His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. Then he said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered.
Y’all didn’t choose me, but I chose y’all and appointed y’all so that y’all would go and bear fruit, and that y’all’s fruit should remain. And so that whatever y’all ask in my name, the Father will give to y’all.
Those on the rocky soil are those who hear the word with joy when they hear it, but have no root. They believe for a while, but fall away in the time of temptation.
Hᴇ will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and ʜᴇ will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. Then they will bring to YHWH offerings in righteousness,
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left, so that they might reveal that none of them belong to us.
who gave himself for us, in order to redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do excellent works.
While I was with them in the world, I protected them in your name. I have protected those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Then he told them another parable. “The Empire of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
Let’s acknowledge YHWH. Let’s press on to know YHWH. As surely as the sun rises, YHWH will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars will stand no longer.
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.
But these are the ones sown on excellent ground: those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
If anyone doesn’t remain in me, that person is like a branch that is thrown out and withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and became co-participant of the root and the richness of the olive tree,
Consider then the goodness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but kindness toward you, if you continue in ʜɪꜱ kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off.