We interrupt our series on the kingdom parables of Matthew 13 for a different kingdom parable…

It’s that time again…it’s May 4…Star Wars Day! It’s the commemoration of a movie series (I’m most familiar with the first three, now called episodes 4, 5 and 6) that depicts the battle of good versus evil. A “parable of the kingdom” where good and evil exist together as we saw yesterday.

“May the 4th be with you,” or, as they have said since the first Star Wars movie in 1977:

May the Force be with you.

The Force is fictitious, of course, but the stories remind us of an important truth in the battle of good versus evil, the kingdom of God versus the kingdom of the evil one:

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15.5, ESV, emphasis mine)

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1.8, ESV, emphasis mine)

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3.8, ESV)