Parables Wk 2 - The Parable of the Tenant Farmers

Luke 20:9-18

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Man, that’s not fair! I’ve been mistreated!

Someone steals your joke

Takes care of my sister’s dogs and house - “I’ll buy you lunch sometime’

What?? I’ll take 2% commission on the house, thank you very much!

More bleak stories- such as child abuse.

Elle and I watched a documentary that would literally make you sick… we had to turn it off because I had enough

We are about to read a story about mistreatment… the most outrageous mistreatment of all time

The Killing of God’s Son

The man owns the vineyard.

It belongs to Him. You went to the car dealership and sealed the deal. It’s yours. Or, you made an awesome lego set. It’s yours.

Prophets

Isaiah was sawn in half by a wooden saw

Jeremiah was constantly mistreated, thrown into a pit, and later stoned to death by the Jews

Zechariah was rejected

Ezekiel was hated

Micah was struck in the face

Then, the Beloved Son shows up on the scene

What do they do?? They kill him. *gasp*

Cries of outrage! What an injustice!

Social justice, racial justice, criminal justice, justice justice… our world cries out “that’s not fair!”

God knows what unfair truly means

Isaiah 53

This parable was told in reference to the religious leaders

But here’s the truth- man and woman’s heart, our hearts, are really good at rejecting God

Think about the ways that your heart naturally repels God

magnets repel

we want to make our own decisions

we make the judgements calls on what is moral and immoral

“everyone did what was right in their own eyes”

Romans 1 - we still pretend like He isn’t there. We rather explain Him away.

the crowd cries out “crucify!”

But He loved them anyway. He loves us anyways. He is so merciful. So patient. So full of grace.

Application:

Repent. Believe. Accept His radical, unconditional love for you.

Fall upon him. What will it cost? It will cost everything. All of you. Galatians 2:20

Galatians 2:20 ESV

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Life in the death of me

Yet- it is better than being crushed by Him when He judges the living and the dead.

No one will escape His judgement.

Maybe you feel like you’ve been done an injustice. Perhaps, your life feels like one, continual injustice against you.

You go around feeling like a victim. Waiting to be slighted again. You know what? Hurt people hurt people.

Although our world is tainted by sin and not what we long for it to be, trust that God will make all things new. Trust that “vengeance belongs to Him.” Romans 12:19

Romans 12:19 ESV

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Be patient. Be merciful. Be full of grace. He loves you.