From the Pulpit...

The parables of the mustard seed and leaven show how God's kingdom will have a thorough-going effect on both the world in an external fashion and upon its people by way of internal transformation. But the question hangs out there - who will be part of this kingdom? The Lord Jesus answers in a way less optimistic than the typical expectation today (that most people will be alright). He teaches that relatively few will be saved. Many will seek after it is too late, but only those known by the Lord, those who strive to enter the narrow gate, are the ones who are rescued into God's eternal kingdom.