Article for April 6, 2025
Luke 20:9–10a 9[Jesus] began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. 10When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard.
The only God created a world and after a while He left and went to His kingdom of heaven and let the world out to the tenants He had also created. These tenants were ungrateful and forgot who their true master was. The only God sent servants to check on this world He had created. The only God was hoping that the tenants bore good fruit and treated God’s world with reverence toward their creator.
Mankind has a history of forgetting who created them and have, as well, justified their existence through many unproven theories. God gave us this world in hopes that we would be good stewards with the gifts given to us by our creator who created us to give His love too.
Yet mankind is as greedy as the one who thinks he can overthrow God. Like the evil one we think we can do what we want with what we know is not ours. God gave us this world to live on and to provide for our wellbeing. Our wellbeing should be noted as one under God. After all God created us but many think we were created by colliding meteors and the freak accident of the unproven “big bang theory”.
Luke 20:10b–13a But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 13Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do?
The ungrateful beings created by God forgot that God created all things on this world and thought they could make it their own. The only God sent servants, judges, and prophets to see if God’s creations were good stewards of what was let to them. But the creation of God rebelled.
We are constantly rebelling and trying to mold our world into our image. But our image is riddled with sin and death. We fail to always see that our creator created us for life and life eternal. We get blinded by the prince of darkness whom we allow to rule this world. We are ruled by the evil one and our own sinful desires as well.
Not that there is no science, but that God created the science. Not that it is wrong to discover the science, but rather it is wrong to think our theories are facts. This is another blinding factor that keeps many from God. Think of it this way, we make our own walls and then let these walls trap us into believing what we think we see. The problem is that the carrot dangled in front of us is not always real. We use decoys to hunt yet we fail to see that the evil one, and our sinful nature, dangles decoys to lure us into the evil one’s plot. The evil one’s plot is to take us away from God and eternal life.
Luke 20:13b–15a I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ 14But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ 15And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
The only God thinks on the evil of mankind and its sinful nature. How will He save mankind that He created from its self-destructing ways. So, the only God sends His Son whom He loves dearly in hopes that His creations will treat Him with reverence, respect and love.
But mankind treated the Son of the only God as a liar and false prophet. The leaders of mankind felt threatened and thought they might lose their hold on the masses if they give way to this Son. So, the creation of God, the leaders of mankind, had the Son of the only God killed. The message sent to God is that His creation of mankind was tainted by those who fell to greed and fleshly desires.
Luke 20:15b–18 What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” 17But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? 18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
The only God realizes that mankind has a sinful nature. But those who will take advantage of mankind’s sinful nature will pay dearly for their actions. What will the only God do to them? The only God might crush those who rule with greediness with the Cornerstone they rejected. Unless…
Luke 20:19–20 19The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. 20So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
Unless they repent. Yes, the rulers of mankind killed the one who came to save those who have been taken advantage of because of their sinful nature. As Jesus will crush those who lead the only God’s people to sin, Jesus will take sympathy and empathy on those who were taken advantage of by the evil that comes from below and the greed that penetrates rulers.
Jesus was murdered to try and stop salvation from taking place. Jesus was killed for our salvation and as He died, He also was resurrected for our knowledge of our own resurrection to come. For the Cornerstone rejected was resurrected to be the Cornerstone of salvation that covers a multitude of sin and gives us who follow Him eternal life and relationship with Him. Amen.
Written By Pastor Curtis A. May
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