In a vineyard the vines are pruned not just once in their lifetimes; the process is repeated every spring. For example, the Lord needs: To all of us the Lord says - Revelation 3:8! Did you ever see a bunch of grapes struggling to hang onto the vine, trying to grow larger? Apprenticeship graduate Joseph Kenyiawa, who was resettled through Catholic Charities in Nashville from Sudan 20 years ago, is a pillar of the Sudanese Catholic community. It is His vineyard and He chooses to do with it as He sees fit. This fact leaves us all without excuse, because there is some valuable job of work we can all do. (2) Others at the third hour (verse 3) - the first and second century Christians? (2) Jealousy (verse 10) - the Devils master-stroke among the Lords workers! Are you going through a pruning season right now? WebThere is a great need for God s people today to get a worldwide missionary vision because we can be very local and parochial in our concept of the Lord s work. A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went into a far country for a long time. Only believing in Christ and accepting him as Lord and Savior is what prompts a home in heaven. It seemed to me a far cry from cleansing away debris to pruning back the branches -- until I learned that, in the usual practice of viticulture (i.e., the care of vines), the branches are pruned back each year in order to cleanse them. -Serving The Diocese of Rochester In America 1868-1993, Catholic social teaching series 3: Human rights and responsibilities: Promoting the common good for all, Catholic social teaching series 3: Rights and responsibilities what we are owned and owe to others in justice, Catholic social teaching series 4: Developing awareness and action for the preferential option for the poor, Franciscan Center of Baltimore exemplifies the preferential option for poor. Web8 This is to my Fathers glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. You can make it run well. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Jesus must always come first. He is really praying in his own name, and God will not hear our prayers when we approach Him in that way. The fruit here is not others won to Christ. What a wonderful relationship our Lord taught us here by this lesson of the vine! So it is with the church: we need all the workers we can get to accomplish all that God has called us to do. They are not mere mechanical practices which every Christian ought to do in order to stay "in" with the crowd, or to maintain his "membership card," or to get "brownie points" with God! I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. There you are to depend on him, to let him abide in you. He will compensate us as indicated by our devotion to do the work that he has called us to do. We must, if we would have God answer our prayers, give up any thought that we have any claim upon God. The fruit, in Do you love Jesus? As a result he was cut off, and he withered. Rather, they were to ask God for additional helpers. Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? They may have been members of churches for years, but there is no life evident at all. Both these relationships are absolutely essential, not one as opposed to the other but both together. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Caring for Gods Vineyard: My Sermon on Matthew 21:33-46. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ", TEN OF OUR LORDS PARABLES by Francis Dixon Scripture Portion: Matthew 20:1-16. What a privilege and what a responsibility to be a worker! Mark Bailey calls this parable, A day on the job in the kingdom of Those who focus on that are really focusing on the material reward for their efforts whats in it for them. (John 15:6 RSV). We do not have to work at it. For many are called, but few chosen.. Message transcript and recording 1973 by Ray Stedman Ministries, owner of sole copyright by assignment from the author. Notice that Jesus says here to the disciples, "You are already made clean." Then He began to tell the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went into a far country for a long time. Let all that be present in the heart, and the face will light up with joy! He said, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. If in relating to others you merely get together and have coffee and talk about the weather, you will find it useless. We believe He owes us something. There is no other way to salvation but by faith in Jesus Christ. And when they had received it, they complained against the landowner, saying, These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Is God using the sharp knife of circumstances to cut off the "sucker shoot" of an old habit or attitude in your life, confronting you with that word of truth which corrects and cleanses, causing you to see it and feel it and hear it and give heed to it? None are self-appointed. That is what Jesus is talking about. Now he adds this note of responsibility -- there is something which you must do. To uphold the dignity of work and the rights of workers means to question unjust systems that violate human dignity by not paying a fair wage, withholding wages or preventing workers from their right to organize and bargain collectively for their safety, livelihood and protections on the job. Christians should work diligently to glorify the Lord and bring others to Christ, and because of the genuineness of our hearts will we obtain rewards in heaven. How could they be otherwise until the Landowner had commissioned them to work? (LogOut/ In verse three, the householder went out about the third hour into the marketplace and found others standing idly by. In many ways it constitutes the most needy mission field in the world today. It is not activity which glorifies God; it is character, it is what you are, and the way you react to a situation. Some of you may have been there and seen it. He called workers at the beginning of the day agreed with Israel was that vine. But I have learned that the only young people who can ever stand up to this grueling demand, and can meet it with an unvarying spirit of joy and gladness, with the kind of attitude that has so impressed you, are those who have learned to love Jesus.". It might be something seemingly insignificant that may be behind the scenes or a small task or it might be something that will impact many others. In verses four-six, the householder went out each time the workers went out, compelling those to come and work in the vineyard. If you are called to lead, be the shepherd God has called you to be and follow what the Holy Spirit tells you. If allowed to continue to grow, they would dissipate the life of the vine through so many branches that the vine would produce little or no fruit but would produce leaves instead. Christ then becomes real to you. The Collect. The religious leaders of the day knew that Jesus was speaking of them. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. The first social encyclical, Rerum Novarum, written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, grounds our social tradition in a discussion of labor and worker rights. The Father is the vinedresser. WebThe life which is in the vine produces fruit which Paul describes in Galatians 5 as: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. And in the 80th Psalm, the Psalmist says that God "brought a vine out of Egypt" and planted it in a good land, Psalms 80:8). So the vine includes the branches, and Jesus says, "I am that vine; you are the branches.". Even though Israel is Gods chosen people, He opened the door for salvation to everyone. It brings GOD glory it shows we are disciples. He says, "Now, it may seem strange to you that I should ask that last question. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Laborers in Gods Vineyard (Matthew20:1-16), https://christambassadors.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/laborers-in-gods-vineyard-matthew-201-16.mp3, Laborers in Gods Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) | Good Hope Baptist Church, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, God cares more for people than for things, We are His laborers working for His Harvest. The whole earth is the Lords, but other nations did not enjoy their lands as the planting of the Lord . We find that the master of the vineyard has a rather strange way of rewarding his workers. (Aimee Shelide Mayer is a social justice and spiritual formation consultant to nonprofits, churches and schools. You can be flat on your back in bed, sick, but manifesting a Christ-like spirit, and you are glorifying God by that experience. They mistakenly believe that they own whatever they possess. Look up Matthew 9:37; John 4:35. In this parable the period for service was twelve hours. He did everything possible to cause it to produce grapes. We must make choices, we must determine to expose ourselves to him, we must seek his face in the Word and in prayer and in fellowship with others. After Jesus spoke to a young rich ruler and said to the disciples that all things are possible with God, Peter responded to Jesus: Matthew 19:26-30 See, we have left everything and followed you. Gods grace is there for anyone at any time? Nationally, the Catholic Labor Network works to build church-labor partnerships to further the work of justice, by protecting vulnerable workers and educating the faithful about church teaching, including on a just and living wage. The good news is that God does bestow grace on us, the eleventh hour workers, and we receive the same reward of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal glory as the earliest workers. His joy, the joy that was always there at the bottom of his heart, that gladness of relationship with his Father, is now to be our experience. These are signs of human dignity being upheld, of people being placed over profit. 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., 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. Many church people take issue with this. We do not deserve anything from Him. Jesus needs laborers (Matthew 9:38) who know how to function and manage individuals' concerns. (John 15:1-2 RSV). Well, that has to do with empowerment, enablement. I want to reassure you that this is not the case. But it must be preceded by that vital phrase, "Love God." But he will answer your prayers when they grow out of this relationship. RayStedman.org/permissions. (1) preachers who are used by their Spirit-filled preaching. These disciples, familiar with the Old Testament, would immediately think of several places where it was used. It is not part of the fruit itself; it is the result of a life which increasingly is becoming Christlike. Why Did Pharaoh Tell Joseph to Enjoy the 'Fat of the Land'? You see, you can do many things without depending on Christ. But if you try, you find that there will be no fruit, no Christlikeness, no manifestation of that beautiful character which arrests the attention of others. Linking is encouraged, but republishing or redistributing, including by framing or similar means, without the publisher's prior written permission is prohibited. In fact, if God were to give us exactly what we do deserve, we would receive condemnation. In light of the countrys stagnant federal minimum wage, the network is supporting a Nashville Living Wage certification program to honor employers who pay a more just minimum wage by choice. When God sent someone to give a message, they would not listen. We are only stewards of what God has graciously allowed us to use. If you love somebody, and reach out toward them, you can go only so far unless they respond to that love. We will be compensated for our steadfastness to the errand that God has given us to perform, paying little heed to how little or how irrelevant it might show up as. In Verses4 and5 our Lord goes on to set forth, in the most helpful way I know of in all of Scripture, what might be called the law of fruitfulness: "Abide in me, and I in you." (2) In other continents the need is vast - where the darkness of heathenism, superstition and ignorance abound. The Lord requires faithfulness and not necessarily (as judged by human standards) success. The life which is in the vine produces fruit which Paul describes in Galatians5 as: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. What Is the Significance of Not the Letter but of the Spirit? Look up Psalm 126:6; Matthew 25:21; 1 Corinthians 4:2. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. He was the vine from which true life is received. Jerry Tu. We will see more of what that means as we go on in this account. The day of work is their lifetime. It is the love of Jesus for us, "shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit" (Romans 5:5 KJV), which awakens our love toward him in response. When we think of its size, how few workers there are! When we do, we are abiding in him and letting him abide in us. He is responsible to see that the purpose of the vine is fulfilled. The point is that God owes us nothing. The Progression: Chronological - The parable emphasizes the times that the laborers were hired. [Jesus said to the people:] Listen to another parable. We are to each be working to make more disciples of Jesus Christ while we have time. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love." He may have been eager to make sure people had work. Probably everyone feels that a person ought to be compensated fairly for his or her work. The withering process was very short in his case. All the signs of the times - religious, political and Jewish - tell us that it is almost the Midnight hour. (LogOut/ There are a couple things to note in this story, I think. And he tells them about the three questions he asked: Do you love work? That is a hard lesson to learn, because oftentimes when we go to God in prayer thinking we deserve something from Him. When our Lord says "Abide in me," he is talking about the will, about the choices, the decisions we make. (4) workers who visit and use their practical skills (Acts 10:38). Or is your eye evil because I am good? So the last will be first, and the first last. Your whole family had done it; it had been a family characteristic. That is, "This pruning has gone on in your life already." They plant their empires through conquest and war (Genesis 10:8-12), intoxicated with a taste for blood instead of the pure wine of divine governance (Revelation 17:2, 6). But that was not the end of it; there was to be more as they went on. WebJesus, by the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, shows that God is debtor unto no man; 17. foretells his passion; 20. by answering the mother of Zebedee's children, teaches his disciples to be humble; 29. and gives two blind men their sight. Do you love God for Who He is, or do you love Him for the benefits He gives you? Linking is encouraged, but content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed including, but not limited to such means as framing or other digital copying and/or distribution method, in whole or in part without the publisher's written consent. He will call you into the fold and pay you more than you ever deserve. The fact of the matter is that God does not work that way. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Furthermore, it is added to any new believers as a consolation of the grace of God. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. 1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. Several times, he found people standing idle in the marketplace, which may just mean that were unemployed, not that they were lazy. In this parable we encounter a situation that just does not seem right. (Isaiah 5:7 RSV). And if you are truly loving him, you can ask whatever you will. He received a note one day during a meeting that said the following: Dear Dr. Torrey, I am in great perplexity. Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images Plus/BenGoode. Many will read this parable and remark about how unfair it was for the last group of workers, those who only worked for about an hour, to receive the same compensation as those who worked all day. God is glorified when his people manifest fruit, i.e., Christlikeness. Look up John 4:35, and compare John 9:4. The parable occurs between two very similar statements in Matthew: The first will be last, and the last first. God owns His vineyard. because they are going to have to work sometimes from seven in the morning until ten or eleven at night. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Every Christian, everywhere, should be fully engaged in active service for the Lord in these desperately needy days either by prayer (Matthew 9:38), or by preaching (Acts 5:42) - or by both (Acts 6:4). Who Are the Workers in the Parable of the Vineyard? He does not show favoritism. Does the Pandemic Still Affect Church Attendance? If indeed this is the location, they then took their way down across the Tyropoeon Valley, which separated the Temple from the rest of the city, around the wall skirting the Temple area, down into the Kidron Valley, across the brook, and then up the slope of the Mount of Olives to the garden. That is what joy is -- this sense of our unity with Jesus, the sense of his power, his adequacy, his ability to handle the problems which are thrust upon us. The masters promise was entirely fair; however, since the master of the vineyard gave the others who worked less than a full day the same wage as those who had borne the burden of the day, those first workers believed that they deserved something more. (1) Some early in the morning (verse 1) - the Apostles? If you open your Bible and begin to read it without the conscious expectation that it is going to tell you something about him, you will read in vain. Many are called to do Gods work. But there was no life in him. Change). Does it Matter That I Didn't Keep My Goals for Lent? Not one of us deserves anything from God.. There are hungry people to feed. He has served as a Sunday School teacher, a youth director along with his wife, a music director, an associate pastor, and an interim pastor. In that unique way which was his, our Lord took what lay at hand and made it unfold spiritual truth. One is in Isaiah5: "For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house [the nation] of Israel," (Isaiah 5:7a). If you are not feeling the depth of love you would like to experience, one of the reasons may be that you are not responding to the love which is already reaching out to you. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. This is what our Lord has in view. 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. He asks them only three questions: First, "Do you love work?" Change). Their Right to Recall campaign ensures that when businesses do reopen at full capacity, they call back furloughed workers at their former wages and benefits. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. Because it is large, many workers are needed. But it is an WebGod needs workers for his vineyard. In this instance, we should mobilize people to first pray, then gather a band of prayer warriors. The remainder, Chapters15 through17, occurred as they were walking on their way to the Garden of Gethsemene. He says, first, "As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me." A certain sense of fairness comes into question among some of the workers, and the parable ends by emphasizing the owners generosity over any subjective view of It becomes a continuing sense and experience of his love for us. The point was to not hang on to your possessions too tightly. On the other hand, our Lord gives us the results of fruitbearing -- four beautiful manifestations. Remember that earlier in the passage our Lord had said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments," (John 14:15 RSV). We are workers of the eleventh hour! Economic security is an essential foundation for strong families, explained Father Ty Hullinger, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, who joined other Baltimore Catholics in a successful campaign for Right to Recall in his city. But when he came into his vineyard and looked for grapes, he found wild grapes instead sour, tasteless grapes. How vast the field of service is which the Lord calls us into! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. It is a solid education about the grace of God and his generosity toward humanity. Stand Up Nashville, a grassroots organization supported by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, also in Nashville, has fought for a community benefits agreement around the new soccer stadium construction project to ensure that local residents benefit from living wage employment opportunities. At the close of Chapter14 our Lord said to his disciples, "Rise, let us go hence." We should never compare ourselves to others. Needless to say, such behavior doesnt impress God at all. Choose from news (Monday), leisure (Thursday) or worship (Saturday) or get all three! People come and spend a lot of money, staying a week or so at a time. In agriculture theres a sowing season, then a reaping season. Meaning and 10 Examples, What Is the Parable of the Sower? You are God's field, God's building. And leave pride out of it. Fruitfulness brings glory to GOD. The person might have never addressed hundreds or thousands of individuals like some ministers and evangelists do, yet they loyally brought up their youngsters, and possibly those kids became teachers who served God on unfamiliar soil or someplace within their own country. Either we will feel inadequate or have pride or grumble. This ranch is owned and operated by a mutual friend and is designed as a guest-ranch for wealthy and affluent people. When you do that, then love grows into this deepening, quickening experience. You may believe that the master of the vineyard owes those workers more. What a temptation to be slack, careless and half-hearted in the Lords work. Another principle to this parable is what people focus on as being unfair. He is a retired Navy Chief Hospital Corpsman with over 30 years of combined active and reserve service. By doing so, we heed Pope Franciss advice in Evangelii Gaudium to say no to an economy of exclusion and inequality andyesto an economy that restores human dignity (No. Then God the Father sent His only Son. Jesus told a couple parables that deals with the heart of those who are called to do Gods work. Again, let God be your guide. No matter how long or how much you have served God, you do not deserve His grace. A. 07/15/2018. And there are conversions after conversions throughout the remainder of the week -- because of young people who manifest by their lives that they are Jesus' disciples. The whole plant was the vine. May our attitude be as Jesus said: Luke 17:10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.. The traditional site of the Upper Room in Jerusalem is on the western side of the Old City, on the slopes of Mount Zion. I am always amazed to find people who read this as though the fruit were others won to Christ. Joy, that sense of gladness of relationship with him, will increase as we go. The leaders of Israel did not see it that way. Would we really begrudge Gods grace on the latecomers, including ourselves? Jesus was teaching things that were contrary to religious tradition. Doors of opportunity are closing in many parts of the world - look up 1 Corinthians 7:29. How difficult that would be! He is the boss in charge. Fruit, here, is that which is produced by the vine and is the natural outflow of the life of the vine. He was the true vine. He owns everything. You might expect a greater reward than those who did not make the same sacrifice. All of us have learned, one way or another, that love demands a response if it is to grow. He did not abide in Christ, and Christ did not abide in him. They were not to attempt to do the occupation without assistance. Do you love people? When you love God, then all that you do is touched and controlled by love, and love is the fulfilling of the Law. In this illustration, God is the householder, and believers are the workers. Instead there will be a shabby sham, a phony imitation of the real thing, which will drive people away from Christ and will produce nothing but a dull, mechanical religiosity which is piousness without God. To use the first last some early in the Lords work is designed as a consolation of the '! 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