and
standing outside they sent word to Him, and called Him.
• John 2:12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He and
His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there
they stayed a few days.
• Galatians 1:19 But I did not see any other of the apostles
except James, the Lord's brother.

31. THE END
•Next time, 3-24-13, we will
jump forward to Matthew
21 for Palm Sunday

32. Evangelist Mike Gendron, “Mary Quite Contrary”
• Mary Quite Contrary
• Roman Catholicism continues to pervert the true Mary of Scripture in ways that defy the imagination. The Catholic Mary, as described in the 1994 edition of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church, is a satanic diversion that leads Catholics away from a pure devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Rome attributes to Mary many of the divine attributes that are unique
to the Lord Jesus. The end result is a counterfeit version of Mary whom Catholics venerate and trust as the channel of all grace. Rome says both Jesus and Mary were immaculately
conceived, born without sin, lived sinless lives and now intercede as our advocates. Jesus ascended into heaven, the Catholic Mary was bodily assumed into heaven; Jesus is the second
Adam, Mary is the second Eve; Jesus is the King of kings, Mary is the Queen of heaven and earth; Jesus is the mediator, Mary is the co-mediatrix and Jesus is the redeemer, Mary is the co-
redeemer. Catholics have also declared that it is Mary, not Jesus, that crushes the head of Satan, the serpent. This blasphemous error originated from the mistranslation of Genesis 3:15
from Jerome's Latin Vulgate to the Douay-Rheims English translation. The lie continues today when Catholics celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Catholics are commanded,
under the penalty of sin, to accept these myths about Mary as divine truth.
•
• Now according to Carl Anderson, the head of the Knights of Columbus, Mary is the best evangelist. "She is the evangelist par excellence, in part because she enters the world...from the
beatific vision, a state of supreme closeness to God," he said Dec. 10 at the Ecclesia in America Conference in Rome. "Her example and continued motherhood of all peoples is a sure path
today for the new evangelization." Read more.
•
• Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles is calling for Catholics to "turn to Mary in a new way." He described Advent (a season historically observed as a time of preparing for the coming of
Jesus) as "a season of Mary." He recommended that Catholics try to set aside time every day to think about the Virgin Mary or to look at a picture of her. "Talk to her as her child. Tell her
everything that's on your mind." Read more.
•
• Of all the heresies concerning Mary which are embraced by Roman Catholics, her perpetual virginity may be the most bizarre. Historically, Christians have always recognized Mary had
four sons and at least two daughters after Jesus was born. This quizzical and outlandish tradition declares Mary's virginal integrity was not violated when she gave birth to Jesus.
According to para. 499 of the Catechism, "The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to
the Son of God made man. In fact, Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it."
•
• In the Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Dr. Ludwig Ott states, "In the power of the grace of Redemption merited by Christ, Mary, by her spiritual entering into the sacrifice of her Divine
Son for men, madeatonement for the sins of men, and merited the application of the redemptive grace of Christ. In this manner she co-operates in the subjective redemption of
mankind" (page 213). Here the Catholic Church is claiming that Mary made atonement for the sins of men!
•
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches "Mary did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation" (para. 969).
"The Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the
Lord as Queen over all things. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death" (para. 966). Mary, "by special grace of God, committed no sin of any
kind during her whole earthly life" (para. 411). She "was the cause of salvation for herself and the whole human race" (para. 494). Those who seek Mary's protection will be saved for all
eternity. These doctrines have robbed God of His glory and have resulted in Catholics showing greater devotion to Mary than to Christ.
•
• It is our prayer that Catholics would spend more time in the inspired Word of God instead of believing the uninspired words of men. When a crowd told Jesus that His mother was looking
for Him, He gave this profound response, "For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother" (Mark 3:32-25).
• Proclaiming The Gospel | PO Box 940871 | Plano | TX | 75094, News from Evangelist Mike Gendron

33. Slides about Jesus’ Mother And Brothers are in
Bible in Five, Ppt. in Matt 1, slides 39-43
• Matthew 12:46 While He was still speaking to the
crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing
outside, seeking to speak to Him. 47 Someone said to
Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing
outside seeking to speak to You.“
• Mar 3:31 And His mother and His brothers arrived, and
standing outside they sent word to Him, and called Him.
• Mat 13:55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His
mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph
and Simon and Judas?
• John 2:12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He and
His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there
they stayed a few days.
• Galatians 1:19 But I did not see any other of the apostles
except James, the Lord's brother.

34. Daniel 3:12 Matthew 13:24-30 Matthew 11:19 Luke
7:34 1 Corinthians 5:19-3, Christians In The World
• 1 Samuel 16:7 1 Corinthians 5:9-10, 12-13 Matthew 5:16 Isaiah 9:2
Matthew 13:24-30 Daniel 3:12 Hebrews 13:17 Luke 20:22-25
• Do you think Christians should shop at grocery stores who sell beer and
tobacco products? And what about supporting businesses that support
homosexuals and/or abortion?
•
ANSWER:
• There is a vast difference between businesses that are clearly supporting
sinful acts like abortion and homosexual activity and those that simply
carry items that MAY be sinfully abused. For instance, in past GMLs, we
showed scripturally that drinking wine (including beer) and smoking
cigarettes were not necessarily sin in themselves.
• The Bible says we must pay taxes (Luke 20:22-25) and obey the laws
(Hebrews 13:17), even if the government is corrupt - assuming that you
don't disobey God by obeying the law (Daniel 3:12).
• "Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" But He detected their

35. Deuteronomy 29:29 Proverbs 25:2 Luke 19:42 Matthew
13:35 Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:26, Mystery Hidden
• Today is March 7, 2013Verse of the Day -- Colossians 1:26 . . . the mystery which
has been hidden from the past ages and generations; but has now been
manifested to His saints.
• THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
• Jesus was hidden in the Old Testament but revealed in the New Testament.
• MINI BIBLE STUDY FOR THE DAY
• This is an example of how God deals differently with those who lived after the
cross than He did with those who lived prior to the cross. Bible scholars refer to
these time periods as "dispensations," or "administrations." As we in the USA are
currently under the "Obama Administration" and were formerly under the "Bush
Administration," Paul refers to the Church Age as a new "administration:"
• . . . to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has
been hidden in God. —Ephesians 3:9 God reveals only what He wants us to
know, at the time He wants us to know it:
• . . . I will utter things hidden since the foundations of the world. —Matthew 13:35 If
you had known in this day . . . but . . . they have been hidden from your eyes. —
Luke 19:42
• It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. —Proverbs 25:2
• The secret things belong to the Lord. —Deuteronomy 29:29

36. Matthew 11:1, Sent Ones
• Matthew 11:1 …He departed from there to teach and
preach in their cities.
• Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a
heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High
Priest of our confession;
• Jesus was in His hometown, Matthew 13:57 And they
took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet
is not without honor except in his hometown and in his
own household.“
• Mark 6:4 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without
honor except in his hometown and among his own
relatives and in his own household."

37. Christians In The World
• Do you think Christians should shop at grocery stores who sell beer and
tobacco products? And what about supporting businesses that support
homosexuals and/or abortion?
•
ANSWER:
• There is a vast difference between businesses that are clearly supporting
sinful acts like abortion and homosexual activity and those that simply
carry items that MAY be sinfully abused. For instance, in past GMLs, we
showed scripturally that drinking wine (including beer) and smoking
cigarettes were not necessarily sin in themselves.
• The Bible says we must pay taxes (Luke 20:22-25) and obey the laws
(Hebrews 13:17), even if the government is corrupt - assuming that you
don't disobey God by obeying the law (Daniel 3:12).
• "Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" But He detected their
trickery and said to them, "Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and
inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar's." And He said to them,