How to Read Parables | New Testament | Matthew 13

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Are parables just biblical fairytales used to teach a lesson? Why did Jesus speak in parables instead of speaking directly? How can you better understand parables? What is the purpose of them? In today's episode, Jensen talks through some of the parables in Matthew 13 and explains how to read them. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in 2023. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Matthew 13

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:12.0	Parables. You've probably heard one or two or all of the
0:17.8	parables of Jesus at one point or another. Because for a large portion of Jesus' ministry, he only spoke in parables to the large crowds he taught.
0:27.0	Now Jesus isn't the only teacher to speak in parables.
0:31.0	Think of Aesop's fables, a collection of children's stories that have a hidden moral teaching.
0:36.0	We're familiar with the idea of using stories to teach a lesson,
0:40.0	and so when we come to Jesus' parables in the Bible, we often read them the same way.
0:45.6	We sit down with our parables and ask, what does this parable teach me about how I should live
0:50.8	my life?
0:52.4	What moral nugget can I get out of it? The only problem is that
0:57.3	this wasn't the way Jesus primarily used parables. In his book, simply Jesus, N.D. Wright says this about parables.
1:07.1	As part of his campaign, Jesus told stories.
1:10.6	They were, for the most part, not simply illustrations, that is preacher's tricks to decorate
1:15.6	an abstract thought or complicated teaching.
1:18.8	If anything, they were the opposite.
1:21.0	Jesus' stories are designed to tease to clothe the shocking and revolutionary
1:25.8	message about God's kingdom in Garb that would leave the listeners wondering,
1:31.2	trying to think it out. They were stories that eventually
1:35.1	caused Israel's leaders to decode his rich message in such a way as to frame a
1:40.0	charge against him, either of blasphemy, sedition, or leading the people astray.
1:46.8	Whatever the parables are, they are not, as children are sometimes taught in Sunday school, earthly stories with heavenly meaning.
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