Parables of Jesus Week 10 Justice & Humility Matthew 20 & Luke 18

Matthew 20:1-2 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3-7 "About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5 So they went. "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. 6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing

Matthew 20:3-7 around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?' 7 " 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'

Matthew 20:8-10 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' 9 "The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.10 So when those came who were hired first, they

Matthew 20:8-10 expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.

Matthew 20:11-12 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' 

Matthew 20:13-16 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

Are you envious?

"So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Matthew 20:16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

Luke 9:24-25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.  25 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self ?

John 12:25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

We have to have an understanding of who we are in Jesus!

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Ephesians 3:14-21 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in

Ephesians 3:14-21 love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at

Ephesians 3:14-21 work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Conquers are who we are, this is what we have; We are part of the family of God! We are strengthened with the power of the Holy Spirit! Christ actually lives in our hearts! We are rooted & established We’ve been given knowledge of God and His love God’s power is at work within us

Luke 18:10-12  "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

Luke 18:13-14 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Because he had humility with his relationship with God It’s the attitude of our hearts!

Who are you? Are you refusing to grow because you are a victim? Are you not seeing God’s bigger picture because you are focused on an injustice? Do you know who you are in Christ Jesus Our Lord? Are you living in all He has for you? Has humility been your response to Him?