Parable of the Sower Matt 13: 18-23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Parable of the Sower Jesus interpreted the parable of the sower in Matt 13:18-23.  Today, we will examine the response of some of the people to whom Jesus preached the word of God to see illustrations of this parable. In...

This sermon from the parable of the husbandmen in the vineyard is a great encouragement for us to bring forth fruit to the Lord from his vineyard.  We’ll start this sermon with an explanation of the details in the parable. The householder is God.  The vineyard is the Kingdom of...

Asaph wrote Ps 78 to recount God’s dealings with Israel in the Exodus, the wilderness journey, and their establishment in the land of Canaan.  However, he wrote that this Psalm is a parable, Ps 78:2.  That’s because this history doctrinally applies to the Second Advent of Jesus.  That’s the purpose...

Lk 16 19-31 A Literal Hell CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Lk 16:19-31 is a passage that gives the reader a lot of information about a literal Hell.  For this reason that many pastors and teachers teach that the passage is a parable.  Many of them don’t believe in a literal hell....

Eat My Flesh Jn. 6: 51-62 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Jesus taught, he often related what he was teaching to the situation at hand.  He used a proximate example as an illustration. The example was not literal, but typified a spiritual truth.  For instance, in Mk 1:16-18, when he saw...

Parable of the Pounds Luke 19 11-12. CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Jesus used this parable of the pounds to preach a truth about his coming kingdom and about what you and I should be doing with our time while we are here on this earth. The context of this parable is...

The Parable of the Shepherd John 10:1-6 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Jesus gave the Pharisees this parable they did not understand it (John 9:22, 9:34). A parable simply uses things from everyday life to demonstrate a spiritual truth and make it much easier to understand. Sometimes Jesus used parables to...

The parable of the talents concerns how the Lord Jesus Christ is going to determine which of his Jewish servants will reign with him during the millennium and to what extent they will reign. To best understand this parable we should simply handle it verse by verse and explain it...

This is a parable of the kingdom of heaven dealing with things at the end 2. certain king – God a. marriage for his son – Rev 12:7-9; Matt 25:1-13 3. servants – Rev 11:18; Rev 7:3 to call them a. bidden – invited – this was the Jews (Rom...

This parable illustrates the transfer of the kingdom of God from Israel to the Gentiles. Notice in verse 43 that the parable is about the kingdom of God (the spiritual kingdom which we enter by the new birth) and not the kingdom of heaven (the earthly, physical kingdom over which...