God is Fair and Just
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Intro:
Intro:
The love of our God is beyond understanding. Love from God is shown to us by his grace and mercy. The love of our God is given freely with no reservations. God’s love is so great that we benefit from it every day like fuel. His love gives us life and motivates us to make it in the hard days as in the good days. We will look today to see how God’s love for us call us to action and he rewards us for our obedience. I want to highlight God does not use seniority and experience as a tool to remove people from being blessed. God looks at our submissive hearts and blesses accordingly. We will learn more about the character of a God how is fair in just in all his ways. God is perfect in all his ways. Because of how good God is we know a God who is fair in just in all his ways.
God being fair is not your definition of fair. God being fair is he knows what is right and just. We then must trust the Lord decision. Let us look at our scripture...
Parable of the Vineyard Workers
Parable of the Vineyard Workers
1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work. 3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing. 4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. 5 So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing. 6 “At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’ 7 “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’ 8 “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first. 9 When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage. 10 When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage. 11 When they received their pay, they protested to the owner, 12 ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’ 13 “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage? 14 Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you. 15 Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’ 16 “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
Teaching of Parable:
Teaching of Parable:
Teaches that God is looking for workers.
God will reward you what ever is right.
God does not discriminate.
The Kingdom has an order that is different than the world.
The last will be first.
God’ grace is the same at all times.
God is looking for workers
God is looking for workers
There is work to be done. The kingdom is looking for faithful women and men of God to work for the Lord. God’s invitation is given the response is up to you.
God has prepared in advance the payment for for his obedient workers.
2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
Matthew 20:4
God is always going to do what is right because he is righteous.
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So no matter how long you work God will bless you at the right time.
Went out three more times.
Went out three more times.
First time was early in the morning:
1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
Matthew 20:1-4
The owner goes out four more times: Third hour, sixth hour, ninth hour and eleventh hours.
Here it speaks of the third (9AM) and Sixth hour (noon) and the ninth hour (3pm).
Matthew 20:
3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing. 4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. 5 So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
The fourth time now is late in the day being the eleventh hour (5pm) and the day is almost gone:
Matthew 20:6-
6 “At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’ 7 “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
God rewards the faithful
God rewards the faithful
This payment is according to God’s law in Leviticus 19:13 and Deuteronomy 24:15:
This payment is according to God’s law in Leviticus 19:13 and Deuteronomy 24:15:
13 “Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.
15 You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.
He gathers all the workers and changes the order for their payment.
He gathers all the workers and changes the order for their payment.
Matthew 20:8
8 “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
The last hired were paid a full day’s wage.
This is what the early workers agreed to be paid.
This made the early workers presume they would be paid more.
10 When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
Know God will give what is right.
Know God will give what is right.
It is hard in this life sometimes to see God being fait when things in life happen that are not fair. However may point out that these men agreed to the wage that God has given them.
God does what he does.
God does what he does.
13 “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage? 14 Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you. 15 Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’ 16 “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
Matthew 20:13-
This parable teaches us about the character of God. God is just in all his ways.
19 God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?
The owner told them just what he was going to do and now that he has done it for them but also did the same for the ones who were hired last. This is the problem the workers have with the owner. They are upset that the owner paid them them the same way he paid the late workers.
The owner payment method teaches about God’s grace.
The owner payment method teaches about God’s grace.
God liberally gives out grace.
God does not discriminate in how he blesses.
God’s grace applies to all the same way.
God is sovereign.
God is sovereign.
15 Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’
Matthew 20:13
We are not to get jealous because God blesses others in a way we think they do not deserve. Beware of trying to hinder other peoples blessing like the other workers did by thinking they work harder than the others. God’s grace is not based on our work.
God’s grace truly is a gift.
God’s grace truly is a gift.
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Therefore we are not to be jealous of how God’s grace is freely given. God’s grace is given to who he desires to give. As the parable shows that God is constantly looking to show his grace toward us.
Praise God for his grace.
Praise God for his grace.
We should thank God for his faithfulness in our life. He has kept us in many different ways. We know God’s grace because he desires to show us his amazing love. We know Grace because the law shows us how sinful we are...
20 God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. 21 So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thank you God for your grace through Jesus Christ that gives us right standing with you. God is never unfair but always just and good. May we grow in God’s grace and live forever in fellowship with him. Know that your time will come. If you are last and feel like you are last, Just know that God likes to bless the last first and love on them so just wait your turn for God to show up in your life.
Give thanks for the Lord is Good. How great is our God that he loves us in such a special way.
The owner pays the first workers
How Great is Our God
I Give Myself Away
Good Good Father