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2The mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His ______ in Colossians 1:26-27
5GOT QUESTIONS tells us, …A parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something ____…
10Matthew 13:10 Then theY came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?
12…Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth in order to SHOW that truth…
13The term "mystery" may include the relation of Christ to the Church being like that of husband and wife which are made known to the initiated who are the “Born _____”
14…His parables were teaching helpers and can be thought of as extended analogies or inspired comparisons…
15Jeremiah 33:3 says, Call to Me, and I will (HELLO) and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
16“The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to ____ unbelievers
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1Jesus was a storyteller and the SRNEWS Project is a Wordsmith disciple who in a unique way in the digital age shares Him and other stories in word
3Paul refers to such revealed secrets as the preaching of the gospel to the NONJEWS and to the conversion of the Jews
4…A common description of a parable is that it is an earthly story with a up there meaning…
6In Smith's (66 BOOK CIOLLECTION) Dictionary, a parable signifies placing beside or together, a comparison. A parable is therefore literally a placing beside, a comparison, a similitude, an illustration of one subject by another
7In Luke 8:10 He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not do this.’
8Maybe some of the mysteries of the place of heaven are the secrets about the establishment and development of God's realm, which cannot be discovered by human reason
9Jesus taught more than 40 of these in the Bible, He used them to influence and challenge the thinking of the audience and to help people consider a different perspective about Himself and the kingdom of God
11And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to do this