Luke's Gospel chapter 18. We come to another passage of scripture that is unique to the gospel of Luke.

I've mentioned to you that much of what Luke writes in his gospel between about chapters 9 through 19 is unique to his gospel, not found in Matthew, Mark, or John.

This is one of the stories we're about to read in the first eight verses of chapter 18 that is found only here in the gospel of Luke.

And it is a parable.

It is a parable that Jesus teaches.

For those of you who are new to kind of biblical terminology, a parable is basically an illustration drawn from everyday life to communicate a deeper

spiritual or moral truth.

And Jesus often employed this tool of communication.

He would use a parable to teach, to help his hearers, you know, stretch in their understanding of something that was

deeper.

And so what we're about to read here is a parable.

A lot of times when Jesus would teach a parable, he would teach it intentionally with the

idea of causing people to have to think more intently and to read between the lines.

Now, what I love about this particular parable is that before Jesus teaches it, Luke

gives us the point of the parable, the purpose of the parable, right at the beginning,

which I like, because I'm the guy that had trouble in school with reading comprehension,

like, because my mind wanders. So, like, I'm reading something. I trouble in school with reading comprehension like because my

mind wanders. So like I'm reading something. I have to read it and reread it and read it again

because I'm off in other places in my head. I'm more of an auditory learner. So for me, I love

the way that Luke does this because if you look in your Bibles here at chapter 18 verse one,

Luke says, then he, that's Jesus,

spoke a parable to them.

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