Parable #22 — Luke 17:7-10 Master and Servant Jesus often used the master-servant relationship in His parables to teach His disciples important principles concerning their service to God..here are a few. a. Illustrating the importance of forgiveness in …“The Unmerciful Servant” the parable we’ll be doing after this… Matthew 18:21-35 b. Condemning the mercenary spirit […]

Parable #22 — Luke 17:7-10 Master and Servant Jesus often used the master-servant relationship in His parables to teach His disciples important principles concerning their service to God..here are a few. a. Illustrating the importance of forgiveness in …“The Unmerciful Servant” the parable we’ll be doing after this… Matthew 18:21-35 b. Condemning the mercenary spirit […]

Three Kingdom of Heaven Parables (#13-#15) Parable #13 — Mark 4:26-29 — The Growing Seed One of the possible practical reasons that Jesus used parables is that parables teach a concept or idea by using word pictures. …By using concepts and word pictures, the message is not as readily lost to changes in word usage, […]

Parable #38 – Matthew21:28–32…The Two Sons?”…Just as with all the previous Parable that Jesus taught the key interpretive point in understanding the Parable of the Two Sons comes in defining to whom Jesus is speaking. For that we need to look at the overall context of this passage. Matthew chapter 21 begins with Jesus’ triumphal […]

Parable #40 – Matthew 22:1-14…The Parable of the Wedding Feast?”… Jesus told the Parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14. This parable is similar in some ways to the Parable #27 of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:15-24), but the occasion is different, and it has some important distinctions(and much harsher) What do you remember about the parable […]

Parable #41 — Matthew 24:32-35 Signs From a Fig Tree Three Illustrative Parables…It is evident that the Lord now finished, for the most part, the predictive part of his conversation. Except for a few details concerning the final scene of the nations, there are no new events described in the rest of his message. But […]

  Parable #42 — Matthew 24:45-51 — Wise and Wicked Servants   45 “A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. 46 If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. 47 I tell you […]