And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to
them in parables?” He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to
you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been
given.” (Matthew 13:10-11 NKJV)
Why did Jesus speak in parables? Jesus answered to His
disciples, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven.” What is the mystery of God? It is something humans want to
know desperately and only God can make us know and understand. It is reality
and truth about our life. Who doesn’t want to know the mysteries of God? That’s
why Christ came to the earth to plainly tell the mysteries of God. Christ used
many parables, seven of them recorded in the Gospel of Matthew Thirteenth
Chapter.
The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven are given and known
to His followers, but not to the world. This is significant. No matter how the
people of the world educate themselves, they are in darkness and confusion for
the mysteries of God are not given to them. Even if the people know how to
explorer the moon and the mars and how to replicate the animals using the gene technology,
they badly fail to understand the kingdom of heaven for it is given to those
are cleansed and washed away by the blood of Christ Jesus.
What is the kingdom of heaven? It is where God reigns and
rules both the visible and invisible realms. There is no place where God does
not reign and rule in the universe. Beyond the universe, there is the invisible
kingdom of God. The kingdom of heaven is not located far distance away in space
but right here yet invisibly. In fact, we are living in the kingdom of heaven
for we born of God are in Christ Jesus and He in us.
Jesus says that the parables tell and reveal the mysteries
of God. For example, the parable of the sower reveals what is really going on
in our hearts when the word of God falls upon us throughout the centuries after
centuries. Those who soften their hearts (good soil) and heed to the word of
God would bear the fruits of one hundred fold, sixty fold, and thirty fold. It
is still going on right now.
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