What is the meaning of the passage of the laborers of the vine? (Part 2).
Based on this, now, it’s easier to figure out this passage. One of the great problems with us is that we are used to misjudging people. We don’t care about their motivations or what they are undergoing, but only in their actions. If we tried to seek in Christ to know it, as well as Jesus’ will for them, we could find the way more excellent (the love – 1Cor 12:31) to sort out the problems.
So, let’s know better this owner of vineyard.
1 – Why he went out to hire laborers for his vine?
Certainly, it wasn’t because he needed it in order to increase his gains. Otherwise, why he would hire workers at the ninth and eleventh hour? What difference would this do?
The only explanation is that there were many laborers who needed this job in order to nurture their house and the owner of the vineyard wished to bless the more quantity of people doable.
2 – Why, then, didn’t he simply give money for them?
Because he desired to bless only those who got pleasure in working. The more the person delighted in being useful, the higher the priority in being blessed. Hence Jesus said:
• Mat 20:16 -> “So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last; for many are called, but few are chosen."”.
3 – What did the owner do in order to find out their disposition in working?
First, he went out to hire laborers at specific moments, coping with them in a singular way.
With the first laborers, he established an employment contract. They went thinking only on the wage:
• Mat 20:2 -> “After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”.
With the second, third and fourth laborers, he promised to give what was righteous. That is to say: the went trusting his justice:
• Mat 20:3-5 -> “And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.”.
With the workers of the last hour, the owner didn’t promise anything (although there are versions which equal them to the previous laborers). They went chiefly for the privilege of working:
• Mat 20:6,7 -> “And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ “.
Have a good day being like the laborers of the last hour.
Tomorrow we will carry out.
Based on this, now, it’s easier to figure out this passage. One of the great problems with us is that we are used to misjudging people. We don’t care about their motivations or what they are undergoing, but only in their actions. If we tried to seek in Christ to know it, as well as Jesus’ will for them, we could find the way more excellent (the love – 1Cor 12:31) to sort out the problems.
So, let’s know better this owner of vineyard.
1 – Why he went out to hire laborers for his vine?
Certainly, it wasn’t because he needed it in order to increase his gains. Otherwise, why he would hire workers at the ninth and eleventh hour? What difference would this do?
The only explanation is that there were many laborers who needed this job in order to nurture their house and the owner of the vineyard wished to bless the more quantity of people doable.
2 – Why, then, didn’t he simply give money for them?
Because he desired to bless only those who got pleasure in working. The more the person delighted in being useful, the higher the priority in being blessed. Hence Jesus said:
• Mat 20:16 -> “So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last; for many are called, but few are chosen."”.
3 – What did the owner do in order to find out their disposition in working?
First, he went out to hire laborers at specific moments, coping with them in a singular way.
With the first laborers, he established an employment contract. They went thinking only on the wage:
• Mat 20:2 -> “After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”.
With the second, third and fourth laborers, he promised to give what was righteous. That is to say: the went trusting his justice:
• Mat 20:3-5 -> “And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.”.
With the workers of the last hour, the owner didn’t promise anything (although there are versions which equal them to the previous laborers). They went chiefly for the privilege of working:
• Mat 20:6,7 -> “And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ “.
Have a good day being like the laborers of the last hour.
Tomorrow we will carry out.