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Our sermon will be in Luke 20 9-18
We have a website: https://tahlequahworshipcenter.com/
Service this Wednesday Night - We are in the book of John
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Prayer requests
Gerald
Georgey
Dorcas
Cristy’s Grandparents
Sandra
Donna
Ukraine
Joe & Family
Kevin Black
I want to welcome all that are joining us online.
Thank you for being here with us.
Cristy has some songs picked out for us.
Songs
I Would Not Be Denied - G - Rejoice 591
He Whispers Sweet Peace To Me - Eb - Rejoice 546
Reckless Love
The Servants And The Son
Not long after I became a Christian, Bruce Wilkinson came out with a book called “The Prayer of Jabez”.
It became an international best seller.
Merchandise came out for it quickly.
Somewhere in my office there is a plaque of some kind about it.
People were claiming all kinds of crazy things about it.
There are 2 lines in scripture about this man called Jabez: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10
So people started praying this prayer expecting God to immediately grant this “wish”.
The problem is that God doesn’t work that way.
We can’t put God in a box, except where he has.
Like Romans 10:13 “13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Having said that, I want to say that it’s not a bad thing to pray for.
That God will increase our influence.
God can answer our prayers and he may grant that.
Increasing our influence sounds like a good thing (at least for some people)
God wants good things for us, right?
So he may give us more influence.
Whether we choose to believe it or not, we all have influence.
We all have what God has given us.
Are we using that for good? or for our good
Jesus is about to tell us a story that showcases the fact that God has put us in charge of good things.
What are we doing with it?
The Owner sent the Servants
It doesn’t happen like it used to, but years ago there were people known as sharecroppers.
They didn’t own the land, but they worked the land and gave a portion of it to the landowner.
It still sort of happens.
I know people that bail hay and the land owner gets a portion.
Like they’ll do halves.
It happened a lot back then.
There would be someone that owned a large chunk of land and they would allow someone that didn’t own any land to farm it and harvest it and the landowner would get a portion.
That’s what’s going on here.
These vinedressers do not own the land but instead they just work it.
That’s true of us as well isn’t it?
In the eyes of the law we may own the land, but since we are only here for a little while so it’s like we are leasing it.
Can we take it with us?
No, so that means we don’t truly own it.
Getting back to our passage, notice that it says that the owner sends a servant.
In total, he sends 3 servants.
These servants represent the prophets of the OT.
It may be that they represent the Torah (the Law of Moses), the prophets, and the poetry.
Each one of them are beaten and sent back.
It gets progress-fully worse.
It ends with the 3rd one wounded.
This is what God’s people did to God’s messengers.
Hebrews 11:35-36 show us that prophets were tortured, stoned, sawed in two, slain, and beheaded.
It’s still happening to God’s servants.
But there was someone else that God would send to his people.
The Owner sent the Son
The man before them was the son and they were about to kill him.
In fact, a few verses down, they try.
What do the vinedressers say?
The say in Luke 20:14
You see, they are thinking about losing their power.
It’s all about them.
People want to push God out so that they will be in charge.
So that they will own the land.
But it can’t happen.
It’s not possible.
They rejected the Son, that means they don’t know and respect the Father.
The Owner sent the Stone
Jesus is the Stone.
I want you to understand something about construction.
The first thing you do is create a foundation and set the corners of the building.
If the corners are incorrect you are in trouble.
If the first corner is wrong, they are all off.
Look at verse 17 - Luke 20:17
This verse is quoting Psalm 118:22
What some say happened is that in the original building of the temple, the stone for the chief cornerstone was initially rejected because they thought it was cut wrong.
In the case of Jesus, many of the Jews did reject him.
In next week’s passage, they are seeking to kill Jesus.
They will shortly, but the week is not over.
The point is that Jesus is our foundation.
There is another point made here: Look at Luke 20:18
It’s not going to be good for those that reject Jesus.
We also see 2 different peoples that are judged here.
The first part is when the stone is laid.
People will trip on Jesus, on his truth.
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