Parables of Jesus Week 10 Justice & Humility Matthew 20 & Luke 18
Dec 14, 2015
Matthew 20:1-2"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out
early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2 He
agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into
his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3-7"About the third hour he went out
and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you
whatever is right.' 5 So they went. "He went out again about
the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. 6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing
Matthew 20:3-7around. He asked them, 'Why
have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?' 7 "
'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them,
'You also go and work in my vineyard.'
Matthew 20:8-10"When evening came, the owner
of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and
pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' 9 "The
workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.10 So when those came who were hired first,
they
Matthew 20:11-1211 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have
made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and
the heat of the day.'
Matthew 20:13-16"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to
you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who
was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don't I have the right to
do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious
because I am generous?' 16 "So the last will be first, and the first
will be last."
Luke 9:24-25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for a man to gain the
whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self ?
John 12:25The man who loves his life
will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will
keep it for eternal life.
Ephesians 3:14-21For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth
derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may
strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being
rooted and established in
Ephesians 3:14-21love, 18 may have power,
together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that
you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now
to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his
power that is at
Ephesians 3:14-21work within us, 21 to him be
glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
for ever and ever! Amen.
Conquers are who we are, this is what we have;
• We are part of the family of God!• We are strengthened with the
power of the Holy Spirit!• Christ actually lives in our hearts!• We are rooted & established• We’ve been given knowledge of
God and His love• God’s power is at work within us
Luke 18:10-12 "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the
other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed
about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--
robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. 12 I
fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
Luke 18:13-14"But the tax collector stood at a
distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast
and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."