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Parable
parabole (par-ab-ol-ay')a similitude ("parable"), i.e.
(symbol.) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a
moral)
• KJV - comparison, figure, parable, proverb
• Comparison: the old and the new garment
• Occision:swoer,mustard seed
• Stories: the good smarten, the rich and Lazarus
• The Pharisee and the tax collector
• The Coptic church read this gospel at the 1st & 2nd
Sundays of month of hator before the Nativity fasting to
prepare us to receive the Word of God
Take heed what you hear
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Isa 55:3
3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you —
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10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Hearing and seeing
• Isa 6:9-10
• 9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people:
• 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
• Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
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10 "Make the heart of this people dull,
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed."
The Road
• Mark 8:27
• Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea
Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them,
"Who do men say that I am?"
• Mark 8:31-33
• And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer
many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke
this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke
Him. 33 But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples,
He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not
mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
The stony ground
• Mark 14:49-52
• 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not
seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."
• 50 Then they all forsook Him and fled.
• 51 A Young Man Flees Naked
• Now a certain young man followed Him, having a linen cloth thrown
around his naked body. And the young men laid hold of him, 52 and
he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.
Thorns
• Mark 10:17-23
• Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and
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asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
18 So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is,
God. 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,'
'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and
your mother.'"
20 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my
youth."
21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go
your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."
22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great
possessions.
23 With God All Things Are Possible
Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who
have riches to enter the kingdom of God!
Blessed you
• Luke 10:21-24
• In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "I thank You,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so,
Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. 22 All things have been
delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is
except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the
one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."
• 23 Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, "Blessed are
the eyes which see the things you see; 24 for I tell you that many
prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not
seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it."
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Three failed:
Satan snatches the word
It withered because there is no root
It is choked and dies because earthly cares
the other hand :
It yield 30
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Deut 30:19
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life,
that both you and your descendants may live;
The wayside
• The wayside:
• Stubbornness
• Bride
• Neglect
• Laziness
• Unfaithful
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Cares:
through the idea of distraction); solicitude
Riches :ploutos (ploo'-tos);
from the base of NT:4130; wealth (as fulness),
i.e. (literally) money, possessions, or
(figuratively) abundance, richness, (specifically)
valuable bestowment
Lust:
epithumia (ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah); from NT:1937;
a longing (especially for what is forbidden):
Stony heart
• Heb 4:2
• 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which
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they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it
Heb 4:7
• "Today, if you will hear His voice,
• Do not harden your hearts."
• Heb 4:11-12
• Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same
example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart
Lukewarm
• Rev 3:14-18
• "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,
• 'These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the
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creation of God: 15 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could
wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say,'I am rich, have
become wealthy, and have need of nothing' — and do not know that you are
wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked — 18 I counsel you to buy from Me
gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be
clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your
eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
1 Tim 6:8-10
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the
love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith
in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
St.Mary
• 1 Peter 1:23
• 23 having been born again, not of corruptible
seed but incorruptible, through the word of God
which lives and abides forever
The spiritual ear
• 2 Tim 2:6-7
• 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give
you understanding in all things.