So many people, both in things material and in things spiritual, get what they want, and then forget even to say thanks. Thus it is shown that, though we have rich grace to the Gentile, there is the remembrance of natural relationship still. To lose all for heavenly treasure, to come and follow the despised Nazarene here below what was it to compare with that which had brought Jesus to earth? But there's a big twist. It is a picture of what was about to take place when the Lord Jesus, quitting Israel and the earth, ascends on high, and all assumes another form not the reign upon earth, but intercession in heaven. (e) T. Bab. This he said in the hearing of the disciple who would act the traitor: did no compunction visit his base heart? (Spurgeon), ii. Gregory of Nyssa saw the glaring fault in that theory. In the eighth chapter of Matthew as it tells of them bringing all of their sick and those who were diseased to Jesus, and He healed them, every one, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, "He in His own body bore our sufferings." I feel sure that no Christian harbours a doubt about it. 3 He went out about nine o'clock . And I pray to God that we will never lose this concept of the ministry, that we are the servants of all.It is so important that we maintain, because Jesus said. What Jesus Did! Had there been a single thing good in Israel, their choicest guides would have stood that test. Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Let them recognize the power that banished the leprosy, and the grace withal that touched the leper. But this, though perhaps legitimate enough as an application of the parable, is clearly secondary and subordinate, and must not be allowed to obscure its primary intention. "On his first night he was asked to share his bed with a man suffering from contagious itch. A few I have chosen for higher stations in the church. "What do you want me to do for you?" And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David! Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!. This parable is not a perfect illustration of Gods grace, because the principle of working and deserving is involved. Blessed Paul guarded against this, when, though the chief of the apostles, he owned himself to be nothing, to be less than the least of all saints. Their expectation was so focused on Jesus establishing an immediate political kingdom, and these words from Jesus were so contrary to that anticipation, these words just went over their heads. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard ( Matthew 20:1-2 ). Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David! ii. For less than $5/mo. Peter asks a word from his Master, and leaves the ship to join Him on the water. For him the cup was martyrdom. Adventure Challenge - Couple's Edition - Matthew 20:16 - Australia - part 1 142 views Jun 20, 2021 0 Dislike Share Tanya All Fun and Games 3 subscribers Grafton ten pin bowling alley. They did not see why they should be allowed to stake their claims to preeminence. But when the Lord was here, no matter what the unbelief of others, it was only an opportunity for the grace of Jesus to shine out. In heaven, every vessel will be full, brimful, though every vessel is not alike large and capacious. . They couldn't see Him. It was necessary to complete the picture. We can count on God dealing with us justly, graciously, and generously whether we serve God all our lives or only a short time having become His disciples later in life. All rights reserved worldwide. But still, it was His carrying on the great process of shewing out more and more the total rejection of His rejectors. It was not more truly Christ's kingdom as man than He was God's own Son, His beloved Son, in whom He was well pleased, who was now to be heard, rather than Moses or Elias, who disappear, leaving Jesus alone with the chosen witnesses. Yet it shall not be so among you: Their desire for position and status showed they did not yet know the nature of Jesus in respect to leadership and power. vii. Considerable time, it is true, elapsed between the two facts; but this only makes it the more sure and plain, that they are grouped together with a divine purpose. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. He said to them, 'Go you also into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee's children [now James and John were the sons of Zebedee and she came to Him] with her sons ( Matthew 20:20 ). He goes to raise the dead, and the woman with the issue of blood touches Him by the way. He stands with the juvenile delinquents. But if you were silent and refused to confess your crimes, then each time he would lay the whip on heavier, and heavier, until you'd be forced to cry out your crime against the Roman government. The Lord now lets them know their mad folly, and warns them that this blasphemy was about to culminate in a still deeper, deadlier form when the Holy Ghost should be spoken against as He had been. In spite of their lack of merit, the good householder required them to pick it up, thus giving it to them in spite of their forfeiture. 'God is love,' he shouted. and who are my brethren?" He is talking about, no doubt, the scourging that He was going to receive, because it could not be that any of His bones should be broken. But yet people who have been faithful to that service, to which God has employed them, whether it be intercessory closet prayer that nobody knows anything about, and I think when we get to heaven we are going to be surprised when we see those who are sitting on the front row. Think of when this request was made. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. This doth not prove that the reward of our obedience to God is of works, or of debt (no, it is of grace, free grace,Romans 4:4), or that there is any proportion between our services and heaven's glories; no, when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants; but it is to signify that there is a reward set before us, and a sufficient one. "And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth." What is mine, is mine to do with as I please." Sorrow would come full soon when He, the Bridegroom of His people, should be taken away; and then should they fast. The limit was reached by Peter the Lombard. So now we have, in the healing of Peter's mother-in-law, another fact containing a principle of great value, that His grace towards the Gentile does not in the least degree blunt His heart to the claims of relationship after the flesh. If we compare the eighth chapter, for example, with the corresponding circumstances, as far as they appear, in the gospel of Mark, we shall find the latter gives us notes of time, which leave no doubt on my mind that Mark adheres to the scale of time: the design of the Holy Ghost required it, instead of dispensing with it in his case. c. They likewise received a denarius: Yet the men hired first early in the day, and who had worked all day got paid exactly what the landowner had promised them (a denarius a day, Matthew 20:2). But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister [or servant]; And whosoever will be the chief among you, let him be the bondslave ( Matthew 20:23-27 ): Jesus here is teaching the servanthood of the ministry and the path to greatness. It was a grave step this, and in view of His rejection now. 97. We know this by comparing it with the gospel of Luke. The crowd commanded them to stop their shouting; they were making a nuisance of themselves. I have endowed them with apostolic gifts or with superior talents, and suited them for wider usefulness. In this work we must not be slothful, not loiterers, but labourers, working, and working out our own salvation. Whatever the time may have been, whatever the incidents added by others, the account is given here for the purpose of showing, that as Israel's case was desperate, even unto death, so He, the Messiah, was the giver of life, when all, humanly speaking, was over. Hence, here it is a question not merely of cleansing, but of forgiveness, and forgiveness, too, as that which precedes power, manifested before men. So, when more is added, He says, "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Nonetheless God had the right to give just as great reward to those whose service was not as long. Israel must give full testimony in the bright day of His coming. This attitude threatened to be carried forward into the Christian Church. "Oh, you bet you, we're able." James was the first of the apostolic band to die a martyr ( Acts 12:2). e. And to give His life a ransom for many: The death of Jesus the giving of His life purchased the freedom of His people. Many are called, c.] This clause is wanting in BL, one other, and in the Coptic and Sahidic versions. "My daughter is even now dead, but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live." The grace of God does not give us more blessing than we deserve it gives blessing to us completely apart from the principle of deserving. Now do you think that God the Father would allow His Son to suffer unnecessarily? Examine the Scripture, and you will see for yourselves. There will be differences at the close. 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. Though he vainly thought, that if those few were but two, they were himself and his son. To all justice shall be done. To all to whom the rewards of heaven are promised they shall be given. For this challenge, you'll need dinner at home and two nerf guns. This place seems to refer to the ancient Roman custom of recruiting their armies. When they received it, they grumblingly complained against the master. He was there for the express purpose of glorifying God. The offence removed. (iv) Here, also, is the infinite compassion of God. So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, What do you want Me to do for you? They said to Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. And yet in spite of that the disciples are thinking of a Kingdom. ", Kagawa himself wrote: "God dwells among the lowliest of men. The devil, by his temptations, is hiring labourers into his field, to feed swine. THE FALSE AND THE TRUE AMBITION ( Matthew 20:20-28 ), 20:20-28 At that time the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons, kneeling before him, and asking something from him. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. "Verily, I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." What special mercy and tenderness, not only in the end, but also in the way the Lord deals with Israel! When we are converted, we become members of Christs living body; and as we grow in grace, and get the true spirit that permeates that body, we shall say, when any member of it is honored, This is honor for usIf any brother shall be greatly honored of God, I feel honored in his honor. For many be called, but few chosen.The warning is repeated after the parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:14), and as it stands there in closer relation with the context, that will be the fitting place for dwelling on it. Jesus said, "They will scourge me. They were still thinking in terms of personal reward and personal distinction; and they were thinking of personal success without personal sacrifice. That was a test of his faith. It is always thus. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, They were offended that the landowner gave the men who worked less equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. I have endowed them with apostolic gifts or with superior talents, and suited them for wider usefulness. Here we find our Lord, after sending out the chosen witnesses of the truth (so momentous to Israel, above all) of His own Messiahship, realizing His utter rejection, yet rejoicing withal in God the Father's counsels of glory and grace, while the real secret in the chapter, as in fact, was His being not Messiah only, nor Son of man, but the Son of the Father, whose person none knows but Himself. Particular epochs in Luke are noted with great care; but, speaking now of the general course of the Lord's life, a little attention will discover, from the immensely greater preponderance paid to the consideration of time in the second gospel, that there we have events from first to last given to us in their consecutive order. He would send fit messengers, nor would the work be done till the rejected Messiah, the Son of man, came. 3 "About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. I can't wait until you send Jesus with power and show things as they should be and reward people based on their character, their hearts, their gratitude for your grace, and their service. He "went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people." If God shall bless your brother, and make him ten times more useful than you are, then you see that he is blessing you not only blessing him, but you. Secondly, Obedient believers agree with God for their penny in the other world, and they must remember that they have so agreed. [Note: Norman A. Huffman, "Atypical Features in the Parables of Jesus," Journal of Biblical Literature 97 (1978):209. I do not believe that God would just allow His Son to take all of that suffering, if there were not some value to be received from that suffering. This is applied to the Jews (Matthew 22:14; Matthew 22:14); it was so then, it is too true still; many are called with a common call, that are not chosen with a saving choice. It is not here a question of life (as in the seed at first), but a system of christian doctrine; not life germinating and bearing fruit, but mere dogma natural mind which is exposed to it. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Lord, however, in the same chapter, shows that it was not a question alone of what was to be done, or to be suffered, or is to be by-and-by, but what He was, and is, and never can but be. 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Christ had promised the apostles, who followed him in the regeneration, at the beginning of the gospel dispensation, great glory (Matthew 19:28; Matthew 19:28); but he now tells them that those who are in like manner faithful to him, even in the latter end of the world, shall have the same reward, shall sit with Christ on his throne, as well as the apostles, Revelation 2:26-3. On the other hand, by far the greater weight of tradition goes to show that John lived to a great old age in Ephesus and died a natural death when he must have been close on a hundred years old. Before he goes to Church let him visit the hospital. to forget His ancient people. To me it is evident, from a careful comparison of them all, as I think it is capable of clear and adequate proof to an unprejudiced Christian mind, that neither Matthew nor Luke confines himself to such an order of events. (Matthew 20:1-2) A landowners workers early in the morning. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Such people resent what seems to them the intrusion of new blood or the rise of a new generation with different plans and different ways. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. Nevertheless, His ear was open to the call on behalf of Israel perishing, dying, dead. And he said unto them, You shall indeed drink of my cup ( Matthew 20:23 ). "That ye may know it (then saith He to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house." Johannine Writings A Roman coin was once found with the picture of an ox on it; the ox was facing two things--an altar and a plough; and the inscription read: "Ready for either." But none the less do we find His affections engaged for the help of the helpless. "That ye may know," He says, "that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," etc. It is worth stopping to see what the crude hands of theology have done with that lovely saying. Lowly, noiseless grace now it was to be, according to the prophet, till the hour strikes for victory in judgment. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. So the last shall be first, and the first last. That the same night that in which Jesus was betrayed, He took bread, and when He had broken it, He said, take eat this is my body which is broken for you. They plucked his hair, they smote his cheeks, they spat in his face. Gods grace always operates righteously. Even so the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.". But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius. His cup may be drunk in one great moment; his cup may be drunk throughout a lifetime of Christian living. Proud member The English translators have thus given the sense well; for the expression really conveys this slight, though the word "fellow" is printed in italics. Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. They mock the calm utterance of Him who chooses things that are not; and the Lord turns out the unbelievers, and demonstrates the glorious truth that the maid was not dead, but living. It is clear that the unclean spirit, returning, brings idolatry back again. But the mission is given here in strict accordance with what the gospel demands. When they came they that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man [the denarius] a penny. Unfortunately, they have missed the blessing of knowing God, and serving God all their lives. The ability to serve God is the gift of His grace. Many be called, but few chosen - The meaning of this, in this connection, I take to be simply this: Many are called into my kingdom; they come and labor as I command them; many of them are comparatively unknown and obscure; yet they are real Christians, and shall all receive the proper reward. If the harvest was not ingathered before the rains broke, then it was ruined; and so to get the harvest in was a frantic race against time. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. "Christ demands that the driving force in your life must be love. It means quite simply this. Poetical Books He is also the writer of many of the letters that you find in your New Testament.". 20:17-19 As he was going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them, while they were on the road, "Look you, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the Scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and on the third day he will be raised.". It is not enough that Israel be awakened from the sleep of death, and see aright.

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