Parable Of Workers In Vineyard (Matt.20 )

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DustyRhodes

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A land owner went out early in the morning
to hire laborers to work in his vineyard. He
told the ones who came how much he would
pay. As the day wore on, others came and
he put them to work and near the end of the
day the eleventh worker came when the work
was nearly done and the landowner hired him
as well. When it came time to pay he called
the last worker and paid him a certain sum.
Looking at that, the other workers felt they
would get more. But when the landowner
paid them the same amount, they began to
grumble. The landowner told them he paid
them exactly what he promised to pay.

Thus, the last will be first and the first will be
last. In my view that leads to future scripture.
It does not matter how much we work or what
we work at, God gave us salvation at no cost
to us. We don't compare ourselves to others.
It is only up to us to say "Yes we believe you
are my Lord and my God'. It is by grace we
are saved through faith. If it was by our own
design and merit, I'd believe that none of
us would get there. Some may say I'm not
worthy well before we proclaim Jesus as our
savior none of us is worthy.
Christ crucified changed all of that.
It is love that will take us home to His heavenly
mansion. Our endless love will show the way.
 

JaumeJ

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Jul 2, 2011
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Thank you for pointing this out. It is my eager desire that all who are saved by grace understand that some of us, by knowing we are given to obey those laws remaining to be fulfilled which comprise the two great laws of love do not pretend to think our reward is greater than any others. I pray to not only be graced to obye them as best possible but to be given good works by our Father, again this is grace. Obeying for me is simply my due. I praise Jesus for all who believe Him but I do sometines weary of those who tend to think we who believe in this kind of obedience presume to be gaining anything other than th e great pleasure of pleasing our Father. All love and blessings in Jesus, Yeshua.