Why Jesus’s Parables Are Purposefully Offensive

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Whether people felt outraged or liberated, Jesus’s teaching always exposed hearts, confronted assumptions, and called people to true discipleship. Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller survey Jesus’s teachings and parables and why they are just as shocking today as they were in the first century.

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0:35.5	I ask Chat GBT to summarize the Good Samaritan and the tone and theology of Michael Horton.
0:41.7	And it says Jesus tells this parable not just to encourage kindness, but to expose our inability to fulfill the law's demands, just like the priest and Levite who failed to love their neighbor.
0:50.9	The Good Samaritan, the unexpected hero, reflects the radical mercy of Christ who rescue sinners when they are helpless and pays the cost for their neighbor. The Good Samaritan, the unexpected hero, reflects the radical mercy of Christ
0:55.1	who rescue sinners when they are helpless and pays the cost for their restoration, rather than
0:59.7	being merely a moral lesson this parable, and ultimately drives us to see that Jesus is the true
1:04.6	Good Samaritan who fulfills the law on our behalf. Wow. You just have to tell it what to say.
1:10.3	That's better than anything I wrote.
1:23.4	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.
1:26.7	This is White Horse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture.
1:46.4	What is the kingdom of God?
1:49.5	In the Old Testament, of course, God's kingdom is Israel.
1:55.4	As creator, provider, and judge, Yahweh is sovereign over the whole world, but he's made the land of Israel his footstool.
1:58.0	Here, the transcendent God of majesty condescended to human finitude and made himself
2:03.9	accessible in mercy to the people he chose. But Israel didn't want God for its king. Instead, it
2:11.2	wanted a king like the nations, and it got exactly that. After King David, things went downhill
2:16.7	fast, and the people broke the covenant and were sent into exile.
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