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introduction into parables
By: alphaomega Date: July 8, 2012, 3:58 pm
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The Parables of Jesus
Introduction:
The definition of the word “parable” is to “lay next to or
compare”.
A parable is a story with a hidden message that only
“spiritually opened” ears can hear.
The parables are word pictures into what God is trying to teach
us.
The parables of Jesus are one of the times Jesus teaches lessons
for future generations. These parables need to be meditated on
and closely studied. Parables have a “layered” meaning, for
example the parable of the Prodigal Son. The story is one of
going astray and coming back. It seems to be the story of an
actual son, with an older brother, and his father…like in any
family. We have all read this before and it has given much
comfort and hope to the families that have had a child gone
astray.
We must realize that the parables have layers...there is a
surface layer and a deeper layer. For example, the surface layer
would be relating to children going astray within your own
family and the deeper meaning is what we are going to present to
you in the following papers.
Remember what the disciples asked Jesus:
(Matthew 13:10-17)
The Purpose of Parables
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to
them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to
you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them
it has not been given. 12 For whoever has, to him more will be
given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have,
even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 Therefore I
speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and
hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.14 And in them
the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’
But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they
hear;17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and
righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
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