Luke 8 - Not everyone has eyes to see and ears to hear His Word. 2017

Luke 8:10
And He said, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, in order that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.

Yeshua speaks in parables because does not want everyone to understand what He is saying. Not everyone has eyes to see and ears to hear His Word. This is told in Torah.
Deut 29:1-4 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb. 2And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land; 3the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders. 4“Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

We can only understand His Word and apply it in our lives if He chooses to place His Spirit within us. This is a fulfillment and a direct quote of

Isaiah 6:9-10 And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.’ 10“Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”

Elohim does not want all people to return to Him with their hearts. That may be a difficult thing for us to imagine, but that is what Yeshua is saying here. Israel has rejected His Torah. Many of them have gone beyond the limit that Elohim will withstand. The people do not want to repent, even if the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Therefore, Yeshua speaks to them in parables that they will not understand. Remember the message to the rich man in Luke 16 who was in torment but wanting his brothers to be saved from this punishment? He wanted to send Lazarus back from the dead to warn them because surely they will listen to man who comes back from the dead. But he was told, "They have Moses and the Prophets. If they will not listen to them then they will not listen even to someone who comes back from the dead." We are to listen to Moses and the prophets.