Jesus Christ Parables
Jesus Christ told numerous parables as recorded in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.
According to the dictionary a parable is a story designed to teach a moral.
Ah, but they are so much more.
Depending upon the level of understanding a parable can be just a simple story
or an elaborate display of God's love for us.
As our understanding of God deepens so do new levels of understanding of his parables occur.
The following parables are beautiful expressions of God's love for each and every one of us.
Many of the parables in the book of Matthew are
repeated in slightly different versions and recorded by other disciples - in Mark, Luke or John.
Please feel free to add your knowledge to the parables listed here at Web-Ministry!
List of the Jesus Christ Parables
- Parable of the Mustard Seed
- Parable of the Ten Virgins
- Parable of the Leaven
- Parable of the Vine
- Parable of the Pounds
- Parable of the Pharisee - Publican
- Parable of Lazarus
- Parable of the Unjust Steward
- Parable of the Kings Feast
- Parable of the Prodigal Son
- Parable of Barren Fig Tree
- Parable of the Great Supper
- Parable of the Praying Widow
- Parable of Servants
- Parable of Rich Fool
- Parable of the Good Samaritan
- Parable of the 2 Debtors
- Parable of the Man on Journey
- Parable of 10 Talents
- Parable of Wicked Husbandmen
- Parable of Friends at Night
- Parable of the 2 Sons
- Parable of Laborers in Vineyard
- Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
- Parable of the Good Shepherd
- Parable of the Lost Sheep
- Parable of the Secret Seed
- Parable of the Wheat-Tares
- Parable of the Sower
- Parable of The Wise - Foolish Builders
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Post subject: context
User Location: princeton, NJ
Parable: tentalents.txt
This passage is offered as a comparison allegory to the coming of Christ. Christ came and gave us a great gift, through Grace, and then "went away on a long journey." Christ will come back. How have we responded to the freedom and power given to us through Jesus Christ? Have we cowered in fear or are actively living out God's will?David Rogerson on Saturday, March 17 3:34 pm
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Post subject: Prodigal Son
User Location: Redmond, WA
Parable: prodigalson.txt
This is one of any number of "Odd God" stories meant to overturn our notion of how God works and how we are to relate to one another. The younger son in effect tells his father to 'drop dead' or at least recognize that he is so senile, it is time for his sons to take over. The Father does what is most undignified for a semite, 'runs' out to meet his son. This Father, like our heavenly Father forsakes all dignity demonstrates the initiative to embrace us with love. Then all that is asked of us is what is asked of the older brother, that we in turn embrace one another.Denny Aleksuk on Friday, August 31 6:03 pm
I take exception to the persistent suggestion that the younger son has committed the most vile of sins. A consistent reading of the Gospels shows almost scandalously easy forgiveness for those who have committed sins of weakness and momentary lapses. Jesus reserves his strong condemnation for those who misuse power and authority, take advantage of the helpless, scorn those in need, or stand in the way of his mission. This provides a key to understanding the older brother whose sin of self-righteous comes dangerously close to the later category.
Dave Rogerson
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Post subject: The "secret" (Death of the seed)
User Location: Minneapolis
Parable: leaven.txt
The âsecretâ (Death of the seed)Marie Dzielak on Monday, May 23 1:45 am
In the parable of the leaven and the dough, Jesus uses the reaction between the two as an example of how fruit production is brought forth by the believer. A woman âhidâ yeast in a ball of dough and soon a mystical story was told. What was that story? Somebody had done something that caused a mystical, noticeable change. The idea is that you could see the results.
Bear in mind that this analogy is linked to the idea of sowing and reaping by virtue of that very idea being found in Mark chapter four where Jesus in his doctrine is talking about seeds and ground, and candles under bushels.
Luke 12
1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the LEAVEN of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Can you see how that this scripture ties the leaven and the dough parable with Mark chapter four? Leaven (hypocrisy) was hidden in the hearts of the scribes and Pharisees much like yeast in dough. The subsequent results are covered in terminology thatâs very similar to Mark chapter four.
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Marks account says âfor there is nothing hid that shall not be manifest, neither was anything kept secret but that it should come abroadâ.
Whatâs Jesus saying?
Hypocrisy was played out in them in living color. Itâs like a radio station playing music in the background. Everybody could hear the music on a subconscious level but they-the scribes and Pharisees-were too sly to ever get caught out in the open. And yet they were outed. Everybody KNEW that they were hypocrites. Though, nobody ever said anything about it due to fear. They couldnât help but to manifest the contents of their hearts in the presence of people. Truly their lights were shinning. BUT SHINNING WHAT? Hypocrisy. Jesus said âtake heed that the light which is in you be not darknessââŠ
Ok, enough with all of the metaphoric talk. Why would this be? What is the underlying principle at work here that makes this all work? Allow me to share with you what I think is at play here. I think that if you see it in a certain light then the light will be turned on indeed, and the idea of âsecrecyâ and âhiddennessâ or as one person called it âcrypticnessâ will be dispelled.
Look at these synonymous terms used by Jesus that seem to be the catalyst or activator of what is a work here.
Hid
Concealed
Kept secret
Covered
Planted
BURIED
Did you notice the last one? BURIED? Does that get you thinking?
I once noticed when looking at these words in a concordance, the similarity between these words and DEATH or the dying process. Why death? For instance the expression ânothing kept secretâ. Do you know what the meaning of the word secret is (found in this context)? It comes from the word for CRYPT, a cellar. As in tomb, burying place, vault, secret chamber for housing something that is dead. But itâs a âsecretâ place.
All right, what does that have to do with anything?
Do you remember doubting Thomas? Did you know that he too wrote a gospel? Now, Iâm not either endorsing or pooh-poohing it, he was one of the twelve, and he was there in the upper room when the Holy Spirit was given, but Iâd probably choose the latter (dude really was backwards). But get this. He said:
âTHERE IS NOTHING BURIED THAT WILL NOT BE RAISEDâ.
WOW, I think thatâs a bombshell. That confirms what is really being said.
But still how does that apply to us?
Jesus said:
John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Paul said:
1 Corinthians 15:36
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
A lot of Christians are TRYING to get things to come to pass in their lives. THATâS WHERE WE ARE GOING WRONG! Can you see that when we pray for something and receive the word of his promise, that we must allow it to DIE?
To me that means that I have to resign to the fact that itâs is impossible for me to bring it to pass. I must cast the care of it over on God. I must enter into the rest that Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 refer to. We must âcease from our own works as God did from hisâ. And itâs a PERCEPTION. If you perceive that you have to do something on your part other then praying and invoking God, than your perception is one of working and not of resting I.E. Dying to the works of the flesh, as weâre supposed to do. Subsequently, the seed never dies, and we are locked in a state of forever barren.
Now look at the idea of âhidingâ something. A person who is hiding something IS NOT TRYING TO GET IT TO COME TO PASS. A person who is âkeeping something secretâ (within his heart) is not TRYING to reveal it.
With the idea of the death of the seed in mind we can see that the idea of âhidingâ or âcoveringâ something up isnât a tongue in cheek expression. Itâs not any kind of reverse psychology. Itâs literally dropping that thing into the hands of God and leaving it with him.
Look at the two examples given in scripture that support this idea of killing the seed for the sake of invoking growth.
Abrahamâs son Isaac was around twenty years old when God ordered him to offer his son as a sacrifice. Why on earth would God demand such a thing? Abraham was so faithful and diligent to believe God for this miracle child and yet God demanded that he offer him as a sacrifice? I submit that there is magic when a person resigns to something being impossible to them. Some will say âbut with God all things are possibleâ. Yes but the idea of killing something in order for it to grow is Gods idea. Is it not found in nature? Is it not found all around us? Everything that we see in the botanical kingdom has come forth from a seed that died and was buried. And yet this idea of the death of something is not found in our understanding of faith.
The other example is that of Jesus. He lived a perfect life as the âWordâ of God and yet he deemed it necessary to play out the death of the seed scenario so that we could be the fruit of his faith. Notice where he leaves the earth-in the tomb. Some will say âbut he was raised from the deadâ. Yes I believe that too. However, it requires faith to believe that. The only ones who ever saw Jesus thereafter were the true believers.
Might identifying with Jesusâ life, place us in the tomb right along with him? He died fOR us you know.
The beautiful thing about it is how we can go on a journey with the son of God and be dropped off right along with him in his burial chamber (secret place). We can become âhiddenâ in him. But remember âthere is nothing hid that will not be manifestâ. âThere is nothing buried that will not be raisedâ. Can you see how that all of the teachings of the kingdom have overtones to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus? All of this and we donât even have to literally die!
Let me put this in common vernacular without using kingdom terms.
Jesus in his sinless life was in communication with the father all of his life. Jesus by the spirit of wisdom considered the seed. He noticed that when it dies and is covered by soil, it invokes a mystical response from the spirit of resurrection. Mother Nature-so to speak, monitors all seeds that die, are carried by the wind and deposited in the earth. In sequence he goes to work to raise it from the dead.
GOD ALMIGHTY, MOTHER NATURE, THE SPIRIT OF RESSURECTION IS A LOVE SLAVE TO SOMETHING THAT IS DEAD AND BURIED. HE CANâT RESIST RAISING IT TO LIFE!
But get this. The thing that makes a seed grow is the fact that itâs a recipient of a promise given to it in Genesis. That promise being, âwhen you are dead and buried, I will raise you upâ (my paraphrasing). BUT ITâS THE WORD OF HIS PROMISE THATâS BEING PERFORMED.
Jesus knew that you donât need a piece of cellulosic material to invoke a response from the spirit of Mother Nature (resurrection life). In other words you can dupe the spirit of eternal life to raise you up if you will but mimic a seed thatâs dead and buried.
Can you see how itâs a miracle when a seed which has been in a pyramid for thousands of years is planted, and yet springs to life? ITâS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THAT HAPPENED! And yet it does everyday! A seed is an impossibility made possible.
MIRACLES HAPPEN EVERY DAY! But you must know how to illicit a response from this mystical being-the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.
Now, the idea of being baptized into his death makes sense:) (Big smile).
Romans chapter 6 says:
3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Does that sound familiar?
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Can you see it? In Christ we are planted in the earth with him. We are mimicking the idea of a planted seed. Then, as supernaturally as a seed is moved upon by the spirit of Mother Nature-GOD, and raised from the dead, WE ARE TOO!
Somebody might say âyeah, but Iâve done all of that and God still leaves me in the cesspoolâ.
Have you hid your candle?
WHAT?
Jesus said in Mark chapter 4:
21And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
22For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
Have you proactively RESISTED works of the flesh? Strivings? Busy work? âActing your faithâ (as holy as this sounds itâs not scriptural, all that it is, is carrying the care. The one scripture that refers to the actions of faith refers to helping a hungry indigent person vs. saying âbe thou clothed and fedâ. Give em some money!). Have you become the candle hidden under the bushel basket of the enclosed prayer closet? Notice that Jesus said bed. âIs a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a BEDâ? Why, a bed?
A BED IS SOMETHING THAT YOU REST ON. YOU REST ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE HIDDEN CANDLE, HENCE CANDLE UNDER A BED. It all takes place in the darkness of your bedroom-thatâs what was in Jesusâ mind when he spoke these things. Then, you rest in humbleness I.E. DYING to attempts to bring it to pass. If you pray for financial help, donât go out and buy a lottery ticket because God is so stupid that he needs your help. Do you get it?
When you pray for the Holy Spirit, resist this garbage âtake one word and go with itâ that's just you. Youâre not even allowing your faith to grow. Trust me when the time of harvest comes youâll know it. The Holy Spirit will "MANIFEST".
David said âhe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almightyâ. Do you want to abide there too? Then learn the secret of hiding your candle. God is well able to remove the bushel and call you out into the light and thatâs what weâre looking for:)
God Bless and âtell no manâ.
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Post subject: a greater understanding
User Location: New York
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
I hope by now you have found some of the peace you were seeking. I never understood the parable of the prodigal son until I had one. The argument of the dutiful son always made sense to me. But now that I have a younger child who has gone off to waste and destroy his God-given talents through drug abuse, crime, problem relationships...I fully understand how gladly I would celebrate his return to us, not expecting any favored treatment from us. All the time I love both my children, but more of my prayers have been for the wayward one. The celebration would be for the answer to my prayers.Leanne on Thursday, September 4 6:25 am
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Post subject: Barren Fig Tree
User Location: Quebec
Parable: barrenfigtree.txt
Maybe it just means that barren people should die... but not necessarily right away. Let barren women wither in their infertility awhile. What is all this about Israel???Jane on Tuesday, December 5 5:01 am
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Post subject: uhhh
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Parable: goodsamaritan.txtthread
ok...um good?Chrysoprasus on Saturday, July 27 10:58 pm
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Post subject: Short parable, but meaningful!
User Location: USA
Parable: secretseed
Short parable, but meaningful! The truly saved WILL bring forth fruit, just by the true indwelling of the Spirit! Two ways to look at the last verse...one, as the second coming occuring at the fulfillment of the kingdom, and two, as our branches getting "pruned" when full to that we can produce more fruit. Chrys _________________ Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth.Dallas Courchene on Wednesday, October 8 11:24 pm
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Post subject: Talents
User Location: Winnipeg
Parable: tentalents.txt
To this woman who wrote the reply above me, you use man's wisdom. Those who have ears to hear will hear what the parables mean. Other people are deaf.bob on Friday, February 22 6:32 pm
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Post subject: end times fig tree
User Location: california
Parable: barrenfigtree.txtthread
i think 1948 is the super sign no doubt, we are already 60 years into the future so we can't be too far off,it's close.chris on Tuesday, July 1 5:28 pm
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Post subject: Jesus
User Location: Portland OR
Parable: goodsamaritan.txtthread
Robert , I say this out of Love for a Brother in hopes that you will see the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ has given us.Paul Victor Root on Tuesday, February 15 4:10 pm
We must believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God raised him from the dead in order to be saved. There is a differance between judging and knowing the simple truth that our Lord gives us. Romans 10:9 . I hope that I only misunderstood what you were saying .
The only way to the Father is through the Son , Jesus Christ Our Lord. Matthew 11:27.
God Bless you much .You are in my prayers.
Your Brother ,
chris
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Post subject: who does the elder son represent?
User Location: Norwich, New York
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
The elder son represents those who stand to inheriet the kingdom of God,yet are unwilling to follow God's standards on forgiving those who have trespassed against us. God has such a loving heart, He freely shows love to those who have strayed from Him, but come back with a repentant heart seeking His forgiveness. The elder son should take a few lessons that his father practices and learn how to be more forgiving.Yanyi on Friday, October 24 12:34 pm
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Post subject: brassica
User Location: Singapore
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
I was searching for the pic of brassica to do my botony proj. I wonder if u have... (at least accoring to google description u do)...can u send me one?..Bob on Sunday, August 31 11:44 pm
By the way, wat type of min is this?.. christians right?
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Post subject: What is the message?
User Location: Out there somewhere
Parable: widow.txt
OK, I admit I don't know what this parable means. Verse 1 says that man should pray often without becoming weary. Verse 5 states that persistant pestering pays off. Yet verse 8 says that God will answer prayers speedily.Kevin Douglas Rosenberg on Sunday, November 30 5:47 am
Is this a contradiction?
Does "pestering the judge" mean that we should pester God until we get what we want?
What's speedy about that?
How does that relate to Christ asking if He shall find faith on earth?
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Post subject: Reply / Pastors today come mostly from the poor
User Location: Columbus, Indiana, USA
Parable: Kevin_Patsy
First of all, let it be known that I never stated my judgement of fifty million dollars on evil servant Bill Meier pastor of Twin City Bible Church in Urbana IL as the cause of my sinning habitually. It was domination by pastors reared among the lower class and thus inclined to see my enormous request as unreal stuff of dreams which caused me to sin habitually and quit their churches. That I asked, however, was the best way to mend (Matt. 7 : 7 ); by making a financial request for positive help, I obeyed Jesus Christ when otherwise I would have desired clear vengeance. Besides, psychiatry summoned by Bill Meier had caused weeds of habitual sin to sprout in my weakened walk with God long before my financial demands became clear. Let us now examine the lower-class backgrounds of so many of today's pastors and ministers.CARLOS on Tuesday, March 31 1:47 am
Much has changed economically with the churches and the pastoral profession during the current Great Apostasy ( II Tim. 4: 3 - 4 ). Before the Great Apostasy and scientific belief in geologic time and biological evolution, pastors were highly esteemed, just like today's physicians; the upper class admired them and sought those privileged positions of minister or pastor. Seminaries catered to the upper class through extensive required coursework such as Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Along with a lack of financial aid for the lower and middle classes, extensive, difficult required coursework forced most students who needed to earn the money for tuition to wait or quit. Thus, pastors of then were well educated and mostly from a rather rich background.
Since the Great Apostasy began, scientific repudiation of our faith, and stingy donations have led the upper class to pursue doctorates and careers in law and medicine en masse while shunning theology. So hard have seminaries struggled to keep heretics out of their faculties and to fill their rosters that they have allowed pastoral students from the lower class concession after concession from financial aid packages to dropping of essential course requirements such as Greek. Are today's pastors and ministers really up to their jobs? I believe that most appear to fulfill their nominal requirements of employment but fail God's: they are especially likely to keep their jobs at the cost of incurring judgement as evil servants in charge (Matt. 24 : 45 - 51 ).
As a category, pastors who hail from poor backgrounds are inferior to those from the upper class in three ways, and the current Church Growth Movement seminaries have catered to them at the expense of the Lord. Those born poor have grown up in a subculture which discourages study, stifles creativity and encourages imitation, and most importantly demands conformity (quote: a book, "Great Expectations"). Recruitment of those born poor by seminaries has involved not only concessions of financial aid packages, but also of dropping critical course requirements and of graduating called missionaries-to-be as pastoral graduates and of granting pastoral degrees for more kinds of those disqualified by I Tim. 3 : 1 - 8 .
Extreme consequences of the presences of typical men born poor in positions of pastor and in the pastoral job pool are manifest. Because students from poor backgrounds generally dislike study, they do less study and are less thoroughly grounded in God's Word than their counterparts of old. Sin has more opportunities to enter and take hold. Because growing up among the poor stifles creativity and encourages imitation, many pastors preach well from their pulpits with the fruits of others' walks with God, yet are they a fright to meet in their offices!-- for they will follow their own evil hearts in preference to whatever Scriptures the needy may present, let alone the unnoticed will of God from His Word. Such indifference to truth prevails that ruinously trumped-up petitions and reports for psychiatric intervention have resulted. Because life among the poor in English-speaking lands demands conformity, pastors likewise demand conformity without regard to the will of God, and many are evil servants in charge of their flocks of Christian followers. They do what is popular and brings in crowds rather than pleasing God. All of this is to the detriment of the needy, so much that government has taken up the slack through income taxes and entitlement programs.
Through domination such as psychiatry, the evil servants in charge had repeatedly knocked the socks off my weakened, woeful walk with God long before I understood the truths of these horrible situations, and still I suffer from what they have done. Now that I know, however, never again will I follow them. Deeply dispirited, I dare not bother the churches anymore where I have come to live, but ask, seek, and knock here for a guide to some congregation already faithful in the unrighteous mammon of Luke 16, which I must present before I dare ask any churchgoer for anything financial. I was right in Christ to ask pastors to seek fifty millioin dollars from Bill Meier because Jesus commanded the giving and told me to ask (Matt. 5 : 42 , 7 : 7 ) and because as a former psychiatric patient apt to lie on applications I was sure to sin through continual worry if denied, worth a curse of the denying man in charge (Matt. 6: 24ff , 18 : 5 -7 ). In order to know whom to ask justly, however, I needed to know who had the wealth and which churches knew rich folk personally, and that was way beyond me. Vengeance indeed belongs to the Lord, and it will take place in His manner with amputations and announcements of hypocrisy and floggings (Matt. 24 : 45 - 51 ; also Luke) and losses of church buildings (Matt. 25 : 1-13 ) and deprivations and expulsions into homelessness (Matt. 25 : 14 - 30 ) rather than through the financial solutions I used to seek.
Unless the Gospel be spread throughout the whole inhabitable earth as Jesus Christ Himself commanded (Matt. 28 : 20 ) in the way He prophesied its spread before His coming again (Matt. 24 : 14 ) extremely soon, say, before next Passover, with the evil servants still in charge, it will indeed become necessary that the masters of the good and evil servants in charge of churches and so on wake up to return and reveal themselves as their masters: that Jesus Christ was not the master of His Parable of the Servants to judge them in heaven... but authorized ***them*** to execute these judgements on earth. Although vengeance belongs to the Lord, He has used humans to bring it about (Hab. 1 : 5 - 11 ). Because I have understood Chavaqquq (in the KJV spelled Habakkuk) and the general use of the masculine singular forms "master" and "servant" in the Hebrew and Aramaic manner of Psalm 1, I have no problem with God's plan to use boards and committees of humans as masters to execute His vengeance. May this happen soon! Martyrs in Christ among the mentally ill have suffered far too long, and still entire peoples have yet to hear the Good News!
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Post subject: The Prodigal Son
User Location: Miami, FL
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
Hey man, hope by now you had returned, THE LORD will bless you and keep you in his sight. God loves you.pauline thomas on Friday, May 28 8:29 pm
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Post subject: Elder Brother
User Location: Michigan
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
The brother who stayed home had a lot of issues. He was not happy or content with his life. He thought he should have been given sometype of reward for doing what was "his reasonable service." We need to examine our motives. You don't hear much about the one who stayed home, but it would be interesting to see how it can be tackled. Why did he stay home? Should he have received more because he stayed home, etc.annie de mesa on Monday, April 14 6:15 am
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Post subject: picture of the mustard tree
User Location: Philippines
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
i hope i am not asking too much but can you send me a picture of the mustard tree via e-maileden on Wednesday, November 29 6:46 am
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Post subject: ten virgins
User Location: davao city, philippines
Parable: tenvirgins.txtthread
the parable of the ten vgirgins is a warning for all the christians and for all christians to come that we should be ready,coz any time could be the day of Jesus' 2nd coming....Mike Farley on Thursday, October 23 11:08 pm
like in our generation,we can see that churches had begun to lose their fire for God's word to be told to eveyone.... some assume that Jesus will not come back until another century or so,not realizing that they are fulfilling the prophecy, bacause the parable is about the churches who got tired waiting for God and they were not prepaired when Christ came.
I hope that you won't be one of the foolish virgins,and so for me....
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Post subject: Mustard Tree Photo
User Location: Wool Dorset UK
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
Try http://www.alsirhan.com/Plants_s/Salvadora_persica.htm (Salvadora persica is the Mustard Tree's scientific name) - you won't be able to read the page ;-) but the picture's superb!Kevin Douglas Rosenberg on Monday, January 12 4:21 am
God bless
Mike
Purbeck Vineyard, Wool, Dorset, UK
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Post subject: I do not share the Apostle Paul's strength!
User Location: Columbus, IN, USA
Parable: Kevin_Patsy.txtthread
I do not share the strength of the Apostle Paul to content himself in whatever circumstances he found himself. Through the evil servants in charge of contemporary churches and their worldly recourses and ignorance and heedlessness of Luke 16:9-13 (KJV or Greek), the devil has long wreaked havoc with my woefully weak walk with God. My wo...e..s are impossible for the poor to console, and I will demand the most corporal vengeance in the form of the Judgement of the Servants in Charge (Matt. 24:45-51 ) and of the Lazy Stewards (Matt. 25:14-30 ) (see the Ten Virgins page) if I remain yet to be consoled when it becomes too late for a genuine Christian, destined to be raptured, to receive vast fortunes and see fit to use it at will subject to human government rather than having to give it away to whoever might ask (Matt. 5:42, Greek) as Jesus will later require.Gerard Yee on Monday, November 10 3:41 am
We Christians should bear each other up (Gal. 6:2 ). It is not for boasting, but with self-warning against similar sins, that those among us who are spiritual are called to restore those in Christ caught in habitual sin (Gal. 6:1 ). I will not claim to love Jesus Christ any more than you love Him, or even as much. Nevertheless, I have studied the original languages of the Scriptures, and I can pry great spiritual understanding out of the raw texts. By shedding light on the truth, I let my light shine and do not hide it under a bushel. The devil counterattacks against me in my own life, and I deserve compassion, not attacks.
If I continue to find myself treated as lost on this site, I shall be compelled to quit and seek a new place to teach. Have you read my prayer request? I want to become faithful even in the unrighteous mammon of Luke 16:9 and only later endeavour my ministry. This is righteous because Jesus Christ has taught us not to undertake what we lack the means to complete. I cannot promise any particular mission before I get funded. For instance, it would be too costly to teach and help the mentally ill outpatients on psychiatric drugs in Christ to flee their persecution and to take care of them with any usual amount of wealth for a church under 500 members. Therefore, I seek the Judgements of the Servants in Charge and of the Stewards, but first I must get myself into a shipshape position regarding these judgements.
I will never content myself with lack of faithfulness in (with) the unrighteous mammon throughout "my" church. If I value Luke 16:9, I value the words of Jesus Christ, my Saviour. I honour him; may all glory be to our Lord, the risen Jesus Christ.
+++ Kevin D. Rosenberg
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Post subject: The Parable of the Ten Talents
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Parable: tentalents.txtthread
This statement is wrong, sorry. I retract it.eric on Wednesday, July 30 7:14 pm
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Post subject: 10 Virgins parable similar to a dream I had
User Location: www.bigfootlivesindallaswestend.com
Parable: tenvirgins.txt
I had a dream on June 21, 2003 and was shown an awesome sight. A swarm of Tornadoes descending from the sky that look like giant elephant trunks.Denny Aleksuk on Tuesday, September 30 6:44 pm
People will not know where to hide. So I am telling you now in advance. All that will listen, listen. You will want to find an underground place of shelter such as the below ground floor of a university or mall or parking garage that is windowless. Flying glass spells trouble. Start looking now where you will go. Watch for the signs, you will have time to go to your designated place of shelter. But to wait to look for the appropriate place of shelter at that time will be futile. You must do so now as an act of faith. And in that day, if anyone tells you, "Come with us! There is
a strong building over there". Don't go with them! Do not try and help anyone either or you will be confused and forget your hiding place.
I believe it will be as in the Parable of the 10 Virgins.
Let us pray earnestly to our God for the shed blood of the thousands of Iraqi people. Perhaps He will turn away His anger and leave us a blessing instead.
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Post subject: Widow and unjust judge
User Location: Minneapolis
Parable: widow.txt
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about the parable of the widow and the unjust judge. A lot of people think that Jesus is saying that we should pray repetitiously over any one thing. Is that really what is being said in light of the fact the Jesus said, "pray not vain repititions like the heathens do"? When he says, "men ought always to pray and not faint", is he saying to pray continuously? Or might he be saying "every single time you pray, don't faint or stand upon that one prayer until your answered? I submit that that's what this is saying. But she came over and over again someone will say. No, it said, "she came unto him saying". She barely got in the door and wasn't even done walking when she demanded justice. Someone will also say but he said that he will avenge her lest by her CONTINUAL coming she weary him. She was coming day and night". No, lest means, because IF SHE CONTINUES to come, she'll drive him nuts. She only came once, but by the determination in her words she impressed upon him, "she means business". So where does faith fit in to all of this? Didn't Jesus say, "if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you would say unto this sycamine tree be thou plucked up by the root and be cast into the sea and it would obey you? Notice the aspect of patience, HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE but afterward he said, "though I fear not God nor regard man, I will avenge her lest by her continual coming she weary me. She planted a seed in his heart by her boldness, words and address. That seed grew within his heart and consumed him. But only "after a while". She didn't come again because in her heart it was a done deal. "And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry unto him day and night?â I believe that Jesus is saying that instead of crying day and night, if we would just have the faith to approach God boldly, as a covenant partner, and regard it a done deal, we would qualify as one of those who are avenged speedily. Will he find this kind of faith on earth when he comes? You decide.james joseph on Friday, November 1 3:32 pm
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Post subject: ten talents obvioulsy
User Location: between heaven and hell
Parable: tentalents.txt
what are good works? how does one use his abilities to serve the lord? is it selling airplanes to don king? is it selling cars? or insurance? what about the birds that neither sow nor reap nor amass riches? what material things are gained by making 100, 000 per year? how is owning a lexus doing good works? what could people buy with money in 500ad? not computors!!! it is my observation the worlds point of reference is monetary gain and not christian charity. Self aquisitions and personal security above charity to its extreme. Although many interpretations of the parable of ten talents are similar i see common flaw running throughout their illogical analysis. i however have no revelation as to its true meaning. the master expects usury fees and yet christ said if they want ur cloak give ur shirt as well. give without expectation of reward. the first 2 servants are likely to have exploited the needs of the others in order to amass greater riches and leave the masses less wealth. wealth is not created. it only exchanges hands. if someone has more, all the rest have less. i see the servant with 1 talent as taking doing the least harmSarah on Thursday, October 9 8:08 am
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Post subject: hey
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Parable: phariseepublican.txtthread
this site really helped me with my school work thanxG. Weldon Searles on Tuesday, December 16 1:22 pm
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Post subject: Mustard seed tree picture
User Location: Florida, USA
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
D'Laine,Carol Van Tine on Wednesday, April 9 11:11 pm
I myself wondered about this parable/illustration till I found a commentary on these two verses from Mark 4 in Dr. J. Vernon McGee's Thru the Bible commentary series of books on the Bible. His comments really make sense when we think about how "religion" in the largest sense, has gotten away from the simplicity and the purity with which Christ taught, and instead metastasized into a huge aberrant all encompassing umbrella imbracing man made tradition's, social reform, and the very encumbrance's Christ spoke about of the Pharasee's. Here are Dr. McGee's remark's:
"Mustard is not food, it is a condiment. And the growth of a ustard seed into a tree is unnatural. This picturs the outward growth of Christendom into great organizations big churches, large programs, all produced by human energy and not by the Holy Spirit. The birds in the branches are not even good. They represent Satan". I hope this helps, G. Weldon
P. S. His website for listening to his Thru the Bible series is located at:
"http://www.ttb.org" and if your interested in my Biblical poetry mixed with my secular, my website is: "http://home.earthlink.net/~weldon" .
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Post subject: Good Samaritan
User Location: Chicago, IL
Parable: goodsamaritan.txt
I read a story years ago in a booklet entitled the "Good News." It said that at some point in history, the people who lived in the area the good Samaritan was from, departed from their homeland. They were led by an old man with a long beard, possibly Ezekial (this might be wrong). However they rolled a large stone with them as they left, and eventually reached England......and today (said this article) the stone they rolled all this long distance now sits HIDDEN UNDERNEATH the throne of the English Queen/King. Was this just my imagination??? Does anyone have any information on this?Patricia on Tuesday, October 7 4:10 am
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Post subject: the talents parable..
User Location: Maryland
Parable: tentalents.txt
This parable came to me while at work, for me it was a revelation. I am a very insecure person..and though I have faith in God..have had little or no faith in my ability to spread Gods word..or be assertive and confident in Christ.Kevin Douglas Rosenberg on Wednesday, December 17 6:41 am
(But I think that is changing in me now)..that parable to me means that the Lord has given us each a measure of faith..and to use that faith to win souls for Christ. But in order to do that we must be able to take a risk in our personal and social lifes. What each of the servants did was invest for their master the talents given to them in good faith..not knowing rather or not there would be an increase they still had faith in the ten talents given to them by Him..they took took a risk and succeeded..
where as the other servant, he played it safe,,yes he still had what his master had given him..but because he chose not to have faith in the master, the talents given to him or in the masters choice of giving the talents to him to increase..he buried them, not taking a risk which resulted in no increase to be returned to the master.
Sometimes as Christians we do that..we are comfortable in the pews and hanging around other christians..praying for each other..talking to each other about the goodness of God..and that is good, because we need to fellowship, however, God has given us each a measure of faith, the word, and His Holy Spirit..to spread the good news..to reach out and take a risk, make a investment in someone other then those we are comfortable with.
I did something out to character to day..I prayed for a man at the grocery store..I dont know if investing a prayer in this man will increase what he needs in his life..but I took a risk..the rest up to the Lord.
In Christ Jesus:
Partricia
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Post subject: False Teachers and False Prophets Do Deceive the E
User Location: Columbus IN, USA
Parable: Kevin_Patsy.txtthread
Read Matt. 24:24-26. The rise of false prophets and false Christs (Messiahs) able to deceive some of the very elect was prophesied by our Lord Jesus Christ. Many Christians have been ruined by the evil servants in charge of today's churches.WES on Monday, September 22 6:10 pm
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Post subject: JEWISH USURY LAW
User Location: FLORIDA
Parable: tentalents.txt
Some of you "greatly err, not knowing the scriptures". It is not unlawful for a Jew to lend money for usury in all circumstances, it is only unlawful to lend money for usury to fellow Jews. Reference Exodus 22:25 and Deuteronomy 23:20. These clearly spell out the Mosaic laws for usury. "Giving the money to the changers" would be a reference to the money changers in the Temple who would exchange foreign currency so that foreign worshippers could contribute to the Temple treasury. This was perfectly legal under Mosaic law. It started out as a legitimate enterprise but quickly became a get-rich-quick scam due to people's greed. These are the 'den or thieves' that Jesus chased out of the Temple, not because of their occupation, but because they used this occupation to rip off others.Deborah on Sunday, August 29 1:15 am
How can some of you think this is a 'reverse parable' when it clearly starts out with the words "For the kingdom of heaven is as..." ? This describes the parable clearly as a comparison to the kingdom of heaven. Which part of that is backwards?
If you want the true meaning of the parable refer to James 1:5 "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ASK OF GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. " Prayer and meditation will be answered and you will find what the parable means TO YOU. True interpretation of Scripture will not be found in the commentaries of others. Each of us has a personal, individual, and unique spiritual walk. What this passage of Scripture means to you may be entirely different from the interpretation for me. Pray and meditate and get your personal interpretation directly from the one who will give you wisdom LIBERALLY.
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Post subject: Barabas
User Location: NY
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
I was also wondering what became of Barabas after his release. I had always thought of him as a murderer, but "sedition" appears to indicate that he was a revolutionary..... and I wonder about his crimes also.NDAMBI EBENEZER on Thursday, October 4 11:48 am
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Post subject: the good Samaritan
User Location: Cameroon
Parable: goodsamaritan.txtthread
was the man attacked the robbers a Jew ?Scott on Monday, May 5 8:41 am
Why then the priest who was a Jew negleted him ?
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Post subject: the prodigal son's name
User Location: Australia
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
i think that there is no name for the prodigal son. Jesus uses it as a "symbol" im not sure if that's the word for it but basically a general implication of us, before christ. i think, don't take my word for it, but pray about it. God will know.Mark Sutton on Friday, February 4 4:42 am
hope that gives u more of a view of things
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Post subject: Stay with God
User Location: Kokomo, In
Parable: prodigalson.txt
Vs 17 states "When he came to himself". It's important to stay with God.Asphalt Prophet on Wednesday, February 9 2:30 am
When do not know how long God's mercy is going to last. You may not be
as fortunate as the Prodigal son coming to himself. You may not come to
your senses (NIV). "Stay with God"
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Post subject: Mustard tree: the unexpected answer
User Location: Pennsyvania
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
copy this url to your address bar, it not a picture but it may help :)Kevin Douglas Rosenberg on Sunday, December 28 9:40 pm
http://www.khouse.org/6640_media_serve.php?show_id=229&show_day=wednesday
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Post subject: Rich Seeker and Believers Got Condemnation
User Location: Columbus IN, USA
Parable: Kevin_Patsy.txtthread
You confuse rich believers with rich folk of this world. The Apostle James condemned favoritism in the "church" or assembly of believers. It is rich believers who were dragging their poor brethren into court, and it is the poor among believers (that is, Jewish) whom Jesus most commended.Kim on Saturday, January 29 5:50 pm
Wealth is not condemned; it is rich people of this world who pretend to be Christians and call themselves our brethren and sisters who are condemned. Jesus sent the rich young man away with His enormous demand because He could not speak favorably to his illiteracy and materialism. The need to hide the written Word in his heart was too great fot the rich young man to endure. Our command from Jesus in this Parable of the Unjust Steward is to make (more) friends with rich folk of the unrighteous mammon, all without mention of trying to keep them.
Resort to the magic of a rich sorcerer was rebuked as sin because sorcery itself was sin in Israel and because counsel for Christians should come from other believers (Psalm 1). If the request had been for money instead of magic powers, no sign of sin would be present. Please accept our need for friendship with rich folk of this world. If you try to earn all the money for ministry, sooner or later God will let it be given away unless you sin by withholding it, and poverty should show the need for the favour of the rich.
+++Kevin D. Rosenberg
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Post subject: Having trouble with this also re: older son
User Location: Ontario Canada
Parable: prodigalson.txt
Hello, I'm new here and looking for some 'peace' re: the Prodigal Son story. This has bothered me for years...tom Reilly on Wednesday, November 12 5:01 pm
It all makes sense to me except for the older son.
Why does everyone say that he didn't go into the party because it was for the younger son?
I think he didn't go into the party because he was left out in the field working and uninvited. He came upon the party by chance... then his father says, "Oh, come on in to the party."
I don't interpret him as being judgemental or ill-feeling toward having the younger brother home... I think he's feeling like his father doesn't appreciate him. And in response, the father negates his feelings as if they are invalid.
Someone higher up in this discussion pointed out that they were having this same type of problem with the story and would like to find resolution. I am also in the same position and did not see the answer. I hope I didn't miss it.
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Post subject: Peter
User Location: Ontario
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
Dear Peter,Dwayne on Tuesday, April 29 4:18 pm
Your note on the web touched me. It sounded like a cry for help from a young man struggling to stay afloat. Internet correspondence with people I don't know is not my habit but I feel a concern for you.
I am not privy to all that is in your situation.
How old are you and how long have you been a Christian?
Are both of your brothers Christians?
Does your brother who stayed home share your feelings?
On what terms was the returning brother brought into the business? Is he an employee or did he buy into the business?
Are you involved in an unequal yoke, ie. are both of your brothers believers? You could be faced with selling your interest and starting a business of your own.
How does your father see the situation? Can you appeal to him for guidance?
If you and your brother bought the business why do you still retain the irritations?
If your father has a will how can others take what is not theirs?
There is so much that I don't know but it sounds like it is time for a family conference to clear the air and redefine everybody's limits and responsibilities.
The closer we come to home the more crucial relationships become.
Have you thought of seeking advice from a wise business man in your church or community?
Above all don't become weighed down with resentment and bitterness. You need to forgive your brother and deal with him graciously. It only takes one to forgive. To forgive wrongs gives the soul buoyancy and joy.
It is a reminder that we also are forgiven by One who was offended by our sin in a way that we will never understand.
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Post subject: So Who are the tares
User Location: Georgia
Parable: wheattares.txtthread
The evil one spoken of in the begginingLeonard Layne on Thursday, November 27 2:17 pm
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Post subject: The Sandals of the Prodigal son
User Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
Sandals in the Bible are connected with the feet. Feet are connected with the WALK. The father is interested in our walk. The son was obviously barefooted. His feet/walk were exposed to stones, glass, injury of all kinds whilst unshod. When we are not walking with God, our feet, our lives are exposed to the pains which are caused by sin and transgression. When our feet, our walk is protected by the sandals we can walk in a way that is pleasing to our father. Sandals represent protection for the feet, a renewed walk, walking on a right path. See Psalm 1.ernesto on Tuesday, February 22 4:36 pm
Paul also spoke of the feet being shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. See Ephesians 6. There we can relate to the need for the feet to be prepared to walk or run with the gospel message. Without feet that are properly shodden or covered, they too will be exposed to the harshness of the road. It won't be long that we shall not be able to walk with the gospel. We need help.
We need to have feet that are properly prepared for the journey, wether the Christian life or the gospel.
How beautiful are the feet of them the publish the gospel of peace.
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Post subject: talents response to adeh mwamba
User Location: chicago
Parable: tentalents.txtthread
How are you? I believe that we have to look at the fact that a talent was worth many years wages back then. So this is something valuable that is given to each of us...."the gospel" We all have a measure of faith and talents (which is how we get this english word for an ability) to spread this word to others. If we do this and incooperate our ability with the spreading of God's word to others than we will receive rewards and the Lord will be pleased w us...Faith without works is dead. Therefore if we just internalize the gospel and keep if for ourselves (bury it) than we don't have anything at all. the nature of the gospel is to spread it to others that we may win some. He who wins souls is wise. We are all called to evangelize and to spread what we know about Jesus to others. If all you know is John 3:16, then spread that to everyone. God bless you and continue to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Jesus reigns!!!Denny Aleksuk on Wednesday, October 1 5:15 pm
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Post subject: Candles? Candlesticks?
User Location: Minneapolis
Parable: sower.txt
One of the greatest things Iâve learned about Mark chapter four is how Jesus in his analogies talks about the same thing but from different angles. Many people have thought that after the parable of the sower Jesus might have become disoriented or lost train of thought so as to start talking about candles, candlesticks and hiding things under beds. But in reality he used a slick analogy for saying the same thing that he said in parable of the sower. There is a lot of misconception about the subject matter. Some say itâs the Word some say itâs the world and some say itâs evangelism. But consider if you will that he was talking about a reaction between a catalyst and an agent. The agent being the heart of a man, and the catalyst being the Word of God. Seizing upon this idea will help understand the âmysteriesâ that lie in the parables of the kingdom.Beth on Wednesday, November 27 8:35 am
After saying that some bring forth fruit in measures, Jesus immediately says, âis a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?â When the catalyst of Gods word is fed into our hearts, we are not putting it in a place where the light will be covered up or extinguished, like under a bushel or bed. To the contrary, we are placing it in a place where the light can be emitted the most, like on a candlestick. Have you ever seen the type of candlestick that has a shiny plate behind it? I believe thatâs what heâs talking about. It is something that is designed to utilize the light to the utmost. Jesus is saying that this is what your heart is like. It is a refractor of the light of Gods word-put in. âLet your light so shineâŠâŠ.â.
He continues âfor there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested and neither was anything kept secret but that it should come abroad. Hidden where? Kept secret where? How about in the ground of the human heart? Arenât seeds covered? Arenât seeds hidden in soil? So then the secret of manifesting things is to learn how to hide them.
Consider this parable. âThe kingdom of God is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavenedâ. Might this be an example of the idea of âthere is nothing hid that shall not be manifestedâ? The woman sowed, hid, covered up yeast in a ball of dough. And before long its was manifested to those who could se it; the fact that yeast had been secretely added.
If you keep this idea of the two working together, the Word and the heart of man, I think this will help you in other parables of the kingdom.
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Post subject: 2 points
User Location: Ohio
Parable: prodigalson.txt
On the topic of the younger son hating his father. It is not said that he hates his father, and I don't believe that he does... but in asking for his inheritance... it is like wishing his father were dead. That had to hurt the father. Yet the father took him back unconditionally.Paula on Saturday, May 24 12:13 am
As for the older son, that has also been on my heart a lot. You see my sister ran away from home. When she returned I was glad and celebrated, but at the same time it was frustrating. Where was my reward for being the good daughter?? The father's response to the older's sons complaints is, "Everything I have is yours". God gives us everything! He gave us His Son and eternal life. At the same time, the father's plea to the older son to join in the celebration, is how God us to celebrate when others grow in relationship with him.
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Post subject: the non-prodigal son
User Location: Salt Lake City
Parable: prodigalson.txtthread
A case can be made for the elder brother who stayed home. His father says that "all that I have is yours". He doesn't say "all I have less what is your younger brother's". In other words, even though he rejoiced whenRicardo on Sunday, June 15 3:50 pm
the younger brother returned home, he still gave the remainder of his
inheritance to the son who never strayed. The prodigal son got nothing
but the party thrown for him.
It is this way in life. God rejoices when sinners return to the fold, but the greater gifts go to those who never strayed in the first place.
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Post subject: The FirstCommandment and the Second
User Location: Texas
Parable: prodigalson.txt
The older brother had kept the First Commandment but not the Second, i.e. love of brother. The Second Commandment is like it - like the First. Therefore, there is no 'Second', but only two 'Firsts'.Mildred Dean Windham on Saturday, July 26 2:15 am
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Post subject: the mustard tree,
User Location: Laurel, Ms
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
I heard a preacher preach on the mustard tree.Dawn on Wednesday, November 5 3:47 am
Sheep can lie under it and be healed of fleas and ticks from the sap that runs free.
The tree has white blooms with a gold center.
The goats hate this tree.
The only flower that will bloom under the tree is the sweet rose of Sharon. when it blooms the white flowers on the tree turns crimson red.
Also the tree is battered and beaten in the winter time, the leaves fall off and in three days it will bloom agasin.
This was the pretiest story i've ever heard and want to know if there is some way I an get a copy os the tree. and the story, or legend of the mustard tree.
It is over twenty feet tall and huge around.
Thanks for your time, and may God bless you.
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Post subject: The Fig Tree
User Location: Alabama
Parable: barrenfigtree.txt
The fig tree without fruit represents our fruitless life. The leaves represent the word of God. You see we can have a lot of word in us but not produce fruit. The word of God in us has to be watered, birth in our spirit and then preached to the people. When the Lord told the man that he was going to cut the tree down and the man told the Lord no give me a year I will dig it up and fertilize it this reminded me of how Jesus interceeds on our behalf. Even Moses interceeded for the people of Israel when they were worshipping the golden calf. Even though this was a tree the man loved that tree and he knew that if he was given the chance to dig up the ground and fertilize it there would be fruit the following year. This is the same love the Lord has for us he always gives us a second chancepatsy on Sunday, January 11 1:43 pm
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Post subject: Re: Again I Knock!
User Location: SC
Parable: Kevin_Patsy.txtthread
You said I should read you last posting, well I did and it's more of the same nonsense! I will tell you, Instead of knocking, (11Corin-13-5) You need to examine yourself, and be sure whether Christ Jesus is in you, except you be Reprobate! You will find no one, who loves My Lord Jesus Christ, more then I do, I have been homeless, I have gone without my daily needs, I am disabled, I have been cold, hungry and without proper clothing, but no matter what state I have been in, or may be in, He has given me Riches according to His Glory!carol murray on Monday, July 6 6:12 am
(Ephesians-3-16) He has granted me, to be strengthened with might, by His Spirit in my inner soul, that I am comfortable, no matter what condition I find myself in!
My only concern is for this lost deceived world, that He gave His Life for, that the world might receive the knowledge of Him, that they might be saved! If you don't love the Lost, enough to give your life that they might be saved, you need to find another way to make the almighty dollar!
That's the very problem with today's religious leaders, their first love is like your, their own self gain, the Riches of the World, the almighty dollar!
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Post subject: Picture of mustard tree
User Location: El Paso, TX
Parable: mustardseed.txtthread
Did anyone find a picture of a full grown mustard tree? I also need this for my Sunday School class next week. Any ideas? Thank you, cjmJohn on Saturday, November 16 4:20 pm
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Post subject: The brother of the Prodigal Son
User Location: Illinois
Parable: prodigalson.txt
To Lucius,
The Holy Spirit has caused me to consider the brother who stayed home with the Father. For years I thought the brother's indignation was justified. Jesus was speaking to the Pharasees when teaching this parable. So I must consider am I like the Pharasees? If I take the side of the brother who stayed home then I do not have a tender heart for the lost. Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves. If the brother cannot even love his brother and celebrate his return how can he love his neighbor.
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