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Since we are now entering an Environmental Age, we are beginning to discover what it means to read Bible for it says about creation and the role of human beings as part of that creation. Much has been done in the Hebrew Bible studies to begin the process of interpretation, but only a limited number of articles have appeared in New Testament studies. Unlike Hebrew Bible, there are no stories about God`s creation of the world, stories that explicitly articulate conceptions of creation and the place of humans in creation and extended passages that describe the large natural world. Furthermore, Theologically, the stories of New Testament is more anthropocentric than the Hebrew Bible. There are some approaches could be taken toward reading the New Testament out of an environmental concern. For examples, God as creator, incarnational theology, the stewardship role of humans, the images of new creation so on. These kind of approaches apt to be focused and defined on the theological concept as well as do not consider differences between the would we live in and the biblical world. However, New Testament is a resource book for such a calling, a collecting of powerful testimonies to the work of God that authorize us to creative and that empowers us to address our problems in the environmental age with courage and with hope. This essay is a modest effort to suggest some direction for consideration within Jesus` sayings. The saying of Jesus, especially the parables and aphorism, reflected a ordinary life in the first century Palestine. The things in natural world which Jesus uses in parables, sew, mustard seed and lily in the field. The teaching of kingdom of God is not a secret revelation of angel or particular spiritual lessons but a truth in ordinary life and nature. Jesus did not try conceptualize or spiritualize on kingdom of God. Jesus did not use to tell kingdom of God in supernatural or holy word. The kingdom of God is not holy natural world is a place to empower God`s grace and to reveal God`s promise. Kingdom of God is seeds fell into a good soil and brought forth grain, growing and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold. It could not yield environmental condition. Without human`s effort, the seeds should grow and increase and yield grains according to God`s province in natural world. There is no conception of destiny whether good or bad soil but a joy which kingdom of God already emerged in the world. Even though there might be existed success and fail. Jesus teaches that you better find out God`s plan and will through the lens of nature and realize that kingdom of God emerges in the nature not in the particular place. The teaching of Jesus show us that let the human being be realizied also belong to natural world and live together in natural circulation. The salvation is a eco-justice to harmonize between kingdom of God and natural world and human being have to participate eco-justice.