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Intro: If God were among us, would we recognize Him?
I. We rebelled against God.
A. God gave us the world and our lives to enjoy and rule under His authority.
Illus: As we begin I think it is important to see that God gave the vineyard to the people.
He wanted built it purposely for the people to enjoy.
He gave it for them to enjoy… for them to work.
Our understanding of how we relate to the world around us is in understanding how God designed it for us.
He wants us to work, He desires for us to succeed.
That said, as we we tend his earth, and our lives we must never forget that all of this still belongs to Him.
The world we live in belongs to God.
Our lives whether saved or not belong to God.
God expects for us to steward our lives and our world for Him… when we forget his ownership and begin to view the world and our lives through selfish eyes we have begun to rebel against Him.
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B. Hearts consumed by sin do not care for the truth and don’t desire repentance.
Illus: Within the passage we see God sent servants, and representatives to correct the foolish tenants.
God’s sending of people to confront the foolishness on the farm was for their good.
Where God sent messenger after messenger for them to see their error and get right with the land owner, they saw the messengers as threats.
Often when we look at the comands of scripture we think that they are wet blanket on our lives, but the commands of scripture are words that lead us back to being right with God.
The problem we face is that we don’t want to see our own errors.
We want to believe we are good on our own and need no help.
We all may say that we need Jesus, but when we live self dependent lives we show how little we truly embrace Him.
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We crucified Jesus.
A. Our own selfishness leads us to reject God himself.
Illus: Think about the foolishness of the stewards.
They already were able to live, enjoy, and harvest off the land.
What God asked of them was to honor his authority and give back to him.
The problem was that they forgot that everything belonged to God.
They sat on God’s land and began to believe that it was theirs.
Their delusion grew and grew to a point where they convinced themselves that rejecting God’s son would fix their problems.
But we do this in our own lives… instead of repenting and reconciling with God, we double down on our sin and reject both God’s correction and God’s mercy.
God wants us to have abundant life.
He wants us to enjoy creation.
He wants us to enjoy the gifts he gives, but our own selfishness leads us to both rejection of the goodness he gives us as well as rejecting Him.
14 But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.
15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
B. God desires for our hearts to turn back to Him.
Illus: We should hear verses 10-11 in the heart of Jesus’ compassion.
Jesus quoted psalm 118 to help the pharisees see what God was doing.
Jesus wanted even the parable to help the Sanhedrin recognize that God was at work...
But Jesus knew from psalm 118 that the only way for sinful men to return to God was for the Farmer’s son to be killed for the tenants.
Jesus’ quotation of psalm 118 shows God’s desire even in the midst of the death of the Son.
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The stone that the builders rejected has become the capstone.
A. The culmination of God’s work is Jesus Christ.
Illus: If you look at the translation you have in verse 10 it probably says “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”
The problem with this translation is that it is not the literal translation of the text.
The literal translation of the text says “The stone that the builders rejected has become the head.”
Throughout most of the old testament the term cornerstone meant the fist stone put on the building which everything else was built around.
For the Jews this meant that as God built the world, man, their nation, He was the rock everything was formed on top of.
Jesus turns the phrase at this moment.
It is more likely that when Jesus said that he become the head he is referring to the capstone.
As the Greeks and Romans built arches, the support for the arch did not lie in the bottom, but in one single stone which the arch leaned into.
Jesus is showing that all that had been built from the patriarchs to the Greeks to the Romans to the rejection of the Jews was being built for Him to be the capstone.
For us today, the capstone has become a living stone which we are built into.
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