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    Jesus taught in parables to reveal spiritual truths to His disciples but conceal them from others. He explained that understanding comes only from God granting this ability, as some are left in their sins while God's elect are called to faith. Those not granted understanding are among those God has decided to harden and appoint to disobey the gospel.

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    Jesus taught in parables to reveal spiritual truths to His disciples but conceal them from others. He explained that understanding comes only from God granting this ability, as some are left in their sins while God's elect are called to faith. Those not granted understanding are among those God has decided to harden and appoint to disobey the gospel.

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    Jesus taught in parables to reveal spiritual truths to His disciples but conceal them from others. He explained that understanding comes only from God granting this ability, as some are left in their sins while God's elect are called to faith. Those not granted understanding are among those God has decided to harden and appoint to disobey the gospel.

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    Why Did Jesus Teach in Parables?

    The following article contains excerpts from “A Book of Bible Study”,


    Copyright 2014 by Joseph F. Harwood

    https://www.abookofbiblestudy.net/

    Scripture quotations taken from the NASB

    After Jesus had given His teaching in the Parable of the Sower to the
    crowds who had gathered to hear Him (Matthew 13:1-9), His disciples asked Him
    why He spoke to the people in parables (Matthew 13:10). Jesus’ parables used
    metaphors and analogies to convey spiritual truths, and they were often not easily
    understood.

    His disciples were likely curious as to why He chose to use this method in
    His teaching, and why He did not communicate to the crowds in terms that they
    could more readily understand. Jesus explained why He spoke to the people in
    parables when He answered His disciples, saying: “…To you it has been granted
    to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been
    granted.” (Matthew 13:11).

    Jesus’ reply is very revealing, and it is in complete agreement with several


    Scriptures that we have considered before regarding God’s sovereign choice of
    those to whom He shows mercy, while others are left in their sins. The ability to
    come to Christ and to understand God’s word is given only to God’s elect, to those
    whom the Father gave to Jesus (John 6:37).

    God’s elect are those whom He foreknew from before the foundation of the
    world (Ephesians 1:3-11). In His time, God calls all of His elect to faith in Christ,
    He justifies them, and will ultimately glorify them (Romans 8:29-30). For all the
    rest, Jesus taught that it has not been granted to them to understand the Gospel
    message and the word of God as revealed in the Scriptures, which He referred to as
    “the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven”.
    Continuing in Matthew 13, after Jesus answered His disciples as to why He
    spoke to the people in parables, He then quoted from a passage in Isaiah 6:9-10,
    which speaks of God’s hardening of some individuals. Though they hear the words
    of the Gospel message, they do not understand, and though they see, they do not
    perceive. This is the condition of those to whom it has not been granted to hear and
    understand the word of God as it is given in the Scriptures (Matthew 13:9,11, 23).
    These are the same individuals Paul mentioned in Romans 9:18; God has willed
    not to show mercy to them, but to harden them.

    Those whom God has decided to harden are not among the ones who have
    been appointed to eternal life (Acts 13:48). Rather, they are among those who have
    been appointed to disobey the Gospel message, as Peter taught (1 Peter 2:8). Their
    own will, desire, or decision in the matter has nothing at all to do with their
    salvation (John 1:13, Romans 9:16). They do not believe because God has not
    granted to them to come to faith in Christ (John 6:65). As Jesus said, it has not
    been granted to them to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven
    (Matthew 13:11).

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