Matt Slick Bible Study Parables, #2

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That's the right one. Thank you technical stuff. All right, you ready? Let's pray Lord jesus. Thank you for your word and that you've given us lord. We ask that you'd bless us As we study it. I ask jesus that you would open up our minds open up our hearts to truth of your word as we look more into parables that you would Just be with us.

I ask lord that you bring listeners viewers. Who you ordain would hear and see and that they might be edified in your presence lord. Thank you for saving us. Thank you for bringing us together. Thank you for uh, julia Being here from albania.

We ask you bless her too. We just thank you jesus. We ask this your name. Amen. All right now I'm going to ask you guys which ones you want to go to first we can do. I got lots of notes the fig tree. We can do the friend at midnight and the great banquet.

The Fig Tree Parable and the Call to Repentance

Fig tree fig tree. That's a kind of figured it would be the fig tree. And I don't know why because i'm a prophet. No, it's because I think that's what it would be good. So if you go to luke 13 Now these are lucan parables.

So luke was a very good historian as I said before Luke wrote most of the new testament. Because the number of words written by one person that's luke. He wrote the book of acts. He wrote the book of luke.

Paul wrote more epistles, but luke more wrote more, uh words. So what i'm going to do is just go through uh, verses one through nine one at a time instead of reading it I'll just go through one verse at a time.

This is the parable of the fig tree, but there's a context Of this because the fig tree parable comes out after jesus, uh. Talks about some other stuff now verse one. Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to him about the galileans whose blood Pilot had mingled with their sacrifices.

All right now. So luke is writing this and he's mentioning this atrocious thing. This is really Something we can't fathom in our culture and understanding to mingle the blood. Uh pilot is a pagan who had killed people and forced their blood to be mingled with the sacrifices to god.

Uh, it's it's horrible one of the ways we might be able to relate to it would be to say we're in a church service and uh, A gunman or comes in and just starts shooting people and it just there's blood everywhere.

There's mayhem children are killed. You know, it's just reprehensible. It's just evil that kind of of uh of idea. And so, uh, so This is brought up and You gotta understand the context because The jews were under the oppression And dominance of the roman empire.

They did not like it now. They were a united group the jews were for the most part. But they did not want roman roman rule. Now. There's a theory that judas is scary at judas that he wanted He was a zealot, which was a political milit semi-military quasi-military group.

And that he they wanted The messiah to free israel from the oppression of rome. And so one of the theories incidentally is that the reason judas um Turned jesus in was to force his hand And then deliver israel now.

We don't know if that's true, but it's just it's a it fits within Broad cultural things. We don't know what he was really thinking but uh that kind of a thing. So verse two and he answered and said to them.

Do you suppose that these galileans? Were greater sinners than all other galileans because they suffered this fate. So instead of jesus saying well, you're right. That was really horrible. I sympathize with you he says well, do you think they were greater sinners than the other.

Well, that's not what is the response is expected from christ because jesus is the blonde-haired blue-eyed caucasian surfer guy. And he's standing at the door of your heart and knocking and he's asking permission and he's you know.

It's about you and your comfort. And so yeah, of course, it's so bad. Oh, I feel empathy with you. No, you think there were greater sinners than these guys? That's not the the answer we would expect. Uh, he says I tell you no.

Unless you repent you will always you will likewise perish. That is not the kind of thing you would expect joel ostein to say. Okay. Now, I don't know uh, uly if you know who joel ostein is. Yeah, he's bad.

Okay, he's horrible and so This is something joel ostein would never say yeah, you will likewise perish if you don't repent. Joel ostein wouldn't say that he'd say well, you know Jesus loves you so much and you just have to you know, and the great I am and get my book on the I am so, um He doesn't comment on the atrocity and it was an atrocity.

It really was and it was horrible yet He does not my god. It's in my nose. He does not address the atrocity. He uses it and says look. Because jesus is constantly the teacher. So instead of sympathizing instead of offering therapeutic Theological advice the seven steps to a better non-galilean massacre.

What he does is uses it. And so He says do you think you're going to suffer the likewise fate now he brings up the issue of sin we've got to make sure we understand that there's not a one-to-one correspondence here between Their sin and the sin of those who were sacrificed earlier whose blood was shed a lot of times people think.

And this is a tough one to grow to go through. It's a tough one. About one-to-one correspondence of sin. It's actually something I struggle with. And the reason is because in two days. It'll be 45 years.

Since I was involved in an accident a very bad car accident and if you get close to me You can see scars and stuff like this june 19th 1976. It took me two years to recover fully recover now the reason I bring it up is because um about a year earlier, I was involved in a car race.

And I and it was a bad accident as a result of it and I left the scene. And i've since dealt with that before god before people and things like that. But when I was in the hospital, I got out of icu and I was in the hospital for a few days.

A pastor from the church. I was attending came in and one of the few clear moments. I had a severe brain concussion severe and um and I said now we're even. You know one for one and he says not how god works, but you know when you have guilt.

Sometimes you carry things with you and you say well I deserve this punishment. And I've got other things that I think as I suspect are well you did this and you did that now david king david he committed adultery.

Had uriah killed bathsheba's husband and then he lost his son and he had penalty. Now there was a correspondence. But jesus isn't addressing that and so the jews are going to be thinking this kind of a thing because they're legalistic.

It's our natural tendency. Now I believe that god will deal with us uh in certain ways to teach us. And to help us not be rebellious and stuff like that. We can get into more discussion some other time.

But anyway I remember john 9, uh John 9 is you know, the man who's born blind the disciples asked rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he should be born blind. So they had this idea that that the consequences that were negative that were bad to you were the result of your sin.

Now what movement do we have within christianity that teaches the same thing? Prosperity the word of faith stuff. Yeah, you're not healed because you don't have enough faith you sin. That's why you're blind you sinned.

That's why you're deaf you're sinned. That's why you have ringing in your ears you sin. That's why my wife had to have open-heart surgery, you know, and this is false teaching. But we have to learn to separate our feelings of guilt From the actuality of our consequences because we sometimes think Legalistically that it's a one-to-one correspondence, but god I don't believe god works that way.

I believe that he Very carefully allows things to occur to us to teach us and that if all of our past is given to him That he will use that as well to teach us. And because god is very merciful and very kind and so we could say that sin is forgiven.

But the effects of sin continue, but I don't believe there's a one-to-one correspondence necessarily. First four or do you suppose that those 18 now jesus brings up another bad thing? Those 18 on whom the tower of siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits Than all the men who lived in jerusalem now the word culprit really is the word From I think it's a root of philemon debtors.

And so They had a problem now sin is a legal debt because first john 3 4 Sin is you know, sin is breaking the law of god. Well Jesus says, you know our father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name and in matthew 6 12 He says forgive us our debts in the parallel in luke 11 4.

He says forgive us our sins. So jesus equates sin with legal debt because sin is breaking the law of god. And so you think they were the Uh worse culprits worse debtors Than others now a a transgression of the law Is a purposeful usually a purposeful transgression, but sin isn't always uh, purposeful.

We can sin accidentally but transgressions generally were understood to be those things. I know this i'm going to go do this. You go transgress that law Generally, but not always the case now so. Because the transgression is the the breaking the law, okay now.

Okay so, uh Verse five I tell you but no unless you repent you will always you will all likewise perish now. Wait a minute. Jesus wouldn't hurt anybody. He would not uh, Say anything negative to anybody.

He's always very Comforting he's always there standing at the door of your heart asking for permission to get to let Him in because it's up to your wisdom because he's so nice. And kind and yet jesus saying and you're going to perish likewise if you don't repent he is very stern.

He's telling them the truth. Now, who's he speaking to he's speaking to the religious people. These are now it's not wrong to be religious. But it's wrong to be religious to the point where it becomes your norm.

It becomes a thing that Governs you that you judge others by. Now there's a weakness within some christian circles and In a lot of christian circles, but in the issue of you can lose your salvation. So what do you do to keep it?

You do certain things to keep your salvation and in some groups that has led to arrogance. Well, I do these things. I keep myself right with god, but you you believe you don't lose your salvation. So you can sin all you want you're not going to heaven just like like patrick today.

You know the I think he's sda the investigative judgment because he's talking about that. And so jesus he's not. What a lot of people Want him to be. I think you think about this in mormonism. Jesus is ab is taken and adapted.

It's too cold for you. Okay, okay. You guys cold? Okay, if it gets too cold, let me know because I got this fan on me. Now I forgot what I was gonna say. Dang it. It's okay. Mormons will take jesus. I was just testing you.

Uh mormons will take jesus and turn him into what they want him to be. The jehovah's witnesses will take jesus turn him into what they want him to be. The muslims will do that and the secular world because jesus Was he would never be what what the christians say he was.

And I have an article that i've written on karm. Would jesus ever say anything mean to anybody? Yes, he would you whitewash the sepulchers. You're your father the devil you brood of vipers. You know. No, no, no, jesus is nice he wouldn't do that.

All right. Now now comes the parable, but before we get into the parable i'm going to read out of leviticus 19 23 to 25 because this is the background of that parable. And when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.

Three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy an offering of praise to the lord. And in the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit and its yield may increase for you that is okay.

So this is the background of this fig tree thing. So they were told in leviticus 19 23 to 25 That they would plant a tree and they could not do anything with it for three years couldn't eat of it. The fruit that was there three years don't do it.

And the next year the fourth year that fruit was for god. And the fifth year you could eat the fruit. The fifth year is when you could start eating the fruit. So it took a while now. Leviticus, uh, I mean, uh, luke 13 6 and he began telling this parable a certain man had a fig tree.

Which he had planted in his vineyard and he came out looking for fruit on it and did not find any. Now, wait a minute. So he's looking for fruit. Why is he looking for fruit. Doesn't say exactly didn't find any fruit, right.

So the next verse gives us a clue of something and he said to the vine keep vineyard keeper behold for three years I've come looking for fruit for this fig tree without finding any. So that means it's about the fifth year.

This plant is five years old because three years is holy the fourth year to the lord. Now the fifth year you can start looking for fruit. But for three years now, that means the tree is now five six for the fifth year.

So it'd be the um fifth six and seven the tree is at least seven years old. Seven years old. Three years plus other numbers. Seven years old. Seven's a perfect number in the bible. And he says there's no fruit.

Didn't find any all right. So the the owner has a right to expect a fruit from the vineyard. So what does the fruit? Represent. What does the tree represent? Class. Anybody take a guess. What? Believers.

You're close. Most probably it represents israel. Okay, israel is also called Uh the vine of god god's vine now um. And jesus says bring forth fruits in keeping with repentance. Uh I I. Years and years ago.

I came across a tract a little witnessing track. I said no fruit cut it down. You know that got me right away gonna read this one hope I have enough fruit don't get cut down. And if we go to john 14 Jesus says if you don't abide in him and if you don't bear any fruit, you're you're prone you're taken out.

So what he's talking about is alluding to the the stuff of leviticus. That 19 23 to 25 you're obligated as a people particularly the people of israel to bear fruit. What is that fruit? What were they called to do?

They were called by god to be a light to the world. Because through them the messiah would come but the and jesus was sent only to israel, but the jews Biblically should have known that through Uh, the messiah all nations shall be blessed because that's galatians.

I mean, excuse me genesis 12 3. So they're supposed to already know that. That even the gentiles are going to be included but they became so legalistic That they became entrenched in their own ability to keep their own law.

They became self-righteous and judgmental. And this is a problem back. I just thought about what if the jews thought they could lose their salvation probably because they were legalists. I'm going to use that sometime.

Okay. Um. So what are some of the fruit that we're supposed to bear as christians? Just matt to himself because no one's really listening. I just all this keep talking because I mean, yeah. So what are some of the fruit we're supposed to bear?

What repentance. Evangelism evangelism the fruit of the spirit the fruit of the spirit galatians 5 22 23. Love joy, peace patience kindness to one fruit in greek. What else presenting the gospel honesty integrity faithfulness long suffering.

Love for one another loving god all the good things. It's it's the fruit. We're supposed to be bearing these things in our lives as christians now. We don't do them perfectly. That's for sure. I certainly don't.

My wife would be sitting right there going. Amen to that but and so The He said to the vineyard keeper behold for three years i've come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any cut it down.

Why does he even use up the ground? So this thing is seven years old not bearing fruit. Destroy it. This is representative of israel. And uh. Said to the the vineyard keeper said Let it alone sir for this year too until I dig around it and put in fertilizer.

And if it bears fruit next year fine, but if not Cut it down. So there's a little bit of mercy given. Okay, let's let's see that we'll take care of this this tree. Now the idea of the parables we'll get to this explain this a little bit more.

This is not a super theologically deep one, but it's good israel is the one who's supposed to be The bringer of the light of the truth of god's word not only to the jews but to others as well. And in the psalms aren't no exact verses it talks about the light to the of the world it talks about going forth.

They're not doing their job. And this is a time bomb and I think about this parable. You've heard this you're you're a jew. You're a pharisee a sadducee you're just kind of legalistic a lawyer a scribe, whatever it is, and you're.

You're at home afterwards talking about it and after a while you go wait a minute. He just insulted us. It'd take a while to figure it out. Maybe. Because that fig tree is us. He's saying we're not bearing the fruit.

Who is he? To say such a thing. Who is this? Teacher to speak in such a way that he's judging israel the people of god. You see how important this is. He's speaking these things and he upsets people. He upsets people a lot.

Now it's not that he's upsetting them on purpose, but he's upsetting them because the truth is what offends. The truth is what offends. This is something I struggle with on the radio sometimes. Because I want to say the truth.

But I know that that in fact, you know, i'm reformed in my theology, you know, and people will say can you lose your salvation? I'll say no you can't look what jesus says right here, you know. And when we started the radio on this network.

Four years ago or whatever it was. We actually had a conversation where uh, the owner of the network told me says Uh, we know you're a calvinist. He said i'm that too, but we don't really want to talk about that on the radio.

And I I said to him. Well, I said I understand that I don't. I don't need to bring it up unnecessarily. But it's going to come up. Because people know who I am they know what I say. They're going to call me up and they're going to ask me and i'm going to tell them the truth.

He says well, you got to do what you got to do, you know, he's a very good guy. And so now i'm known as the calvinist radio guy. I'm not trying to be known. But why is that an important thing? Because christians seek division.

When they don't like something that they think god is supposed to be and when they find out he's not they get upset. And so i've had many people over the years tell me that the things that i've taught them have upset them a great deal but i've also had people tell me the same people come back and say.

But I went and looked at the scriptures and what you taught was right there in scripture. That's why I quote the references, you know go to romans 5 19 for original sin in the aorist. Um, The aorist passive indicative and what it means when you cross-reference it with philippians 129 go here and check this out, you know and uh.

That's what I want people to do. Check it out. All right now. The spiritual leaders of the household of the faith are planted in god's vineyard and are expected to produce fruit. People produce fruit.

Now we as christians are supposed to be producing fruit. Now there's different kinds of fruit that we can produce. We can write books. We can be on radio. We can Witness to our neighbor next door and by mowing his lawn or her lawn.

We can go to the store and wear a shirt we can Uh support missionaries. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You don't compare yourself to others. You you judge yourself by what god has for you in the position in the place you are so that you can use your gifts for god and so Rachel here's uh does sign language.

So we're going to try and implement sign language into the videos that i'll be doing. We're going to work that out on how it's going to work out. We're going to try that as another means to reach out and uh be blessed by uh to bless people with skills.

But I don't speak. I don't sign language and you know who else here does so that's a good thing. She has so she's going to do that, but we're not responsible to do that. Just like she's not responsible to be on the radio and not responsible to go to your job.

And and be a good witness at your job. We have different callings for different reasons at different times. But we are to bear fruit and we don't judge One another by each other we judge one another each other by what jesus.

The standard of christ. He's our standard not ourselves. Not each other. All right so uh. Another lesson out of this parable is that god will not Deal or he'll he'll be patient with you if you don't bear fruit but not always.

He'll deal with you. He'll deal with you if you don't bear fruit. That's why I remember once I said this to a guy I was working at a corporation in southern california. And they knew I was a christian everybody always knows i'm a christian they find out because I don't Lie, I don't cheat.

I don't do bad bad jokes, you know, and they find out. And so then they come to me and start asking me questions blah blah blah. Okay, this one guy I still remember this he came to me and we got talking about christianity and uh.

And I said it before I really kind of thought about it. And uh, he said he was a christian and I said you are. I said I couldn't tell and I realized what I just said and he went. It's it shook him up because I couldn't tell that he was a christian at work.

Now that's not to say that you have to have you know, i'm a christian t-shirt or whatever. But there should be something that distinguishes you from the unbelievers to some degree. And if there's not.

That's not a good a good sign, but not always because sometimes in certain contexts. It just doesn't come up and that's we understand that we're just talking about there's got to be fruit someplace sometime.

But not all people can produce fruit either. People can die on their deathbed not really have any fruit. You can also have bondage to various sinful habits and I know i've known people who uh were were older who uh raised during a depression.

And it left mark on them and had to go through world war ii and rationing. And had some very tough things happen and became christians and yet some of those scars are with them. And they don't there's not that victory.

Does that mean they're not christian? That doesn't mean they're not a christian. So when we talk about fruit, we've got to be careful that we don't judge a person by their fruit. But we're supposed to say normatively speaking, yeah, they have fruit they're supposed to manifest it somehow somewhere and uh so, uh god Won't deal with this.

I mean he won't be patient with us forever if we don't have any fruit. But he is patient nonetheless and the vineyard keeper Interceded and said let's take a little bit longer. It's okay. Okay. So intercession is something we can learn from here as well.

It does make a difference we can intercede and I believe that god should Destroy america. Because america has produced pornography is produced and promoted homosexuality and abortion and secularism. And transvestite is we got stupid shows on tv, you know pride month it just.

Okay. So why is god not destroying america because the christians are there saying lord? Deliver us. And god is patient. And as israel was allowed to be destroyed in 70 a .d God's patience ran out. I too believe that his patience will run out with america now some will say well.

It's going to happen after the rapture the pre-trib rapture. We could talk about that that's just not going to happen. I don't believe in that at all. And so, uh, we're going to go through persecution.

Maybe I can present some information to you. I've been studying for a while and and I really make you depressed. All right. Now, how about this one? Let's do the great banquet next. All right. Luke 14.

The Great Banquet and the Invitation to the Kingdom

And then we're going to get to a friend at midnight, which is going to be interesting. These are not some of the most studied, uh. Parables i'm gonna turn that air co it's getting a little cool in here now, isn't it?

Okay, so Put this here and then i'll go over here, excuse me. Okay. Now we go to luke 14 the great banquet. And the old testament bank background is in isaiah 25 6 through 9. A lot of times the parables have references to the old testament and allude to it.

And this is what it says there Isaiah 25 6 through 9 and the lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all people on his mountain. A banquet of aged wine choice pieces with marrow and refined aged wine and on this mountain.

He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples even the veil which is stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for all time and the lord god will wipe tears away from all faces.

Oh, I just thought of something else. Okay, sorry. And he will remove the reproach of his people from all the earth for the lord has spoken. And it will be said in that day behold. This is our god for whom we have waited.

That he might save us. This is the lord for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation. Now notice what it says. He'll prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain a banquet of aged wine because aged wine is really good back then.

Choice pieces of marrow bone marrow. That's that's the good part and refined aged wine. So the wine is really good now what people sometimes people say jesus did not make wine real wine alcoholic wine.

On in john chapter 2, but yes, he did. Yes, he did. And that's another topic we can go to that sometime now, let's go to luke 14 verse 15 and let's start. And when one of those who were reclining at the table with him heard this he said to them blessed is everyone who shall eat bread in the kingdom of god.

So that's another way to say eat a meal. I remember we talked about I think last week when you when they ate in that culture, they didn't do it like we do with the table and chairs and. And silverware stuff like that, but they were on their left arm.

And their feet were away from the table. They took a piece of bread tore it put it into. The sop. I made a sop, uh the the stew kind of a thing and they would use it as a fork. They would use it as a spoon and put stuff into it and eat it.

We kind of do that to make a sandwich, you know. Uh, we just kind of combine bread and and stuff, but we just do it a little bit differently. Okay. So, uh verse 16 he said to them a certain man was giving a big dinner and he invited many.

Now let's we got to remember the culture here so. When you would give a big dinner you would invite people, right? So if I want to have a dinner here at the house and i'm going to Say i'm going to go out and buy two chickens two rotisserie chickens and order a large pizza.

Am I going to be feeding 200 people? No, I might be feeding Five to ten depending on who how they are. Okay, how big they are that's just you know, girls eat more whatever, you know guys don't or whatever.

Okay, so he was giving a big dinner and he invited many people so he's planning this. Okay, he's planning this. And a meal was prepared in advance according to the number of people. That's how it would be.

This was we couldn't just go down like five extra people showed up which our house if that happened. Okay, great. No problem. Come on in. We'll just drive down and get another chicken. And we'll you know, no sweat give us you know, 20 minutes.

I don't care. But we couldn't do that back then. All right now a chicken for example. Would be for two to four guests, right? A duck, maybe five to eight a lamb, maybe 10 to 15, you know sheet maybe 15 to 35 and a calf 35 to 75 people depending but you get the idea different animals would be for different, uh, you know things.

So the amount and type of meat would depend on the number of people who accepted the invitation. If I invite 10 people and four say they're going to show up. We're going to prepare for four people and my wife and I you know, that'd be six people total.

That's what we all do right. Rsvp, you know respond jibu play right. Okay now. That means that people who are Have been invited are going to say yes, i'll be there that's why you're preparing it because It says is giving a big dinner and he invited many people.

And at the dinner hour, he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited come for everything is ready now. So there's people who've been invited. And the culture remember this is important the number of people had to be known.

And the amount of food had to be prepared in advance and the wine had to be prepared in advance. Because you didn't just have a refrigerator I'll get another bottle of wine go down to the store get another bottle of wine.

Wine took some time to prepare the food took some time to prepare. This is a big deal. This is a big deal. So if you say you're coming and you don't come there's got to be a good reason. You know. Why didn't you come my wife broke her arm?

I had to tender. All right good enough. Okay. Well, why didn't you come? Well you an alien abducted me. I was on venus for a couple of days. All right that that works, too. So if you've got a good reason why you couldn't make it what you think that doesn't happen.

It happened to me last week. It was rough. It was bad the air pressure there anyway so He says come everything's ready come on in right now, this is what's interesting. But they all oh and the greek word is a participial form keep coming.

Okay, tell them to come in because it's like you've already been invited. It's the whole process of going there the whole process they're preparing to oh. Another thing is they had to prepare to travel now if we're gonna.

You know, like you guys drove in the car, you know to get here if we're gonna have a dinner sometime. You gotta get in the car. You gotta travel right? Even if you're next door you gotta travel but not everybody lived next door.

Sometimes, you know, you'd marry this family over there this family over there. So it took time. So this is a big deal. Okay, it's a big deal. And they all alike began to make excuses. What? But everybody's are making excuses what you've already accepted.

We've already made plans. You're supposed to have already known about this. The first one said to him I bought a piece of land that I need to go out and take a look at it. Please consider me excused. Well, uh, oh, okay, so I just bought some land and now I gotta go look at it.

How many of you buy land without first looking at it? Yeah. Right, I just bought a house. I haven't seen it. I don't know what it looks like. I gotta go check it out. Excuse me. You know, that was a lame excuse right.

It's lame and we how many if you had done this. And uh, and you know, you invite someone they go. Well, I just bought a house. And I haven't seen it yet. I can't make the big dinner plan. We've had for two months.

I'll see you later. I'm not inviting him again or her again. This is bad news. That's lame excuse lame right. All right so When you buy a field in the middle east. You have to know what kind of rocks are on it if there's water on it if there's a wadi a wadi is a temporary.

Water supply like a stream a stream is constant a river is constant, but a wadi is. During this season there's water in it the next season, you know, like say in the spring there's there's water but in the fall There's no water.

It's called a wadi w-a-d-i. All right, and so there'll be a temporary source of water. That's what wadi is. I learned that in seminary. Okay. And uh. So you have to to look at all the quality and everything about it before you even begin to discuss the price to purchase it.