Red Letter Analysis by Arthur Harper

Author:Arthur Harper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-09-15T01:03:25+00:00

The Compassion

Many times, Jesus spoke in parables or stories using things and places the people lived with day in and day out in order to get the point across. The utilization of illustrations He used would make it easier for the people to understand the connection between their daily life and the word of God. When the disciples ask Jesus why He taught in parables, He explained it this way,

Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you [the disciples], but not to them [the people]. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak in parables. Though seeing they do not see, though hearing they do not hear nor understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s hearts have become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them.”

— Matthew 13:11–15 (NIV)

In other words, people have turned away from wanting to know God and even rejecting that God exists. Those who want to know Him, find Jesus, read and study His teachings, and are given more to understanding and have the ability to apply the teachings to their lives. Those who reject the possibility that there is a God and do not want to know anything about Him, whatever knowledge they have will be taken from their minds and hearts, and they will live without the favor of our Creator God. Where are you in this analysis? Here is the problem, there are those who join others in listening to the teachers, pastors, priests talking about Jesus in many different ways and on many different levels of education, but they do not talk to each person on their own level. You say that is impossible but think about it; how better to reach many different levels of knowledge than to tell a story relating to things they know about? If you tell a story written on a level for children, will it not improve the understanding of the adults? If you read a children’s book to your child, do you not think about the story and what it is saying and whether it will help your child grow in one way or another? As a child, did you not enjoy certain stories that touched a special spot in your heart that you have carried with you the rest of your life? I was older, in my teens, when I read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; for some reason, it touched my inner feelings, and I have cherished what the basis of the story told me about myself. This can happen at any time in a person’s life, but it all begins with hearing stories as a child.

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