1. ‘The Tenants’ Matt 21:33-46

2. ‘See I will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me
‘See I will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me. (John the Baptist). Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire will come, says the Lord Almighty’. (Jesus).

3. 1. The Parable

7. ‘When the chief priest and Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. They looked for a way to arrest him.’

8. 2. The Blunt Warning

9. ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end’.

10. ‘And he will rent the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time’

11. ‘Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’

13. 3. The Awesome Cornerstone

14. ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone
The Lord has done this and it is marvellous in our eyes.’

17. ‘As you come to him the living stone – rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him – you also like living stones are being built into a spiritual house’. 1 Pet 2:4

18. ‘He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed’.

21. Jn 3:18 ‘ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son’.

23. Matt 25: 31  ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left’.

24. ‘The King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels’.

25. Application

26. Your cornerstone?