Parables of the Kingdom

What is a Parable?

  1. A Short Story
  2. A Comparison – the audience compares the story to their situation
  3. Intended to teach a moral or spiritual truth.

Matthew 13:3-9

  1. The Parable of the Sower
    • The hard path
    • Rocky Ground
    • In the Thorns
    • Good Soil

Matthew 13:10-16

  1. Why did Jesus teach Parables
    • Fulfill Prophesy
    • Continue instruction to the Disciples
    • Judgement on those who Rejected the Kingdom

Matthew 13:18-23

  1. The Parable Explained – Condition of the Heart
    • Hard Heart
    • An Uncommitted Heart
    • Divided Heart
    • Good Heart

Take Away

  1. Tend your Soil
  2. Tend the Soil of Others
  3. Sow seeds of the Gospel
  4. Trust the Lord of the Harvest