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We are facing serious economic challenges.

We are facing serious economic challenges. Our text is about work. Specifically, the text is about the necessity of finding work. Jesus uses a specific cultural experience to teach: God acts out of the richness of his grace!. Matthew 20:1-16.

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We are facing serious economic challenges.

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  1. We are facing serious economic challenges.

  2. Our text is about work. • Specifically, the text is about the necessity of finding work. • Jesus uses a specific cultural experience to teach: God acts out of the richness of his grace!

  3. Matthew 20:1-16

  4. Workers were hired on a daily basis in the ancient world. • Not working on a certain day meant that you weren’t paid for that day. • In Jesus’ day, many people didn’t know if they would eat from day to day.

  5. What the landowner does makes absolutely no economic sense. • If you pay someone to work, you want him to work. • God acts out of the richness of his grace.

  6. Two implications to take away from this text.

  7. One: God needs workers in his vineyard. • The landowner keeps going to the marketplace to find workers. • God has so much work to be done! • “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Eph 2:10, NKJV). • What are you going to do in God’s vineyard?

  8. Two: God rewards His workers with bountiful grace. • There are so many people in this world who face great anxiety.

  9. Some people are anxious about their purpose. • Solomon sought to find the purpose of life. • “Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all” (Eccl 12:13, NKJV). • In this Parable, we find purpose—the landowner has great work for all!

  10. Some people are anxious because of the weight of their sin. • Ps 38:3-4. • This Parable provides a remedy—the landowner has plenteous grace for all.

  11. Some people are anxious about the state of the economy. • In this Parable, the landowner greatly provides for those who labor for him. • God provides for His people. • “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matt 6:33, NKJV). • God provides for the needs of His people.

  12. Some people get nervous when we talk about grace. • Some do teach that God’s grace relieves man of personal responsibility. • But, in this Parable, only those who work in the vineyard receive the landowner’s grace.

  13. If you understood God’s grace, how would your life be different?

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