The Parables: Part 13 When We Receive What We Don’t Deserve

The Parables

Part 13 – When We Receive What We Don’t Deserve

Matthew 20:1-16

Steps to Fully Surrender to Christ…

Step 1 – Admit I’m a in need of a Who is Jesus Christ!

Step 2 – Relinquish of my life to Him.

Step 3 – to self to for Him.

Step 4 – Live for Him of my life!

27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?” Matthew 19:27

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard – Matthew 20:1-16

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

This is not about the early workers not getting what they ; it’s about the other workers getting what they didn’t seem to in comparison.

15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ Matthew 20:14b-15

16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” Matthew 20:16

• Who does the vineyard owner in this parable represent? !
• What does the same payment given to all the workers represent? .
• What is the principle characteristic that the owner of this vineyard (God) is expressing with his generous payment to all the workers, no matter when they came to work? .
• How do we define grace? Grace can be defined as receiving what we .
• How does mercy differ from grace? Mercy can be defined as not receiving what .
• The vineyard owner is not being to the workers who were hired first; He is being to the workers who were hired later!
• Who did the first/early workers in the vineyard represent in Jesus’ time? .

We will when others come to Christ as Savior, and we will the service they offer Him!

8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. 9 For we are co-workers in God’s service;

1 Corinthians 3:8-9

No matter how long or how hard a believer works during his or her lifetime, the reward of in God’s heaven will be the same given to all believers.

Three Dangerous Mindsets of a Ungrateful Disciple:

1) Mindset

2) Mindset

3) Mindset

Today’s Song List:

See A Victory

Alpha Omega

Thank You Jesus For The Blood

Worthy Of It All