Parable of the Landowner
Matthew 21:33-25
“Listen to another parable.
There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT,
AND BUILT A TOWER,
and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
When the harvest time approached,
he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.
The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one,
and killed another, and stoned a third.
Again, he sent another group of slaves larger than the first;
and they did the same thing to them.
But afterward he sent his son to them, saying,
‘They will respect my son.’
But when the vine-growers saw the son,
they said among themselves,
‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’
They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes,
what will he do to those vine-growers?”
They said to Him,
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,
and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”
Jesus said to them,
“Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;
THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?
Therefore, I say to you,
the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people,
producing the fruit of it.
And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces;
but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”
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Father God created the heavens and the earth,
Placed in the earth a garden and created mankind to care for it.
After the downfall of mankind, mankind was cast out of the garden and required to till the land.
As mankind filled the earth the corruption spread worldwide.
GOD saw the sin that by the will of mankind took over the earth,
for it is your will that allows you to sin,
no one or thing can make you sin,
it is your choice.
In His word we are told of several accounts in history where He sent those who were His,
to guide mankind back to Him,
Such as the profits of the Old Testament and those in the New Testament like John the Baptist.
And mankind killed them.
Then Father God sent His Son,
and mankind killed His human body.
When Christ, the Son of Father God came to earth and taught the word of the Father,
The world rejected Him,
thinking they could receive the inheritance without Him
(Like those today who play church and think they will inherent the Kingdome of God.
For they build their house of god on sand thinking they will succeed,
but Christ Jesus the Son of God has to be the foundation of the house,for it to stand.
Jesus is the corner stone,
the straight the footing of the foundation,
of the building.
We are told that the Kingdome of God will be taken away from those who do not build on Christ, on the cornerstone.
We come to Christ Jesus and ask Him to forgive us our sins,
confess Him as our Lord,
but are not willing to sacrifice our lives to Him or for Him,
Not willing to do our part to build His church,
to add souls to the body of the Bride, the Church.
Father God is the landowner,
He has given to us the land to produce,
to bring others to the knowledge of Christ Jesus through our lives,
(living for His glory not our own)
that He may be seen by those living in the world’s ways,
and may,
by the Holy Spirit living in us,
may give the Holy Spirit the opportunity to draw them to the Lord Jesus.
To draw them in to the Kingdome of God.
But when we operate on our own desires and wishes,
for our own pleasure,
We are no different than the pharisees.
Rejecting Christ (the corner stone)
No matter how we live on Sunday,
Monday through Saturday will show where we have built our foundation and what it is built on.