"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." When the Lord goes out into the mountains and the wilderness, seeking His lost sheep; when He finds it, He puts it on His shoulders and brings it home rejoicing. Why would some of the ninety nine grumble and murmur?
servant; the religion of God is not an organization of division and disagreements! The true Saints of old time were good and loving and righteous, with the Law of God in their hearts and His fear directing their course in life. So true for the Disciple in the early days of the Christianity, they had all things common, were holy, and were persecuted for being good. The same is true today!
Many are called(not so much this generation)few are chosen. Jesus called many and a religious organization ensued but divided itself not in unity but disagreements. This is the vineyard (where work is done and wages earned) As for who is chosen, it is God, who has no equal, choses! This is Biblical. As for the Son, his reward was great for he saw the Father and was glad.
The first shall be the last and the last first for many be called but only few are choosen. Not all who called Lord Lord can enter into the kingdom of God but only servants who accept Jesus and obey his words will only be saved I will praise you Jesus forever Jehovah my Savior Shalom amen
I believe the story of the laborers is about salvation thru Jesus Christ. Those saved all have an equal access to Heaven even if their Love for Christ is one second or a hundred years. Salvation is never too late.
The story of the laborers in the vineyard teaches us, that the Lord who hired all the workers told everyone that whatever is right they shall receive, and agreed for a day's wages for going to work. The men that could only come to work for one hour, all still got a day's wages; which was paid out of the Lord's own money, and had nothing to do with the agreement He made with everyone else.
Paul; "The devout Jew is learned in the Torah. They are observant of the law of God through Moses." What has changed with God since He had David write the 2nd Psalm? When, over the last, almost 2000 years, did God change His mind, and now no longer requires us to go through His Son to come to Him? Until the Jews, and everyone else converts and believes in Jesus, THEY CANNOT BE SAVED!
The devout Jew is learned in the Torah. They are observant of the law of God thru Moses. Abraham was a friend of God, Moses was his scribe. Jesus is sent to demonstrate the Holy Spirit, the power of prayer and eternal life for whom it is prepared. Christians should not be so presumptuous lest their vineyard be taken from them and given to others. The heart of man is evil. God is Judge,not man!
The cup that Jesus drank from is faith. A faith can look clean on the outside, as the Jewish faith, by holding religious doctrine that proclaims to be truth. If the religion is wrong built on lies then the inside of the cup needs to be cleaned. The faith from Jesus is he is the Son of God. This is a clean cup full of truth. Jesus wanted his pure faith/cup to be passed to others after his death.
Lu2677; No! The Jews do not follow the Torah! They follow their own teachers and books, ever since they rejected Jesus. They SAY they study Torah; but as you and I understand it, NO! And they have a completely perverted view of nearly everything that WE understand in the Old Testament. I come from a Jewish background, and I have had discussions with many Orthodox Jews; they DO NOT follow the Word!
a disciple "Judaism follows the doctrine of men that rejected Jesus Christ" No, Judaism to the Jew who believes in the Torah, Old Testament, which are scipture from God.The Torah was written before Christ was born. When Jesus said "do you not know the scriptures?"These scriptures were what God had given them. Their rejection of Christ leaves them without (excluding the saints of old) a savior.
Insight...; Matthew 16:13-17; Jesus asked His disciples, "..Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?..whom say ye that I am?..Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God...Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." And in John 1; "..the Word was God..And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.." This is Truth!
Jesus speaks of Son of man in 3rd person because he is Son of God. Jesus did not want his followers to be murdered for blasphemy so he allowed people to call him Son of man but said Son of man is Antichrist. The Son of man is the expected Savior of 2 religions based on Abraham that reject Jesus as the Son of God. Their Son of Man expectation rises again when the true Savior, Jesus, leaves earth.
Matthew 20:19
'He will rise again". Why the word again, this implies He rose before. Help me understand. Love to you all and I pray that the Lord bless you kindness
The Master call is for all to come. Work while it is day for when the night come no man can work. When we hear the voice of the Master do not turn a deaf ear. I pray I'm willing to open my heart and receive Him. We all have sinned. No matter when we receive and obey at the end we all shall receive a crown of life. So glad for a compassionate and just God.
Matthew 20:16 - i tend to agree with the first adam as the last. And the last Adam was Jesus who will be and is first in all things. I just hope to do a pleasing thing in his sight. I'm sure we have all been last in something in life, and first in something in life. I dont concern so much with being first, but i just wanna hear well done from him.
God has appointed time to bless us and heal us. Jesus is the great Shefered all He wants is the Sheep (us) to follow him and obey his words so that all of us must have life in abundance. Lets give thanks and praise Jesus only BECAUSE HE LIVE WE SHALL LIVE ALSO ANEN
Where is the house that man has built for God our Father.? For Jesus himself rebuilt it in three days. Have we learned nothing of the understanding of the way of God ? God sent us His son to give us eternal life so that where He is we can also be.Jesus commands us saying freely you have received freely give.My Father's house Is A House Of Prayer.
An excellent tool for evangelism or simple witnessing the gospel truth to win souls from hell to God's Kingdom.it's also great to strengthen all believer, to continue in the faith unto eternal life. Thank you so very much for all your effort to facilitate the harvest of Christ. Bless you all
But it shall not be so among you: But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. Rather than minister some translations used servant. The important thing is that a Christian should serve or minster to the needs of people. Jesus came to serve. Those who came in His name must follow His steps. They must serve the needs of neighbours, church members, friends, colleagues, co-travelers and even enemies, who are less privileged, deprived of their right, oppressed, depressed, sick, ignorant, weak, faithless, orphans, widows and widowers, illiterate, etc. In this talk Jesus was telling Christians to serve because service to humans will build them up. In the church people should not be looking for high sounding names, praises, colours, titles, opportunities for eloquence, to be noticed in wonders but visit the sick, those absent from church and fellowship, help the poor, support new converts and backsliders, visit the aged, support widows and widowers, sweep and clean church without asking for notice, attend to community activities to bring security, harmony and physical development without posing as lords or masters, etc
The Group that was hired first is the Jews who God gave his message first and the group of the third hour is the 12Apostles of the early Church Market Place , and the group that comes during the sixth and the ninth hour is the Millerites before the Great Disappointment of 1844 William Miller with his Interdenominational Movement from almost all the Protestant Churches in America which consisted of about 200 Ministers who believed that Jesus was coming in October 1844 after his discovery of Daniel8 14.The Group of the ninth hour is the Adventists who inherited Miller 's beliefs about the Sanctuary that begun to be cleansed in 1844 daniel8:14 and the beginning of the 3angel 's messages by the Church of Laodecia 7th-Day Adventism . The 11th hour group will come just before the second coming of Christ and thus cause the bulk of the Jews to murmur when they see an end time remnant being saved out of all nations.
Matthew 20 is about God 's grace toward ALL man kind. Grace to the Jew first then to the Gentile also. The pay "reward " is Heaven, both to the Jew and to the Gentile also. Those who serve Him a life time and he who serves but a moment, thief on the cross will both receive life in heaven.
'He will rise again". Why the word again, this implies He rose before. Help me understand. Love to you all and I pray that the Lord bless you kindness