1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Oh, fly away, oh fly away, oh fly away, oh fly away, oh fly away. 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Woo! 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:45,000 When was the drunkard's pride? 4 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 When was the drunkard's pride? 5 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 The summer sweet, I've been letting down. 6 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 So better let a hallelujah sound down. 7 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 We're living for our own mysteries. 8 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 God just feels the melody. 9 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:16,000 It's beautiful to mess me up, the honest prize of bringing home. 10 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Better than a hallelujah. 11 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 I'm still trying to work through these two big bags of candy, so. 12 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And get on to something different, because I like variety. 13 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Okay, so you can already see if you're good, if you got your worksheet coming around. 14 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Let me touch base on worksheets real quick. 15 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 So we do a worksheet every Tuesday night. 16 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Once you have seven, you get a prize from RJ. 17 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 If you're a teenager, once you have eight, you get a prize from my prize bin. 18 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Once you have 13, you get lunch. 19 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I'm down to just a few people who have 13, who have told me that they have 13, that I have not gotten them lunch yet. 20 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 So it's 13 completed worksheets. 21 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I have 14. 22 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Yep, I got Jason. 23 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 All right, so seven is a prize from RJ if you're a teenager. 24 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Eight is a prize from me, anybody that comes to our prize bucket. 25 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 And then 13, I take you to lunch. 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 26, I take you to dinner. 27 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 And then it starts over. 28 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 So if you get eight, seven, you get a prize from RJ. 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Eight, prize from me, like that. 30 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Only teenagers get the prize from RJ, so sorry adults on that one. 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 All right, so we're going to talk about parables. 32 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:42,000 So there is some confusion in and amongst us even, but everywhere in the world about what a parable actually is. 33 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,000 And over the next, I don't know, it's probably going to take us a couple months until we get into Christmassy type season. 34 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000 We're going to talk about parables, and then we're going to go through a bunch of significant parables, 35 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 some of which you'll be a little bit surprised about. 36 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You would think that, like, oh, I don't really think that's even a parable, but after you had this lesson today, then you'll understand it better. 37 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Okay, so we're going to talk about what a parable is. 38 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,000 And so the typical or very simple definition of a parable is what? 39 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Does anybody have one? 40 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Your own opinion of what? 41 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Just tell me what. 42 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Okay, a what? 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Okay, very simple. 44 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 A story that teaches a lesson. 45 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 From a Christian point of view, it might be like a heavenly story that tells an earthly lesson or something like that. 46 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 But it's, yeah. 47 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So in the upper right hand corner of the page, you see two S's. 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Anybody guess what's in the blanks? 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Short story. 50 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Short story. 51 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 That's right. 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 So a parable tends to be a short story. 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 But as we're going to see, it's a lot more than just that. 54 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 It can be a lot more than just that. 55 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Okay. 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 But what everybody always thinks of it as is a short story. 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Okay. 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 And then there's kind of a bigger fancy word that starts with an A. 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 I'm going to take a stab at that. 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Joshua? 61 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Anybody? 62 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Ah, it starts with an A. 63 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Okay, the word is allegory. 64 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Allegory. 65 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Okay. 66 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 A-L-L. 67 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It's almost like it sounds all A-G-O-R-Y. 68 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 A-L-L-A-G-O-R-Y. 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Allegory. 70 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 A-L-L-A-G-O-R-Y. 71 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I believe, yes. 72 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I'm 90% sure it's an A. 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 But if it's an E, we'll fix it. 74 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 See, spelling isn't all that important. 75 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Instead, it's the word is what's really important. 76 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 All right. 77 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 So an allegory just means that everything represents something else. 78 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 If you go down, just hold. 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Remember where we're at. 80 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 We just finished that. 81 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Now go down to the right-hand corner and you see the word again. 82 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Is it an E? 83 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Okay. 84 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 So take your pen and mark out the A. 85 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Okay. 86 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 And put an E in there because I misspelled it. 87 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 That's okay. 88 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Down the bottom right-hand corner now, you see the word allegory, but it's spelled with 89 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 an A in the middle. 90 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Instead of putting an A in the middle, put an E in the middle. 91 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I have no problem with admitting I misspelled that. 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I still like it the other way actually better, but it's wrong. 93 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 So what am I going to do? 94 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Okay. 95 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 All right. 96 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And so now we're going to talk just briefly about what allegory is. 97 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 And when we're talking about allegory and you see the letter F for the first word, what 98 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 do you think that is? 99 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Under allegory in the bottom right-hand corner. 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Signs? 101 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Nope. 102 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So it's under allegory. 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Got to pay attention, man. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 We jumped from the top to the bottom. 105 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 We'll go back up there in a minute. 106 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 No. 107 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Figurative. 108 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Another big word. 109 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 F-I-G-U-R-A-T-I-V, at least I think. 110 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I lost my seventh grade spelling bee on the word angel. 111 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 So it's figurative. 112 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 And that means that the language doesn't mean exactly what it says, basically. 113 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 It means something more or deeper. 114 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,000 So for example, if I say I pet the dog, it's very simple. 115 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,000 I pet the dog, right? 116 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 But if you say he was a dog, that's something. 117 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 He wasn't literally a dog, right? 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Unless he was a dog. 119 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Like say my boyfriend was a dog or my teacher was a dog. 120 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 That's kind of mean. 121 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Doesn't mean he was literally a dog. 122 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 I wasn't learning from a dog, right? 123 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 That's figurative language, calling him a dog. 124 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 It really means what? 125 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 He's ugly or something like that. 126 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 He's disrespectful, something like that. 127 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,000 So figurative language, you say something, but you're kind of submitting something else. 128 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And in allegory, I'm just going to give it to you so we can keep moving. 129 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:40,000 People, the first P is people, then place, and then you know the next one, right? 130 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 OBJ, objects, right? 131 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Very good. 132 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 R is represent. 133 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Here's another weird word for you. 134 00:06:51,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Abstract, which is A-B-S-T-R-A-C-T, abstract, or mental. 135 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Anybody want to give me that last word? 136 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 I gave you the first C and the N-C. 137 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Say it again. 138 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Oh, that's close. 139 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 That's really close. 140 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Nope, that's not it. 141 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Think of it with the mental. 142 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Concepts. 143 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Concepts. 144 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:27,000 So a concept is something that kind of like stands by itself. 145 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,000 So basically, if you tell a story, you might tell a story about a farmer, but the farmer 146 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 actually represents someone else. 147 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 He's a person, but you're telling it as if you were representing, so there's a story 148 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 about a farmer who takes care of his field and the farmer represents God. 149 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 So that's a people representing God, right? 150 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Or a place. 151 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 There was a beautiful city with streets of gold. 152 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Well, we know as soon as we hear streets of gold, we start thinking heaven, right? 153 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 But you might be describing France. 154 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 It didn't literally have streets of gold. 155 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 So you might be describing France. 156 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And so the story has people, place, objects. 157 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 All of those things can represent abstract or mental concepts. 158 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 So they can be like, they weren't literally streets of gold. 159 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 They were just wealthy streets. 160 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Bunch of people with wealthiness, for example. 161 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And that's allegory. 162 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 So that's what allegory is. 163 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Now go back up to where it says allegory on the top. 164 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 We've defined it. 165 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:32,000 We have a parable, short story, allegory, and it says it aims to... 166 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Okay, it's teach, but it's actually illustrate. 167 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 All right, because instruct and teach would pretty much be the same thing. 168 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,000 So it aims to illustrate or teach. 169 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 So you might have already have the principle of something. 170 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 You understand what I'm talking about. 171 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 I understand what I'm talking about. 172 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 And now you just want to explain it better, make it clear. 173 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 That's called illustrating. 174 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Okay, so the parable might be to illustrate something that we already kind of know, 175 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 but we question whether it's true or not, we don't understand how it works, 176 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 so we need to know something about it. 177 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Or it might be to teach something new, 178 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 a concept that the person doesn't have. 179 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Okay, so let's just make sure we're caught up because I did it in a confusing way. 180 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I know I did. 181 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 So we got short story. 182 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It's an upper right-hand corner, short story, allegory, aims to illustrate or teach. 183 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Illustrate is I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-E, probably, or teach. 184 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Okay, and then under the allegory, we filled that part down in on the bottom, 185 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 in the bottom right-hand corner, just the definition of what allegory is. 186 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:55,000 And it's figurative people, place, objects, represent, abstract, or mental concepts. 187 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Now again, we're just talking generally about what a parable is. 188 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 We're going to get more specific, get it down to biblical standards here in a minute. 189 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 What? 190 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Okay, I was just recapping. 191 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Okay, so now we're going over under the word parable, and you've got a sentence under the word parable. 192 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:21,000 It's really more of a phrase because it technically doesn't have a verb or a noun in the proper place. 193 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Okay, so these are often. 194 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 The first word is often. 195 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Yep, used, often used to, very good. 196 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 You can teach a lesson from here on out if you want. 197 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 I'm just kidding. 198 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Often used to, to seize. 199 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 It's a story. 200 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Create. 201 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Nope. 202 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Communicate. 203 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 I know, I was the shortest line for communicate. 204 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 You could do convey. 205 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Yep, convey would fit there better. 206 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Communicate or convey, I feel like convey is shorter. 207 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Complex. 208 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 There is no T, it's not complexed. 209 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 People always say that, but it's not. 210 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 It's complex. 211 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Ideas. 212 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Ideas, very good. 213 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 In a. 214 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 It is way. 215 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Simple. 216 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Way, simple, right. 217 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Simple way. 218 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Very good. 219 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:26,000 So it's often used to communicate complex ideas in a simple way. 220 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,000 It's hard for people to understand things like charity, love, kindness. 221 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:36,000 In the world today, if you go out in a normal place like school, the marketplace, workplace, 222 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 whatever, you may not find love, charity, or kindness. 223 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Like you might be walking around going like. 224 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I don't go to restaurants anymore. 225 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Yeah, you might be walking around like you never see. 226 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Not on the pickleball court, we discovered that. 227 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 I wasn't there, but they discovered that on Tuesday night. 228 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 So you might never see those things. 229 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 So then you might be talking to somebody and you're trying to explain to them what that means. 230 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 And you might use a story to explain to them what that means. 231 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:07,000 And in the story, you might represent kindness, love or charity with people or actions even that those people did. 232 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Right. 233 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:13,000 For example, if you say, man, I'm trying to explain to you what love is. 234 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,000 And then you say, well, you know, Jesus loved us so much that he died on the cross for our sins. 235 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Well, that illustrates love. 236 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 But Jesus is a real person and that's a real action. 237 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Right. 238 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 So he was loving us while he did that, but you can use it to illustrate. 239 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Right. 240 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 But you see there when you use Jesus, that's not really technically a parable, is it? 241 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Unless it is by another definition. 242 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 And we're going to talk about that in a minute. 243 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 All right. 244 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,000 So the next thing. 245 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 So what you wrote there was often used to communicate complex ideas in a simple way. 246 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 And the next thing down, that word there. 247 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 And I gave you the pronunciation is parabola. 248 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 That's a Greek word. 249 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 OK. 250 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 So we get our. 251 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Yes, ma'am. 252 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 In the what? 253 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 No, the first P I haven't given you yet. 254 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 I'm just pronouncing the Greek word for you. 255 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I'll get there in a second. 256 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 OK. 257 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 So it's parabola. 258 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Now, the word that we have for parable comes from this word. 259 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 So it didn't exist in English. 260 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Didn't exist in what we call English. 261 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 What we call English probably didn't exist, right, because it's such a mishmash mess. 262 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Right. 263 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 What we when we talk, it's such a mess of things. 264 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:27,000 So it came from the Greek into the Latin and it was kind of like a parabola. 265 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,000 And then it went into the English as a parable. 266 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 OK. 267 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 So that's where we get our word from. 268 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:45,000 So there was no previous word for it in what we call our language, which means when it was used, then tells us more about what it means than when it's used now. 269 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Does that make sense? 270 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 So people use it now to say, well, I'm telling a parable. 271 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:56,000 And the truth is, when people talk about parables, the only time we use them commonly is talking about Jesus telling a parable. 272 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Right. 273 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Have you ever said, well, I met my friend Bob yesterday or whoever his name was, and we talked for a while and he told me a parable. 274 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Nobody does that. 275 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:13,000 They might tell you a story that has a meaning or they might give you a but almost nobody uses that word in common usage anymore. 276 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Its usage was a lot more common back when the church was especially in Europe when the church was a lot more common. 277 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 OK. 278 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,000 But the point is it is a real word and it comes to us from this. 279 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:32,000 So what we need to do is look at what the word was to define the word that we have, which is parable. 280 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 OK. 281 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 So what this is what it was. 282 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,000 This is the definition when we see in the Bible and we even see some examples. 283 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 And that's what's going to be the most of the rest of our lesson. 284 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 OK. 285 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 So the first thing it was was a proverb. 286 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 OK. 287 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 A parable was a proverb. 288 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 So that P there is proverb. 289 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Now in the middle of your Bible, you have the Book of Proverbs. 290 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 OK. 291 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:02,000 And so if you pick out a single proverb out of that book, you could rightly say it's a parable. 292 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 So any one of them, any one of the proverbs. 293 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Now not a whole chapter necessarily, especially its unrelated pieces or things like that. 294 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Not a whole chapter. 295 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,000 But if you just pick one, there is a way that seems right unto a man, but leads to death. 296 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 That's a proverb. 297 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 But they would have called it a parable. 298 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Understand. 299 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 So we have the word proverb. 300 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 There is another we are another word that would be only translated as proverb. 301 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,000 But this word that's translated parable is translated could be translated as a proverb. 302 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 And I'll show you that in the text before we're done. 303 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 OK. 304 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 And then it could be it also could be a full blown allegory. 305 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 OK. 306 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 So that's what's next. 307 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Full blown allegory, which is we already talked about a figurative story. 308 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 People, places, objects represent abstract or mental concepts. 309 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 It could be that. 310 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 OK. 311 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:01,000 So it could be a proverb or a full blown allegory. 312 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Including a riddle. 313 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 It could be a riddle. 314 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 So this word parabola could be a riddle. 315 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 So you say, hey, I got a riddle for you. 316 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Or you could say, hey, I got a parable for you. 317 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 That would be the same thing. 318 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 So you got to tell her like, why did the chicken cross the road? 319 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:26,000 You know, or I just heard one about that recently. 320 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Why did the French fries cross the road? 321 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 To get to the other sides. 322 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 To get to the other sides. 323 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Because French fries are a side. 324 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 OK. 325 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Anyway, so that was a parable. 326 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Not a very good one, but it was a parable. 327 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 All right. 328 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Proverb full blown allegory, including a riddle. 329 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 And then it could be a dark saying. 330 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 A dark saying. 331 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Does anybody know what I mean when I say a dark saying? 332 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I mean, it could be about that, but it doesn't have to be in order to be right. 333 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Or some of the proverbs. 334 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Yeah, no. 335 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 That would be dark, yes. 336 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 But this would be like. 337 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Some of the proverbs. 338 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Or some of the proverbs about suffering. 339 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Here's one. 340 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 You too shall. 341 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Go ahead. 342 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 A dark saying. 343 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Yep. 344 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,000 You too will go to hell unless you repent. 345 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Right? 346 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 That's a dark saying. 347 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Unless you repent and turn to the Lord, you too will go to hell. 348 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 And that's an example of a parable. 349 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Right? 350 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 By the biblical definition of the word. 351 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Because the Bible has the word parabole in the cases where Jesus is talking. 352 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 He says parable. 353 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 That's the word. 354 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 In fact, there's one in there where the word parabole is actually. 355 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 We'll see it before we're done. 356 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 There's actually translated proverb. 357 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 But it was the word parabole. 358 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 It was actually. 359 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 So we see that it can be used in these different ways. 360 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Okay. 361 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:11,000 And it could be an illustration. 362 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Or a contrast. 363 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Just simply a contrast between two things. 364 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Or lastly, a story. 365 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Okay. 366 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Now this is where it gets a little bit fun and practical. 367 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 We're actually going to read some Bible verses. 368 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Does anybody want to read? 369 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Do you feel like reading a Bible verse? 370 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Going once. 371 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 R.J. will. 372 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 R.J., you take Luke 4.23. 373 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Emily, do you have a Bible with you? 374 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Okay. 375 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 You can use mine. 376 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Or you can use Jason's on his phone. 377 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Either one would be fine. 378 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 So it's going to be Mark 3.23 is the verse you're going to read. 379 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Do we have another volunteer? 380 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 We need two more actually before we're through. 381 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000 All right. 382 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Alicia. 383 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Mark 13.28. 384 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 What was it? 385 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 What? 386 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 23. 387 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000 4.23. 388 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Jason, you'll have the last one. 389 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 What was M's verse? 390 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,000 M's was Mark 3.23. 391 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Jason's, yours is Luke. 392 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Well, you better let somebody else take it if you're going to have hers. 393 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Okay. 394 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000 All right. 395 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Luke 18.2 to 5 is the other one then. 396 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 All right. 397 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Okay. 398 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 So we had Luke 4.23. 399 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 R.J.? 400 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yes. 401 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Okay. 402 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,000 So now to remember our definitions of parabolae that come out of the Bible and listen for 403 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 it in this verse. 404 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 That's the whole goal of this exercise. 405 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 We're going to listen for the parable in this verse. 406 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Okay. 407 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Go ahead. 408 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Nice and loud. 409 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:43,000 He said to them, no doubt you will quote this proverb to me, physician, heal yourself. 410 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:48,000 When whatever we heard was done at… 411 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Is it? 412 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Capernaum. 413 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Capernaum. 414 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,000 You'll hear in your hometown as well. 415 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Okay. 416 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,000 So did you hear the word parabolae in there? 417 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 It was translated as proverb. 418 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,000 So Jesus said, no doubt you will quote to me this proverb, this parabolae. 419 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 That's the word. 420 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Okay. 421 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 And it is heal yourself. 422 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 All right. 423 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And you can put that in there if you want. 424 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 It goes right under Luke 4.23, heal yourself. 425 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,000 That is a poorly drawn kind of… it's not too terrible actually. 426 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 It was presented to the old doctor, old medical symbol back in the day. 427 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Okay. 428 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And then you notice I put the word proverb down there. 429 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 So what we just learned is according to the Bible, according to the way the Bible was 430 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:41,000 crafted, the Bible was written, the original text, a parable can be a proverb. 431 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Understand? 432 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 So that's not our definition now. 433 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 We just got that definition directly from God's Word. 434 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:53,000 So when you're talking to somebody and they say, they tell you… I'll give you an example. 435 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,000 What's another example of the early bird gets the worm. 436 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Okay. 437 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Which is an old… it's a proverb. 438 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 It's not a biblical proverb, but it is a proverb. 439 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Okay. 440 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 So it's also a what? 441 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 A parable. 442 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 So you could call it a parable if you wanted to. 443 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 And then somebody will say, no, no, that's not a story Jesus told. 444 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 No, no, no. 445 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 I don't mean that. 446 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,000 The actual definition of what a parable is would include what you just said to me. 447 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Okay. 448 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 But I understand that's not from the Bible. 449 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 So, all right. 450 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 So that was, heal yourself, the proverb. 451 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Okay. 452 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,000 And now we're going to the right and we're going to hear Mark 3.23. 453 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Got it, Emily? 454 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Nice and loud. 455 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,000 And he called out that to himself and he gets the parable. 456 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Parables. 457 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 That's Satan, that's Satan. 458 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Okay. 459 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:50,000 So that translation that she just read from actually translated the word parables as parables. 460 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 But then what did he do? 461 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 What was he actually doing? 462 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,000 He started speaking them into parables and then what did he do? 463 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 He asked them a question. 464 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 That could have an answer. 465 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 He might know the answer, but that's called a riddle. 466 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Right? 467 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 So what he did was, I'm going to speak to you in parables. 468 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Here's a riddle for you. 469 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000 He said, I'm going to cast out Satan, cast out Satan. 470 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:24,000 And they were accusing him of casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub or Satan rather than doing it by the power of God. 471 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Right? 472 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:32,000 So that is the word parable A being used to represent a riddle. 473 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:37,000 And now you've got a biblical definition that includes proverbs and riddles. 474 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Okay, now we're going. 475 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Okay. 476 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 So we have Luke 18, 2 to 5. 477 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,000 No, Mom has Mark 13, 28. 478 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Okay. 479 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 All right. 480 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 And speaking of which, this is Mark 13, 28. 481 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Now learn the parable from the fig tree. 482 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,000 When its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 483 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Okay. 484 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000 So this is a parable, but it's not a story. 485 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 It's not even figurative language. 486 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Right? 487 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000 So there's no, it's just a simple illustration. 488 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,000 And so we see that a parable can be a simple illustration. 489 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000 That is a pretty good representation of a fig tree, by the way. 490 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:31,000 They grow a lot like bushes and they have an oval leaf. 491 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Okay. 492 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 All right. 493 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 You ready, Jason? 494 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Luke 18, 2 to 5. 495 00:23:44,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Okay. 496 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Okay. 497 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Then, so what is he doing there? 498 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,000 He's telling a story, but he's contrasting her with somebody. 499 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:37,000 And a little later, I may have had him stop just a little too soon. 500 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Yeah. 501 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,000 I'll read after that. 502 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It says, hear what the unrighteous judge said, now shall not God bring about justice for his elect who cry to him day and night? 503 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 And will he delay long over them? 504 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I tell you that he will bring about justice for them speedily. 505 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? 506 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,000 So this was a contrast between that judge and God. 507 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 He wasn't saying that judge was like God, right? 508 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 He's saying the opposite. 509 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,000 He's saying that judge is completely different than the way God is. 510 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:14,000 She kept begging him and he kept delaying, and finally he said, fine, she's going to weary me to death if I don't give in to her. 511 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 God said, it's not like that with God. 512 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Jesus said, it's not like that with God. 513 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Rather, pray to God and he will answer. 514 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 He will bring justice. 515 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 And when Jesus comes again, finally, he said, well, I find faithfulness on the earth. 516 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Okay. 517 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:35,000 So the point of that parable, the message there is to pray and don't pray and do not lose heart. 518 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 That's what Jesus was telling them to do. 519 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Realize that God will bring justice. 520 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Okay. 521 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 And we just got a little summary. 522 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 And then we're going to go over the whole thing just for a second. 523 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 So we make sure we understand what we learned. 524 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000 All right. 525 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 What was the thing that I need to say? 526 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Pray and do not lose heart. 527 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,000 That's what the purpose of that contrast between the wicked judge and God was about. 528 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,000 That we should pray and do not lose heart. 529 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Okay. 530 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 So now we've got a broad meaning. 531 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 You see the number one there? 532 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 We have a broad biblical meaning for the word parable. 533 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:23,000 It is any unusual or striking speech, any dark saying meant to stimulate thought. 534 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Okay. 535 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000 So that's one possibility. 536 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 That is the broadest meaning. 537 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 So you could do a riddle. 538 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 You could do a quick jab. 539 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 You could do a quote from an Old Testament verse. 540 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 You could do a story where things represent something different. 541 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 You could just illustrate one thing to another, whatever. 542 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 And all of that would be included in there. 543 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Then there's a second definition. 544 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000 All right. 545 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Which is any story with two levels of meaning. 546 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Literal and figurative. 547 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 So when you talk about Jesus' parables, that is definitely talking about, 548 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,000 he tells a parable, he realizes like the common man is going to get one definition. 549 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000 But Christians are going to get a better understanding. 550 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:06,000 He would explain the parables to his disciples after everybody else kind of went away. 551 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Right. 552 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 And he even, a couple of them, he said, if you can't understand, 553 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 well, with the parable of the sower, for example, he said, 554 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 if you can't understand this parable, how will you get all the rest? 555 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Right. 556 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 So the parables are really important. 557 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000 In other words, if you can't understand the parable of the sower, 558 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:31,000 you may not be able to understand dark sayings, riddles, illustrations, contrasts, stories, whatever. 559 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 So at some point we will look at the parable of the sower, but we're not there yet. 560 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 So first is a broad meaning. 561 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Any unusual or striking speech, any dark saying that's meant to stimulate thought. 562 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Secondly, there is a little more specific meaning. 563 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000 It is any story with two levels of meaning. 564 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 A literal level and a figurative level. 565 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,000 And then there is a third definition that's being used a lot today in the world. 566 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 And we'll talk about that next week. 567 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,000 All right. 568 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 So we're going to stop right there for a minute before we do questions, 569 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 before I ask questions and throw candy. 570 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Okay. 571 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Does anybody have any questions or do you understand the four parables that we looked at? 572 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Remember, the first one was a proverb, the second one was a riddle, 573 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,000 the third one was a simple illustration, and the fourth one was a contrast. 574 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 But do you kind of understand them? 575 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:27,000 They were, I'll give you the first one, they were accusing Jesus of not being able to do miracles. 576 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000 They said they didn't believe he could do miracles. 577 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 But he had already done a ton of miracles. 578 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Okay. 579 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000 And then he said to them, well you probably say to me, physician, heal thyself. 580 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Work all the miracles here that you worked over there. 581 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 But that's not why Jesus came. 582 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Jesus came to save souls. 583 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000 He didn't come to heal every single blind man, every single paralytic, every single diseased person, 584 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 whatever, he did a ton of that. 585 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,000 He did a ton of healing people. 586 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 But he really came to save souls. 587 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000 There's a particular story where Jesus gets up really early in the morning and he's out in the woods 588 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 and he's praying and talking to God. 589 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 And the disciples wake up and all around the house where they were staying, 590 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 all these people came to be healed. 591 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Tons and tons of people came to be healed. 592 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,000 They're all waiting. 593 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And the disciples get up and they're like, oh, we can't heal all these people. 594 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,000 We need Jesus. 595 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 And so they go looking for Jesus and they find him in the woods. 596 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,000 And Jesus said, or first they say to Jesus, all the people are looking for you and we found you, 597 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 which is profound. 598 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 So they found Jesus in the woods. 599 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000 So let's go back so we can heal all the people. 600 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Jesus said, no, no. 601 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 We're going to go over here and preach the gospel. 602 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 We're going to go over here and tell the poor and the sick and the hurting, 603 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,000 tell everybody who will listen about God and how God loves them and how God wants to save them. 604 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 That's what he said they were going to do. 605 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000 And they're like, but all these people, they need to be healed. 606 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 He says, but I didn't come to heal all those people. 607 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,000 I came to tell people about salvation. 608 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Will there be sickness in the earth? 609 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000 There's going to be sickness in the earth until the day Jesus comes again. 610 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000 It's always going to be sickness. 611 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000 Does God want to heal? 612 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000 Yes. 613 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Can he? 614 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Yes, he does. 615 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 And sometimes he does heal miraculously, but he's not going to heal. 616 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000 He doesn't heal everybody every single time. 617 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Right. 618 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000 So that's what that proverb was about. 619 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Jesus was saying, you say that to me if you want. 620 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000 But the reality is I came for so much more than just to heal everybody. 621 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Okay. 622 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 And then they were saying he was casting out demons by power of Satan. 623 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 And he said, well, how can Satan cast out Satan? 624 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 That doesn't make any sense. 625 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Right. 626 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 And that was the riddle for them. 627 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,000 And then they couldn't answer. 628 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 And so then that handled that situation. 629 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 And then there's the illustration of the fig tree. 630 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,000 When the fig begins to bloom on the fig tree, you know it's time, getting time to pick the figs. 631 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Right. 632 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,000 And he was saying, and here I am in front of you doing miracles and telling you about God. 633 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000 And you're missing the fact that it's time. 634 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000 It's time to repent. 635 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 It's time to turn back to God. 636 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:53,000 And then the last one was the contrast between the wicked judge and Jesus and God. 637 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 And that showed how God will not delay. 638 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 He will bring justice. 639 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 And ultimately he will bring ultimate justice. 640 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 And the question is when God brings that ultimate justice, where will you stand? 641 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 Will you be faithful to God? 642 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 When Jesus comes again to check and see if ever, who's faithful and who's not, will you be found faithful? 643 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 And that's what Jesus was asking. 644 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Okay. 645 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000 So I just went over all four of them again for you. 646 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000 All right. 647 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000 So here we go. 648 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000 We're going to ask some questions. 649 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000 See how we do. 650 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 All right. 651 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 You ready? 652 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 Got your work in front of you. 653 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Okay. 654 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000 It's going to go kind of fast. 655 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 All right. 656 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Okay. 657 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:39,000 So who, a teenager that can pronounce parable in Greek that can pronounce it. 658 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Jason, go. 659 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Parable. 660 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000 All right. 661 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000 I'll give it to you. 662 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Ready? 663 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Coming at you. 664 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 Got one there. 665 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Okay. 666 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000 All right. 667 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000 All right. 668 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:58,000 So when a parable or a parable is a question, the word parable would actually be translated 669 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 as this. 670 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,000 What is it? 671 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,000 A riddle. 672 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000 A riddle is correct. 673 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Very good. 674 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Coming back at you. 675 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 You're in the light of fire. 676 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000 You're in the light of fire too, apparently. 677 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000 She's like, I didn't do it. 678 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000 I was just sitting here. 679 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,000 Okay. 680 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000 All right. 681 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Let's see. 682 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Which book of the Bible does the Jesus contrast the wicked judge to God? 683 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Haley. 684 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Say it again. 685 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 No, it is not Mark. 686 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Luke is correct. 687 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Sorry. 688 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:45,000 These are the ones that kind of sail a little bit. 689 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:51,000 They're not very easily thrown, except for the little warhead things. 690 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Okay. 691 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:59,000 So as far as the kind of worldly or broad definition, let's go Natalie. 692 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 I'm going to ask you directly. 693 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Are you ready? 694 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Okay. 695 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:10,000 So a parable is considered to be a story that aims to blank and blank. 696 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 What are they? 697 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Correct. 698 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:22,000 I was actually pretty good. 699 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000 You could have caught that. 700 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000 All right. 701 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Okay. 702 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Easy question. 703 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000 First answer. 704 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000 First one to get it. 705 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000 What kind of tree? 706 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Big. 707 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Who said that? 708 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Big. 709 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000 All right. 710 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Very good. 711 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 She's like leaning in. 712 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Hey, she caught them both. 713 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000 That's pretty impressive. 714 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Okay. 715 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Okay. 716 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000 Finish this proverb. 717 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Physician. 718 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000 What? 719 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Feel thyself. 720 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Josh got it. 721 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000 Coming at you, Josh. 722 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Ready? 723 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000 These are a little bit easier. 724 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Why? 725 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Physician. 726 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000 What? 727 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:06,000 It was close. 728 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Okay. 729 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:25,000 When Jesus was accused of casting out demons by the power of Satan, he asked this riddle. 730 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,000 What was it? 731 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,000 How can Satan cast out Satan? 732 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000 All right. 733 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Is that what you were going to say, Hailey? 734 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000 All right. 735 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Are you ready, Sam? 736 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000 I am ready. 737 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000 What does this one really do? 738 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000 It doesn't like them. 739 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000 It doesn't like Twizzlers. 740 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000 It doesn't like Twizzlers? 741 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Seriously, it defied chocolate. 742 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Well, this is not the chocolate bag. 743 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000 It's the chocolate bag. 744 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:52,000 She's going to dodge everything I throw to her anyway. 745 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Okay. 746 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Let's see. 747 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Hannah, spell allegory. 748 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Correct. 749 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000 Correctly. 750 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000 That is correct. 751 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Not like Pastor Dan would have spelled it, but. 752 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Okay. 753 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Hannah, spell allegory. 754 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Correct. 755 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Correct. 756 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Correct. 757 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Correct. 758 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:14,760 That is correct. 759 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,760 I think that A looks better, too. 760 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,760 Whatever. 761 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,760 It doesn't matter because I'm just wrong. 762 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,760 Okay. 763 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,760 All right. 764 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,760 What's that? 765 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,400 She asked why it was so dark outside because it's late September. 766 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,400 Yeah. 767 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,200 The clock has not fallen back yet, and that probably won't last for long either. 768 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,200 Okay. 769 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,200 All right. 770 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:58,000 Kishon, by the parable of the wicked judge and contrasting the wicked judge to God, Jesus 771 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,520 was telling them not to do what? 772 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,000 It's on the page. 773 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000 You got to. 774 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000 Okay. 775 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Correct. 776 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000 Not lose heart. 777 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 All right. 778 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:22,400 I feel like I'm going to do one deep one here. 779 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,400 Let's see. 780 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,400 Okay. 781 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,200 I'm going to do a whole... Let's see. 782 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,720 Big old scoop of candy one time. 783 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,720 All right. 784 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:41,560 Put your paper down, and I'll give this scoop of candy to anybody that can name the four 785 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,320 types of parable that we looked examples at. 786 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,320 All right. 787 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,520 You can only get one shot at it. 788 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:47,520 Jason, go. 789 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:48,520 Four types? 790 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,520 Four types. 791 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,520 Crab herbs? 792 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,520 Yep. 793 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,520 A dog saying no. 794 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:53,520 Nope. 795 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:54,520 What? 796 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:55,520 Next. 797 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,520 Haley. 798 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,320 Go. 799 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,480 If she blows it, you're up, Chris. 800 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,960 I said if. 801 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,960 Proverb is right. 802 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:06,960 You need three more. 803 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:07,960 Don't look at your worksheet. 804 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,960 Jason, you can't answer now anyway. 805 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:09,960 Emily, don't look at his worksheet. 806 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:10,960 Contrast? 807 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:11,960 Contrast is one. 808 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:12,960 You got two. 809 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:13,960 You need two more. 810 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,960 Oh, somebody's cheating. 811 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:15,960 I heard cheating. 812 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:16,960 Last one. 813 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:17,960 No. 814 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:18,960 The story is incorrect. 815 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:19,960 Chris, can you do the last one? 816 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,960 Then you can divide this candy out amongst your heard. 817 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:21,960 However you want. 818 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,720 Just the room.