I love that family strength among them. Ministers call them into the vineyard, to do their work; death calls them out of the vineyard, to receive their penny: and those to whom the call into the vineyard is effectual, the call out of it will be joyful. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible The book features 50 challenges to do with your partner at affordable price points (FREE to about $50). Follow Christ's journey to the Cross. Johannine Writings she cried; but what had she to do with the Son of David? James was the first martyr among the apostles, and John was the only apostle to not die through martyrdom though not from a lack of trying. The Son of Man will be betrayed: Jesus again told the disciples what awaited Him in Jerusalem, but no reaction from the disciples is noted. (Matthew 20:32-34) Jesus heals the two blind men. Though primitive Christianity had more of the purity and power of that holy religion than is to be found in the degenerate age wherein we live, yet what labourers may be sent into the vineyard in the eleventh hour of the church's day, in the Philadelphian period, and what plentiful effusions of the Spirit may then be, above what has been yet, who can tell? As the elder brother, in the parable of the prodigal, repined at the reception of his younger brother, and complained of his father's generosity to him; so these labourers quarrelled with their master, and found fault, not because they had not enough, so much as because others were made equal with them. In this, as I believe, that He never employed the virtue that was in Him to meet sickness or infirmity as a matter of mere power, but in deep compassionate feeling He entered into the whole reality of the case. Here I close tonight. i. But they in turn will deliver Him to the Gentiles, who will first of all mock Him. It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. This was an entirely normal arrangement. Here is the first mention of the mode of Jesus death and of the Gentiles part in it (only the Romans could crucify people). (Carson). And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. The landowner reminded them that he had been completely fair to them. Subsequently to that, the scribe offered to follow Jesus whithersoever He went. 3 He went out about nine o'clock . Apply to the Son of David; lose not a moment; he is passing by, and thou art passing into eternity, and probably wilt never have a more favourable opportunity than the present. It is easy to condemn the disciples, but the faith and the loyalty which lay behind the ambition must never be forgotten. So the last shall be first, and the first last The GENTILES, who have been long without the true God, shall now enjoy all the privileges of the new covenant; and the Jews, who have enjoyed these from the beginning, shall now be dispossessed of them; for, because they here rejected the Lord, he also hath rejected them. He speaks of Israel then, and of Israel before He comes in glory, but He entirely omits any notice of the circumstances which were to come in by the way. Take what is yours and go your way. In spite of all he had said, here were these men and their mother still chattering about posts in an earthly government and kingdom. Jesus was no doubt very weakened by it. A daily devotional about the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The eye is often both the inlet and the outlet of this sin. At its close we see the leper approaching the Lord, after He had been preaching throughout Galilee and casting out devils. Had Peter confessed who the Son of man really is? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The giving of a whole day's wages to those that had not done the tenth part of a day's work, is designed to show that God distributes his rewards by grace and sovereignty, and not of debt. (i) These two blind men were waiting, and when their chance came they seized it with both hands. But I am convinced that there are others who will receive either as great or even greater honor than will Billy Graham who you have never heard of. When time ends, and with it the world of work and opportunity, then the state of retribution commences; then call the labourers, and give them their hire. Higher proportionate rewards shall be given to them than to others. Take what is yours and go! That they might possibly be outstripped by their successors in profession, and, though they were before others in profession, might be found inferior to them in knowledge, grace, and holiness. & Sanhedrim, fol. That is on the debit side of the account of the disciples; but there is much on the credit side. Greatness does not consist in commanding others to do things for you; it consists in doing things for others; and the greater the service, the greater the honour. As we have seen, the pay was 4 pence a day; and, if they were unemployed for one day, the children would go hungry at home, for no man ever saved much out of 4 pence a day. Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. 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." 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he . It probably was no more than a grave though passing difficulty, which he desired to have cleared up with all fulness for their sakes, as well as his own. The woman of Canaan, out of the borders of Tyre and Sidon, appeals to Him; a Gentile of most ominous name and belongings a Gentile whose case was desperate; for she appeals on behalf of her daughter, grievously vexed with a devil. It was as Son of David that they addressed Jesus. Minor Prophets The sovereign God takes pity on a needy world, and generously gives his salvation to all who accept his offer. The same indifference to the mere sequence of events is found occasionally in other parts of the gospel; but I have purposely dwelt upon this chapter 8, because here we have it throughout, and at the same time with evidence exceedingly simple and convincing. Now do you think that God the Father would allow His Son to suffer unnecessarily? There is no incident which so demonstrates their invincible faith in Jesus. If to conquer with Christ meant to suffer with Christ, they were perfectly willing to face that suffering. God hires labourers, not because he needs them or their services (for, if we be righteous, what do we unto him? To teach this it was spoken. Many that, in the order of time, are brought last into the kingdom, shall be first in the rewards. Again, when we listen to another (and now it is one of His disciples), at once faith shows its feebleness. He went out again about twelve o'clock midday, and about three o'clock in the afternoon, and did the same. What shall be their wages? I feel sure that no Christian harbours a doubt about it. 1. "As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a dumb man possessed with a devil. God does not permit Scripture to be thus used without losing its force, its beauty, and the grand object for which it was written. There was a strange inclusiveness in the suffering to which Jesus looked forward; it was a suffering in which no pain of heart or mind or body was to be lacking. The Lord admired the faith superior to Israel's, and took that occasion to intimate the casting out of the sons or natural heirs of the kingdom, and the entrance of many from east and west to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens. At several stages through the day he hired additional workers, then at the end of the day paid them their wages (Matthew 20:3-8). The impression is that the landowner was surprised to find people idle, because he had plenty of work to give them. In calling the labourers, they must begin from the last, and so to the first. Prophets but what a heart was His! get answers to your Bible questions from 50+ resources ($2,400+ value! Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Had she not such confusion of thought that, if the Lord had heeded her words, it must have been destruction to her? No doubt the tempest was great; but what harm could it do to Jesus? 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. The Lord, while thoroughly proving that He forgot nothing, owned everything that was of grace in Peter or the rest, while opening the same door to "every one" who forsakes nature for His name's sake, solemnly adds, "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." And they went. iv. We have here. The point of this one is that God will reward all His disciples justly, graciously, and generously. In immediate juxtaposition to this stands the Gentile centurion, who seeks healing for his servant. Amen. In the next scene, then, we have the disciples as a whole tried by a sudden danger to which their sleeping Master paid no heed. If God gives that grace to others, which he denies to us, it is kindness to them, but no injustice to us; and bounty to another, while it is no injustice to us, we ought not to find fault with. It is enough to meet a difficulty which many feel by the simple plea that the reason assigned is in my judgment a valid explanation, and in itself a sufficient solution of the apparent discrepancy. First, Carnal worldlings agree with God for their penny in this world; they choose their portion in this life (Psalms 17:14); in these things they are willing to have their reward (Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:5), their consolation (Luke 6:24), their good things (Luke 16:25); and with these they shall be put off, shall be cut off from spiritual and eternal blessings; and herein God does them no wrong; they have what they chose, the penny they agreed for; so shall their doom be, themselves have decided it; it is conclusive against them. 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. Reviewing, then, these closing incidents of the chapter (ver. Jesus gave everything to bring men back to God; and we must walk in the steps of him who loved to the uttermost. Poetical Books Secondly, Obedient believers agree with God for their penny in the other world, and they must remember that they have so agreed. Perhaps, Christ here gives an intimation to Peter, not to boast too much, as he seemed to do, of his having left all to follow Christ; as if, because he and the rest of them had borne the burthen and heat of the day thus, they must have a heaven by themselves. Those that have had gospel offers made them at the third, or sixth hour, and have resisted and refused them, will not have that to say for themselves at the eleventh hour, that these had; No man has hired us; nor can they be sure that any man will hire them at the ninth or eleventh hour; and therefore not to discourage any, but to awaken all, be it remembered, that now is the accepted time; if we will hear his voice, it must be to-day. His cup may be drunk in one great moment; his cup may be drunk throughout a lifetime of Christian living. They had heard of the miracles that He had wrought, up in the area of Galilee, around Capernaum. 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. yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. In Matthew it is their mother. Poetical Books a. Jesus stood still: Nothing could stop Him on His journey to Jerusalem; yet He stood still to answer a persistent plea for mercy. Thus, in the chapter before us, we have a very comprehensive sketch of the Lord's manifestation from that time, and in type going on to the end of the age. 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. That many who begin last, and promise little in religion, sometimes, by the blessing of God, arrive at greater attainments in knowledge, grace, and usefulness, than others whose entrance was more early, and who promised fairer. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.. 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. of What does it mean? [Note: Wiersbe, 1:73.]. That act forfeited their further right to it. If it was His rejection, these scornful men were themselves rejected in the very act. In other words, it is certain that in the gospel of Luke, in whose preface we have expressly the words "set in order," the Holy Ghost does in no way tie Himself to what, after all, is the most elementary form of arrangement; for it needs little observation to see, that the simple sequence of facts as they occurred is that which demands a faithful enumeration, and nothing more. New International Version (NIV). Instead of giving her at once a reply, He leads her on step by step; for so He can stoop. "This [fellow]," etc. The payment shall not be wholly deferred till the morning of the resurrection; but then, in the evening of the world, will be the general account, when every one shall receive according to the things done in the body. Here is demonstrated the new glory and the new greatness of suffering love and sacrificial service. They used their waiting time in considering their own superiority to the latecomers. (Spurgeon). There are two great lessons here. So the last shall be first, and the first last The GENTILES, who have been long without the true God, shall now enjoy all the privileges of the new covenant; and the Jews, who have enjoyed these from the beginning, shall now be dispossessed of them; for, because they here rejected the Lord, he also hath rejected them. I say not how fax he had realized this profound truth; I say not that he could have defined his thoughts; but he knew and declared His command of all as truly God. Then the pitiable condition of the disciples at the foot of the hill, where Satan reigned in fallen ruined man, is tested by the fact, that notwithstanding all the glory of Jesus, Son of God and Son of man, the disciples rendered it evident that they knew not how to bring His grace into action for others; yet was it precisely their place and proper function here below. Jesus stood and called them. And about the eleventh hour, [five in the evening] he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why do you stand here idle all day? This, too, we ascertain from Mark 1:1-45, where there are clear marks of the time. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16); Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34); Greatness is Serving (Matthew 20:20-28); Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight (Matthew 20:29-34). Jesus said that among the Gentiles there is this desire to exercise lordship and dominion over people. We are going to Jerusalem. Not even their wonderful "attitude" entitled them to a day's pay. Cookie Notice: God does not look on the amount of our service. In other words, the leper is here introduced after the sermon on the mount, though, in fact, the circumstance took place long before it. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Did you not come to an agreement with me to work for 4 pence ? It is a just prefiguration of what will be in the close of the age the mass of the unbelieving Jews, now impure, but then also given up to the devil, and so to evident perdition. For He loved Peter felt for him, and his wife's mother was precious in His sight. 13. 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. Nor is this all. At least we can draw the following applications from it. Thirdly, Others are hired into the vineyard in old age, at the eleventh hour, when the day of life is far spent, and there is but one hour of the twelve remaining. Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. The aggravation of it; "It is because I am good." Our job as disciples is to keep searching and including the lost, the last, and the least in the Kingdom and not just those who can bring us some benefit. The slum dwellers of Tokyo laughed at him, but they came to respect him. To the end the events are put together, just as in Matthew 8:1-34, without regard to the point of time when they occurred. Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Thus the point that meets us in the conclusion of the chapter is, that while every character, every measure of giving up for His name's sake, will meet with the most worthy recompence and result, man can as little judge of this as he can accomplish salvation. On the other side of the picture, behold the Lord leading on a soul to draw on divine grace in the most glorious manner.
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