Not every man is fit for a lecture. Fewer still have time or attention to engage in a drawn out discourse. However, there is something about a good story that grips us and draws us in. Could it be because we ourselves our part of the Great Story?
Ken Boa teaches on the parable of the unrighteous steward and its application to us today, explaining that believers should leverage the temporal things of this earth for the eternal things of heaven.
Ken Boa describes how Jesus responds to the grumbling of the scribes and Pharisees with three parables; all show how they should've been rejoicing instead of grumbling, for that which was lost has now been found.
In this chapter of Matthew, we see Jesus using parables to conceal the truth from those who would reject it, and to reveal the truth to those who would receive and believe.