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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

There is a co-relations, a difference. Unbelievers cannot understand this. They do not know where we are living. They do not know what is going on within us. All they see is the outer shell. They think we either lost our minds or are foolish. But we know we are peculiar in the name of Christ. We have a life that they could only hope for. It is only by the grace of God that we have what we have because it was by His choice that He chose us and we came to him but we have a choice to come or not to come. There are people who reject eternal life. They reject the conviction of the Holy Spirit and go out and find themselves miserable and come back crying to God. When that door opens, you better go through it right away. Because it is not your choice then. It is only when God opens the door for you. But when God closes the door, no man can open it for you. When you feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit upon you, you cannot afford to reject His calling.

"For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Matthew 13:12

This verse is talking about the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Did not Jesus say when you pray go to the Father in reverence and when you receive the revelation from heaven and act upon it, you will have the abundant life. Many people refer to the abundant life spoken of in the book of Acts but they do not have an abundant life. They don’t understand why Satan has entered into their lives to steal, kill and destroy them. They question why these things happen to them but do not understand that there is a lack of obedience. Obedience requires self humiliation, humbling yourself to Christ in order for the obedience to actually work in your life. When Christ ask you to do something, you may fight it within yourself. There is a warring between the flesh and the spirit. But if you will crucify the flesh and not reason it within your soul, don’t weigh it out, just do it. You will have the abundance and God will continue to bless you over and over again.

"Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear…” Matthew 13:13-16

This is not about the physical eyes and physical ears. This is about visions and hearing in the realm of the spirit for that is where Christ lives. That is why the Lord prayed so much, to receive what God the Father wanted him to do next.

Jesus waited four days before he went to the tomb of Lazarus. He could not go on the second or the third day. It wouldn’t have worked. It had to be in God’s timing. It had to be when God the Father said, “Go.” The keys of heaven and earth had been given to Christ, Jesus. He sits on the right hand of the all mighty, making intercession for you and me. What does this mean? Why is he praying to us now? He is making intercession back and forth to us so that we will know what to do. What is miraculous about the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven is that He is omnipresent. God can deal with all of our problems all at the same time in totally different areas in our lives. People say that they do not hear from God. But God speaks to everybody! They are just dull of hearing.

Remember that Jesus was talking about men who went into the synagogue daily and read from the scriptures. They knew the word given in the Old Testament. They knew the prophecy of Isaiah referred to in the verse but they did not know Christ. It is so easy to get so religious that you lose sight of who you are serving in this life. You can get so proud so haughty that you start to look down at everyone else in the world who has not received salvation through the grace of Christ. You can become so callous and dull of hearing that you can not interpret one thing that God is doing because you are judging it with a physical eye. You cannot do that.

For example, when someone is delivered from smoking, it is natural to want to point a finger and scold smokers who have not received the grace of God to be delivered from the thing that is holding them in bondage. You can not judge everyone around you by what is happening in your life. That will cause you to be snarled so quickly and blinded so fast that you will walk around like the blind leading the blind.