Monday, February 4, 2019

Parables from the Mouth of the Master part two



Preaching on the mount

From yesterdays blog, the question came up in their minds about the reason that Jesus taught the disciples and other people in parables Mathew 13:10, and his answer is given below found in verses 11:17. But then after reading that passage, what do those verses mean?  Here are those verses once again, before I get into what I found.

Jesus replied, " The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you but not to them. Whoever has will be given more and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have even what they have will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables; Through seeing they do not see; hearing they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah. You will be hearing but not understanding; you will be seeing but not perceiving. For this peoples heart has become calloused, they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them. But blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear. For truly I say, many righteous people longed to see what you see and did not see and hear what you hear and did not hear."

So according to questions.org when Jesus spoke in parables, he only explained their meanings to his disciples because they were who wanted something deeper from God. Those that did not want more from God on a deeper level were left to their own spiritual blindness trying to figure out what he might be saying. 

Because the disciples accepted Jesus as the truth, they were given discernment by which things of the Holy Spirit were made clear to them. And they were given more and more of the truth. Maybe for those that perhaps had some of the truth, as in people that followed Jesus for a time watching his miracles because that was probably what some of them were following him for and not really his total message-well they will end up losing what truth they did have.. How sad is that?

And in today's world, it continues to make sense. People that reject the message of Christ and the Cross, are going to be spiritually blind, unless and until they do accept him. I have a good Christian friend, that is being persecuted for her stance on Christ. And it is going on all over the world and even here in the USA, where our religious freedom was founded on, we are losing them every day due to those that object to and do not believe we have the right to them. 

The good news though is found in many scriptures of the bible. But I particularly like the one found in 2 Chronicles 20:15. The battle is not ours but God's.

One day those people that have rejected God, will no longer be able to persecute us for our belief in Christ Jesus. They will find that they will not have the last word because our hope is in him and not in them. Amen!

For more explanation on the above verses visit:Why did Jesus teach in parables?
Up tomorrow: The parable of the Tares

February 4, 2019 Promise: Lord you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power. There is nothing too difficult for you. Jeremiah 32:17


May you day and new week be full of God's richest blessings! Hope you will be back tomorrow!

Monday Blessings!


  






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