First Things At First

Sermon for July 17, 2011Click HERE to listen.Mugshots and Magazine CoversHumans really can be easily fooled by appearance.  Most of us assume that bad guys look like they do in mugshots and good guys look like the pretty folks we see on magazine covers.  But what if the real measure of a person has less to do with how we look, and more to do with what fruit we bear?Matthew 13:24-30, 36-4313:24 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field;13:25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.13:26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.13:27 And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?'13:28 He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' The slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?'13:29 But he replied, 'No; for in gathering the