Parable

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Parable

• parabole (par-ab-ol-ay')a similitude
  ("parable"), i.e. (symbol.) fictitious narrative
  (of common life conveying a moral)
• KJV - comparison, figure, parable, proverb
• Comparison the old and the new garment
• Occisionswoer,mustard seed
• Stories the good smarten, the rich and Lazarus
• The Pharisee and the tax collector
• The Coptic church read this gospel at the 1st
  2nd Sundays of month of hator before the
  Nativity fasting to prepare us to receive the
  Word of God

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Take heed what you hear

• Isa 553
• 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
• Hear, and your soul shall live
• And I will make an everlasting covenant with you
  
• 10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from
  heaven,
• And do not return there,
• But water the earth,
• And make it bring forth and bud,
• That it may give seed to the sower
• And bread to the eater,
• 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My
  mouth
• It shall not return to Me void,
• But it shall accomplish what I please,
• And it shall prosper in the thing for which I
  sent it.

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Hearing and seeing

• Isa 69-10
• 9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people
• 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand
• Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
• 10 "Make the heart of this people dull,
• And their ears heavy,
• And shut their eyes
• Lest they see with their eyes,
• And hear with their ears,
• And understand with their heart,
• And return and be healed."

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The Road

• Mark 827
• Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns
  of Caesarea Philippi and on the road He asked
  His disciples, saying to them, "Who do men say
  that I am?"
• Mark 831-33
• And He began to teach them that the Son of Man
  must suffer many things, and be rejected by the
  elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
  killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He
  spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside
  and began to rebuke Him. 33 But when He had
  turned around and looked at His disciples, He
  rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For
  you are not mindful of the things of God, but the
  things of men."

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The stony ground

• Mark 1449-52
• 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching,
  and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must
  be fulfilled."
• 50 Then they all forsook Him and fled.
• 51 A Young Man Flees Naked
• Now a certain young man followed Him, having a
  linen cloth thrown around his naked body. And the
  young men laid hold of him, 52 and he left the
  linen cloth and fled from them naked.

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Thorns

• Mark 1017-23
• Now as He was going out on the road, one came
  running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good
  Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit
  eternal life?"
• 18 So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me
  good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19
  You know the commandments 'Do not commit
  adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do
  not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor
  your father and your mother.'"
• 20 And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all
  these things I have kept from my youth."
• 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and
  said to him, "One thing you lack Go your way,
  sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and
  you will have treasure in heaven and come, take
  up the cross, and follow Me."
• 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away
  sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
• 23 With God All Things Are Possible
• Then Jesus looked around and said to His
  disciples, "How hard it is for those who have
  riches to enter the kingdom of God!

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Blessed you

• Luke 1021-24
• In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and
  said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and
  earth, that You have hidden these things from the
  wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even
  so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.
  22 All things have been delivered to Me by My
  Father, and no one knows who the Son is except
  the Father, and who the Father is except the Son,
  and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."
  
• 23 Then He turned to His disciples and said
  privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the
  things you see 24 for I tell you that many
  prophets and kings have desired to see what you
  see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you
  hear, and have not heard it."

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3 failed vs. 3 success

• Three failed
• Satan snatches the word
• It withered because there is no root
• It is choked and dies because earthly cares
• On the other hand
• It yield 30
• 60
• 100
• Deut 3019
• 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today
  against you, that I have set before you life and
  death, blessing and cursing therefore choose
  life, that both you and your descendants may
  live

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The wayside

• The wayside
• Stubbornness
• Bride
• Neglect
• Laziness
• Unfaithful

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Thorns

• Cares
• through the idea of distraction) solicitude
• Riches ploutos (ploo'-tos)
• from the base of NT4130 wealth (as fulness),
  i.e. (literally) money, possessions, or
  (figuratively) abundance, richness,
  (specifically) valuable bestowment
• Lust
• epithumia (ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah) from NT1937 a
  longing (especially for what is forbidden)

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Stony heart

• Heb 42
• 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as
  well as to them but the word which they heard
  did not profit them, not being mixed with faith
  in those who heard it
• Heb 47
• "Today, if you will hear His voice,
• Do not harden your hearts."
• Heb 411-12
• Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest,
  lest anyone fall according to the same example of
  disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living
  and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
  sword, piercing even to the division of soul and
  spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
  discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
  heart

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Lukewarm

• Rev 314-18
• "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans
  write,
• 'These things says the Amen, the Faithful and
  True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of
  God 15 "I know your works, that you are neither
  cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
  16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither
  cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
  17 Because you say,'I am rich, have become
  wealthy, and have need of nothing' and do not
  know that you are wretched, miserable, poor,
  blind, and naked 18 I counsel you to buy from
  Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be
  rich and white garments, that you may be
  clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not
  be revealed and anoint your eyes with eye salve,
  that you may see.
• 1 Tim 68-10
• 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into
  temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
  harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and
  perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of
  all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed
  from the faith in their greediness, and pierced
  themselves through with many sorrows.

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St.Mary

• 1 Peter 123
• 23 having been born again, not of corruptible
  seed but incorruptible, through the word of God
  which lives and abides forever
• The spiritual ear
• 2 Tim 26-7
• 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you
  understanding in all things.