INTRO: Our subject is the early parables of Christ. We have considered that the Lord’s parables might be put into three big groupings, and each group concentrates on teaching some particular truth. We also considered that at the time of writing, these parables were prophetic in nature, and some of the latter parables still are.
When we come to these first parables, the Messiah has come and has just begun His ministry. And it is apparent by the spiritual state of the nation of Israel, through which God sought to accomplish His work, that it will not go well with the long promised Messiah. Anyone who lives like God would live if He were in human form on earth, is destined for trouble with mankind. That is the nature of mankind. But here it was the nature of God’s own nation. John says in chapter 1 that Christ came to His own things, and His own received Him not.
Well, Jesus is now about 30 years old and John the Baptist has baptized Him, and God has anointed Him with the Holy Spirit. And He is going about teaching and preaching and doing some miracles. And by the time we come to His first major discourse, the sermon on the mount, He has called His disciples and He is ready to begin to train them. By this time John has been put in prison, and Jesus has completed His first preaching tour. It is simply amazing that He is spending most of His time in northern Israel, called Galilee of the Gentiles. It is also amazing that He has found the most spiritually minded people here around the Sea of Galilee.
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