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Welcome...
Introduce self...
Pray...
Heavenly Father, thank you for this morning and thank you for your church.
You are our good shepherd, the perfect protector and for that we worship you this morning.
With you as our shepherd and God we lack nothing; we confess that in you we have everything we need.
You are my rest, Lord.
Because of your work Jesus, I have ceased from rest.
You give me true and living water to drink.
You restore my entire person, even my deepest parts.
I pray for those in our church and in our community who are not finding rest; for those who are facing the consequences of a broken world and are struggling to survive.
I pray that you would comfort them by your Holy Spirit and lead them to your perfect peace.
Lead us Lord to live righteous lives that are worthy of the gospel, not for our glory but for your fame and glory through all the earth.
Be with me as I teach your word and be with the congregation as they hear from not only me, but the master teacher.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
Starting a series on the parables.
Special because we are going to see lots of preachers come through, not just me.
My heart in wanting to go through the parables is to hear the teaching of Jesus as directly as possible.
That we would be his disciples.
Misconception:
Parables are stories, people connect with stories, Jesus used parables to connect with people.
FALSE.
Purpose of the parables
The purpose of the parables was to execute judgement on hard hearts while still revealing truth to soft hearts.
Why has it not been given?
Because God is mean?
To the soft heart (the one who has) more (understanding, revelation) will be given
The the hard heart ( the one who has not), what revelation of God they had will be taken away (Think Pharisees)
God “grants”
Our actions matter, even though God is decisive in his work.
God grants, our heart changes as well as our will.
Granted to believe
Granted to suffer
We can have a tendency to “prickle” at these sorts of statements as if they invade the human will.
They do not.
The problem is that human wills are inherently broken and bent against God.
Matthew 13:1–3 (ESV)
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down.
And the whole crowd stood on the beach.
And he told them many things in parables, saying...
That same day...
What day?
This was a turning point for the entire ministry of Jesus.
From this day on, whenever Jesus spoke in public, he spoke in parables.
Up to this point, Jesus has preached from the old testament, has taught expositionally, theologically.
Background:
Jesus had a contentious relationship with the religious leaders of the day, particularly surrounding the sabbath.
The sabbath was intended to be a ceasing from work.
Plain and simple.
More than that, the sabbath was intended to bring freedom and rest and delight.
The religious leaders took the sabbath and did the exact opposite.
They added so many rules and regulations surrounding the sabbath (that God never commanded) that it was no longer freeing and restful, but burdensome and enslaving.
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“By Jesus’ time, the Sabbath is the most dreaded day of the week.
Every way you could cut it, it is a pain.
It is not a day off, but rather a day of all kinds of ridiculous encumbrances and burdens… In fact, the whole Judaistic self-righteous legalistic system found its symbol in the sabbath.”
John MacArthur
Jesus made it a habit to break their version of the sabbath.
We see an instance of this if we turn back one chapter to Matthew 12.
This is the beginning of “THAT DAY”
“Sabbath Day’s Walk” = 2000 cubits, which was a little over 1/2 mile
“Pluck heads of grain” = harvest, this was forbidden according to the Pharisees
“Not lawful” = according to their law, not God’s law
Jesus goes on to tell the story of David eating the bread of the Presence out of the temple, that David’s huger was given more priority over the strict interpretation of the rule.
Then verse 7:
This really makes them angry.
Looking for more accusations...
They wanted to destroy him.
Get rid of him.
Kill him.
They were mad that Jesus kept poking holes in their sabbath rules.
Same day, this story goes on:
We are 2 years into the ministry of Jesus and the conclusion of the Pharisees is that Jesus is operating by the power of Satan..
If that’s your conclusion after having such a clear and present revelation of the Son of God, you’re hopeless.
This is why verse 31 says:
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“When you blaspheme the Holy Spirit by saying that which He has done through the Son of God is from hell, you’re beyond the point of salvation.”
John MacArthur
We’ve got this amazing day with glorious displays of God’s power, and the Pharisees conclude that this is all done under the authority of Satan.
Why?
Because only Satan would make such an attack on our righteousness, on our rules.
We return to Matthew 13.
Then he quotes Isaiah:
If you believe in Jesus, it has been granted to you.
You are blessed.
You see the truth and you are set free.
God’s people throughout history greatly desired to know and see what you see church.
An element of mercy here.
Even in this execution of judgement, God showed mercy by cutting them off due to their hardness of heart.
The Bible gives clear evidence that there will be varying degrees of eternal reward and varying degrees of eternal punishment.
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The Parable of the Sower
That same day… we now have the context for this parable.
The seed is the gospel.
The path is hard hearts that are not receptive to the seed.
It is not the fault of the seed or the sower.
The seed draws a person in, it even starts to grow, but there is no depth to that growth, so as soon as things get hard this person falls away and proves they were never united to Christ.
The difference in these results was not in the seed but in the soil on which the seed fell.
True believers, true disciples, true followers of Christ, will produce fruit.
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