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The Power of a Penny
Jesus often used simple earthly objects to explain a spiritual concept. His listeners were asked to focus on something physical so that He could teach them something spiritual. Understanding that God is outside of time, space, and matter is difficult for His creation to comprehend. Finite sinful creatures just cannot comprehend the infinite and holy God. Jesus understood His creation and our need for hooks in our brain on which we could hang new concepts. He often taught with parables and object lessons. God, in both the Old and New Testament used parables and object lessons to help us understand our own sinfulness, His holiness, our helplessness, and His grace,…
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Shaping Abstract Truths To Form A Firm Foundation – #6 How to Grow in Christ
A parable is an earthly story with heavenly meaning. The physical world helps us understand the spiritual world. Jesus loved to teach with parables. When it comes to the inward change and the way we grow in Christ I think a butterfly is the perfect example. God has a great plan for caterpillar who has no wings but is stuck crawling on its belly. He gives it the instinct to inch its way along eating on the good things it finds until one day it comes to the place where it can safely form a cocoon around itself. There it is transformed and given wings to fly. Like a caterpillar…
