WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.800 Hello, welcome back to the Way UK podcast. 2 00:00:02.800 --> 00:00:05.520 My name is Izzy, and I'm one of your hosts for the day, 3 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:07.360 and who do we have? 4 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:08.520 I'm Zoe. 5 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:10.120 And I am Zach. 6 00:00:10.120 --> 00:00:11.080 Welcome, guys. 7 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:12.200 And we're on the way. 8 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:18.600 Gosh, well, we're continuing our parable series, 9 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.480 but before we get into that, 10 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.600 if you're listening on YouTube, 11 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:24.080 drop a little comment, drop a little subscribe, 12 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:26.440 a little bell situation. 13 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:27.120 Nice. 14 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.240 Apple Spotify, give us a little ray. 15 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:30.080 It helps. 16 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:32.720 Our vision is to spread the good news of Jesus 17 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00:01:05.720 we are now on our fourth parables 34 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:07.440 of season two of our parables. 35 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:08.880 Oh, yeah. 36 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:10.560 And last week, we looked at, 37 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.320 I don't remember, but you'll be able to grow 38 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:14.560 and now, in that way. 39 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.400 Oh, yeah. 40 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:16.640 Grace found Lazarus. 41 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:18.600 And now you'll be at longer. 42 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:20.000 How's it feeling? 43 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:21.800 Well, better, it's not itchy anymore. 44 00:01:21.800 --> 00:01:22.800 Great. 45 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:23.800 Grace got. 46 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:25.360 We'll just see it progress through the weeks 47 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:26.720 and just see what happens. 48 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.040 Today, we're still in the book of Luke 49 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.120 and we're doing the parable of the tenants, 50 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:33.840 is what my Bible calls it, any? 51 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.720 Oh, mine steps at a level. 52 00:01:35.720 --> 00:01:37.880 The wicked tenants. 53 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:40.640 Oh, not linked to the movie. 54 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:45.640 Ah, okay, Cynthia, when did she get in here? 55 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.040 Oh, gosh, really good. 56 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:49.880 Okay, go. 57 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:53.040 So let's read Luke 20. 58 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.120 Vest is nine to 19. 59 00:01:56.360 --> 00:01:57.200 Go on, Zach. 60 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.040 You want me to read it? 61 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:59.880 Yeah, you felt ready. 62 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:02.080 Okay, I'm reading out of the ESV, guys. 63 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:03.880 You know I'm an ESV man. 64 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:05.320 And I be personally. 65 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:06.440 That's a mage. 66 00:02:06.440 --> 00:02:07.280 Here we go. 67 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:08.120 Don't know that version. 68 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:09.440 That's not true. 69 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:11.080 That was funny. 70 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:11.920 I'll give that to you. 71 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:12.760 That was funny. 72 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:15.000 All right, from verse nine, here we go. 73 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.040 And he began to tell the people this parable, 74 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:21.120 a man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants 75 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.160 who went into another country for a long while. 76 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:27.400 When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants 77 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.360 so that they would give him some of the fruit of vineyard. 78 00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:34.880 But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty handed. 79 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:38.000 And he sent another servant, 80 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.640 but they also beat and treated him shamefully 81 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:43.800 and sent him away empty handed. 82 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:45.320 Uh-oh. 83 00:02:45.320 --> 00:02:47.280 And he sent yet a third. 84 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.000 This one also they wounded and cast out. 85 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:52.720 And the owner of the vineyard said, 86 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:54.400 what shall I do? 87 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.400 I will send my beloved son, perhaps they will respect him. 88 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:03.520 But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, 89 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:05.200 this is the heir. 90 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:09.320 Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours. 91 00:03:09.320 --> 00:03:12.560 And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 92 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.760 What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 93 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:20.240 He will come and destroy those tenants 94 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.360 and give the vineyard to others. 95 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:25.760 When they heard this, they said, surely not. 96 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:28.600 But he looked directly at them and said, 97 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:31.080 what then is this that is written? 98 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.200 The stone that the builders rejected 99 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:35.760 has become the cornerstone. 100 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:39.560 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces. 101 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.520 And when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. 102 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.080 Oh, I see. 103 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:46.120 Do you want me to read one more verse? 104 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:46.960 Mine ends there. 105 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:47.960 Mine is one more verse. 106 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:48.800 Mine too. 107 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:49.640 Wait, what? 108 00:03:49.880 --> 00:03:53.720 I have a verse 19, but it's in the next section. 109 00:03:53.720 --> 00:03:55.720 Okay, so I'll read verse 19. 110 00:03:55.720 --> 00:03:59.720 Describes in the chief priests sought to lay hands on him 111 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:03.880 at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told 112 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:08.880 this parable against them, but they feared the people. 113 00:04:08.880 --> 00:04:10.880 Thank you for reading. 114 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:15.720 That's crazy that that's like different divided up differently. 115 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:16.720 Yeah. 116 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.120 Yeah. 117 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:20.080 Right, well, I vote. 118 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:22.560 Let's begin on like the first chunk of it, 119 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.080 looking at the parable piece, 120 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:27.160 and then we'll then go into the conversation Jesus is having 121 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.360 with the... 122 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.880 The... 123 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:32.600 Yeah, directly. 124 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:33.960 So maybe we'll just break it down a little bit, 125 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:36.000 explain what's happening, what symbolizes, 126 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.600 what, what's Jesus chat about? 127 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:40.840 Should we begin with the vineyard, what's the vineyard? 128 00:04:40.840 --> 00:04:44.480 A vineyard is a place where you plant a vine. 129 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.480 It's a yard of vines. 130 00:04:47.320 --> 00:04:49.440 But it's where they would make wine. 131 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:50.640 I don't think I ever cloked. 132 00:04:50.640 --> 00:04:52.160 There's a yard of vines. 133 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:53.000 Yeah. 134 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.840 That's crazy. 135 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:54.840 It's a vineyard. 136 00:04:54.840 --> 00:04:57.360 I just thought it was like for wine, isn't it? 137 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.720 Yeah, but it's literally like there's vineyards today. 138 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.560 It's literally where you grow grapes to produce wine. 139 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:03.400 Yeah. 140 00:05:03.400 --> 00:05:04.400 Short story. 141 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:05.400 Yeah. 142 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:07.080 And then what does it symbolize? 143 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:08.080 Oh. 144 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:09.080 The kingdom of God. 145 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:10.080 Dang. 146 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:11.080 Yeah. 147 00:05:11.080 --> 00:05:13.320 In the Old Testament apparently is used quite a lot 148 00:05:13.320 --> 00:05:14.320 as a picture of Israel. 149 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:16.360 So in Isaiah, he speaks about that. 150 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:17.360 Yeah, he does. 151 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:18.360 Lots of people. 152 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.920 Or that kind of thing. 153 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.360 And then the tenants. 154 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.560 The Pharisees, all the religious leaders, I'm pretty sure. 155 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:27.560 Yeah. 156 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:28.560 Yeah. 157 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.440 They've been trusted to look after the vines. 158 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:33.440 Yeah. 159 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:34.440 Or to say the people. 160 00:05:34.440 --> 00:05:35.440 And they went to the vineyard. 161 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:37.640 So they didn't buy it or make it, but they were allowed 162 00:05:37.640 --> 00:05:40.360 to work there by the generous owner. 163 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.040 They turned against. 164 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:43.040 Yeah. 165 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.040 It doesn't belong to them. 166 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:45.040 Yeah. 167 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.440 Should we talk about the fact that Jesus was just talking 168 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:49.440 to that group of people? 169 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:50.440 Oh, yeah. 170 00:05:50.440 --> 00:05:51.440 What was he saying? 171 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:52.440 What was he talking about? 172 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:56.080 Well, this is just after Jesus has gone through the temple 173 00:05:56.080 --> 00:05:59.160 and been like, what are you doing? 174 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:00.160 OK. 175 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.120 This is Luke 19 versus 45 to 40. 176 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:05.120 I'll just read it. 177 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:06.120 Yeah, please. 178 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:07.960 When Jesus entered the temple courts, 179 00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:11.080 he began to drive out those who were selling. 180 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:13.160 It is written, he said to them, my house 181 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:14.640 will be a house of prayer. 182 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:17.440 But you have made it a den of robbers. 183 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:19.680 Every day, he was teaching at the temple. 184 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.600 But the chief priests, the teachers of the law 185 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.440 and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. 186 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:26.280 Yet they could not find any way to do it 187 00:06:26.280 --> 00:06:29.480 because all the people hung on his words. 188 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.320 So Jesus is already causing up a little bit of a ruckus 189 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:36.440 for these chief priests. 190 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:38.520 And then in response to that is where he's 191 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:41.120 like telling the story of like, this is how you people, 192 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.440 you tenants are taken care of my vineyard. 193 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:44.440 Yeah. 194 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:45.640 And very directly to them. 195 00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:46.160 Yeah. 196 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.200 And they would have known that he was talking about them. 197 00:06:48.200 --> 00:06:48.800 Yeah. 198 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.280 So God is like the vineyard owner. 199 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:51.920 And then they're renting it from him. 200 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.360 Yeah. 201 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.000 Is there a, did we mention the people 202 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.200 that are sent by the master? 203 00:06:57.200 --> 00:06:58.600 The servants, haven't yet. 204 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.200 The servants. 205 00:07:00.200 --> 00:07:05.240 So I think of these as like God's messengers. 206 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.640 So like the prophets, probably specifically. 207 00:07:09.640 --> 00:07:12.280 But I think you could also put in like anyone 208 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:14.960 who's really stood on behalf of God. 209 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:17.800 So some kings in the Old Testament. 210 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:24.800 I think you could also loop in people like Abraham 211 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:29.480 or people like Joseph who are not like their role 212 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.760 is maybe not the prophet in the community, 213 00:07:31.760 --> 00:07:35.200 but they stand on behalf of God in their position. 214 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:37.080 So I think like that's just anyone 215 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:41.040 who's bringing the news of God in their time. 216 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:41.560 Yeah. 217 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.920 And like so much, they're persecuted in the Old Testament, 218 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:46.920 which is interesting. 219 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:48.840 Like they're not really widely accepted 220 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:50.520 because they're strange. 221 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:55.000 They bring really hard teaching, laughing about strange. 222 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.360 I mean, dude, I've read some weird stuff that they've done. 223 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:00.520 Where I'm just like that, that was. 224 00:08:00.520 --> 00:08:02.800 We thought Christians are wacky today, do you know what I mean? 225 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:04.200 Yeah. 226 00:08:04.200 --> 00:08:05.760 Yeah, for real. 227 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:09.960 So I'd say that's that's kind of one way to look at. 228 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:11.560 Is that how you guys see that? 229 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:12.560 Yeah, I think so. 230 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.080 I think it's the servants is the owner sending people 231 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:19.720 to try and like receive what was rightfully his right. 232 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.400 And so again, I think we see how God uses people 233 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:25.960 throughout the whole Bible and different kings 234 00:08:25.960 --> 00:08:30.560 or different people to bring his mission to the earth 235 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.800 to people to have access to him. 236 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:35.600 All people to have access to him. 237 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.800 And so there's lots of people that have 238 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:41.720 throughout the Bible, most people in the Bible. 239 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.400 That's not true. 240 00:08:43.400 --> 00:08:45.880 But a lot of people in the Bible that is like, 241 00:08:45.880 --> 00:08:47.240 that is God's mission, isn't it? 242 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.160 And you can, the Bible is so beautiful 243 00:08:49.160 --> 00:08:52.960 because it is just like God's story of him chasing 244 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.880 after his people until he sends Jesus, 245 00:08:55.880 --> 00:08:58.640 which brings us onto who's the son. 246 00:09:01.280 --> 00:09:02.600 That should be an easy answer. 247 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:03.840 That should be an easy answer. 248 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.440 Oh, should we say at the same time? 249 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:07.440 Okay. 250 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:08.640 Three, two, one. 251 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:10.800 Jesus Christ. 252 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:11.800 Oh, not. 253 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:15.200 Just get going. 254 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.880 Yeah, so the son represents like Jesus 255 00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:22.520 and the owner sent him thinking that they would respect him. 256 00:09:22.520 --> 00:09:24.680 But the renters thought they said they could benefit 257 00:09:24.680 --> 00:09:25.960 from killing him. 258 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.960 So again, that's, it's very, yeah, 259 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:30.880 let's bring this back to this is the context. 260 00:09:30.880 --> 00:09:34.320 So what is, how does that all links to what she's actually saying 261 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.600 to the Pharisees, do you think? 262 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.480 Well, I think he's really telling a story 263 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:42.720 that that everyone in the room would have felt like 264 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.680 applied to them and it's important. 265 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:50.680 We understand the context of who he's speaking to. 266 00:09:50.680 --> 00:09:51.520 Yeah. 267 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:55.320 So like, let me put it this way. 268 00:09:55.320 --> 00:10:00.520 Say, say I had a transcript of someone's speech 269 00:10:00.520 --> 00:10:05.400 that they delivered as a presidential address. 270 00:10:05.400 --> 00:10:07.320 You would read it differently if I then said, 271 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.000 actually, that's not a presidential address. 272 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:14.120 That was given for a bunch of third graders 273 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.640 in Canada where I'm from. 274 00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:20.040 You'd be like, oh, shoot, suddenly, 275 00:10:20.040 --> 00:10:22.040 I'm gonna read this with a completely different lens. 276 00:10:22.040 --> 00:10:22.880 Yeah. 277 00:10:22.880 --> 00:10:26.200 And I'm gonna maybe read into some of the imagery 278 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:31.200 or the symbols used to see how it was meant to apply 279 00:10:31.560 --> 00:10:34.360 to the third graders' lives rather than the president's life. 280 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.200 Yeah. 281 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.600 Similarly, I think we need to read this 282 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.920 like we have been with the other parables 283 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:43.280 and just think, what was Jesus really trying to communicate 284 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:44.480 to the people in the room, 285 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.480 which we know were the Pharisees 286 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.920 and probably some other people, 287 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:51.160 which I think is kind of interesting. 288 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:53.320 We're gonna see like, Jesus was really challenging. 289 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:54.160 Yeah. 290 00:10:54.160 --> 00:10:56.360 He was really, really challenging, 291 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:01.440 but also in the story, the challenge is grace, 292 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.440 which is like a bit of a paradox. 293 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:05.240 Wow. 294 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:06.720 That was really beautifully posted. 295 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:07.560 Oh, thanks. 296 00:11:07.560 --> 00:11:08.400 Thanks. 297 00:11:08.400 --> 00:11:09.400 You're welcome. 298 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:11.400 You're welcome. 299 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:13.240 Sorry. 300 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.080 I feel like, I feel like I want to dive in. 301 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:15.920 I want to get in. 302 00:11:15.920 --> 00:11:17.680 Yeah, I think do it. 303 00:11:17.680 --> 00:11:18.880 Tell us what you're talking about. 304 00:11:18.880 --> 00:11:19.880 I'll take a sec. 305 00:11:19.880 --> 00:11:21.400 Yeah, something I was thinking about 306 00:11:21.400 --> 00:11:26.680 when I was reading this and thinking about this week 307 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:31.000 was like, the gospel message is offensive. 308 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.680 I think it's offensive for a number of different reasons. 309 00:11:34.680 --> 00:11:39.480 It's offensive because as opposed to other religions, 310 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:44.480 the like salvation is not almost costly on our behalf. 311 00:11:46.400 --> 00:11:49.160 It's grace, it's given to us. 312 00:11:49.160 --> 00:11:54.000 I think it's also offensive because it reverses 313 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.640 the way that honor and shame work 314 00:11:56.640 --> 00:11:58.720 and like social structures work. 315 00:11:59.680 --> 00:12:01.920 I think it's also offensive to some people 316 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:05.680 because it actually, it's exposing. 317 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:08.240 Like Jesus says elsewhere in the gospels 318 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.480 that what's been in the darkness will come into light. 319 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.600 And the thing is for those people 320 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.400 who are willing to have the whole of themselves 321 00:12:18.400 --> 00:12:20.640 be brought into light and seen, 322 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:24.360 that's really good because God honors and covers 323 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:25.720 and he doesn't shame. 324 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.120 But for those of us who like have things 325 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.400 that are like hidden in our lives 326 00:12:30.400 --> 00:12:33.320 that we don't really necessarily want anyone to know 327 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.320 such as the Pharisees who are living this double life, 328 00:12:38.560 --> 00:12:41.440 they didn't wanna be like exposed 329 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.880 and shown for who they truly were. 330 00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:46.960 And they didn't trust that God I think would, 331 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.840 or Jesus would honor them in that as he did with Nicodemus. 332 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.200 And so they don't wanna step into that. 333 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:53.480 So they're offended. 334 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:57.120 And offended people often respond in violence. 335 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:00.960 And so I think that's what Jesus is pointing out here 336 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.600 is that the Pharisees, 337 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:04.920 and I think you'd probably throw them 338 00:13:04.920 --> 00:13:08.120 like the Sadducees and the religious leaders of the time, 339 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:09.760 the people who he's talking to, 340 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.720 I think they're living lives that they know 341 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:17.560 are not lived with integrity and consistency. 342 00:13:17.560 --> 00:13:19.320 And they don't want that to be exposed. 343 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:22.320 And so those who come bearing the message of God, 344 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.200 he wants to shine light on areas of everyone's lives. 345 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:29.600 They have killed straight up. 346 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.880 And if you look at what they did to John the Baptist, 347 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:34.720 shortly before, I'm not sure 348 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.040 when it would have lined up with this exact passage, 349 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:41.400 but shortly at the beginning of Jesus' ministry, 350 00:13:41.400 --> 00:13:44.240 they killed John the Baptist. 351 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:46.200 And he is a prophet and messenger. 352 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:51.080 And he brings the good news of God 353 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.440 to like preempt Jesus and they just kill him. 354 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:57.080 And so I think anyways, 355 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.240 that was a really long blurb just to say that 356 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:05.240 like the gospel isn't all airy fairy. 357 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.360 It's real life and actually standing on God's side, 358 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:15.120 standing with the kingdom means that potentially 359 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.560 there's gonna be some people that don't like that. 360 00:14:18.520 --> 00:14:20.320 And respond violently. 361 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:25.320 As we see every single tenant or farmer do here, 362 00:14:25.800 --> 00:14:27.480 it's like they send, 363 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:30.960 okay, so the owner sends three servants, right? 364 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.840 Each time the level of response that's given 365 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:38.960 by the tenants increases in a bad way. 366 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.880 So the first, we see the first servant, 367 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:43.880 where is that verse 10? 368 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:46.040 Oh wait, no. 369 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.760 Oh yeah, no, sorry, yeah, verse 10. 370 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:50.440 But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty handed. 371 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:53.600 Okay, first time he's been beaten, sent away. 372 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:54.880 Second time, verse 11, 373 00:14:54.880 --> 00:14:57.520 he's beaten and treated shamefully 374 00:14:57.520 --> 00:14:59.280 and then sent away empty handed. 375 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:01.120 Okay, so they're doubling down. 376 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.480 And I think as well, it's important to note 377 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.400 is that in like the culture at the time, 378 00:15:07.400 --> 00:15:11.000 honor is such like a highly revered, 379 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.800 like status and what I don't really know what the word is. 380 00:15:14.800 --> 00:15:17.880 But honor was just very important in that culture at the time. 381 00:15:17.880 --> 00:15:20.920 And so then to be treated shamefully as like, 382 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:23.640 oh my gosh, this is really bad. 383 00:15:23.640 --> 00:15:24.960 None of them would have liked that. 384 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.280 And then the third time, 385 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:32.280 they wounded the third servant and cast him out. 386 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.680 It's like it basically is just getting worse every time. 387 00:15:34.680 --> 00:15:38.320 So from what I'm like reading, 388 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.400 I'm like, this is so interesting 389 00:15:40.400 --> 00:15:44.760 that the owner continues to send the servants out 390 00:15:44.760 --> 00:15:50.280 even after he's seen them like beaten and harmed. 391 00:15:50.280 --> 00:15:52.480 Not because the owner is cruel 392 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.000 and he wants the servants to be beaten and hurt 393 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.280 because the owner is gracious 394 00:15:58.280 --> 00:16:02.600 and he wants the tenants to respond in a different way. 395 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.840 He wants the tenants to respond with love. 396 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:10.520 And well, in the way that their job is literally to do the job 397 00:16:10.520 --> 00:16:13.040 like in my version, 398 00:16:13.040 --> 00:16:15.080 NIV, it says to some farmers, 399 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.280 like it's their job to tend to the vines. 400 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:19.880 It's their job to bring the harvest. 401 00:16:19.880 --> 00:16:24.880 The owner isn't asking for anything that's like outlandish or foolish. 402 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:26.800 He's like, I'll actually know like, 403 00:16:26.800 --> 00:16:30.000 please can you return to me what belongs to me? 404 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.640 So I just, I think it's really interesting that I don't know. 405 00:16:33.640 --> 00:16:38.840 I just feel like it is such a picture of God's grace. 406 00:16:38.880 --> 00:16:43.800 And Jesus' grace in this story towards the religious leaders 407 00:16:43.800 --> 00:16:45.440 is like, he's kind of, 408 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.920 he's showing them who they are in the story 409 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:49.440 and what they've done 410 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:53.400 and how ridiculous their response is actually. 411 00:16:53.400 --> 00:16:55.640 Because he's like, this is literally what they did. 412 00:16:55.640 --> 00:17:00.560 The owner wasn't even asking for anything crazy or disrespectful. 413 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:02.080 And this is how you're responding. 414 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.720 I feel like it was kind of him putting a mirror up to them 415 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.680 so that they could look at it from an outside perspective 416 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:10.360 because it's so hard. 417 00:17:10.360 --> 00:17:15.840 Like, I mean, like when you're being challenged personally 418 00:17:15.840 --> 00:17:20.640 to take, to like separate your own emotions from a situation, 419 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.800 say you've been hurt or you think you're in the right 420 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:24.240 but you're actually in the wrong. 421 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.440 Actually, oftentimes, if someone then presents that same tale 422 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.520 of whatever's happened to you in like a story version, 423 00:17:30.520 --> 00:17:31.960 you'll be like, oh yeah, that's really bad. 424 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:33.160 And I'll be like, oh, it was you. 425 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.840 And you're like, oh my gosh, it was me. 426 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.520 And so I feel like that's what Jesus is doing 427 00:17:38.520 --> 00:17:43.000 to the Pharisees, Sygerses and religious leaders here. 428 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.640 But I think it's really important that he is speaking out of love. 429 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.760 He's not speaking because he wants to hurt them 430 00:17:50.760 --> 00:17:52.560 but he's calling them higher 431 00:17:52.560 --> 00:17:55.360 because they have such a big responsibility 432 00:17:55.360 --> 00:17:57.520 which is to care for the people of Israel 433 00:17:57.520 --> 00:18:01.360 and they have massively, massively like drop the ball 434 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:03.200 in that sense because like what you were saying 435 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.920 about them being like duplicitous. 436 00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:09.160 That's a lot of work. 437 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.400 I know, where did that come from? 438 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.480 I even got shocked in my head before I said, 439 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:17.240 but basically that they like present themselves 440 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.560 in one way on the outside but inwardly, 441 00:18:19.560 --> 00:18:22.280 they are carrying something very different. 442 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.520 So like the darkness being exposed 443 00:18:25.520 --> 00:18:27.040 when brought out into the light. 444 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.760 I also like, I feel like this is such a cool pair 445 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.360 because it almost mirrors like the whole Bible for me. 446 00:18:35.320 --> 00:18:40.320 In terms of initially the vineyard owner 447 00:18:42.600 --> 00:18:44.800 had a relationship with the tenants 448 00:18:44.800 --> 00:18:47.160 and then left for a period of time 449 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:51.120 and then sent messengers in his place 450 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:53.800 when he couldn't directly go back. 451 00:18:53.800 --> 00:18:56.760 I think it's like literally like God was originally 452 00:18:56.760 --> 00:18:59.040 indirect community with his people. 453 00:18:59.080 --> 00:19:00.520 They asked, can we ever King? 454 00:19:00.520 --> 00:19:01.400 Can we have prophets? 455 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.280 We want people that can lead us. 456 00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:06.760 And so he sent messengers to carry his message 457 00:19:06.760 --> 00:19:08.920 and slowly throughout the Old Testament 458 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.200 you just see them get denied, denied, denied, denied. 459 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.640 Yeah, and heart and cold. 460 00:19:14.600 --> 00:19:16.320 And then what happens next? 461 00:19:16.320 --> 00:19:18.920 Oh, was that a good transition? 462 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:19.760 That was great. 463 00:19:19.760 --> 00:19:21.640 That was so good. 464 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.240 Well, yeah, it's the owner's response 465 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:25.480 is then to send his own son 466 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.960 because surely they respect the air. 467 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.080 To the vineyard and whatnot. 468 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.480 And I was reading and I haven't written it down 469 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:36.720 so I may say this not too wrong 470 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.880 but it was about like if the air is killed 471 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.320 then it like actually could have rightfully gone 472 00:19:42.320 --> 00:19:45.520 to like them or something. 473 00:19:45.520 --> 00:19:47.640 Yeah, if they stay there for three years or longer. 474 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:48.480 Something like that. 475 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:49.320 Yeah, I read that too. 476 00:19:49.320 --> 00:19:51.080 So it was actually like they truly thought 477 00:19:51.080 --> 00:19:52.920 that if they killed the air 478 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.960 then they could genuinely benefit from it 479 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:56.200 and then receive it for themselves. 480 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.040 Yeah, I read that. 481 00:19:57.040 --> 00:19:59.720 It was something like that, which again 482 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:01.240 is so interesting where it's like 483 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:04.000 the owner or God sends his son 484 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.400 as a real gift and a real grace and mercy thing 485 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.120 and the response is still like, 486 00:20:08.120 --> 00:20:11.440 well, that's killing because we could benefit more 487 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:13.320 and just take this for ourselves. 488 00:20:13.320 --> 00:20:16.280 Yeah, and I think as well that just shows like 489 00:20:16.280 --> 00:20:21.280 the danger of pride and the danger of thinking 490 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.640 that you are owed something simply because 491 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:27.960 you think that you deserve it like 492 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:30.760 and I think really shines a light on the importance 493 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:34.920 of humility if I mean just in everyday life 494 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:36.560 especially if you do find yourself 495 00:20:36.560 --> 00:20:38.400 in a position of leadership 496 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:43.000 whether that's like at school or at uni or in the workplace 497 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.360 like it's so important to be humble 498 00:20:46.360 --> 00:20:50.880 and to not think of yourself as more important 499 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:53.440 and you are, I don't know if I'm saying that in a good way. 500 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:55.800 I also think it's pretty like 501 00:20:55.800 --> 00:20:58.720 like a firm from Jesus where he is not dead yet, right? 502 00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.760 So we know the full story. 503 00:20:59.760 --> 00:21:02.800 We know that Jesus comes and then also gets killed 504 00:21:02.800 --> 00:21:04.800 but like that hasn't happened yet 505 00:21:04.800 --> 00:21:06.160 when he's saying the story. 506 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.520 So he's almost saying like like Jesus knew 507 00:21:08.520 --> 00:21:09.560 that he was the son of God. 508 00:21:09.560 --> 00:21:12.320 He knew that he was like sent by him 509 00:21:12.320 --> 00:21:15.040 and he knew he was about to be killed. 510 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:19.240 Which is pretty like like, yeah, 511 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:21.240 fair, like well, yeah. 512 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.960 The Pharisees must have been like scared stiff. 513 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:27.800 Yeah. 514 00:21:27.800 --> 00:21:29.600 Being like, how does this guy like 515 00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:32.680 he's be guessing that we're trying to kill him? 516 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:34.480 Like how does he know that that's where we're at? 517 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.320 Yeah. 518 00:21:35.320 --> 00:21:36.160 You know what I mean? 519 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:37.000 Yeah, that's fascinating. 520 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:38.160 It must have been quite scared. 521 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:42.400 And I think as well like in the owner sending his son 522 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:48.400 in response to them, the farmers or tenants sending 523 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:50.920 all the other three servants back 524 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:53.600 in such a, I'm assuming, wretched state. 525 00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:58.320 It actually once again, like it doubles down on the grace 526 00:21:58.320 --> 00:22:00.280 and the love that the owner has 527 00:22:00.280 --> 00:22:03.360 and the mercy that the owner has for the tenants. 528 00:22:03.360 --> 00:22:07.480 It's like he, it doesn't really mention anywhere 529 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:09.640 in this like first half of the parable 530 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.960 of the owner's feelings towards the tenants. 531 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.640 We can assume that he would have been upset 532 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:20.800 and maybe a little bit angry. 533 00:22:20.800 --> 00:22:23.200 But rightfully so, rightfully so. 534 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.280 He's been very much wronged. 535 00:22:25.280 --> 00:22:29.840 But he chooses to respond from a place of vulnerability 536 00:22:29.840 --> 00:22:33.120 and from a place of love and from a place of kindness. 537 00:22:33.120 --> 00:22:36.560 It's like offering like an olive branch by sending out 538 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:39.720 the person that is the most important to him, 539 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:42.440 the one that he loves, his beloved son 540 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:44.960 to go and be like, surely they'll respect him. 541 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.680 And he sends him like, well, unarmed. 542 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.880 In terms of surely it would make sense for the owner 543 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.720 to then equip his son with a sword 544 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:59.720 or whatever, just in case they decide to attack him again. 545 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:04.880 But actually it's a sign of, I guess, like peace 546 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.320 and maybe even trust, I don't know, 547 00:23:08.320 --> 00:23:11.640 but in sending his son unarmed 548 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:14.960 because he's like, this is my character, 549 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.520 is that I'm full of love and I'm full of grace. 550 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:21.680 And I hope that you see this grace, 551 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.200 see this kindness, see this mercy and vulnerability 552 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:27.840 and choose to respond in the same way. 553 00:23:27.840 --> 00:23:31.560 But instead, just cool him. 554 00:23:31.560 --> 00:23:32.760 And it's like, they've dropped out. 555 00:23:32.760 --> 00:23:34.040 Yeah, off the bat. 556 00:23:34.040 --> 00:23:38.080 And so I think that speaks massively of the gospel 557 00:23:38.120 --> 00:23:42.640 and God, like in how God sent Jesus down for us. 558 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:47.520 And yeah, like Jesus willingly went to the cross for us 559 00:23:48.520 --> 00:23:50.720 because he loves us. 560 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:55.120 And I do think that is the main picture here. 561 00:23:56.280 --> 00:23:58.160 Oh well, the one I've taken. 562 00:23:59.080 --> 00:24:04.080 I find it interesting how the wicked tenants 563 00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:08.080 almost seem to think that by their actions, 564 00:24:08.080 --> 00:24:12.080 they can claim the fruit and the, 565 00:24:12.080 --> 00:24:18.080 like it says, the inheritance of the vineyard for themselves. 566 00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:21.080 And that so applies to us today. 567 00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:25.080 I was thinking about just the other day, 568 00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:32.080 like how often do I get involved in prayer and worship 569 00:24:33.080 --> 00:24:37.080 and like, you know, I'm fasting once a week 570 00:24:37.080 --> 00:24:39.080 and I'm in my word every day. 571 00:24:39.080 --> 00:24:43.080 And suddenly I think that because of my actions, 572 00:24:43.080 --> 00:24:48.080 I deserve to claim some of the inheritance of God 573 00:24:48.080 --> 00:24:49.080 and of Jesus. 574 00:24:49.080 --> 00:24:52.080 And I have to continually remind myself, 575 00:24:52.080 --> 00:24:55.080 wait, that's not at all how it works. 576 00:24:55.080 --> 00:24:59.080 Actually, I, by the grace of God, 577 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:03.080 have been given an opportunity not by my actions, 578 00:25:03.080 --> 00:25:09.080 but by Jesus actions to take part in this inheritance 579 00:25:09.080 --> 00:25:14.080 and like in terms of the parable to get paid 580 00:25:14.080 --> 00:25:19.080 and be involved in what's happening 581 00:25:19.080 --> 00:25:22.080 in the vineyard of the awesome master. 582 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:26.080 Like what a great gift and it reminds me of 583 00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:29.080 I recently reread this passage. 584 00:25:29.080 --> 00:25:31.080 I forget exactly where it is, 585 00:25:31.080 --> 00:25:36.080 but it's somewhere earlier in Luke where he says, 586 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:39.080 he tells a shorter parable and he says, 587 00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:41.080 oh gosh, what is this? 588 00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:43.080 Wait, maybe I should just find this quick. 589 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:45.080 It was literally the page before. 590 00:25:45.080 --> 00:25:50.080 He said, I should have just looked. 591 00:25:50.080 --> 00:25:53.080 I was like, I feel like it's like in chapter 18. 592 00:25:53.080 --> 00:25:55.080 It was in chapter 17, okay. 593 00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:57.080 He says, he says this. 594 00:25:57.080 --> 00:26:00.080 He tells a short parable about unworthy servants. 595 00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:05.080 He says, so you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, 596 00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:08.080 say, we are unworthy servants. 597 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:11.080 We have only done what was our duty. 598 00:26:11.080 --> 00:26:17.080 And that's like the opposite response of these wicked tenants. 599 00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:21.080 They're like, we're going to claim it for ourselves. 600 00:26:21.080 --> 00:26:25.080 We're going to take things into our own hands and do everything we can 601 00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:29.080 rather than offering up our service and coming back to the master 602 00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:32.080 and saying, we have only done what we were asked. 603 00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:39.080 And would you graciously accept us into your household if it's your will? 604 00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:41.080 I think it's beautiful. 605 00:26:41.080 --> 00:26:42.080 That's so true. 606 00:26:42.080 --> 00:26:48.080 So you've shattered a bit about what the main chunk of the parable means. 607 00:26:48.080 --> 00:26:51.080 We haven't come to the last bit of the parable, 608 00:26:51.080 --> 00:26:53.080 nor the application of it. 609 00:26:53.080 --> 00:26:55.080 So I'd love to dive into that. 610 00:26:55.080 --> 00:26:59.080 And then see how this also can apply to us today. 611 00:26:59.080 --> 00:27:04.080 So he was saying how the son gets killed and they threw him out the vineyard. 612 00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:07.080 What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 613 00:27:07.080 --> 00:27:11.080 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. 614 00:27:11.080 --> 00:27:15.080 When the people heard this, they said, God forbid blasphemed. 615 00:27:15.080 --> 00:27:21.080 Jesus looked directly at them and asked them, what is this meaning of? 616 00:27:21.080 --> 00:27:24.080 Then what is the meaning of that which is written? 617 00:27:24.080 --> 00:27:27.080 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 618 00:27:27.080 --> 00:27:30.080 Everyone who falls in that stone will be broken to pieces. 619 00:27:30.080 --> 00:27:32.080 Anyone on whom it falls will be crushed. 620 00:27:32.080 --> 00:27:36.080 The teachers of the law and the chief priest look for a way to arrest immediately 621 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:39.080 because they knew he had spoken this parable against them, 622 00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:42.080 but they're afraid of the people. 623 00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:49.080 Verse 16, he will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyards to others. 624 00:27:49.080 --> 00:27:53.080 That's a harsh reality. 625 00:27:53.080 --> 00:27:56.080 That's pretty tough isn't it, Geride? 626 00:27:56.080 --> 00:27:57.080 Yeah. 627 00:27:57.080 --> 00:28:02.080 Yeah, I mean how does that align with his grace and mercy and God that you've been speaking about? 628 00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:04.080 That's a good question. 629 00:28:04.080 --> 00:28:09.080 Yeah, that is a really good question. 630 00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:17.080 I think it's interesting talking about God's judgment. 631 00:28:17.080 --> 00:28:21.080 I don't know if I have really a set answer on this if I'm being really honest. 632 00:28:21.080 --> 00:28:29.080 This is definitely still something I'm trying to work out in my studies for sure. 633 00:28:29.080 --> 00:28:33.080 How does God's judgment work with his loving grace? 634 00:28:33.080 --> 00:28:38.080 I think something is for certain. 635 00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:46.080 God's judgment means something good for certainly the oppressed. 636 00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:48.080 We can say that first. 637 00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:54.080 The fact that the vineyard isn't given to some but is then given to others 638 00:28:54.080 --> 00:29:02.080 who are not the oppressors who are not going around killing people presumably is good news. 639 00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:13.080 So I think like first of all, that's talking about those of us who originally would not seem to be grafted in to God's family. 640 00:29:13.080 --> 00:29:22.080 That counts the outcasts, that counts those of us who are not actually part of like the original Jewish family or tribes. 641 00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:26.080 That counts actually pretty much everyone. 642 00:29:26.080 --> 00:29:31.080 We could all be considered the others so I think that's good news. 643 00:29:31.080 --> 00:29:44.080 The other thing I think is good news is ultimately I think we have to rely on the fact that like God's always looking like Zoe said to bring us back into relationship with him. 644 00:29:44.080 --> 00:29:51.080 I don't exactly know how to square that with the fact that he's saying he's going to kill them. 645 00:29:51.080 --> 00:30:09.080 I know for certain that this is like a metaphorical story that maybe it's implying that like God's going to do something to those who don't believe that's somehow going to end up with them being relationship with him. 646 00:30:09.080 --> 00:30:12.080 I don't know, but that's my hope. 647 00:30:12.080 --> 00:30:15.080 Does that make sense? I don't know if I word that super clearly. 648 00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:20.080 I think it's also really interesting that they responded a bit shocked as well. 649 00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:30.080 It's almost like they thought they would just have endless chances to they could keep killing people or endless chances of servants coming or Jesus the sun coming. 650 00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:35.080 And it's like, oh, what do you mean that the owner then comes in and kills them? They're like, what? 651 00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:45.080 But actually that they had so many chances. Now I find it's the God being a just God is a really interesting one to get your head around because like thank goodness is a just God. 652 00:30:45.080 --> 00:30:54.080 There's so much justice. But then also we don't necessarily always fully understand what that truly means. 653 00:30:54.080 --> 00:31:04.080 And like Jesus had to die in order for like there actually actually justice for our sin and stuff like that. So it is a heavy price. It's a heavy thing. 654 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:15.080 And I don't think I think you read a lot of the Old Testament and you see that that there is the justice of God as there's a lot of death. 655 00:31:15.080 --> 00:31:23.080 There's a lot of like quite hard stuff. He's the same God then then he is now like he's still the graceful God of merciful God. 656 00:31:23.080 --> 00:31:30.080 And also the God of justice. And I think it can be really easy to separate like the Old Testament, the New Testament, just God. 657 00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:39.080 But I think that this is Jesus being like, no, there is justice. But you've been given many opportunity to like believe in me to follow my ways. 658 00:31:39.080 --> 00:31:47.080 And then when you've chosen time and time and time again, it does reach a point when it's like, well, then this is what you've chosen. This is the consequence of your action. 659 00:31:47.080 --> 00:31:56.080 And I think it's interesting that they responded in such a way. I've been like, no, like, no way God forbid. So mine says, I would never say that. 660 00:31:56.080 --> 00:32:06.080 And then Jesus's response then goes to a Psalm, which to illness was a bit more cryptic than him just saying it. 661 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:16.080 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken into pieces. Anyone who it falls will be crushed. 662 00:32:16.080 --> 00:32:29.080 And my understanding of that. I'm sure you could deep dive in it. But I was just trying to look at like, what does that actually mean? And the cornerstone is, it says the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. So what does that mean? 663 00:32:29.080 --> 00:32:41.080 Go on, Zach. Me. Well, the cornerstone was for us important stone. Yeah. It was the one that all the other stones, like the weight of it would be on them. 664 00:32:41.080 --> 00:32:48.080 People of the arch. Yes, I do. I was going to say that like in all of the London bridges. There's that one big stone in the middle. 665 00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:58.080 And if it was there, the structure would just absolutely crumble. Yeah. So it's the most important stone that they've rejected. Then it says, if you fall on that stone, you'll be broken to pieces and anyone who it falls will be crushed. 666 00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:07.080 And my understanding of that is like, there's, you could be broken. If you come to it, like your pride can be broken, your like, your self will be broken. 667 00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:16.080 Like last time I was like, when you come to it, is that actually you, you become less or falls on you, then it's judgment. 668 00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:25.080 And by, but as your choice, either you come to it or the judgment will come on you with my interpretation of that. That's super interesting. 669 00:33:25.080 --> 00:33:31.080 I didn't, I didn't even think about that. Like the first bit, especially, I think that's really beautiful actually. 670 00:33:32.080 --> 00:33:35.080 Just encouraging you guys. 671 00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:42.080 Because that language of like this cornerstone stuff comes up quite a lot in the New Testament, like a more than once. 672 00:33:42.080 --> 00:33:50.080 So I think it's an image that Jesus uses quite a lot. And so I think we should pay attention to it because we can learn about him from it. 673 00:33:51.080 --> 00:33:57.080 But in this context, that was his response to them being like, no way God wouldn't do that. 674 00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:05.080 When speaking to the Pharisees and all that stuff. And instead Jesus goes, well, you have a choice, either you, you come to me or you'll be crushed in judgment. 675 00:34:05.080 --> 00:34:07.080 That stuff really isn't it? 676 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:09.080 Really right. 677 00:34:10.080 --> 00:34:19.080 Verse 19, the teacher of the law and the chief priest looked for a way to arrest Jesus immediately because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 678 00:34:19.080 --> 00:34:21.080 But they're afraid of the people. 679 00:34:21.080 --> 00:34:23.080 It's so embarrassing. 680 00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:31.080 I'm sorry, like, why are they doing that? It's actually like, what are you talking about? 681 00:34:31.080 --> 00:34:38.080 They're trying, they're looking for a way to arrest him immediately after he's just called them out and be like, this is you. 682 00:34:38.080 --> 00:34:39.080 Yeah. 683 00:34:39.080 --> 00:34:44.080 This is actually you that I'm talking about right now. Can you can you listen intently? 684 00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:45.080 Can you do something? 685 00:34:45.080 --> 00:34:46.080 It's another opportunity. 686 00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:48.080 It's like he's sending another servant out to him. 687 00:34:48.080 --> 00:34:50.080 Yeah, right now. 688 00:34:50.080 --> 00:34:53.080 Well, that's the son is literally the son's thing. 689 00:34:53.080 --> 00:34:55.080 He's literally being sent to them right now. 690 00:34:55.080 --> 00:34:57.080 And they're literally rejecting him. 691 00:34:57.080 --> 00:35:00.080 They're doing what he literally just said two lines before. 692 00:35:00.080 --> 00:35:03.080 And then they just said, surely not. 693 00:35:03.080 --> 00:35:06.080 Yes, because you're doing it right now. 694 00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:07.080 Yeah. 695 00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:10.080 He probably hadn't even taken a breath and they've already said, let's find a way to arrest him. 696 00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:11.080 Yeah. 697 00:35:11.080 --> 00:35:12.080 That's a bit much. 698 00:35:12.080 --> 00:35:20.080 But it just really makes me quite annoyed because they've responded in exactly the way that I mean, Jesus has said and shown that they've responded. 699 00:35:20.080 --> 00:35:21.080 Yeah. 700 00:35:21.080 --> 00:35:29.080 But they just continue to do that instead of taking a step back and be like, whoa, that is actually really not an okay way to respond to God. 701 00:35:30.080 --> 00:35:38.080 There's probably why Jesus spoke so firmly on this subject because he's speaking very directly to them as corrupt leaders of his people. 702 00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:44.080 And so this is why he's spoken so directly to them because that is how he knows that heart is going to respond, right? 703 00:35:44.080 --> 00:35:45.080 Yeah. 704 00:35:45.080 --> 00:35:50.080 And so it shows the need for this message even more so because that was their response to it. 705 00:35:50.080 --> 00:35:54.080 And then he's basically saying, you're not, you're not the right leaders for this. 706 00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:55.080 No. 707 00:35:55.080 --> 00:35:56.080 Bye-bye. 708 00:35:56.080 --> 00:36:04.080 And like Jesus has spoken beforehand right in the gospels about saying how the responsibility of teachers is like a lot more. 709 00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:05.080 Yeah. 710 00:36:05.080 --> 00:36:06.080 That's all right. 711 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:07.080 Yeah. 712 00:36:07.080 --> 00:36:08.080 Yeah, hold higher. 713 00:36:08.080 --> 00:36:09.080 Yeah. 714 00:36:09.080 --> 00:36:10.080 They're held to a higher standard. 715 00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:16.080 And so that's why he is being so like, I guess intense like with it, but he needs to be direct so that they can understand him. 716 00:36:16.080 --> 00:36:24.080 And also in what you're saying about them not being fit leaders because they've proven themselves not be fit leaders for the people of Israel for God's people. 717 00:36:24.080 --> 00:36:32.080 At that time is like in the middle of verse 16 when it says and give the vinyard to others. 718 00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:39.080 Zach, you hit this before saying how the others counts as like us and also the oppressed like Gentiles. 719 00:36:39.080 --> 00:36:56.080 But also I wonder and I've read that the others could also apply to Jesus and his disciples in terms of the religious leaders had their chance to steward the people of Israel in the way that God wanted. 720 00:36:56.080 --> 00:37:08.080 But they passed that up when they decided to respond out of pride and sin and arrogance and just all of that bad stuff that's not really ideal if you're in a position of leadership. 721 00:37:08.080 --> 00:37:12.080 If you let that drive your leadership pride. 722 00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:21.080 And so he's like this is being taken from you and given to those who are going to steward this in the way that it is supposed to be stewarded. 723 00:37:21.080 --> 00:37:30.080 In the hands of the disciples that go on to be the apostles which go on to build the early church and then well here we are today. 724 00:37:30.080 --> 00:37:42.080 But so I think it is really interesting how not only is Jesus being direct and saying not only of you is this going to be going from being just for the Jewish people to everyone in the world. 725 00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:54.080 But because you want good leaders this is going to go from your leadership to actually the leaders that will follow in the way that you're supposed to submit to God. 726 00:37:54.080 --> 00:37:55.080 Yeah. 727 00:37:55.080 --> 00:37:58.080 And our positions of pride. 728 00:37:58.080 --> 00:38:00.080 Yeah. 729 00:38:00.080 --> 00:38:11.080 So this parable is written well said this story is said very directly to the Pharisees yet it's in the Bible for us to learn from. 730 00:38:11.080 --> 00:38:20.080 So how do we apply this to ourselves and in our lives and our mindsets and all that good stuff like what can we actually practically learn and take from this. 731 00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:32.080 I think there's something here that's speaking to me about is your heart soft and is your life moldable. 732 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:37.080 You got your own point. 733 00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:44.080 I was just trying to add a little sorry I wasn't expecting that to come out of my own mouth that kind of hit. 734 00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:51.080 I don't even remember what I said now. 735 00:38:51.080 --> 00:38:54.080 It's my life mold. 736 00:38:54.080 --> 00:38:59.080 Thanks guys I agree. 737 00:39:00.080 --> 00:39:26.080 No what I was going to say is like I think there's a continual call in this that Jesus puts out to the Pharisees but I think more widely in the broader teaching is also put out to us of are you responding to the challenges and the gracious offerings of the Lord in your life. 738 00:39:26.080 --> 00:39:38.080 And are you are you living a life that's moldable and interruptable enough to actually adapt and be obedient to what he's calling you to do. 739 00:39:38.080 --> 00:39:42.080 That's kind of what I feel like that's beautiful. 740 00:39:42.080 --> 00:39:54.080 Because for me I was thinking of was that like phrase of like basically not holding on to things with a really tight grip holding things with an open hand before God. 741 00:39:54.080 --> 00:39:59.080 So that if he wants to remove it or put something else in it he can. 742 00:39:59.080 --> 00:40:05.080 Whereas if your hand is tightly held shut then he actually can't remove or put anything in it. 743 00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:17.080 And I think that's kind of what we see with the religious leaders here or the tenants here is that they're holding on so tightly with a firm closed grip of the vineyard and everything. 744 00:40:17.080 --> 00:40:37.080 That whatever that might be for us today whether that's possessions or like talents that we might have or relationships that we might have like I think it applies to all of those different things if a holding on really, really tightly and not allowing God to speak into them. 745 00:40:37.080 --> 00:40:45.080 Like it feels like you're putting a brick in front of like what God can do. 746 00:40:45.080 --> 00:40:56.080 Yeah, I don't know and so you need to remove that brick and open up your hand and loosen the grip on everything that you're holding tight in life not because you shouldn't have hold on it can still be in your hand. 747 00:40:56.080 --> 00:41:16.080 And actually when you bring it before God he has the power and the ability and the gift and that the power and the ability to do with that what he sees fit which is the best way because his ways are higher than always and his thoughts at weight no his ways are better than always and his thoughts are higher than always. 748 00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:30.080 So and it's like yeah so that for me is like to have a bit more of an open grip over the different areas of my life and like bring them to God so practically like in prayer maybe asking God about more things. 749 00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:50.080 Going to him before I make a big decision or even like training myself to hear his voice by asking him for his input into the little things in life maybe that's like what kind of she should I wear today or like even something as tiny as that then that like you you 750 00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:57.080 The sheep knows the master's voice and so you'll learn you'll learn how to hear him more. 751 00:41:57.080 --> 00:42:16.080 But yeah so just I think speaking to God more and allowing him to speak into your life and not being like no God this is this is mine this is my thing I don't want you to speak into it because this is what I'm this is why I want right now so it's like I don't know I'm sorry I'm just rambling now. 752 00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:21.080 I enjoyed it just submitting to God basically your plans. 753 00:42:21.080 --> 00:42:35.080 I think my like practical takeaway for myself is like no I'm not a Pharisee however God gives me little vineyards to take care of may that be of people may be the areas that I'm in may that be like the work that I'm doing 754 00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:52.080 and it's like am I allowing God to come into that am I like am I being a good leader because as we spoke about like we as leaders in these places it's like we're called to higher higher standard and it's like am I doing this the Jesus way because I'm if I'm not then I'll be removed. 755 00:42:53.080 --> 00:42:58.080 And I think that's also really important to remember to is that actually that judgment is a real thing. 756 00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:17.080 And we're going to be judged and we're all going to for sure however is that we can choose to to live in the way that that Jesus has taught us and there's a lot of stuff in in this Bible to speak about that how to lead how to love how to receive Jesus how to be like Jesus and so hopefully we never need to be in the position of those are sees. 757 00:43:17.080 --> 00:43:23.080 And that where we're rejecting Jesus and because instead of a relationship with him and love him when we come to him. 758 00:43:23.080 --> 00:43:29.080 Good things happen so succinct and amazing I had time to think about I went last. 759 00:43:29.080 --> 00:43:35.080 I had my one first that wouldn't have been what is that. 760 00:43:35.080 --> 00:43:39.080 But that's that's my takeaway anything else to add before we close up. 761 00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:40.080 No ma'am. 762 00:43:40.080 --> 00:43:41.080 No. 763 00:43:41.080 --> 00:43:44.080 Thank you for calling me ma'am that's respect I deserve. 764 00:43:44.080 --> 00:43:45.080 Of course. 765 00:43:45.080 --> 00:43:46.080 Yeah. 766 00:43:46.080 --> 00:43:47.080 Well on that. 767 00:43:47.080 --> 00:43:54.080 Thank you so much for joining us this week on the way you came. 768 00:43:54.080 --> 00:44:00.080 Absolutely got stuck there and that's the end of our parable series boo. 769 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:01.080 Oh man. 770 00:44:01.080 --> 00:44:02.080 Oh man. 771 00:44:02.080 --> 00:44:06.080 Fantastic content coming if you've got any like requests of what you want us to chat about. 772 00:44:06.080 --> 00:44:07.080 I love it. 773 00:44:07.080 --> 00:44:11.080 Any like books, any topics that don't seem a bit too hard for us to talk about. 774 00:44:11.080 --> 00:44:12.080 Um no. 775 00:44:12.080 --> 00:44:13.080 Oh no. 776 00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:14.080 I don't know. 777 00:44:14.080 --> 00:44:15.080 I don't know. 778 00:44:15.080 --> 00:44:16.080 We don't know what you're good about. 779 00:44:16.080 --> 00:44:17.080 I wouldn't really know what we're talking about. 780 00:44:17.080 --> 00:44:20.080 It's what your past is about the hard stuff just come to us with the good chats. 781 00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:21.080 Anyway. 782 00:44:21.080 --> 00:44:22.080 We're worried about this. 783 00:44:22.080 --> 00:44:26.080 Leave a comment leave the kiss emoji. 784 00:44:26.080 --> 00:44:27.080 What? 785 00:44:27.080 --> 00:44:30.080 Well it's because you're from your power thing to call call back. 786 00:44:30.080 --> 00:44:33.680 It's cool when you like reference something from the big okay great and we'll see you next 787 00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:34.680 time. 788 00:44:34.680 --> 00:44:35.680 Bye.