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  • Luke 18.1-8 | The parable of the unjust judge

    Luke 18.1-8 | The parable of the unjust judge
    May 7 2025
    Christian believers must be patient in prayer until the Lord’s return. That is the teaching of Jesus in the parable of the unjust judge. Let’s read this story. Luke 18.1-8.
    Luke 18.9. And He also told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:
    10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.
    11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer.
    12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'
    13 "But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ' God, be merciful to me, the sinner! '
    14 "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
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    28 min
  • Luke 18.9-14 | The parable of the Pharisee and tax-collector

    Luke 18.9-14 | The parable of the Pharisee and tax-collector
    May 7 2025
    We know from personal experience that things are not always what they appear to be. People are not necessarily what they might seem to be on the surface. The parable of the Pharisee and tax-collector causes us to be reminded of this fact of life. It is a story in which we find a reversal of the normal human perception of spirituality. Let’s read it in Luke 18.9-14.
    Luke 18.9. And He also told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:
    10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.
    11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer.
    12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'
    13 "But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ' God, be merciful to me, the sinner! '
    14 "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
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    29 min
  • Luke 19.11-27 | The parable of the pounds

    Luke 19.11-27 | The parable of the pounds
    May 6 2025
    The kingdom of God exists in the present, but is also in a state of expectant fulfillment. It is therefore ‘now’, but at the same time ‘not yet’. Because the Jews struggled to understand this two-stage view of the kingdom, Jesus told the parable of the pounds. He did this by indirectly referring to events that had taken place more than thirty years ago and which were still in the memory of His listeners. This passage is found in Luke 19.11-27.
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    29 min
  • Matthew 21.28-32 | The parable of the two sons

    Matthew 21.28-32 | The parable of the two sons
    May 4 2025
    Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Many Christians are familiar with this verse in James 1.22. 'Don't just listen. Do it.' It summarizes well the parable that we are going to study today. In the Parable of the Two Sons, the Lord Jesus teaches that the person who refuses to do what is asked of him but who subsequently changes his mind and does the task is better than the one who promises to take care of his obligations but then fails to keep his word. Let's read this parable. Matthew 21.28-32.
    Matthew 21.28. "What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
    29 And he answered, 'I will not'; but afterward he repented and went.
    30 And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I go, sir,' but did not go.
    31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
    32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
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    30 min
  • Matthew 21.33-46 | The parable of the wicked tenants

    Matthew 21.33-46 | The parable of the wicked tenants
    May 4 2025
    The Parable of the Wicked Tenants has the characteristic of being both historical and predictive. It is historical because Jesus told the history of Israel as God sees it. It is predictive because the Lord revealed precisely what was going to happen to Israel: the nation was going to reject the Son of God. And because of their rejection, God will transfer the responsibility of the kingdom to other people.
    The parable is found in three gospels: Matthew 21.33-46, Mark 12.1-12 and Luke 20.9-19. Instead of reading the biblical text, I will tell the story in my own words. It goes like this.
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    26 min
  • Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (1)

    Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (1)
    May 3 2025
    The Parable of the Wedding Feast is the third in a series of three and forms the climax to the Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21.28-32) and of the Wicked Tenants (Matthew 21.33-46). It contains the good news of an open invitation to salvation. But as we will see, it also contains the sobering reminder of the seriousness of discipleship for those who respond to the invitation. Let's read the story. Matthew 22.1-14, the Parable of the Wedding Feast.
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    28 min
  • Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (2)

    Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (2)
    May 2 2025
    We will continue today our study of the Parable of the Wedding Feast. We concluded the lesson the last time by saying that the believer must wear the appropriate clothes at the wedding feast. He must wear a wedding garment. Without that garment, there can be no guarantee of salvation. The parable mentions a man who was without such a garment. He was later thrown into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 22.13), a common biblical description of hell.
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    24 min
  • Matthew 22.23-32 | He is not the God of the dead

    Matthew 22.23-32 | He is not the God of the dead
    May 2 2025
    The Sadducees were a political party of priestly and aristocratic tendency which became relatively influential in Israel at the time of Jesus. They had one particularity: they denied the idea of a life after death. The Sadducees accepted only the first five books of the OT as authoritative. For them, the Pentateuch was the supreme authority in matters of faith. And they maintained that since they could not find any explicit teaching on the resurrection in the Pentateuch, they did not believe in it.
    In the passage that we are going to study today, the Sadducees asked Jesus a question about the resurrection in a kind of trick manner. If the resurrection were true, they argued, then impossible situations will necessarily arise, such as the one that they are about to describe. They knew that Jesus taught the resurrection. They were hoping to trap Him by exposing the weakness and absurdity of such a teaching. Let's read this passage. Matthew 22.23-32.
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    29 min