Frank Molver wrote:
 
Barry, your to smart of a fellow to ask this unless you got something up your sleeve.
Unless of course you are talking about something personal you have taken on.
It also may speak of those who make shallow commitments and turn their backs when things get tough for surely they will.
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Love to you Frank! You know me pretty well for the time that we have spent here, my brother and friend.
 
You are correct in your points 1. and 2. I do have something up my sleeve and it could not be more personal and what I have to share is the result of something that I have indeed taken on.
 
I want to share this but I first wanted to see what sort of response the question might get. This parable seems to be saying one thing when in fact it is saying, for those who can receive it, something else altogether. I have an insight into this parable that I will claim came from God and not from the teachings of men, either pastors or written commentaries. By sharing, I hope to demonstrate not only the meaning of the parable, as opened to me by the Holy Spirit, but also the reality of learning directly from God, things that can only be discerned this way. Intellect is bypassed and the spirit is needed to discern these things. Often, what the Holy Spirit reveals is in direct opposite direction from what the surface intellectual words would seem to be saying, and this is a prime example of this. As a way of demonstrating the difference I was hoping to have someone give an example of the traditional view, though just about any commentary will have that view, and then it can be compared with what I will share. Not to show anyone up or whatever but to demonstrate that what seems to make sense and is generally accepted can be revealed by the spirit to be otherwise understood. But as Jesus said after he spoke this parable, it is for those who have ears to hear it. Spiritual ears are needed, because regular ears will only hear it the surface way. Also this will be very significant for the days that we are in and for what is about to happen.
 
Stay tuned,
 
Barry Amundsen