Jesus of course was talking about His crucifixion and His death. Let them read their error in One who was evidently superior to the condition and the ruin of man in Israel. And you guessed it already its a quote from the bible \"so the last shall be first \u0026 the first last\"which of course made me think of a competition type challenge !!! A man that is a householder. Jesus instructs His little band that discipleship is never designed as a quid pro quo formula of compensation. Deliver Him to the Gentiles: Jesus knew that the religious leaders of the Jews did not have authority to carry out capital punishment themselves; yet sometimes they executed men despite this prohibition (Acts 7:54-60). The Gospels Not only shall the Judge of all the earth do right, but what will not He do who gives all good? We have two things in the parable; the agreement with the labourers, and the account with them. Jesus will use this story to answer a question from Matthew 19:27: See, we have left all and followed You. Then the mother of Zebedees sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. Challenge the Adventurer within you! The details, found elsewhere, of her being at the point of death then, before reaching the house, the news that she was dead, are not here. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. "What do you want me to do for you?" Pentateuch The work of religion is vineyard-work, pruning, dressing, digging, watering, fencing, weeding. And Peter quoting Isaiah looking back at that scourging said, "by His stripes, ye were, past tense, healed"( 1 Peter 2:24 ). The Roman penny was, in our money, of the value of a sevenpence half-penny, a day's wages for a day's work, and the wages sufficient for a day's maintenance. He didn't come that people might cater to Him and minister to Him, He came to minister to the people's needs. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And then Paul warned the Corinthians about the manner in which they did partake of the Lord's supper. Matthew 20 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. (d) T. Hieros. There were many who died right there as the result of the scourging itself. Matthew chapter 20 New International Version 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. Remember, God doesn't look at us the way this world does. How many times during communion has God touched me physically, and ministered to me physically, as I received that work of Christ for my own physical need?So Jesus predicts His crucifixion finally, and then rising again. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am going to be baptized with? Which means that each lash that was laid upon Him, was laid with greater ferocity, as they were seeking to elicit from Him some confession of wrong, but He had done no wrong. My object, of course, is to point out as clearly as possible the structure of the gospel, and to explain according to my measure why there are these strong differences between the gospels of Matthew and the rest, as compared with one another. When He reaches the house, minstrels were there, and people, making a noise: the expression, if of woe, certainly of impotent despair. The Old Testament We can never repay God for what he has done for us but we can always be grateful to him. he said. Note, There are but few chosen Christians, in comparison with the many that are only called Christians; it therefore highly concerns us to build our hope for heaven upon the rock of an eternal choice, and not upon the sand of an external call; and we should fear lest we be found but seeming Christians, and so should really come short; nay, lest we be found blemished Christians, and so should seem to come short,Hebrews 4:1. After the creation of consuls, they every year named twenty-four military tribunes, part of whom must have served five years at least, and the rest eleven. (Matthew 20:3-7) Through the day, the landowner continues to hire workers. With God, as nothing is impossible, so no one, small or great, is despised: all is seen and put in its just place; and grace, which rebukes creature pride, can afford to deal divinely with the smallest as with the greatest. And Jesus tells him, "Look no one has left anything, but what in this life he get a hundredfold, and in the life to come, eternal life"( Matthew 19:29 ). I feel sure that no Christian harbours a doubt about it. Therefore when He said, "this is my body broken for you", He could not refer to some bones being broken, but His body was broken open by this scourging that He received. In this we have another striking illustration of the same principle, because this miracle, in point of fact, was wrought long before the healing of the centurion's servant, or even of the leper. There is such tremendous reward just in being able to minister to people, the feedback that comes from it is so rewarding. It is quite wrong to think that for the Christian the cup must always mean the short, sharp, bitter, agonizing struggle of martyrdom; the cup may well be the long routine of the Christian life, with all its daily sacrifice, its daily struggle, and its heart-breaks and its disappointments and its tears. He was to be scourged; few tortures in the world compared with the Roman scourge, and there we see the suffering of physical pain. It tells us of their ambition. Thus Matthew, called at the very receipt of custom, follows Jesus, and makes a feast for Him. Poetical Books There are a great many decisions which have to be taken. Note, [1.] Mark gives them in the end of his second and the beginning of his third chapters. They said to His disciples, "Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" Note, There is a great proneness in us to think that we have too little, and other too much, of the tokens of God's favour; and that we do too much, and others too little, in the work of God. The old people and work then closed in principle, and a new work of God in the kingdom of heaven was disclosed. 4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my . Blessed Paul guarded against this, when, though the chief of the apostles, he owned himself to be nothing, to be less than the least of all saints. Luke-Acts General Epistles Now, it was an established principle, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word should be established. Can you drink the cup which I have to drink?" I will obey to the end.. . All rights reserved. It was with this declaration that the parable began and ended. For many be called, but few chosen.The warning is repeated after the parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:14), and as it stands there in closer relation with the context, that will be the fitting place for dwelling on it. He was never too busy to minister to individual needs. Next, we behold Him meeting the centurion after another manner altogether. The idea is that His people were in bondage as slaves, and He paid their price. About five o'clock in the evening he went out and found others standing there, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day idle?' And the third day He will rise again.. Notice is taken of the several hours of the day, at which the labourers were hired. The order of payment was important. They were offended that the landowner gave the men who worked less equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. Hence, the Lord Jesus is here disclosing throughout, that the doom of Israel was pronounced and impending. c. But to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give: Jesus here showed remarkable submission to His Father. Such was and is man. So the last shall be first - This is the moral or scope of the parable. Though a testimony to them, still it was in the result a recognition of what Moses commanded. As the elder brother, in the parable of the prodigal, repined at the reception of his younger brother, and complained of his father's generosity to him; so these labourers quarrelled with their master, and found fault, not because they had not enough, so much as because others were made equal with them. In Matthew 12:1-50 we find not so much Jesus present and despised of men, as these men of Israel, the rejectors, in the presence of Jesus. They have treated the Bible either with levity, or as too awful a book to be apprehended really; not with the reverence of faith, which waits on Him, and fails not in due time to understand His word. "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased." This parable taught him that God would give him a just reward for his sacrificial labor for Jesus. i. Accordingly, here we have a witness of it, and a witness so much the sweeter, because the present total rejection that was filling the heart of the leaders surely testified to the Lord's heart of that which was at hand. Thus He sets forth both the past, the present, and the awful future of Israel, before the day of His own coming from heaven, when there will be not only the return of idolatry, solemn to say, but the full power of Satan associated with it, as we see in Daniel 11:36-39; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; Revelation 13:11-15. Though primitive Christianity had more of the purity and power of that holy religion than is to be found in the degenerate age wherein we live, yet what labourers may be sent into the vineyard in the eleventh hour of the church's day, in the Philadelphian period, and what plentiful effusions of the Spirit may then be, above what has been yet, who can tell? 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. The landowner reminded them that he had been completely fair to them. In what sense did Jesus, our Lord, take their infirmities, and bear their sicknesses? Jesus gave everything to bring men back to God; and we must walk in the steps of him who loved to the uttermost. It is evident that the bodily presence of the Messiah is the very essence of the former scene, as it ought to be in dealing with the leper, who is a kind of type of what Israel should have been in seeking cleansing at His hands. 3 He went out about nine o'clock . The mother of Zebedees sons came to Him: This mother of James and John (Matthew 4:21) came with a request that would make a mother proud and the sons very happy. So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last: for many are called, but few are chosen ( Matthew 20:5-16 ). The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, Therefore what this saying means is quite simply--it cost the life and the death of Jesus Christ to bring men back to God. A daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage. . 13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. The line from the . When the account was taken; when the evening was come, then, as usual, the day-labourers were called and paid. He welcomed his bed-fellow. When it gets to where I have to sneak in the back door at the last minute, and sneak out before things are over, then I need to find something else to do, when you can no longer take time to minister to individuals.Now these men of course do give to us a very beautiful picture of people who are blind in sin, and there is the spiritualizing of the text, crying out for Jesus. d T. Hieros. What we have, is not our own, and therefore it is not lawful for us to do what we will with it; but what God has, is his own; and this will justify him, First, In all the disposals of his providence; when God takes from us that which was dear to us, and which we could ill spare, we must silence our discontents with this; May he not do what he will with his own? Here, too, these Pharisees question and reproach His grace, when they see the Lord sitting at ease in the presence of publicans and sinners, who came and sat down with Him in Matthew's house. But I see no sufficient reason to refuse the impression that John found it hard to reconcile his continued imprisonment with a present Messiah; nor do I discern a sound judgment of the case, or a profound knowledge of the heart, in those who thus raise doubts as to John's sincerity, any more than they appear to me to exalt the character of this honoured man of God, by supposing him to play a part which really belonged to others. So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first. And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius. It is always thus. For him the cup was martyrdom. If you do, you have a different concept of God than I do. The New Testament The Lord pleads the cause of the disciples. iii. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why have you been standing here idle all day? They said to him, Because no one hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.. Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's account of our Lord Jesus. Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first: These are day laborers, so they are paid at the end of each day. God's generosity will not succumb to human jealousy. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands." And the third day He will rise again, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, But to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant, Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, When they heard that Jesus was passing by, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltera, David Guzik :: 1 Juan 2 Impedimentos para una comunin con Dios, David Guzik :: Gnesis 3 La tentacin y cada del hombre, David Guzik :: Gnesis 2 La CreacinTerminada; Adn en el Jardn del Edn, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), 1 Samuel 1-10 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 15-18 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Third Person of the Trinity (Chuck Smith), Second, a warning that Gods manner of distributing reward is not necessarily the manner of men (. The Son of Man will be betrayed: Jesus again told the disciples what awaited Him in Jerusalem, but no reaction from the disciples is noted. There is an element of human tenderness in this parable. Evidently it is the change of dispensation that is in question and at hand, the cutting off of the fleshly seed for their unbelief, and the bringing in of numerous believers in the name of the Lord from among the Gentiles. Does this scribe offer to follow Jesus? But our Lord with dignity demands of Peter, "What thinkest thou, Simon?" ), but as some charitable generous householders keep poor men to work, in kindness to them, to save them from idleness and poverty, and pay them for working for themselves. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, 18We are going up to Jerusalem,(C) and the Son of Man(D) will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. Peter, the good confessor of chapter 16, cuts but a sorry figure in chapter 17; for when the demand was made upon him as to his Master's paying the tax, surely the Lord, he gave them to know, was much too good a Jew to omit it. And they would lay this leather whip across the back, and it was so designed, that when they pulled it back up to rip up pieces of flesh.The purpose of the scourging was the third-degree Roman style. They are beautiful people. So He meekly retires, healing, yet forbidding it to be blazed abroad. Conversely in some cases those whom God called early in their lives may not receive as much reward as those called later in life. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and you've made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the heat of the day. He never doubted that James and John would maintain their loyalty. This is one of the most revealing passages in the New Testament. So the last shall be first, and the first last,. As he had asserted in Matthew 19:30 and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but, few chosen; in Christ from all eternity, both to grace and glory; and in consequence, and as an evidence of it, but few among the Jews; as also in the Gentile world, comparatively speaking: and even but a few of those that are outwardly called, are inwardly and effectually called by the powerful grace of God, out of darkness into marvellous light, into the grace and liberty of the Gospel, into communion with Christ, and to the obtaining his kingdom and glory, according to the eternal purpose of God. Those hired later correspond to other people who became Jesus disciples later in His ministry. A new tribe presented other four soldiers, and the second legion chose first. The people whose hearts are yielded to him will be recognized as his children no matter their rank or riches by worldly standards. a. What Jesus Did! And, behold, there were two blind men who were sitting by the way side, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, saying, Have mercy upon us, O Lord, thou son of David. So long as it is all we have to give, all service ranks the same with God. The men who stood in the market-place were waiting for work, and the fact that some of them stood on until even five o'clock in the evening is the proof of how desperately they wanted it. Their expectation was so focused on Jesus establishing an immediate political kingdom, and these words from Jesus were so contrary to that anticipation, these words just went over their heads. Matthew 20:16. The Church, which is His body and bride, has a far more intimate place, even though true of the same persons. Jesus laces this point throughout the parable. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. Nevertheless, the Lord did not withhold the infinite boon, though He knew too well their thoughts; He spoke the word of forgiveness, though He read their evil heart that counted it blasphemy. "Upon this rock," says He, "I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." A man out of his plenty may give us a gift of a hundred pounds, and in truth we are grateful; a child may give us a birthday or Christmas gift which cost only a few pence but which was laboriously and lovingly saved up for--and that gift, with little value of its own, touches our heart far more. This is applied to the Jews (Matthew 22:14; Matthew 22:14); it was so then, it is too true still; many are called with a common call, that are not chosen with a saving choice. 45. Many are called, c.] This clause is wanting in BL, one other, and in the Coptic and Sahidic versions. iv. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. Yet man, in face of all, is so deceived of the enemy, that he prefers to be left with the demons rather than enjoy the presence of the Deliverer. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point And so they began to cry out to Jesus. Inattention to this has perplexed many. He was ignorant of himself, because ignorant of God, and imagined that it was only a question of man's doing good for God. The Lord now lets them know their mad folly, and warns them that this blasphemy was about to culminate in a still deeper, deadlier form when the Holy Ghost should be spoken against as He had been. Reviewing, then, these closing incidents of the chapter (ver. This made it to be plainly and only a difficulty for God to solve. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? You shall indeed drink of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. Under grace, we cant come to God complaining, Dont I deserve better than this; because God will reply, Does this mean that you really want Me to give you what you deserve?. Observe. A man may go idle to hell; but he that will go to heaven, must be busy. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. Then a beggar asked for his shirt and got it. (e) T. Bab. The first thing to be remarked is, that the leper was an early incident in the manifestation of the healing power of our Lord. Thus He points out the utter moral incongruity of fasting at that moment, and intimates that it was not merely the fact that He was going to be rejected, but that to conciliate His teaching and His will with the old thing was hopeless. We begin with the comparatively limited significance it originally had. Secondly, Others are savingly wrought upon in middle age; Go work in the vineyard, at the third, sixth, or ninth hour. In view of the context, the 12 disciples correspond to the workers hired at the beginning of the day, the beginning of Jesus public ministry. a great multitude followed Him. A Gentile (indeed, any mind not under any kind of legal prejudice or difficulty) would be far more moved by a detailed account of what was more, conspicuous. He said to them, 'Go you also to the vineyard.' Would any man make of the Messiah a mere man and a mere subject of the law given by Moses? The Lord then had been shown such as He was towards Israel, had Israel in their leprosy come to Him, as did the leper, even with a faith exceedingly short of that which was due to His real glory and His love. Such people resent what seems to them the intrusion of new blood or the rise of a new generation with different plans and different ways. This utter, growing rejection of Jesus was coming out now rejection, at first allowed and whispered in the heart, soon to be pronounced in words like drawn swords. "In God's economy," as someone has said, "there is no such thing as a most favoured nation clause." These are the words of an older gentleman who trusted Christ a few days before he died from cancer. He's been with them now for almost three years, and He feels it necessary to draw them now into that more intimate fellowship with His suffering, as He has set His face to go to Jerusalem, knowing exactly what awaits Him there. He also strongly claimed his right to do what he wanted with what was his. Whatever might be the Church or the kingdom, it is precisely when the Lord unfolds His new glory in both the kingdom and the Church that He maintains the proprieties of nature in their rights and integrity. Usually they hated and despised them, and hoped for nothing but their destruction. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. But that they might not be carried away by ambition or vain confidence in themselves, it was necessary also to remind them that others, who would long afterwards be called, would be partakers of the same glory, because God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit. Johannine Writings b. The money was paid by the overseer, but he was standing by enjoying the scene. (Bruce). It shall not be so among you, but whoever wishes to prove himself great among you must be your servant; and whoever wishes to occupy the foremost place will be your slave, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.". See Deuteronomy 24:15. First, Some are effectually called, and begin to work in the vineyard when they are very young; are sent in early in the morning, whose tender years are seasoned with grace, and the remembrance of their Creator. Drinking of that cup. He here is predicting the fact that He is going to be scourged. Jesus recognized that they didnt really understand, but they would. Now this is their final trip to Jerusalem. When time ends, and with it the world of work and opportunity, then the state of retribution commences; then call the labourers, and give them their hire. He is the Lord of the harvest. As we have seen, the pay was 4 pence a day; and, if they were unemployed for one day, the children would go hungry at home, for no man ever saved much out of 4 pence a day.
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