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Thanks for listening and enjoy. I'm Taylor and I'm Tyler. This is Scripture Central's Come Follow Me Insights. This week, Matthew 13, Luke 8, and Luke 13.

On our first episode we're going to cover is Matthew 13. And to begin, let's play a little

game of Pictionary. I'm going to draw something on the board and as soon as you can figure out what it is,

you can just say it out loud from wherever

you're watching.

There you go.

Anybody know what this is?

This is a pair of bowls, because today's lesson is on the parables.

So a little play on words here. This isn't just to be silly, it's actually instructive,

because if you look in the Bible dictionary, what a parable

is is a setting side by side. Two things. What you put into the one bowl is something

concrete, something tangible, something knowable, something very familiar to the audience. What goes

side by side in the other bowl is something that's more abstract, something

theoretical, something principle-based, some idea associated with the gospel of Jesus Christ that maybe

is harder to grasp with normal senses. And so by setting them side by side, you can teach

incredible truths about these really lofty ideals and principles of the gospel, so they're

a little more understandable. In fact, if you go to Matthew 13, you're going to get eight

parables, and after he told the first parable, which will come back to it, because it's a significant

one, then the disciples in verse 10, it says, they came

and said unto him, why speakest thou unto them in parables? Why don't you just speak plainly?

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