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Text: Matthew 20:1-16
Title: Getting Every Penny You Deserve
Textual Theme, Goal, Need:
Theme: God gives graciously to those who work for him.
Goal: to encourage Jews that God is gracious to Jews and Gentiles alike who work for him.
Need: Jews, the long time people of God believed they deserved more than the new Gentile believers.
Sermon Theme, Goal, Need:
Theme: God gives graciously to all those who answer his call.
Goal: to motivate Christians to work gladly with all others who answer God’s call.
Need: Christians tend believe God values long time Christianity more than the short term.
Textual Outline:
Vs 1-7: Calling the workers
Morning: a denarius
3rd hour: A fair wage
6th hour: A fair wage
9th hour: A fair wage
11th hour: Rebuke for standing idly
vs8-10: Making the last first:
vs 11-12 Muttering of the first workers
vs 13-15 The Master is More than Gracious.
Vs 16- The last will be first and the first last.
Textual Notes:
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Called
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Calculating Income
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Critiquing the boss
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Correct Income
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Conclusion
Sermon in Oral Style:
Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Learn how to get every penny you deserve.
That’s one of the lines that I heard from a self-help person with ads on TV.
He said that he could raise your personal income up to 100,000 dollars a year if you followed the steps that he claimed.
Get every penny you deserve.
We take that mentality with us in most of the financial moves we make.
When you sell a house, how do you get every penny out of it that you deserve.
When you try for a raise in your company.
When you do a job for someone.
When you get a new job.
How do you get every penny that you deserve?
That’s really what getting every penny we deserve is all about.
Its about other people seeing how valuable we really are.
We are offended when someone gives us less than we feel we rightfully deserve.
*How about among Christians?
Does it happen here in the body of Christ?
Do we try to have other people see how valuable we really are? Do we think we deserve much more than we are getting?*
If you go to some of the old churches you will notice that the front pews were fancier than the rest of them.
The richest people in the congregation were entitled to better pews with some cushions right up at the front so people would know how much more spiritually superior those rich folks were.
Today’s church might still have some of that status difference between those with much and those with little.
In the church today and in the world today, we have our own ways of making ourselves feel like we deserve more than others.
*In a congregation, many times the long time established people of the church have a feeling that they are some how more valuable members than those who have just come to know Christ.*
Or you see it in real family oriented churches.
If you are not related to the great patriarch or matriarch of the church, you really don’t count for a whole lot.
Our passage this morning helps remind us for our week ahead that we all will get every penny we deserve from Christ.
*Christ gives generously to everyone who accepts his call.
Christ gives more than every penny we are worth when it comes to eternal blessings.*
For Matthew as he is writing his gospel, it is already after Jesus had died and rose again.
He is trying to correct the superiority complex of the Jewish believers.
The Jews have a superiority complex.
They believe they deserve more from God for their faithfulness.
*We can understand why they might feel that way.
Just think about how you would feel.*
The most monumental moment of faith would be the coming of the Messiah when he would bring back the power of the Jews.
Then when the Messiah does come, he preaches a message of salvation to all people.
That just isn’t fair.
The Jews had waited for over 6 centuries for the savior.
And they have been the only people of God for over two thousand years.
You better believe they think they have a special place with God even when Jesus tells them to go into all the world telling everyone to believe in him.
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The first thing Christ tells in this story is, yes there are people called at different points in history and in life.
There is this landowner.
He has a vineyard and he needs people to work it for him.
At *five different times* he goes out to find people.
At Six AM, he goes out finds some workers for the vineyard.
He makes a deal with them, you work for the day and I will pay you *a denarius*… which was usual days wages.
That’s just the first group.
Then he goes out again at 9 AM, Noon, and 3 PM.
The landowner promises them *a fair wage* for their day of work.
They all agree also.
The fifth time he goes out, he almost reprimands the guys that he finds standing around.
*Verse 6 & 7. “**About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around.
He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’** **“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’**[1]*
Christ’s kingdom is just like this.
Over the scheme of all time, the Jews were the first ones called, then the rest of the people were called by God. *We Gentile are just the newbies when it comes to the grand scheme of being welcome by God.*
But also in the kingdom of every lifetime, there are people who were called decades and decades ago.
There are people who have been living out their faith so long they don’t remember a time when they weren’t living for Christ.
But in the kingdom of God today there are people who have just heard that call in their heart.
Those of us who count the time we have been saved by Christ in days and hours instead of by years.
*God calls people all the time, at different times.
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*From Calling to Calculating payment.*
At the end of the work day, Christ tells how this landowner called together those workers to give them their pay.
He lines them up.
The ones who worked the most get paid last.
The ones who lazied around all day until the last hour get the paychecks first.
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* The way the master calculates the payment is the most ridiculous thing he could have ever drempt up.*
He starts with the people who worked one hour.
Each one of them gets a denarius!! Can you imagine what the guys at the end of the line are starting to think.
They are calculating their income.
If the boss is handing out a denarius for every hour worked, they would haul in two weeks of income from a day of work.
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