INTRO: We are looking at the early parables of Jesus. As I see it, most of His parables can be grouped into one of three groups. There are the early parables that indicate a change will come because Israel will reject their Messiah. And Jesus is preparing them for this change. Then there is the middle group of parables, and they speak of what the Church age will be like. These are mostly found in Matthew 13. Then there are the latter parables and the Lord tells the Jews what will happen to them and their nation after He is gone, and what will happen just before He returns and when He returns.
In our first parable, the Lord told this multitude up on the mountain that they would be the salt of the earth. Well, today there are at least professing Christians, literally all over the world and this is a direct result of those who were on that mountain which included the Lord’s disciples. He said they would be the light of the world. Now there is a lot of teaching about how to live the Christian life in the Sermon on the Mount that is not given in parable form. But the next parable is about the twig and the beam. We take this parable to mean we should not judge, but here the Lord taught them in parable form how to make proper judgments.
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