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Introduction
Recap the series
In this series, we have looked at the word ‘Gospel’
The word ‘Gospel’ means “Good News”
By saying it is Good News, we are left with a few questions.
Who is the Good News for?
If the good news is not for me, then it may be good, but it has no impact on my life
What is the Good News?
If I cannot know the good news, you can tell me it is good all you want, but again, it’ll have no impact on my life
In this series, we have looked at how Jesus shared this good news with the people who came across His path.
We looked at Jesus talking with a religious leader
We looked at Jesus sharing the Good News with a sinful woman
We looked at Jesus sharing the Good News with a young, wealthy influential man
We shared how Jesus shared the good news in his stories
He told stories about planting seed in a field
He told a story about workers in a vineyard
Last week we looked at a story of a father whose son left in rebellion, but returned in humility.
In all of these stories and interactions, Jesus presented a very clear and simple Gospel.
Lord
It requires a trust to make Jesus your Lord
You are no longer the director of your life, Jesus becomes the one who directs your life
It is a surrender of your will to Him and seeing the world as He sees the world.
But to the people who felt they led their lives well, there would be no surrender, therefore, there would be no good news for them.
Savior
Jesus also brought the reality that all people are sinful and flawed.
There are not perfect people
Even the religious leaders and churchiest people were flawed.
Sinful people need a savior
A person who does not recognize their sin, will never receive salvation, because there is nothing to save them from.
God’s perspective
He loves the lost.
He desires for them to be in relationship with Him
He is the King.
Those who surrender to Him are in His Kingdom.
His heart breaks for the lost and dying world, like a father whose son has rebelled and walked away.
Our perspective
When we are in His Kingdom, our lives change in this world
We have direction and purpose.
We understand that we live for a greater calling than ourselves.
It doesn’t mean that our problems go away, but we have someone who brings purpose to our problems and growth to our struggles.
Our lives are secured in eternity.
This ends with the restoration of a relationship with God we were intended to have
Metanarrative
God created this world in perfection and relationship
God says that the story will end with perfection and relationship
We are in the middle of that story.
We have the opportunity to be restored to the relationship humanity was designed to have.
Will we trust Him and become a part of the Kingdom?
Today, we are opening up the last segment of this series.
There are some words that we are going to tackle that bring clarity to the Gospel.
We have looked at interactions and stories.
Now we will get clear teaching and understanding of these ideas.
Read Matthew 21:28-32
Pray
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Context
Jesus was speaking with the Chief Priests
Not just the priests, but the chief priests
He was also speaking with the elders of the people
These guys were being antagonistic toward Jesus.
They did not believe in His authority.
They did not want to follow.
It’s funny in Jesus’ ministry, how it was the religious people who often rejected Jesus.
They thought they could be righteous by following all of their religious rules.
But the “sinful” people knew they were sinful.
There was no question in their lives.
They had made decisions and suffered the consequences of those decisions.
Their decisions had not just had consequences in the area of their sin, but they became outcasts.
They were known by their sin.
Their sin became the very definition of their lives.
In that place, there is very little hope.
People only define you by what you have done.
There is no opportunity to change.
You are what you have done.
But it was the sinful people who were attracted to Jesus and His teaching.
He accepted them.
He loved them.
He saw them for who they were, not what they had done.
that is where our story comes from.
This story is starts out as a parable
A physical story that is given spiritual meaning.
There is a specific point made in the story, so we need to understand the simple point so we can look at the story correctly.
There was a man who had two sons.
To the first son, he said, “Go out and work today in the vineyard”
I don’t know what was going on in the background.
That doesn’t really matter.
But the kid was like, “I’ve got better things to do.
I’m going to do what I want, not what you want.”
But something happened in his heart.
He experienced a change of some sort.
Without the prompting of his father, he goes out and does the work he was asked to do.
The father goes to the other son and asks the same thing.
The second son says, “Sure dad, I’ll get right on it.”
With his mouth, he agreed, but with his action, he did not
He never showed up for work.
Jesus asks these religious people who were criticizing him, “Which one of these boys did what his father wanted?”
Well, the first was rebellious to the face of the father, but then had a change of heart and returned to do the work that was asked.
At the end of the day, he obeyed, even though he looked rebellious for a bit.
The second son looked good to the father, but when the father looked out in the field, he was the disobedient one.
The only answer to this question was that it was the first son who did what his father asked.
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