The Parable of the Vine Growers
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The Vine Growers
06-05-2022
This morning we jump back to our Parables of Jesus
I have been reading through Mark
I just recently read the parable of the Vine Growers in Mark 12
As I thought about the sermon
I believe this is what God would have us speak on this morning
1 And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. 2 “At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers. 3 “They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 “Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. 5 “And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
This guy builds a vineyard ready to be used
He took enough time to put a wall around the vineyard which protected it from the outside
He put a tower in the middle to act as a lookout and could have even acted as shade for the workers
This owner worked and created a vineyard to be used and then
He then rents it out to workers
It was the agreement that every so often the owner would send someone to receive his cut of the income
It has come time and he sends people
A number of people are sent to get money
Why after the first one that is beat and sent back he didn’t decide to do something different is beyond me
It continues to escalate to the point that some of the men that are sent are put to death
This is alarming and absolutely wrong
I mean He owns the vineyard right
He has selected these men to be in charge and to do a good job
They obviously have not done a good job right
They want to take it for themselves
They do not want to follow the agreed upon terms
6 “He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 “But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ 8 “They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
The owner has one last one to send
To receive what is rightly his he decides he will send his son
In sending his son he is thinking there is no way they will harm his son, because is son is the heir to the vineyard
The owner has sent his son and they think to themselves
This is the one who will get everything anyway
Lets kill him and take it for ourselves
And they do
This particular parable has to do with the Jewish people
The Jewish People and in-particular the Jewish Religious Leaders are the hired people
The owner is God
The son is the Son of God Jesus
God created them world and everything in the world and then put man in charge of things
Then sin entered the world
Then God chose for Himself a people called the Israelites
7 ‘Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
God has chosen this people for his own
You will be my people and I will be your God
And if that is not clear enough
22 ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ ”
That God has chosen the Israelites to be His own people
Sort of like the vineyard is the world and He has hire or chosen people to be in charge and reap a harvest
Or he has put a people in charge to spread His message of grace and mercy and to reap a harvest
To spread the message of Salvation through Jesus and only Jesus
God will come back to collect those who are saved
Those people He put in charge though did not listen
19 Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord; though they testified against them, they would not listen.
God sent people to the nation of Israel to be a mouth piece to that nation
And then it was going to be through that nation that Salvation would come to the world
Remember to the Jew first and then to the Gentile
To draw the nation closer to God he would use people called prophets to speak His message to the nation
It is through those people they would hear from God
They would receive a word from God
And then take that to the people
These are the people that are sent from God to the nation
In the parable these are the people that were sent to the vineyard to collect
And just like in the Parable of the Vineyard
Those people sent by the owner some were beaten and some were killed
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
Some of the prophets were killed
Of the major prophets this is what I was able to find
Isaiah was sawed in 2
Jeremiah was eventually stoned to death after several escapes from death
Ezekiel was killed while in exile
Daniel was fed to lions but God saved him and eventually died of natural causes
These weren’t all the men God would sent with His message
Hosea died of natural causes
Micah was killed by the son of a King of Israel because of what the message he gave
Amos was tortured and eventually died because of the torture
Joel died in peace
Obadiah I couldn’t find
Jonah, had an interesting method of transportation to where God has called him to go a giant fish but doesn’t say how he died
As for the remaining minor prophets I was not able to find out they died
But we could probably agree that some of them if not most of them face some sort of trial because they came in the name of the Lord to give a message to the nation of Israel.
As we have said earlier these were the men to to collect the nation back to God
But the leaders refused to listen
God had one last one to send
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
God sent Jesus to the world to save it
Jesus did not come into the world to judge it but to save it
There is only salvation through Jesus
9 “What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others. 10 “Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone; 11 This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?” 12 And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.
But just like in the parable they did not listen to Jesus and ultimately rejected Jesus
Salvation Himself was nailed to the cross
When Jesus said the Son did not come to judge but to save
Jesus came to save people from the effects of sin which is death
The Jewish Leaders rejected Jesus
Now we even see world leaders continuing to reject Jesus
Because of that God will pour out his wrath on them
Just like vineyard owner will come and destroy them
The truth of God’s word does not change
That Jesus came to save the lost
Jesus dealt with the sin problem on the cross
Jesus gives us life and freedom with the empty tomb
As we move to the invitation
IF you are here this morning and have never repented of your sin and trusted in Jesus you are lost
Jesus came to find you
You can be free from the chains of sin by repent of the sin in your life and trusting in Jesus this morning
Or maybe you already have a relationship with Jesus and maybe you have allowed pride to enter your life like the vineyard workers and have started to reject Jesus
I would call on you to repent and run to Jesus
Or maybe this morning you simply need to spend sometime in prayer
The altar is open