matthew 20:16 adventure challenge

It is hard for those that do or suffer more than ordinary for God, not to be elevated too much with the thought of it, and to expect to merit by it. But they were so desperate, they weren't discouraged, they even cried louder, "Jesus, thou son of David have mercy on us. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. Secondly, In all the dispensations of his grace, God gives or withholds the means of grace, and the Spirit of grace, as he pleases. If God shall bless your brother, and make him ten times more useful than you are, then you see that he is blessing you not only blessing him, but you. And so they were actually thinking evil, because of His good. They have not seized the aim of each gospel. Peter answers, "Of strangers." Had Peter confessed who the Son of man really is? So now we have, in the healing of Peter's mother-in-law, another fact containing a principle of great value, that His grace towards the Gentile does not in the least degree blunt His heart to the claims of relationship after the flesh. [6.] And thus He, whose glory was so forgotten by His disciples Jesus, Himself thinks of that very disciple, and says, "For me and thee.". And she came worshiping him, and desiring a favor from him. Thus the old link with the flesh, with Israel, is now disowned; and the new relationships of faith, founded on doing the will of His Father (it is not a question of the law in any sort), are alone acknowledged. What do you want Me to do for you? And Jesus tells him, "Look no one has left anything, but what in this life he get a hundredfold, and in the life to come, eternal life"( Matthew 19:29 ). Thirdly, The gospel call is given to those that stand idle in the market-place. So He is telling the disciples this was going to happen. The bodily presence of the Messiah was not needed. The eye is often both the inlet and the outlet of this sin. However imperfect it may be, if faith is there, Jesus accepts it. There is one very revealing little difference between Matthew's and Mark's account of this incident. "Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?" LOVE'S ANSWER TO NEED'S APPEAL ( Matthew 20:29-34 ). NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. And I believe that we can believe and trust Jesus Christ for physical healing, as well as spiritual healing. The moment to act goes past; the impulse to decide fades. He sits on the dust heap among the prison convicts. without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Subsequently to that, the scribe offered to follow Jesus whithersoever He went. Now this seems to be the principal scope of this parable, to show that the Jews should be first called into the vineyard, and many of them should come at the call; but, at length, the gospel should be preached to the Gentiles, and they should receive it, and be admitted to equal privileges and advantages with the Jews; should be fellow-citizens with the saints, which the Jews, even those of them that believed, would be very much disgusted at, but without reason. They worked while the others were idle. Thus the point that meets us in the conclusion of the chapter is, that while every character, every measure of giving up for His name's sake, will meet with the most worthy recompence and result, man can as little judge of this as he can accomplish salvation. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! In him there was a spiritual force far beyond that found in the leper, to whom the hand that touched, as well as cleansed, him proclaimed Israel's need and state as truly as Emmanuel's grace. Matthew 20:16 in all English translations. Jesus will use this story to answer a question from Matthew 19:27: See, we have left all and followed You. Humble service is the great prerequisite, as shown by Jesus own ministry. Israel must give full testimony in the bright day of His coming. IfPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9 goes farther, surely that was for the Son of man, who for the suffering of death was exalted. Out in the world there was the Roman governor with his retinue and the eastern potentate with his slaves. Nothing can be simpler. How many millions does the long-suffering of God lead to repentance! As the elder brother, in the parable of the prodigal, repined at the reception of his younger brother, and complained of his father's generosity to him; so these labourers quarrelled with their master, and found fault, not because they had not enough, so much as because others were made equal with them. What can have more evil in it? And they would lay this leather whip across the back, and it was so designed, that when they pulled it back up to rip up pieces of flesh.The purpose of the scourging was the third-degree Roman style. Minor Prophets i. Deliver Him to the Gentiles: Jesus knew that the religious leaders of the Jews did not have authority to carry out capital punishment themselves; yet sometimes they executed men despite this prohibition (Acts 7:54-60). Thus many that are last shall be first. i. The people whose hearts are yielded to him will be recognized as his children no matter their rank or riches by worldly standards. It probably was no more than a grave though passing difficulty, which he desired to have cleared up with all fulness for their sakes, as well as his own. ii. And when they had received it, they complained against the landowner, saying, These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Let not those that come in at the eleventh hour, be put behind the rest, but, lest they should be discouraged, call them first. Lord cometh, his reward is with him, to give unto every man according as his work shall be, as one star differeth from another star in glory, so shall it be. The landowner reminded them that he had paid them the amount they had agreed to, and if he paid others the same amount, that was his concern. No request is too great to bring to Jesus. Be sure to join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theweekendadventurer 23,599 people like this 25,112 people follow this http://www.myadventurechallenge.com/ info@myadventurechallenge.com 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. The tribunes of the second and third likewise made their choice one after another; and he that remained entered into the fourth legion. After this (what makes it still more unquestionable) comes the case of the demoniac. Notice is taken of the several hours of the day, at which the labourers were hired. But they in turn will deliver Him to the Gentiles, who will first of all mock Him. A Roman coin was once found with the picture of an ox on it; the ox was facing two things an altar and a plough; and the inscription read: Ready for either. (Barclay), ii. The time of life is the day, in which we must work the works of him that sent us into the world. Even those hired early in the day received a reward, and the landowner had been gracious and generous in hiring them and not others. Does not this suit you, poor sinner you who never did serve him, you who could not, as you are, minister to him? The priest, in chap. Matthew chapter twenty opens with the parable of the laborers going out into the vineyard.And Jesus said. Now if you go back to the last verse of the previous chapter, you'll find this same statement. The Lord pleads the cause of the disciples. "Lord," they said, "what we want is that our eyes should be opened." (2.) It was a scorned Messiah who, when rejected of His own people, Israel, turned to the Gentiles by the will of God: it was One who could look upon publicans and sinners anywhere. Hence the Lord would raise up a fresh testimony altogether, and do a new work suitable to it. Far from lowering the position of His servant, He declares there was none greater among mortal men. i. "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse." If he will do it, it is not for us to gainsay; for he is in one mind, and who can turn him? The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16); Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34); Greatness is Serving (Matthew 20:20-28); Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight (Matthew 20:29-34). for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but. This, too, we ascertain from Mark 1:1-45, where there are clear marks of the time. There is no one cup for the Christian to drink. In Matthew 17:1-27 another scene appears, promised in part to some standing there in Matthew 16:28, and connected, though as yet hiddenly, with the cross. They're on the way to Jerusalem; they've come down the Jordan Valley. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took Him even as He was in the ship. When it gets to where I have to sneak in the back door at the last minute, and sneak out before things are over, then I need to find something else to do, when you can no longer take time to minister to individuals.Now these men of course do give to us a very beautiful picture of people who are blind in sin, and there is the spiritualizing of the text, crying out for Jesus. The true disciple is motivated by love not lust. But at the end, when His disciples are in the extremity of trouble, in the midst of the sea, the Lord walks on the sea toward them, and bids them not fear; for they were troubled and afraid. Yet Jesus was confident that He would be delivered to the Gentiles. A daily devotional about the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. He takes accordingly the title of the "Son of man" for the first time in this gospel. They did not understand what was happening, but they could see in every line of Jesus' body the struggle of his soul. . It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. Taken together, the entire picture is one of great suffering. The landowner rebuked them for their jealousy and resentment of the landowners generosity towards others. Parallel use in Matthew 19:30 where the closing expression of chapter 19 opens the parable in chapter 20. d T. Hieros. The men who were standing in the market-place were not street-corner idlers, lazing away their time. In his defilement he came to Jesus and sought to be cleansed, before the delivery of the sermon on the mount. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Is not your eye evil, because I am good? Notice that these people didn't go in on their own accord, the Lord sent them into the vineyard. They couldn't see Him. Work for God will not admit of trifling. It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai (d). It is not only the fact that God slighted matters of prescriptive ordinance because of the ruined state of Israel, who rejected His true anointed King, but there was this principle also, that certainly God was not going to bind Himself not to do good where abject need was. Of course, there is often the order of time, but through the central part, and not infrequently elsewhere, his setting forth in order turns on another principle, quite independent of mere succession of events. Verse 29 gives us strict time. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Nor was it only a difference in the forms the truth took; but the vital principle which Christ was diffusing could not be so maintained. Plainly, the church isnt to operate the way the world does. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? "The foxes," says He, "have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head." And if thou hast what thou didst agree for, thou hast no reason to cry out of wrong; thou shalt have what we agreed for." and when they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples [in both the parables and the explanations alluding to what we possess in Matthew 13:1-58.]. Johannine Writings essayed to destroy the testimony with their utmost and blasphemous contempt. "In God's economy," as someone has said, "there is no such thing as a most favoured nation clause." c. Early in the morning: This is literally at dawn, usually reckoned to be about 6:00 in the morning. a great multitude followed Him. The system of law is easy to figure out: you get what you deserve. But if He here does not go beyond a hint of that which the Gentiles were about to receive on the ruinous unbelief and judgment of the Jew, He does not keep back their own awful course and doom in the figure that follows. (Ken Chumbley, The Gospel of Matthew, commentary, p.#351). In this work we must not be slothful, not loiterers, but labourers, working, and working out our own salvation. But Jesus called them to Himself and said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. but it was far too much for the young man. As to any one else, even the most liberal gift that ever was given of God to fallen man on earth, to the golden head of the Gentiles, exempted the deep and its untamed inhabitants. The world counts them great. They used their waiting time in considering their own superiority to the latecomers. (Spurgeon). On the other side of the picture, behold the Lord leading on a soul to draw on divine grace in the most glorious manner. The impression is that the landowner was surprised to find people idle, because he had plenty of work to give them. He welcomed his bed-fellow. Thus He sets forth both the past, the present, and the awful future of Israel, before the day of His own coming from heaven, when there will be not only the return of idolatry, solemn to say, but the full power of Satan associated with it, as we see in Daniel 11:36-39; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; Revelation 13:11-15. Gregory of Nyssa saw the glaring fault in that theory. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. If you do, you have a different concept of God than I do. General Epistles The point of this closing aphorism is not to suggest that God's ways are simply or only about an inversion of the status quo. i. Accordingly, here we have, first, the Lord judging the wrong thoughts of "Scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem." The truth of this is apparent, if we compare the gospel of Mark. The parable may also be applied more generally, and . The amazing thing about Jesus is that he never lost patience and became irritated. I feel sure that no Christian harbours a doubt about it. In Jesus' name. And yet He takes time still to minister to the needs of others. Jesus was passing by. One of these people might have been the rich young man if he had become a disciple (Matthew 20:16-22). They next proceeded to the creation of subaltern officers, whom the tribunes chose from among the soldiers of the greatest reputation. And now as they depart from Jericho. Nor was the unbelief confined to these religionists of letter and form; for next (verse 14) the question comes from John's disciples: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" But it would be unusual for a wealthy "landowner" to locate his own . Johannine Writings Christianity knows nothing of the conception of a herrenvolk, a master race. Not but that there is a counsel in every will of God, and what seems to us to be done arbitrarily, will appear at length to have been done wisely, and for holy ends. The second is, "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen." [2.] i. Observe. The disciples most inadequately perceive His glory; but the Lord acts according to His own mind. The true disciple rests easy in the assurance that because his pay is from a Master of grace, it will be gracious. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. So they went. It was really after the transfiguration recorded in chapter 17 of our gospel. Thus the end is as the beginning, and even far, far worse. They glorified God. ". Then shalt thou call, saith the good and faithful servant, and I will answer. Thus Matthew, called at the very receipt of custom, follows Jesus, and makes a feast for Him. The order of payment was important. They said, "Lord, if we could just see." GO GO GO! There are a great many decisions which have to be taken. If to conquer with Christ meant to suffer with Christ, they were perfectly willing to face that suffering. Gregory the Great said that Jesus was like a baited hook meant to catch Satan, and Peter the Lombard said the cross was like a mousetrap to catch the devil, baited with the blood of Christ. There may have been a very natural reason for this request. The offence taken (Matthew 20:11; Matthew 20:12); They murmured at the good man of the house; not that there is, or can be, any discontent or murmuring in heaven, for that is both guilt and grief, and in heaven there is neither; but there may be, and often are, discontent and murmuring concerning heaven and heavenly things, while they are in prospect and promise in this world. And, behold, there were two blind men who were sitting by the way side, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, saying, Have mercy upon us, O Lord, thou son of David. It is the death-blow to human tradition and ordinance in divine things, and in reality depends on the truth of the absolute ruin of man a truth which, as we see, the disciples were very slow to recognize. A similar principle applies to the little children, who are next introduced; and the same thing is true substantially of natural or moral character here below. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father." They that come from the east and west, and so come in late, that are picked up out of the highways and the hedges, shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, at the same feast, Matthew 7:11; Matthew 7:11. About the third hour, [nine o'clock in the morning], he saw others standing idle in the market place, and he said unto them; Go into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. There were many who died right there as the result of the scourging itself. James was the first of the apostolic band to die a martyr ( Acts 12:2). c. Betrayed they will condemn Him to death deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. This is the third time that Jesus warned his disciples that he was on the way to the Cross ( Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:22-23). The Old Testament Those last hired receive the most pay and are paid first. (d) T. Hieros. Hence, here it is a question not merely of cleansing, but of forgiveness, and forgiveness, too, as that which precedes power, manifested before men. But I am convinced that there are others who will receive either as great or even greater honor than will Billy Graham who you have never heard of. See Matthew 19:27-29. for many be called, but few chosenThis is another of our Lord's terse and pregnant sayings, more than once uttered in different connections. The Saviour, while He puts forth His hand, touching him as man, and yet as none but Jehovah might dare to do, dispels the hopeless disease at once. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. 1. "The cross," he said, "was a mousetrap (muscipula) to catch the devil, baited with the blood of Christ.". The Gentiles, who are newly called in, have as much of the privileges of the kingdom of the Messiah as the Jews have, who have so long been labouring in the vineyard of the Old-Testament church, under the yoke of the ceremonial law, in expectation of that kingdom. In the case of the laborers, those who worked all day did not deserve their pay after having thrown it on the ground. Only tradition will not do this work, nor will human thoughts or feelings. Or is your eye evil because I am good?. This attitude threatened to be carried forward into the Christian Church. This finds its fitting place, not in Luke, but in Matthew, particularly as the details here (not in Mark, who only gives the general fact) cast great light upon God's dispensational ways. In our gospel we have not seen the apostles called and ordained. He is talking about, no doubt, the scourging that He was going to receive, because it could not be that any of His bones should be broken. Peter asks a word from his Master, and leaves the ship to join Him on the water. You must not claim a special honour and a special place because you were Christians before they were. Heartlight is supported by loving Christians from around the world. They did not know that Jesus could have made the same promise of suffering to come to any of them (if they really wanted it!). "That ye may know," He says, "that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," etc. This parable is not a perfect illustration of Gods grace, because the principle of working and deserving is involved. [2.] Had she not such confusion of thought that, if the Lord had heeded her words, it must have been destruction to her? Accordingly, here we have a witness of it, and a witness so much the sweeter, because the present total rejection that was filling the heart of the leaders surely testified to the Lord's heart of that which was at hand. If the gospel dies in England, write on its tomb, Betrayed. If our churches lose their holy influence among men, write on them, Betrayed. What care we for infidels? Such is His grace, such His wisdom. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Ransom was most commonly used as the purchase price for freeing slaves. (Carson) Lytron (ransom) and the preposition anti (for, literally instead of) point clearly to the idea of his taking our place. (France), ii. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. b. The ability to serve God is the gift of His grace. The last shall be first, and the first last. A few I have chosen for higher stations in the church. Gods grace always operates righteously. ", 'The Lord Is My Savior, Shield, Refuge, and Stronghold'. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: Both James and John had to be baptized in suffering as Jesus was, but their cups and baptisms were different. He was there for the express purpose of glorifying God. Salem Media Group. It is all of grace and not of debt; nor does that exclude obedience. I am going to be betrayed. Again, when we listen to another (and now it is one of His disciples), at once faith shows its feebleness. The question was not who or what came in the way; whoever appealed to Him, there He was for them. Those first hired are actually paid least in proportion to their labor and receive the least pleasure from their pay. His reply came in stages. Parents, and the disciples, like the Pharisees, were shown that grace, just because it is the expression of what God is to a ruined world, takes notice of what man in his own imaginary dignity might count altogether petty. Matthew 20. And they said unto him, Lord, we want our eyes opened. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. The laws of that kingdom are not wrapt up in parables, but plainly set down, as in the sermon upon the mount; but the mysteries of that kingdom are delivered in parables, in sacraments, as here and Matthew 13:1-58; Matthew 13:1-58 The duties of Christianity are more necessary to be known than the notions of it; and yet the notions of it are more necessary to be illustrated than the duties of it; which is that which parables are designed for. [2.] If, among this number who are called into the kingdom, I choose to raise some to stations of distinguished usefulness, and to confer on them special talents and higher rewards, I injure no other one. A hook is cast into the sea, and the fish that takes it produces the required money for Peter as for his gracious Master and Lord. What does it mean? And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. All rights reserved. It is a short time; the reward is for eternity, the work is but for a day; man is said to accomplish, as a hireling, his day,Job 14:6. The Lord increase thy earnestness and faith! (Clarke), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible (Compare Mark 3:13-19, andMark 6:7-11; Mark 6:7-11; Luke 6:1-49; Luke 9:1-62) The mission of the apostles did not take place till afterwards. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.. A wider interpretation is, of course, possible, and has been often applied, in which the first-called labourers answer to the Jews, and those who came afterwards to converts in the successive stages of the conversion of the Gentiles. Matthew 11:1-30, exceedingly critical for Israel, and of surpassing beauty, as it is, must not be passed over without some few words. It was the little foreshadowing of what will be when the Lord has joined the remnant in the last days, and then fills with blessing the land that He touches. (E) They will condemn him to death 19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged(F) and crucified. To labour in his vineyard. But the parable may be applied more generally, and shows us, 1. Thus it is easy to see, that the reason for here putting together the leper and the centurion lies in the Lord's dealing with the Jew, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, in His deep grace working in the Gentile's heart, and forming his faith, as well as answering it, according to His own heart. of Whatever might be the Church or the kingdom, it is precisely when the Lord unfolds His new glory in both the kingdom and the Church that He maintains the proprieties of nature in their rights and integrity. There was the consciousness of good unattained, a void for which he appeals to Jesus that it might be filled up. Secondly, The particular pleading with those that were offended with this distribution in gavel-kind. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Both Mark and Luke add their own touches to the story, to show that on this occasion there was in the atmosphere of the apostolic band a certain tenseness and a certain foreboding of tragedy to come. That they might possibly be outstripped by their successors in profession, and, though they were before others in profession, might be found inferior to them in knowledge, grace, and holiness. When it came time to pay the workers, the men hired last were paid first and paid for a full day of work! (v) These two blind men were grateful. Of course, both do preserve chronological order when it is compatible with the objects the Holy Spirit had in inspiring them; but in both the order of time is subordinated to still greater purposes which God had in view. He did them no wrong, and had broken no promise. In spite of all he had said, here were these men and their mother still chattering about posts in an earthly government and kingdom. Pauline Epistles Here I close tonight. But the single eye of Jesus at once detects the snare of Satan into which natural thought led, or at least exposed, Peter to fall. The last trumpet, at the great day, shall call the labourers,1 Thessalonians 4:16. But, as I have stated, the choice and ordination of the twelve apostles had really taken place before the sermon on the mount, though not mentioned in Matthew, but in Mark and Luke. And they said unto him, We're able ( Matthew 20:22 ). We read in the book of Acts that Herod stretched forth his hands against the church and had James beheaded. When the world and the devil begin to rebuke, in this case, it is a proof that the salvation of God is nigh; therefore, let such cry out a great deal the more. (Clarke). Luke-Acts Who could touch the leper save Emmanuel? ), NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print: Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Galatians, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Story, Hardcover, Comfort Print: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People. 8, could not deny what was done in the case of the leper, who showed himself duly, and brought his offering, according to the law, to the altar. When those who had worked all day found that the landowner paid the same amount to the late-comers as he paid to them, they complained. The New King James Version (NKJV) organises this chapter as follows: . Gentile as he was, he was for that very, reason the less narrowed in his thoughts of the Saviour by the prevalent notions of Israel, yea, or even by Old Testament hopes, precious as they are. For many are called, but few chosen.". General Epistles It would require the credulity of a sceptic to believe that this is not the self-same fact that we have before us inMatthew 8:1-34; Matthew 8:1-34.

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