The Key to All the Parables: The Mark Series part 13
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2019
- The Parable of the Sower helps us understand all parables from Jesus. Learn it's meaning and some principles for interpreting the parables of Jesus from this study in Mark 4:1-20. I also encourage you to really consider how to apply this passage to your own life.
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Waiting for this like a TV series.
Dan Bryan I know right
Im amazed at how many views Mike gets. Went to bed at 12:00 with 2510 people viewed this, and in the morning 8:00 am there are 201 likes, 4 dislikes opposed to 175 likes, 5 dislikes at midnight (someone I guess changed their mind, from dislike to like). Praise God for this channel !!!!!!!!!!! I slept on it last night, and I realize, the more you (I) hang around wise godly teachers, the MORE wise and sure of myself I become. The more that I listen to critics, and critical people, the LESS sure I become of myself !!! Amen !!! Thanks Dan Bryan for being part of the church I love !!!!!
Yes! 💕
@@billhildebrand5053 A year later and it has over 25k views!
@@CynHicks God gives the increase...faith...
I prefer someone that doesn’t always tells story or use anecdotes but just dives into Scripture. Taking notes thank you for posting this!🎉
Yes!!!!! Amen!
I like a combination. How the Word of God applied in a real life event.
there is nothing wrong with a story as long as it doesnt take away the message / the TRUTH .
Thanks Mike this study was deep. Seriously I love how God is working through you. I really believe this ministry is a unifying one. Both unto Christ and between the many factions in the body.
Im amazed at how many views Mike gets. Went to bed at 12:00 with 2510 people viewed this, and in the morning 8:00 am there are 201 likes, 4 dislikes opposed to 175 likes, 5 dislikes at midnight (someone I guess changed their mind, from dislike to like). Praise God for this channel !!!!!!!!!!! I slept on it last night, and I realize, the more you (I) hang around wise godly teachers, the MORE wise and sure of myself I become. The more that I listen to critics, and critical people, the LESS sure I become of myself !!! Amen !!!
God bless Bill. Yeah I believe God’s in this and is blessing it and we should support it as we are able whether it’s with prayer and sharing and or financial support it’s all powerful and bringing glory to God and His kingdom coming.
@@nikao7751 Thankyou. Support in any way - even prayer is powerful. Once we fill our minds with good teaching (presumably we have good soil) then it will just eek out of our bodies !!!
I know I'm watching this 2 years after uploading but it's created an excitement to understand scripture and in that way know God more! His will is revealed in scripture and I want to think biblically about all areas of my life, thank you Mike!
Me too!!
The best explanation of Jesus's messages to the people I've ever heard.
Thank you Mike for taking your time in the explanation as to why many have missed Christ's messages while he was here.
I hope this changes some people's hearts with this knowledge.
I have taught this parable for many years.....That is why I LOVE His Word..There is always more to glean from scripture....even those that you think you know
Im amazed at how many views Mike gets. Went to bed at 12:00 with 2510 people viewed this, and in the morning 8:00 am there are 201 likes, 4 dislikes opposed to 175 likes, 5 dislikes at midnight (someone I guess changed their mind, from dislike to like). Praise God for this channel !!!!!!!!!!! I slept on it last night, and I realize, the more you (I) hang around wise godly teachers, the MORE wise and sure of myself I become. The more that I listen to critics, and critical people, the LESS sure I become of myself !!! Amen !!!
@@billhildebrand5053 is he the bible thumping nut-sac brained? Whit-brained!
@@billhildebrand5053 I highly recommend Sean McDowell’s content! Especially his atheist roleplay videos where he acts out an atheist character to help engage people in apologetics and strengthening their reasons for belief. He’s also amazing, just like Mike :)
@@heavnxbound thanks for comment, it drew me back to relisten.
I love Sean. Anything with truth is on my menu...
Thanks,
Great, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
I'm happy to say that the worst things that have happened to me have made me lean on Christ all the more and brought me closer to him every time. So in a way, I'm thankful for my hardships because I would not have the depth of the relationship with Christ that I have without them to motivate me so much to seek him as I have. My life and relationship with God would not be as good or as deep without the suffering I've endured with him.
My experience exactly. I've ended up grateful to my own surprise. God bless 🙏
Great, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
Mike, your devotion & honesty to "the word of God" speaks volumes. I appreciate your clear & concise studies & explanations. That your not haughty or arrogant and are able to admit when your not exactly sure. It's grievous that the golden rule of "What does the Bible say" is now a foreign concept. By down playing the word of God as a final authority in the churches, seminary, & university & by replacing it with extrabiblical sources, literature, & educated guesses, it has caused a riff of negative implications. This has caused tremendous amounts of confusion, doubt, rotten fruit, bad theology, & all around hurt to the body of Christ. It's almost as if no-one cares to meditate on the word, or search out everything in the scriptures themselves any longer. They no longer bother to rightly divide or compare scripture with scripture for a definitive answer. Instead are more often apt to search out extrabiblical sources & receive scholarly advice & educated guesses for granted. So thank you for highlighting the importance of scripture. As a teacher you are held at a much higher standard by God with much deeper expectations & consequences, so It's imperative for one to always remain teachable & with the ability to admit & fix their errors or faults if it should arise. Too many teachers (so called) on utube are the 180° opposite which leads to their unfruitfulness & false doctrine based on bias, presuppositions and educated guesses... Bravo for yielding to the Spirit, thoroughly embracing the word of God, & letting Jesus take the head lead as intended.. ..
I usually do not comment, but you mentioned that you are not a story teller, but an explainer, and I think it needs to be said, Brother Mike, that that is EXACTLY what you are, a very good explainer. Everyone I've shared you with has made that comment. I know it has added much value to my life and you are the teacher I come back to most because I very much enjoy the candid way you explain. My childhood friend and I are doing your study in Evidence for the Bible. Thank you for the diligent work you do so I can study while I work, drive, and seek Him. I thank God for you, sir. Keep fighting the good fight!
One of my favorite pastors said, "the first time I read this parable I thought, 'this is a REALLY BAD farmer'".😂 He went on to say that we should sow the word without discrimination. I'd never thought of this parable in that way before. Thanks Mike.
I love Proverbs 30. Lord give me neither riches nor poverty. I pray this often. May I be content with all the Lord gives me.
May God continue to bless this ministry. I really appreciate these verse by verse videos. Wish I could find a church in my area that would do the same.
Jm 76 what area do you live in?
@@garciaandres8966 I'm in Chicago.
Jm 76 God bless you guys I’m in Calgary and love this teaching..
Here Mike is teaching at Calvary Chapel. These churches are all over the world. Just google 'Calvary Chapel Chicago', and I'm sure you'll find one in your area. God bless!
Don't give up. Keep looking. Praying. It may not be exactly the same but a good church.
It's odd to think of you feeling jealous of your peers, but thanks for being honest about it.
Not only was this a great teaching on the parable of the sower, this was also a very convicting message that you brought us, Mike, through the words of Jesus. It's something that we should always think about and realise just how important it is to ground ourselves on the Word of God and to strengthen our faith in Christ, lest in times of tribulation or persecution, we fall away too.
I love when people reference Ezekiel without it just being another reference to Chapter 37 and the valley of Dry Bones. Your insight was so cool, thinking of how God was employing a similar strategy through Ezekiel as he did through Jesus.
Great teaching, as always, Mike! Thank you for always digging in and really working to rightly divide God’s word of truth to us. I am both encouraged and exhorted. Have a blessed week!
Mike... You are an excellent teacher!
Brother Mike, there is something about you that draws me more & more to the Word. I have the same feeling when i listen/read Dr Piper.
Your calmness and honesty is of the LORD. I love you my brother in Christ and keep at it, fight this good fight.
From Sydney, Australia with Christ’s love..
AdmonGTR thanks for comment. Tough teachings reveal hearts. :)
Great, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
I agree with trying to abstain for some things for a season. I stopped watching most TV (every show I tried to watch just seemed so unclean). That was several years ago and I haven't looked back. Now, I'm drawn to sermons - like yours - and Bible studies! Every now and then I'll try to watch something but unfortunately, it's such a shock, I just have no desire to watch it. I don't regret my choice for a minute.
Thanks Mike. You are a real blessing. Love your teachings. This one made me wanna truly hear the Word again. Greetings from Germany.
Great, Elsa, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
WOW.... this study was incredibly clarifying and personally very deeply affirming. Immediately after, I literally took a wine glass and filled it with soil from my potting bench and placed it on my desk. Everyday I will now have this reminder to constantly re-examine the current state of my soil. God bless you and your ministry Mike. You may not have a conscious awareness, but I’m happy to tell you that every single day, your fruit is multiplied through your gift of fruit in mine. Not sure if that makes sense... but I know you know what I’m trying to say! I’m so grateful for your teachings in my life💕🙏🏼✝️
Denise I am a gardener and your example inspires me. There will be a glass of soil from my garden on my art table now. Thank you dear.❤️
@@thestraightroad305 awww this makes my heart smile! Thank you for reaching out to tell me... I will think of you in prayer every time I look at my soil... God Bless🙏🏼💕🥰👊🏼
Once again a great message! Brings all who hear to think of there own walk with God! A real challenge for all
Me becoming a Christian is one of the biggest fights now my husband and I have. He says he wouldn't have married me if I had these views back then. It's so hard at times and I fall back.. I thought it was thorns but it's my lack of soil... I keep saying in my head though...keep reading your Bible. Jesus, God is my first thought in the morning and my last thought at night, I just stop coping... Do I let my husband walk away from our marriage... it's so painful 😞
How are you now?
Im glad i found your channel
Thank you Brother Mike. That was a great teaching. Blessings, peace and love to you and your family always in the Holy, Mighty and Precious Name of Jesus Christ 🙌🏻❤🙌🏻
You are a one hundredfold teacher, excellent, excellent work
This is one of the best messages about the parable of the sower that I’ve seen or read. God has been speaking to me a lot about the parable off and on for years.
I have seen that most times it has been preached from the perspective of us as Christians sharing the gospel with others and those were the types of soils/hearts. And yes, that one in four would be saved. That’s the most common teaching. It’s so one-sided.
I really appreciate that you went beyond that and shared that it also speaks to our own hearts as Christians. I did learn some things that I hadn't seen/known before. I especially liked the redemptive perspective....you offered hope that God can change a hard heart or rocky heart or a thorny/weedy heart into a heart with good soil. Indeed, that is what I felt God has been teaching me, and what I believe Jesus did with the disciples during their time following him...when he said he would "make" them fishers of men...it apparently was a process. Jesus said they had hard hearts, unbelief/ little faith, not understanding/perceiving, fear/being afraid... (mark 8: 16-21) (mark 6:52) (Matt. 17:20) (mark 4: 38-40) (Luke 24: 36-49) (and others)... it seems that all the soil conditions could very well apply to the disciples, and maybe it was part of the process?
I do agree that Mark 4:13 says, "Do you not know/understand this parable? How then can you know/understand all the parables?" I do think Jesus intended for us to understand the parable of the sower first before we could truly understand the other ones. I do think the sower parable is foundational to understanding our heart issues, to be able to see what rocks, thorns, weeds, hard places we may have in our hearts, and to come before God to pray for him to work within to change it, removing hardness, rocks, weeds and thorns.
I see that the Old Testament has a number of "types and shadows" of the parable of the sower. Since the soil is also translated as ground, earth, country, world, etc... I found a number of verses in the Old Testament that uses the Hebrew equivalent. I'll have to do this later. :)
Thank you for all your help understanding the Bible Mike!!!☺
Excellent message from the Lord Christ Jesus 🙏 Amen, Praise God, Thank you !
That prayer at the end though 👍 such a fruitful message that I really needed to hear and will listen to again. Thank you so much Pastor Mike, a real blessing ❤
Please pray for me. I struggle with envy, living near a rich neighborhood while surviving on disability income.
🙏❤
Over 40 parables in the New Testament and all leading to salvation in one way shape or form. that’s what I thought. Amazing teaching.
God bless you
Hey Mike, we think you are a wonderful ¨sower" and we are loving your Mark Series. Thank you for blessing our lives with your teaching. We pray for you and that you will continue with your good work. Thank you so much and God bless you
Thank you Pastor Mike.
Thanks Mike! Very inspiring teaching.
Thank you, Mike!
Thanks for the great teaching brother Mike! I have been studying the Hebrew and each letter means something very concrete and for me has supercharged the scriptures. One example- Jesus says I am the alpha and omega..first and last. In Isaiah 48 we get the same statement. Well in the Hebrew it is I am the Aleph and the Tav..Aleph is strength of the Father and Tav is mark or sign of the covenant so this statement would indeed have indicated to Israelites that he has the power of the Father and is indeed the mark of the new covenant...mark being the word again Tav which is what the believers are maked with in Ezekiel 9.
Application for the sower (people who are giving out truth/speaking the Word): don’t waste a lot of energy trying to direct the path. Spread it out liberally. And don’t kick yourself too hard if it doesn’t grow well.
God bless you pastor Mike!
Pastor Mike Winger I just wanted to tell you how awesome your sermons are and how grateful I am that God led me to your youtube page. My church has been doing a series on mark, 1 chapter each week, so I came here to listen to your sermons when I have time. Every time I come across the parable of the sower I am convicted about what kind of soil I am, and I feel like every time it speaks to me a little differently and I learn something I somehow failed to notice before. At different stages of my life I have been all 4 soils.... I pray that God will guide me in keeping my soil properly tilled so the seed God has planted can grow and my life will be one that bears fruit and honors and glorifies Him. God is doing great things through you, Pastor Mike.
The key to all the parables of Jesus was the mysteries of kingdom.
@Reasons To Follow
And the Kingdom cannot be known through worldly things or matter, therefore not detectable by our sense organs directly 🤔
I turned my fiancé, videogames, and the pursuit to not have chronic disease into sin. -- For the thorns plus more. Single now waiting on the Lord for a husband willing to serve abroad, quit video games entirely bc I abused it, and but still hoping to get better with health and trying different things. Please pray that I get to 30 fold bc I’m still pulling up thorns I believe and boldness which I greatly lack.
"Don't just guess and be dogmatic because you like your guess." LOVE IT!
Pastor Mike, you are definitely in the 100 fold.
Thank you for your devotion to the lord's word
Wow!! I have never heard the parable of the sower explained like this. Thank you!! This was amazing. I live in the Bible belt, of all places.
Great breakdown of the more "behind the scenes" of this parable. Thank you.
Was one of the best studies I have every heard. Thanks so much
Thank you your message did give me chills and God was definitely using you to speak to me so God Bless!!!
Another wonderful lesson, thank you
Excellent teaching Pastor Mike. Thank you for being obedient.
Great, Adam, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
Thank you as always
Thanks Mike
I didn’t study in the parable of the sower in Luke 8, i’ve also been going over your mark series again, what a blessing they both of been, after finishing my Bible reading I opened UA-cam and this video popped up.
Thank you for being faithful to God and His call for your life, indeed His grace and peace abounds in you! So greatly encouraged with this series of Mark teachings ❤️ Glory to God!
Excellent!
I am watching the Mark series now and I am so grateful for clarifying Mark 4. Thank you so much Mike Winger.
Thank you for your teaching, it was very enlightening, may the Lord continue to bless you as you sow the seed
Great video. Thanks
Once again Mike, I thank God for your ministry. As a Christian of one year in September I can't tell you just how much your channel and studies help me with my understanding of the Word and my relationship with Christ. Very short back story so you know how and why I speak what I do... Besides being a new convert, I wasn't raised in a Christian home but knew or suspected that God was real because I remember my grandparents being in church. Ignorantly my thought was I'd live outside the lane of Jesus and "church life" and when"I was ready or it was time" I'd just swerve right into the lane of Christ and I'd make it. As you can see horribly horribly terrible thinking. Rewind to this time last year and I was full on demon possessed (no exaggeration and not sure if I have commented on this before? It's a lot I'll just say that) All this to tell you that when I was desperately seeking Jesus I couldn't find Him. Not because He wasn't there but because my heart had become so hardened by me over time rejecting the Lord. I was also spiritually deaf and blind. Vaguely remember people telling me about how to receive Christ but to this day I couldn't tell you about those conversations. So sad but I couldn't even tell you I'd ever heard Holy Spirit mentioned, not once. This just scratches the surface because prior to all this, I'd probably never admit to you I couldn't understand the Bible. Non-believers really don't understand that with the Holy Spirit comes knowledge. Knowledge, understanding, and comprehension it's not possible to know without the Holy Spirit. Looking back now it's so clear just how lost, blind, and deceived I really was. Ultimately this is only something the Holy Spirit can do for them and teach them by bringing them into the light. All we can do is pray. 🙏
Jesus is so amazing y'all! Put your trust in Him! Love to you all 🙏💙✝️🙌
Thank you.
Thank you for being a instrument for God. I hope and pray we can hear God’s Truth through you for many years to come.
Great bro , I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
Im gonna use your format for a lesson with my disciples this week. This parable is so powerful yet so simple like the yoke of Christ's wisdom. Thank you for the lesson mike!
Great, Nicholas, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
Wow Mike this was an Amazing message! I could hear Jesus speak right through you In this message! I have a wayward son that will not get into God's word and boy did it clear up a lot of cobwebs! My son allowed me to even listen to your sermon in his room! I pray Daily for my family and for myself, Thank you for your hard work and the gospel of Jesus Christ😀💓💓
I would also like to say that I was reading About the parable of the sower and the seed, wanted to get a better understanding of it, Through searching the UA-cam your station popped up and I have been following you for a couple weeks now and wanted to listen to what you had to say!!!
26:42 I almost spit out my cheerios haha while watching. The way Mike squeezes in a chuckle is funny.
Yeah, his jokes are always a hoot :)
Yes. Amen.
I’m just starting to listen, looking forward to vs 17 where trouble or persecution arises ... they fall away. I had a life guard tell me to take my waterproof Bible out of the pool cause they got emails. I’m a Christian a long time, but persecution only makes me bolder to share.....PTL. I think it’s my gift to evangelize, and love doing it.....
That happened today Sept 9 2019....:)
Im amazed at how many views Mike gets. Went to bed at 12:00 with 2510 people viewed this, and in the morning 8:00 am there are 201 likes, 4 dislikes opposed to 175 likes, 5 dislikes at midnight (someone I guess changed their mind, from dislike to like). Praise God for this channel !!!!!!!!!!! I slept on it last night, and I realize, the more you (I) hang around wise godly teachers, the MORE wise and sure of myself I become. The more that I listen to critics, and critical people, the LESS sure I become of myself !!! Amen !!!
On sept 11 there were 4704 views and 122 comments from 3313 the night before...
Also sept 11 there were 257 likes and 6 dislikes. I like this DO NOT WORRY -- I don’t worry about the house urned Dow’s. PTL.
Ho bill
excellent exegesis of scripture Pastor Mike
God bless your ministry.
one of my favorite parable.
thanks ..
1:06:54 That is why I am so thankful that the flesh is crucified. Gal 5:24
The one thing I think most people have a hard time grasping is the idea of free will and destiny. We have free will, but we cannot foresee the future, and thus do not know all the choices we've made. God can, however, see all of the events of existence all at once. We have free will, but we've already made our choices, even the ones we don't know about yet, we just have to figure out why we made those choices.
Jesus told this parable to people who were primarily farmers. Why did he do that? Because he knew that they would remember the parable due to the fact that they were farmers. Jesus understood memory techniques. He used these memory techniques because he knew that he had only a short period of time to teach the disciples everything they needed to know and he knew they would have to remember his teachings for a long period of time. So does Harry Lorayne. That's why I started to learn much faster when I read The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne. And this can keep kids in school today from suffering through bullyism if they adopt the memory techniques discussed in Harry Lorayne's Memory Book.
A perfect example of God showing someone's rebellion through parables is Nathan talking to David in 2 Samuel 12:1-7
15:51 - 15:54: “He does this in John. He’s like, ‘You don't come to Me because you don't know My Father.’” That's a very good paraphrase of John 6:37-45.
Because for Hebrew/Isreal, story telling and analogies(parables) is our culture and customs.
THE SOIL IS THE HEART..
I just thought of this. Parables were taught , because if he just gave us the answers how could we study to show thy self approved.
Got it! EVERYONE GOT SEED!!
Enjoyed his teaching, but around 1:02 he side passes FRUIT. The third soil seed mentions they “become” fruitless. Fruit is essential as John 15 and Matt 7 emphasize the importance of bearing Godly fruit.
29:55 interesting view shared in relation to, how you would view the Bible if you weren’t a believer as opposed to how you would view teachings from other faiths.
Great, I love your comment, greetings from Canada.. I love the part where he speaks of persecution. 39:05. You know how tightly you hold onto something, when someone tries to rip it out of your hand. Keep going in Christ...
Around 22:10 you said each element of the parable has a corresponding truth in Jesus' explanation of it. What about the sower? You can assume it's the one spreading the word but Jesus doesn't say that. It's not like the parable of the weeds where he identifies the workers. I'm asking because I'm one of those people that teaches people not to treat parables like allegories and I definitely want to change if I'm wrong. Thanks, love what you do!
In this Parable it appears that Jesus is teaching us from the physical creation about the new creation. God's Word at work in us who believe. Jesus teaching us about earthly things concerning the creation we can see and learn from and how they work to show us heavenly things. It is very interesting the phrase used in Mark 4:2 "..and in his teaching he said to them" Why not just say "..and he taught them.."? This parable also shows us what various types of people do after hearing the Word of God. Only the ones who hear and accept it bear fruit. Notice none of the other types accepted as in Mark 4 or understood as in Matt 13 or held fast in an honest and good heart bearing fruit with patience as in Lk8. Jesus said in Jn 8:31 "if you "continue" (in NASB) ("abide" in ESV) in my word then you are truly my disciples.." (side Note: abide in Christ or being in Christ Jesus is a good study about this) Note here in John 8:31 the verse says this about those "who had believed in Him". Also interesting is the seed is the same in all 4 types and so also is the soil. It is only the condition of the soil that has different results. If we understand how the physical creation works, that will help us understand God's plan. Many people say many different things about this parable to match their theology about who is "saved" and who is not saved, why not let the word of God teach us in light of God's creation as he intended?
Chasing that feeling, that wanting more and never being able to get enough? Addicts used to call that, "Chasin' Jason". Beaten up addicts often know they will never again attain the high they desire. It was a fleeting enjoyment, and they cannot find it again, so they waste the ir life away chasin' jason. Maybe that was only common in the Flint/Detroit area. idk.
Very Interesting!
Ideas it seems are sort of like dominoes all set up in a line where if you knock one over all the other in that line fall over as well. For example if indeed you have identified the key for understanding parables then one can use that key to unlock many a parable. And in regard to parables it seems the one that seems the hardest to unlock is the parable of the ten virgins. So it might here be worth considering if that key of yours might be of any use to unlock that parable, and (spoiler alert) it seems yes, it does!
But before looking at that parable armed with this key let me summarize what you said (or as I understood it) but maybe in my own words, which as you say elsewhere seems to be a good way to see if someone rightly understood something they have been told. So here is what seems to be some of the main elements of that key.
1. The parables are about the kingdom.
2. The prabales reveal things about those who hear it as to how they may predispose to receive it even before they have heard it
3. there seems to be themes that run through the parables so that they are not strictly stand alone but all work together as a whole
4. The parable of the sower of the seeds is the poster child so to speak that one uses as a key to unlock the others in that Jesus uses it as such by giving the parable and then explaining not just its meaning but why he uses parables at all.
Or something along those lines if I haven't summarized it perfectly.
So assuming these to be true how might ione apply this key to the parable of the ten virgins. And I might add in addition to using that key one might also apply the idea of looking for the inherent topology of a passage and any isomorphism it might have with the inherent topologies of other passages, which seems to be what you are saying, only using a more mathematical way of saying it.
So in regard to the inherent topology (i.e sets and subsets) in the parable of the sower of the seeds we see these players (or subsets).
1. The sower of the seeds.
2. the seeds themselves
3. the different soils
3.1 the hard packed soil
3.1.1 Also we see here the birds that eat the seeds as a subset
3.2 the rocky soil
3.3. the soil filled with weeds
3.4 the good soil
So now one could construct the inherent topology of the parable of the ten virgins to see if there might in fact be any isomorphisms.
1. We have the bridegroom (who seems to go well with the sower of the seeds in the parable of the seeds above
2. we have ten virgins (where all ten have fallen asleep)
2.1. Five are wise
2.1.1 and as such they have procured in some way oil in the flask
2.2 Five are foolish.
But it seems we also have as being inherent in that typology two other implied players,
2.3 the bride (for what is a wedding feast without a bride)?
2.4 Those who are not virgins. For if the passage just said ten people one would not have also those who are not people implied. But saying they are virgins implies that there may also be people who are not virgins.
So in regard to looking for a potential isomorphism, here we see yes we have to groups of four soils and the four groups of people, 5 wise virgins, 5 foolish virgins, the bride (who seems also to be a virgin albeit the bride and not just a bridesmaid) and those who are not virgins. Soas such can we perhaps line each of the four with a counter part of the other four? Well maybe.
For we can see that perhaps those who are not virgins match pretty well with the hard packed soil who have the gospel eaten by the birds. And that leaves the other three soils where at least the seed takes root. Thus it seems that being a virgin ( and we have three varieties, the wise, the foolish, and the bride) seems to match with those three oils where at least the seed takes root. Thus one might match the seed (or word) taking root is maybe related in some way to being a virgin.
So if we assume that this match is not totally unwarranted one might then see how that next dominno might fall assuming that match to be plausible (even if not for sure to be spot on).
So if we then along those three virgins we can see the bride seems to match pretty well with the good soil, the foolish virgins with the rocky soil where we see those who hear the gospel and rejoice but klater fall away might match with the foolish virgins who do not ever bother to get the oil in the flask, and that leaves the soil with the weeds that then might match with the 5 wise virgins (who being wise it seems at least didn't fall away) but did like the foolish virgins fall asleep. So if one makes this match that might suggest that oil in the flask is some way of breaking up those rocks but never the less doesn't quite kill all the weeds.
Now it seems to go any further one might have to expand this to looking at other passages, so let me defer that to another comment at a later time to keep this one from getting so long. But the point here is not so much are these matches valid but rather here is what seems some of the dominoes that your domino might knock over or to say it another way here is what it might look like to use your key to unlock the parables when one attempts to unlock the parable of the 10 virgins (that is by comparing the two underlying topologies to see if there might be any isomorphism between them and that if so they might make sense as to being in some way related.
For I am not trying to say that these two parables are related as such (for that it seems might be a bit above my paygrade to attempt to do so) but rather to say, hmmm, it does seem that one ideed can find an inherent isomorphism between these two parables (and inherent is the operative word here, that is one that seems to come along for the ride and not speculative or added or tacked on but seems to be stated explicitly or strongly implied by the text).
But whether those matches are good matches or relevant ones is another matter altogether. The point here is not so much they are good or bad matches but seems possible ones and seems to be reasonably congruent with what you are saying in this video about this parable being the key to unlocking the meaning of other parables, i.e once your dominno falls it seems that perhaps it might knock over these dominoes as well.
Though one more thought. For one might protest, hey, Pastor Mike never said anything about looking at inherent topologies and seeing if there might being any isomorphisms and such, that is something that you have added. But is that the case? For Pastor Mike calls this proverbs the key. And just what is a key, it is a shape that can match some other shape and if it does it can unlock that which is locked. But that can be seen as that key has its own inherent topology and so the lock and the isomorphism is required for that key yo unlock that lock.
So no, I am not saying here something new but rather perhaps just saying what Pastor Mike is saying but in a different way, with Pastor Mike's use of the metaphor of a lock and key being perhaps more metaphorical, lingual, and perhaps even more poetic, my use of sets, topologies, isomorphisms, and such being a bit more mathematical and perhaps a bit less poestcc, but these two seem to have their own matching elements and matching topologies, i.e are just two ways of expressing the same idea.
So whether one calls these matches like a lock and key or inherent topologies the general idea is the same. One may be more familiar to the general reader, the other may be less familiar but has a very large and precise underlying theory which perhaps one can draw upon and employ as addition tools or resources (and maybe hitherto largely neglected ones at that) in pondering just what these passages are trying to tell us.
So regardless of the metaphor, one can it seems find these matches (or locks and keys, or isomorphisms, or whatever else one might choose to call them). And as such one can assign any special meaning to them or not. But one has to find the first to do either.
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It seems to me that if we look for external activities to fulfill us, we will not be looking and waiting for God to supply what we need such as the joy of the Spirit, which is what we should look for which is really what satisfy us.
@fcastellanos57
Joy is Love.
When are loved ones do things for us we are Joyful = *Full of Joy* it's a feeling that passes all understanding.. 😉
Alec Cox
Not exactly, Joy comes from the fruit of the Spirit which is Love, it is one of the characteristics of Love, it is not when loved ones do things for us, it comes from the Spirit of God, you can find this love in 1Corinthians 13. Good day.
@@fcastellanos57
You just had to disagree didn't you?
You totally missed the point.
Joy only comes from love of something someone we love does. It is a product of Love. The emotion of Joy comes from something we Love.
The Peace that passes all understanding.
Put Joy in a box and paint it blue, Joy is Love the same that Love is Joyous.
Are you able to have Joy when you are held at gunpoint?
The Same with Love its an Emotion and not a physical attribute. It can only be freely given to another as shown by an act and not forced.
Joy cannot be manufactured without Love.
Thus, Love = Joy and Love is Joy.
One can have happiness without Joy or love. Happiness of a person being released from jail is not the same, yet it is also a fruit of the spirit.
Do you see the correlation?
@@Alec_Cox
I don't want to disagree for the sake of disagreeing but we are not talking about regular human Love, yes you can have joy with a gun pointed at you because this love is not human, this Love is not an emotion, you can find it in Corinthians 13. this is the Love that comes from God.
fcastellanos57 I get what you’re saying. It’s that agape love and in Galatians it lists the fruits of the spirit and i love that it begins with love then onto joy peace long suffering or patience gentleness goodness faithfulness meekness and self control and lately I do appreciate when we are precise about God’s word. It keeps us out of trouble and growing in grace and right knowledge about Christ and I’ve been corrected a lot lately and I’m learning to love it because it not only means my brothers and sisters love me but it shows that God is loving me and sees me as his child but it took a while to view being corrected in this way but the last thing I want to do is misrepresent God and his word and I believe that is part of what it means to take the name of God in vain. Anyway more than enough said. God bless
"For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance..." 1 Thessalonians 1:5
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" John 14:16
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." John 14:21
"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 16:16-17
Most Christians are oblivious to the reality of salvation, and have head knowledge only.
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Romans 10:9
An interesting side note: The people are the seed, they are not the soil. In verse one the crowd is gathered on the “soil” (see original Greek) at the water’s edge. Also, Jesus points back to Isaiah chapter 6:9-10 and note the “seed” in v. 13.
Jesus literally says "The sower sows *the word*"
Honestly to me i wouldn't say its a key i just thought of it as being a easier parable to understand than the rest.
Good message over all, though sad that Mike actualy thinks losing salvation is a possibility.
58.51 It is a girl thing too. Just different things and ideas we are tempted to compete over. Comparison is the theif of joy.
Mike! Really enjoying what you have to say each video!! Question for you....is the father, son and the holy spirit....a parable?
Toby Chellin 🤯
A parable is a story. A story meant to teach a lesson...
Thank you Pastor Mike. Do you have a Ministry for the Bible study.?
great videos! i had a question i would love to see in a video sometime: what is your opinion on the moffatt Bible and the message Bible? they both end up confusing me because they differ so much from more basic translations (i.e. ESV, NIV, KJV).
Don't know about the moffatt but he's covered the Message in his video about different Bible translations, here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/BCPoKIE5y1U/v-deo.html
I think we missed the message that Jesus implied..its about a Sower...thats the point...not the soil...every farmer here knows that in order to have fruit the soil has to be worked,prepared...some soils require more work than others...but soils prepared will Always bare fruit...blessing...Jesus is Lord!!!
As I have learn from Dr.Myles Munroe. Jesus taught in Parable because God is Holy and when He is Holy, He cannot lie or in another words. God cannot force of what they don’t want to know. Parable is a form teaching of story that hide the truth. The Truth is in the parable but it is hidden. Why? A parable is to make sure you don’t understand the truth but you discover it.
God doesn’t want us to learn or know anything we ourselves don’t want to know.
So God hides from us what we don’t want to know. It is given to those who want to seek it with all their hearts and mind. The disciples left their businesses and families to seek God.
In conclusion, God is Holy and because of that God has to be pure in motive.
Example from Pastor Myles. If I give you a glass of water and you don’t want it. I’m not being Holy in motive I am assuming you want the water.
Did I miss you speak to the quote that Jesus uses from Isaiah 9 and how it relates to the reason for parables being used in part to confuse?
Question on the use of parables by Jesus; once He started his public ministry, did not the Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes start looking to find faults in His teachings so was not the use of parables, partly a way to confuse their interpretation of Jesus’ messages?
Question: Did Jesus speak in parables to keep people from understanding? Or did he do this testing them to see if they would bother to ask Him to explain?
sunshinegirl1967 I think he wanted to see if they would bother to think. Because God gives wisdom to those who are seeking it, but most people don’t trouble to think things through.
I think it might have been to add a timeless factor to His teachings. By teaching in parables, it removes lessons or rules that can seem outdated over time. Instead the lesson is derived by a combination of the current time period and other scripture.
It was an act of judgment, they had just blasphemed the Holy Spirit at the end of the previous chapter and he states plainly it is judgment upon them. As always, judgment is not for everyone but reveals to the disciples the meaning.
Ok, well I listened again today and He did say He spoke in parables because it "wasn't given to them" to understand. But then He said their hearts had waxed gross - in other word hardened I guess. Maybe it was not casting pearls before swine?
Mike, or someone else: I loved this lesson, but in the end, I'm not sure that I understood the answer to the question that was posed. What is the key to understanding all of Jesus' parables?