Welcome, back.
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We're reviewing
Mathew, Chapter 13.
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We're exploring,
how Jesus used parables.
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The Disciples
ask Him in verse 10.
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"Why do you speak in parables?"
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Well, we've just seen
that Jesus used parables.
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Because, that you
could take everyday things
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and use them as windows
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into spiritual
truth and realities.
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I think, if Jesus
was here today, Ranko--
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He could be talking about
computers and the internet
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and the things of our
lives today, wouldn't He?
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You just
mentioned few moments ago,
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what were the illustrations
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that Jesus would use
today if He is present with us?
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The things of our world.
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He would not
talk to young people
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about sowing the seed
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and that He would
talk about computers.
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There aren't too many
farmers anymore. Yeah.
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He would talk about
things in their world.
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Now, we got an
idea what a parable is
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and why He used them.
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How should we look at them?
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I would like to
remind the readers
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that for many centuries
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the Christian church going
through the medieval period,
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they had a very
strange approach to the Bible
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that we call the
allegorical approach.
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Where nothing in
the Bible was real,
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nothing was historical,
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everything had the
some symbolic meaning.
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Always, you know,
represent something
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we call it the
allegorical approach.
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So you wouldn't
take the literal meaning
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or the clear meaning. Nothing.
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You made an allegory attempt.
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You know, you just
use your imagination
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and always some
details that mean something
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according to your opinion.
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It's actually the reformation
of the sixteenth century.
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That they appointed to
that wrongdoing of the church.
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And they restored the literal
interpretation of the Bible.
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Say, let's go and try to
see what the text really say
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and try to apply the
meaning of that text.
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It's the reformation
really that put to the Bible
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into the hands of people
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and made that right
interpretation of the Bible.
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However, even
after the reformation
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the allegorical
interpretation of the parables,
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somehow has been
retained among the Christians.
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What is
allegoric interpretation?
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You take a parable of Jesus
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and you dissect it into details
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and each detail means something.
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We don't say that
method it's wrong,
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you know, parables of Jesus.
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Sometimes Jesus
evidently intended
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some of those parables to
be understood allegorically.
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Like, we would see the parable
of the Sower and the Seed.
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And you see,
Jesus provided the key
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and He provided interpretation
of all those details.
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But, so many times
they see how something
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Christians are
taking own parable of Jesus
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trying each detail to
make, to make sense of that.
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They're not sure
that Jesus intended it.
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Now, do you know
when kids were little
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and your kid asked you,
you know, dad can I smoke.
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If you say to your child no,
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then somehow you provoke
reaction with him or her.
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But you say to
your child, you know,
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I had my uncle
he was smoking a lot
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and one day he got
cancer and he died.
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You do see, what
happens to the people who smoke?
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Oh, you didn't try to take
uncle etcetera allegorically
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that you wanted to
make one point to your child
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that he understand
that smoking damages health.
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That it's not what good for us.
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So, we can
conclude that generally
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the parables have
one central point. Yes.
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And if there is more,
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usually the
scripture gives us the key.
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Jesus gives--Jesus has
used that way. All right.
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Just I would like to
turn attention to the viewers
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as that at least
few kind of parables
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that we find that Jesus thought.
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One is so called
similar or similitude.
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Those parables are recognized
by the word alike or as.
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You know, the kingdom
of God is alike. All right.
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So, Jesus tried to illustrate.
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Okay, the truth
of the kingdom of God
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by using that illustration
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sometimes that illustration
can have more than one meaning.
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But Jesus provided
hint, Jesus gave the hint
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and Jesus told us
how to interpret it.
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There are some parables
that are simply story parables.
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You know, you use a story,
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the story can be
product of imagination
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but it can be a really
rooted in the real life,
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something that happened.
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But, we've to keep in mind
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when we read
those kinds of parables
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they are stories never intended
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by Jesus to be
interpret literally.
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This is sought from
the gospel of Mathew.
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Everybody knows about story,
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parable of the
rich man and Lazarus.
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Unfortunately many Christians
they take that parable
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in order to show
how Jesus thought
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what happened to the presentment
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He went there to--So,
Jesus in that story says
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that a rich man dies
and the poor man dies. Yes.
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And they go to different places
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heaven and hell
and so you're saying,
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it's not right for us
interpret that literally.
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It's a story.
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It's a story to talk
about response to the gospel.
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Glenn, can I use
one illustration,
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I hope that you're
as will side with me.
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You know, sometimes I
see people they say you know,
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"Let me tell you
story, a person died.
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He came to the gate of paradise
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and Saint Peter came out."
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Everybody knows that
there is no Saint Peter
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there at the gate
of paradise etcetera.
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But since people
are using those stories,
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you're using that story
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sometimes you just see pastors
using as for their sermons.
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But they use the story
sometimes to make joke,
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sometimes to
illustrate something
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and to do it in a funny way.
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But you never, intended
that to be understood literally.
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And the humor is
conveying the point. Sure.
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All right we got that. Okay.
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Another kind is example parable.
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You don't want that
parable to be dissected
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and each detail
to be interpreted.
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You tell the
parable and then Jesus,
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like in the
parable of Good Samaritan.
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He said, "Who was His neighbor?
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He said, He's the one.
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Jesus said, "Go and
you'll do likewise."
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Follow the example
of that Samaritan. Okay.
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There is nothing wrong
to use that parable and say,
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you see, as Good
Samaritan was helping that man.
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So, Jesus came down
to the earth to help us.
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But you see you are doing
something else to illustrate
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but not to explain what
the parable originally meant,
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allegorical meant do you know.
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Okay, and the last one
Jesus sometimes use allegory
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like the sower and
seed or tears and good seed.
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So when we
interpret the parables,
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we ask ourself a question,
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what kind of parables is this?
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That Jesus--And the
text gives us the clues.
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Oh, normally. Okay. Can we
take one particular parable?
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Let's do that, I'm
been itching to get to one,
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which one would
you like to go to?
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I would like to go
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since we don't
have too much time.
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I would like us to
take the Sower and Seed.
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So, Glenn if
you want to read it,
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okay, versus 1 up
to 9, Chapter 13. Okay.
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By the way we know
that Mathew, Chapter 13
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contains the greatest collection
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of the parables of Jesus.
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Seven with them
and all those parables
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are about the kingdom of heaven.
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I'll pick here with verse 3,
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Then He spoke many things
to them in parable saying.
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"Behold the
sower went out to sow
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and he sows some
seed fell by the wayside.
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The birds came
and devoured them.
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Someone fell on stony places
where did not have much earth.
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And they immediately sprang
up because they had no depths.
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But when the sun was
up and they were scorched
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and because they had no
root they withered away.
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And some fell among the thorns.
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The thorns sprang
up and choke some them.
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But others fell
on the good ground
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and yielded a crop.
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Some hundred folds,
some sixty some thirty,
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he who has ears to
hear let him hear."
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Okay. Now Jesus
provided explanation.
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Can we go from verse 18 to 23?
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"Therefore hear the
parable of the sower,
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when anyone hears
the word of the kingdom,
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and does not understand
it, then the wicked one comes
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and snatches away
what was sown in his heart.
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This is he who
received seed by the wayside."
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Can I stop you here for a while?
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Keep in mind that
this parable follows
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the situation with the Pharisees
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that we saw in
the previous Chapter.
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So who are those people
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that the word of God was
not understood completely
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evidently the Pharisees
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that the word of Jesus did
not have any effect on them.
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So, there is
first kind of people,
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The gospel is preached,
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the word of Jesus
are the rector to them.
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But there is no any effect.
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There is no any
reaction to that.
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All right. So, next one.
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Different kinds of
responses to gospel. Yes.
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All right then verse
20, Mathew Chapter 13,
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"But he who received
the seed on stony places,
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this is he who hears the word
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and immediately
receives it with joy."
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So we've another
kind what are the people.
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Okay, they receive they
said amen. They accept it.
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And more to
response. But verse 21.
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"Yet he has no root in himself,
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but endures only for a while.
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For when tribulation
or persecution arises
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from the word,
immediately he stumbles."
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As they joyfully accept it.
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They regretfully abominate
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and they go back
to the previous life.
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Let's go the next one.
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"Now he who received
seed among the thorns
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is he who receives the word,
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and the cares of this world
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and the deceitfulness
of riches choke the word,
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and he becomes unfruitful."
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Okay. So, the
meaning is very, very clear.
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People who different reason
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finally they go back
to the previous condition.
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But--"But he who received seed
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on the good ground
is he who received,
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who hears the word
and understands it,
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who indeed bears fruit and
produces some a hundredfold,
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some sixty, some thirty."
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Glenn, I would like
to suggest something.
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We have a four
kind of soils here.
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And we have the
consequences of that
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Jesus made very
clear application.
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Jesus made that
really allegorical intension
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was here in the parable.
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But, Glenn, there
is one thing is here
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that usually when we
deal with this parable,
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we never pay attention to that.
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And it's the last verse actually
it's the last statement.
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All right. Let's go back to it.
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Really it tell us
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about the
purpose of this parable.
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It says, "The one on
whom the seed was sown
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on the good soil, as good soil.
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This is the man who
hears the word understand it.
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Who indeed bears the fruit
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and now brings
forth some hundredfold.
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Some of the soil
brings sixty some thirty.
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Glenn this comes as surprise
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you expect that good soil
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will altogether
produce one hundred percent.
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But actually Jesus is
saying something different
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why some soil thirty.
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Why some soil sixty.
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But not everybody
want hundred percent.
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Evidently there is a
hope for that rocky soil,
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soil with a thorn.
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God can clean.
God can remove rocks.
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God can clean the soil.
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But there are consequences
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that soil will never
produce one hundred percent.
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And I think sure what we're
catching what you're saying.
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You're suggesting that
there may be differences
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in our bearing
fruit or productivity.
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Yes. Because of
things in our lives.
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Yes, you know I would
like to tell the readers
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maybe some of you for a longtime
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you're apart from God.
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And you had
different habits in your life.
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You lived your life on your own.
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But you accepted the gospel
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but evidently there are traces
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of the consequences
on your personal life.
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I just want to tell you
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even though you'll
never have one hundred percent
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or may be even sixty percent
maybe only thirty percent.
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But you've to know
that this is the result
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of the work of the
Holy Spirit in your life.
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This parable is not about you.
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It's about God and what He
can do for you in your life.
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It's important if you
feel a rock in life's,
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thorns in your life
that you come back to God.
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God can clean everything.
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God can renew you.
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God can make you a new person
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and that is the fruit
you'll bear in His glory.
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