These individuals were members of a Jewish religious elite during Jesus' time and of all religious elite the ones whom Jesus primarily interacted with.
What is a Pharisee?
This parable reminds us to consider our lowly status before God rather than being prideful before men.
What is the Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector?
This is the distinction of how the tax collector vs the Pharisee prays
What is exaltation before men vs humility before God?
The number of ground types in the Parable of the Sower
What are 4 types?
In the parable of the Sower, this is the ground type where the birds ate up the seeds before they sprouted.
What is the path?
These people are choked out by the desires of this world.
Who are those of the thorny soil?
In the parable of the talents, the servant made what mistake?
What is refusing to do the minimum of what God asked?
This is the Rich Man's second request in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
What is a warning from Lazarus of eternal consequences to his family?
What is 10,000 men?
This is the location where the Pharisees would pray. This is not in reference to the Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector.
What is the temple?
In the parables, this man wanted to build larger barns to store his crops.
In the parable of the two debtors, Jesus says this is a prerequisite for the ability to love God and others.
What is a repentant heart?
How does the woman who Jesus described as forgiven of many sins respond to Jesus?
What is weeping on, kissing, and anointing Jesus' feet?
The number of talents received by the first servant
What is 5 talents?
This is the specific location of Lazarus after his death
What is Abraham's side?
The meaning of the name Lazarus
What is "God is my help"?
Jesus says that you must "hate" your family to follow him for this reason.
What is Jesus must be the Lord of your life and your love for him should vastly outweight the love of anyone/anything else.
In the parable of the talents, the rebellious servant did this with the money, and should have done this instead?
What is buried and should have been invested in?
This was the debt amount of the larger debtor.
What is 500 denarii?
In the Parable of the Great Banquet, this is the first place where the master goes to search for people to partake in the feast.
What are the streets and alleys of the city?
This group of people was invited to the master's feast as his ultimate plea.
What is people on the sides of the highway and hedges?
In the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, the rich man ultimately did this wrong.
Jesus compares the person who does not count the cost of discipleship to these two people.
Who is the person building a tower, and the king going to war?
The amount of money that a talent equates to in today's currency?
What is one years's wages?
This LifeGroup study is objectively the better study between Monday and Tuesday.
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