Posted: Dec 30, 07 4:20am
Dear Group, starting January 1, 2008 I will present a daily study I wrote many years ago. It will be presented over the course of 49 days. Join in at your liesure.
A parable is a simple story designed to illustrate a spiritual and moral truth. Our Savior chose to teach by using parables, in fact there is a total of 49 different parables illustrated by Him in the New Testament.
Mark 4:2 says, “He [Jesus] taught them many things by parables,” and Luke 8:10 infers that He spoke to His insiders and inner circle of believers to keep the hardened of heart from understanding the mysteries of God. “He [Jesus] said, ‘The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "`though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.' “ (Lk. 8:10)
Jesus calls His teachings the secrets of the Kingdom of God. Would you like to learn and understand these secret things?
