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1 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204516 | ||
What was the purpose of Jesus preaching the parables? God Bless, hat lady |
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2 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | srbaegon | 204525 | ||
Hi Tamara, Luke 8:9-10 (ESV) [9] And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, [10] he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'" Steve |
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3 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | lookinforacity | 204999 | ||
Hi Tamara: To answer your question, the parables are only about ONE thing. The Kingdom Jesus was preaching the GOSPEL of the KINGDOM ! From the time of his showing to Israel, to his crucifixion.All of the prophesy's were about the (Messiah, and his Kingdom.) He was going about setting it up, Establishing it, in the hearts of men. That is why the Disciples asked him. Acts 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? ,Matthew 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. Read this PARABLE, it is about the Kingdom , NOT Salvation as people think. Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Here is an example, of the unbelief. Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. The same thing is happening today, by the Churches. How many Churches actually teach the Kingdom? In Christ JIM |
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4 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205004 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, Jesus had reasons that I could tell to preach the parables, but I am not too sure that He was preaching the kingdom. I think when He preached the Sermon on the Mount He was preaching the kingdom, but when He preached the parables there was something esle going on. Mathew 13:10 And the disciples came and said to Him, "why do you speak to them in parables?" :11 Jesus answered them, "to you it has been granted to know the mysteries fo the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. :13 Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. See Mathew 13:14-17 Jesus was revealing the the mysteries of the kingdom to the disciples and to hide the truth from unbelievers. I agree with what you said about unbelief. Not many churches are preaching the kingdom because the apostles switched up and began preaching the crucifixion instead, which is the same thing. Christ revealed Himself in a lasting and final way after the crucifixion, where as before the crucufixion the only thing to be preaching about was the kingdom is at hand and repent. I don't know what you think? God's day to you, Tamara |
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5 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | stoneslinger | 205938 | ||
i pray you all can forgive me as i 1) switch to a different track and 2) take you out on a little bit of a limb. i believe the bible gives us much information and then we are supposed to ask questions and possibly come up with our own ideas hoping the Holy Spirit will guide us in truth. Here is my theory on the subject: we need to consider how many people were included in the story and what their part and significance was. firstly there was the Rabbi. He was there to teach and for many more reasons obvious to us that were not yet realized by the crowds surrounding Jesus. Then there was the multitude: they caught a glimmer of something interesting and decided to follow. There were undoubtedly some believers in the crowd for whom it had not yet "clicked." It seems to me that these were largely part of a group Jesus frequently used as well as God in the old testament when He referred to us as a sick and perverse generation (the idea was they were self centered and followed God/Jesus around seeking the next thrill but never truly bought into His godship lest they would have obeyed. Hebrews hits this idea on the head when it states Israel didn't enter the Promise land because they did not have faith (unbelief)). We can then see the obvious disciples following Jesus around everywhere He went. These are the people that gave up their lives, left behind their nets. Though, at first they did not realize the extent to which they would follow, Jesus had known it would be to the death. Usually those parties people don't miss. But it seems to me that Jesus may have been smiling or even winking at the person that is reading the scripture (who would understand this point). I believe the vast majority of this scene was for our benefit and ours alone. This seems to be the paraphrased question here: "Are you going to forever follow me around with your selfish wants (after all, once the benefits stopped, the crowd left) or are you all going to be like these disciples? Only a disciple (someone who sat at Jesus' feet or had their feet washed by Him) could ever truly understand what the Master had been doing and discern His will for their lives. I strongly believe this is why Jesus' last words to His followers was to go and make DISCIPLES of all nations. Only the disciples had the "till death do us part" mentality that Jesus stated made up His church (bride). Whaddya think? |
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6 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | DocTrinsograce | 205942 | ||
Hi, sling... Not every detail in a parable has significance. Lots of error has resulted from trying to make some detail in a parable have special meaning. That's pretty Alexandrian School. I while back I gave a summary of sound parabolic exegesis in post #157835. You might find it instructive. In Him, Doc |
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