By the time you get to where we are with the full New Testament and the amazing manifest

revelation of all that salvation is through the epistles and the Book of Acts and everything

we have, we have a rich understanding of the parables.

The parables themselves convey truth but their purpose was as a judgment on

unbeliever. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. A New York

family looking to spruce up their first home bought a vase at a garage sale

for three3.

To their surprise, it was actually a treasure from the Ming Dynasty valued at over $2 million.

While that family was amazingly blessed, the previous owner, well he clearly and tragically

missed the true worth of that vase.

And the truth is many people make a similar mistake.

They miss the abundance of spiritual treasure that's found in the parables of Jesus.

Don't be one of them.

Take an in-depth look at these jewels of Christ's teaching with John MacArthur in his series on

grace to you titled Stories with Purpose. And now here's today's lesson.

Talking about the parables is really important.

It actually is a parable that Jesus told during the middle of his passion week that ignited the final fire or it could say

pour gasoline on the fire. Chapter 11 of John ends with the leaders of Israel wanting to seize him.

And you move into the middle of the week, and he tells a parable recorded in Mark 12,

and the end of that parable says the same thing.

They were looking for a way to seize him.

Why parables? Why on that day did Jesus shift to parables?

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