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Week 4: Intro to the parables + Parables of the kingdom

Objective: 

  • Learn the parables and their meanings
  • How can we apply what we learned in our lives

Resources:

Reading:

  • Matthew 13

Key verse(s):

  • "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" Matthew 13:9

Comments:

  • A parable is a story in which a special meaning or a spiritual lesson is embedded
  • A way to deliver the message in a simple way
  • Parables are found only in the synoptic Gospels
  • They are often stories based on the agricultural life that was familiar to His audience
  • Some unfamiliar concepts, such as the kingdom of God, were compared to something from everyday life that could easily be understood
  • It is the lesson of a parable that is important to us.
  • "It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning"
  • Parable Matthew Mark Luke
    The Sower 13:3-23 4:2–20 8:4-15
    The Hidden Treasure 13:44

    The Pearl of Great Price 13:45, 46

    The Growing Seed
    		4:26–29
    The Mustard Seed 13:31, 32 4:30-32 13:18, 19
    The Leaven 13:33
    		13:20, 21
    The Hidden Treasure 13:44

    The Tares* 13:24–30

    The Dragnet* 13:47-50
    		 

    Like the seed (Mk 4:26) Fruits based soil. Like the leaven, & mustard seed (Mt 13:31; Mk 4:30) Starts small, invisible but grows by God's grace Like hidden treasure, & Pearl of great price (Mt 13:44) valuable, worth the sacrifice, joy for the finder! Like wheat & tares, net (Mt 13:24) Opposition to the Kingdom Co-existence of good and evil until judgment (harvest, net cast).

  • "Hear" occurs 19 times in Mt 13, 7 times in the parable. "Seed" – Word of God: (1) has life, (2) must be planted, (3) nurtured, (4) bears fruit. "Soil #1"– Hard, on rocky path, stolen by bird (Satan) "Soil #2" – shallow root, withers under persecution (flesh). "Soil #3" – Crowded, choked by thorns of the world (riches). "Soil #4" – Good. fruitful. Hears, receives, believes, & obeys. Which soil are you? Which soil do you want to be?

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