Tell Me the Stories of Jesus Quotes

“The parables are like hand grenades. Jesus took them out and set them before his hearers. Then...he pulled the pin out. Listen carefully, because the parable explodes. If you miss the blast of the story, you have missed the power of the parable. There is a reason that Jesus' parables are so memorable. We simply can't shake them. We can't escape them. We can't forget them.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Plainly, we are to desire Christ. In Psalm 37:4, we are told, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Notice that the psalmist did not say that we are to forgo delight and desire, but rather we are to calibrate them according to the kingdom of God.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“To be bound by the law was to be restricted, but to be loosed by the law was to be liberated. In other words, like ancient Israel, the church is bound to the Word of God, and we are bound by the Word of God, but the Word “looses” us to obedience. Binding and loosing in this sense describes what we now know as church discipline, the maintenance of church order and the vital issue of the accountability of disciples. As the Belgic Confession acknowledges, without discipline as a necessary mark of the church, there is no church.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Of course, the very genre of the crime novel or movie is rooted in the moral reality that right and wrong actually exist. It is for this reason that the crime novel and similar kinds of literature and entertainment only make sense in a civilization shaped by the Christian worldview.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Christians owe to all people our witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself made this clear not only in the Great Commission but in his constant sending of disciples into the world with the gospel. We owe to all persons the good news of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Furthermore, the church is set apart by the way they live, called to be holy even as God is holy (1 Peter 1:15–16). In his first epistle, Peter described the church as “elect exiles of the Dispersion” (1:1). This is such an important word for us. The church’s exile status in the world is exactly what will bring glory to God and is exactly what God intends to be the experience of the church in this age. Witness is the central role of the church, and the elect exiles are secure in the purposes of God, “in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood” (v. 2). The exile church, like a light shining in the darkness, is a bright witness in a dark world.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“The metaphor of light is among the most powerful and consistent in all of Scripture. In God’s work of creation, the separation of light from darkness is one of the most crucial moments in the creation of the entire cosmos. The difference between light and darkness is the difference between knowledge and ignorance, between life and death. So when the New Testament refers to believers as the children of light in the midst of the children of darkness, we immediately understand the power of this metaphor. It situates the church as the people of Christ within a culture that is not spiritually neutral, but antagonistic.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Just think about the contrast between light and darkness. This is the contrast Jesus described between his people and the world in which the church is situated until he comes. In the parable we are considering, Jesus referred to wheat and weeds as two different realities with eternal significance. The wheat is the seed sown by Christ himself, whereas the weeds are the seeds sown by none other than the devil.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Thankfully, Jesus’ own explanation sets the record straight, with the remainder of the New Testament writings declaring in unity that the church is the blood-bought assembly of the saints, responsible for stewarding truth, ministering the gospel, and exercising church discipline for the increasing holiness of believers. The church is to be made up of professing believers who are gathered together in a covenant of mutual accountability to the Lord Jesus Christ, displaying the kingdom of God on earth until it is fully realized when Christ returns.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“We bear the responsibility to believe the gospel, to trust Christ, to profess our faith, and to hear and obey the Word of God. But our ability to do so—even our desire to do so—comes only by the grace of God and only by the mercy of Christ.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“The parables, like the gospel itself, come as both grace and judgment. To those who see and hear, who believe and repent, who trust and obey, there is infinite grace—even the saving grace of God. As John Bunyan put it in the title of his nineteenth-century classic, this is “grace abounding to the chief of sinners.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Here we come face-to-face with one of the greatest and most humbling truths of the Bible. We stand at the intersection of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“By alluding to Isaiah, Jesus’ answer to the disciples (and through them, the church) reveals that there is both danger and promise in the preaching of the gospel. There is both grace and judgment in the parables, and in all preaching. It comes down to whether or not we truly hear and truly see. If we do, hearing and seeing will be demonstrated in obeying Christ and repenting of our sins and returning to God—the very picture of the saving power of the gospel.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“We will operate from the perspective of an “inaugurated eschatology.” Jesus inaugurated the kingdom of heaven and declared that with his coming the kingdom had arrived. But the fullness of that kingdom yet awaits, and God has a purpose for continuing life in this age and assigning to Christians a work we are to do, until Christ comes again, as he surely will.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables