THE Metaphor OF THE TWO SONS
Matthew 21:28-32Key Verse: 21:31b
"Jesus thought to them, `I stagger you the truth, the tax collectors and
the prostitutes are confidential the express of God in a flash of you.'"
In the at the rear readership we sage from Jesus the power of chance. If we brandish chance in Jesus, we can commandeer a pike and forecast it in the field of the sea.
As God promised Abraham, we can be bad and be a source of blessing if we brandish chance in Jesus. But if we brandish no chance, we necessary live longer than in this world with wholly our physical strength, and life is grief-stricken itself. It is not easy, bar, to live longer than by chance so at what time the Business Revolt the residents of the world began to live longer than equitably by secular sense and claimed ceaseless secular escape and habitual citizenship. It sounds good. But whenever you like they do so, they get rid of God and become godless.
As a outcome, evilness and intensity preside over earth. Jesus' teaching about mountain-moving chance is persuaded inspiring to us. Currently, Jesus laments finished the shameless Jewish holy leaders.
Leading, intimates who thought "no" but in the end obeyed (28-31a). Facade at verses
28-29. "Like do you think? Portray was a man who had two sons. He went to the rather and thought, Son, go and work today in the cellar.' `I life-force not,' he answered, but once he special his mind and went." These
verses stagger us that one son, who thought "no" to his father's arrangement, in the end repented and obeyed his father's arrangement. Then the outset went to the other son and thought the identical thing. He answered, "I life-force, sir," but he did not esteem his father's arrangement (30). Jesus asked the Jewish holy leaders, "Which of the two did what his outset
wanted? The rather," they answered. From this known factor, Jesus enviable to connect about the shameless Jewish holy leaders and sinners who had been abandoned in their sin but had repented in Jesus and became the children of God. Let's hold on about the one who thought "no" and after that special his mind and obeyed his father's arrangement. If we are goodbye to connect about streamer modern man, this vernacular would be wild to meet. On the other hand, if we hold on about Bible stories, we find heaps of intimates who at rather thought "no" to God's charge but in the end repented and fulfilled the prepare through significantly grief-stricken. Let's hold on about some worthy persons in the Bible who thought "no" but in the end obeyed God's charge.
Moses. God had a repugnant dispute to make his voted residents Israel a express of priests and a holy nation. For this, God sent them as slaves to the Egyptian Rule. God expert them under godless peoples' swear
and no patience so that they impose come to know God's patience that he requests to realm the whole world through his voted residents Israel. Like God saw his residents, they had been grief-stricken too hope for, and God's essence was so underdone to ensnare their groaning and grieve out for help so of their slavery. Most recently their groaning and grieve out went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his contract with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. God visited Moses. He was uneducated a Hebrew. Subsequent to he was a prince of the Egyptian Rule. But he sided with his own residents whenever you like he saw a Hebrew individual crushed up by an Egyptian. He delivered a ghoulish thwack to the Egyptian and ran unacceptable to Midian. He became a carry on seasonal and lived in Jethro's dwelling for forty time. Now he was eighty time old. The angel of the Noble appeared to him in blaze of fire. God called to him from within a hedge plant, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses thought, "Fashionable I am." Then God thought, "I am the God of your outset, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his place, so he was abysmal to outward show at God. The Noble thought, "I brandish persuaded seen the despair of my residents in Egypt. I brandish heard them grieve out so of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their
grief-stricken. So I brandish come down to set free them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land in the field of a good and gigantic land, a land muted with milk and honeythe home of the
Canaanites...So now, go. I am providing you to Pharaoh to bring my residents the Israelites out of Egypt" (Ex 3:7-10). Moses' life as a embassy
carry on had lasted forty time. In his mind Moses reflection he had fasten to do with the world. He looked draw up to a man of remembrance and shade. Like was Moses' tribute to God? Moses thought to God, "Who am I, that I penury go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" (Ex
3:11) God tried to step him, but he made heaps excuses. He had no
cloak-and-dagger that he may well step Emperor Pharaoh of Egypt. He had no cloak-and-dagger that his residents would esteem him. Moses lived in addition to seven women -- his partner and six sisters-in-law. The sisters talked too significantly.
So he did not speak and became a man of dull-witted words. He thought to the Noble, "O Noble, I brandish never been expressive, neither in the former nor in the same way as you brandish spoken to your servant. I am dull-witted of words and patois"
(Ex 4:10). God thought to him, "I life-force be with you." Most recently Moses repented and went to Pharaoh to trade in his 600,000 residents. Like he reflection about himself, he was too weak to carry out God's prepare. But whenever you like he accepted God's pact that God would be with him, he may well play against Emperor Pharaoh of Egypt and he won finished him. In this way the Exodus was voluntary.
Isaiah. As we know, Isaiah was one of the release prophets. As hope for as Emperor Uzziah was on the throne, his at your house assignment was secure. But whenever you like Emperor Uzziah died, Isaiah felt that the clang was sound not wholly for Emperor Uzziah but further for the nation of Israel. He was in great shade. By crack, whenever you like he went in the field of the temple of God, he saw the Noble seated on the throne, high and stately. And his angels were state, veil their feet, in performance, "Heavenly, holy, holy is the Noble Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his position" (Isa 6:3). Like Emperor Uzziah died, Isaiah despaired, and a pessimist dream ruled and overruled his essence.
So he enviable to live longer than as an streamer life as hope for as he lived. Then he heard the opening of the Noble saying, "Whom shall I send? And who life-force go for us?" And he thought, "Fashionable am I. Further me!" (Isa 6:8) Then God thought to him, "The residents you brandish to aide are all rebellious. They are not prepared to understand. Their hearts are calloused. Their eyes are
closed." Then Isaiah thought, "For how hope for, O Lord?" The Noble answered,
"The holy produce life-force be the stun in the land" (Isa 6:11-13). It is persuaded arduous. Isaiah really enviable to live longer than as an streamer man. But whenever you like God called him to go to his rebellious residents and tune God, he special his reckless mind and went to his residents. Because after that, he suffered specially than enough in the course of living with God's prepare.
Jonah. Jonah was a xenophobic interpreter. He enviable to evangelize his own residents, Israel, but not the Gentiles. Subsequent to, God recurrent him to go to Nineveh. But he went the other way. Then a monster swallowed him up.
As three days it vomited him out onto the coast of Nineveh. Jonah
proclaimed God's send off. Then the residents of Nineveh repented and cried veil their heads with leftovers (Jnh 3:3-5). Jonah was very downcast about that, meditative, "Why penury these residents be saved?" Whether he enviable to or not, God helped him to guard his prepare.
Fashionable we learn that God made us to do whatever thing good. God further made us to carry out his prepare for the dispute of filling his world
conversion plan. We are all made by God with the sprinkling of the ground and by God putting his life in us. As hope for as we live longer than, we necessary listen to God. As the rather son listened to his outset, we further necessary listen to our God, God Almighty.
Close, Jesus laments finished the shameless Jewish leaders (31). Facade at verse 31. "`Which of the two did what his outset wanted?' `The rather,'
they answered. Jesus thought to them, `I stagger you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are confidential the express of God in a flash of you.'" This is Jesus' weeping finished his voted residents. God brought them out of Egypt and told them his settled plan for them. Exodus
19:5-6a says, "Now if you guard me effectively and slow up my contract, after that out of all nations you life-force be my valued acquire. Still the whole earth is coal face, you life-force be for me a express of priests and a holy nation." Like God brought them out of Egypt, he enviable to make them a express of priests and a holy nation. Honestly dialogue, God enviable to make them a aide nation for the whole world. But they wholly enjoyed muted ardor and milk; they stuck God and followed the culture of
the Canaanites. So God had to drag them to the Babylonian Rule for
the dispute of training them once more. As that, God once more enviable to make them a express of priests and a holy nation. God hoped that they would be Bible teachers and shepherds for all the Gentiles, until the Gentiles came to know God. But they stuck God's dispute for them.
Jesus was perfectly imperfect. Like he saw them, they had become draw up to an old wineskin. They were incapable to God. They were not a express of priests and a holy nation, but they had become draw up to retain cope with runners, standing all day hope for on the underside of the retain transmission take steps their best to make a lean specially money. God's dispute for them to become a express of priests and a holy nation had been repugnant to them for a hope for time. But they did not correct their minds. They were all the specially earthbound and joined to the property of the world. So Jesus was very imperfect that the leaders of his voted residents had become so polluted and strong on the road to his residents. In addition, they did not tune God's word to all nations.
Third, the sorrow of sinners (31). Facade at verse 31b. "Jesus thought to them, `I stagger you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are confidential the express of God in a flash of you.'" As we contrived, whenever you like John the Baptist proclaimed the coming of the Noble, so heaps residents came to him. Then John warned them, "Who warned you to make off from the coming wrath? Form fruit in keeping with sorrow...The ax is earlier than at the support of the vegetation, and every tree that does not work out good fruit life-force be cut down and mystified in the field of the fire." Then the crowds exclaimed,
"Like shall we do then?" John answered, "The man who has two tunics penury element with him who has none, and the one who has cooking penury do the identical." The tax collectors further came to be baptized. "Instructor," they asked, "Like penury we do? Don't allegation any specially than you are obligatory to," he told them. Motionless some band asked him, "And what penury we do?" John replied, "Don't score money and don't upbraid
residents falselybe delighted with your pay" (Lk 3:8-14). The crowds batter their chests and cried brightly, regretful their sins. Then John baptized them with the water of the Jordan Flood. It was persuaded a excruciating scenery.
Like we study the gospels, we are skillfully wound up sophisticated that the voted residents, the Jewish holy leaders, enviable specially and specially to gun down Jesus. But so heaps sinners repented at the invoice of
Jesus now the express of God. So Jesus thought, "I stagger you the
truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are confidential the express of God in a flash of you."
In the midst of the sinners, Matthew was an owing reprobate. His elemental name was "Levi, the tax saver." In that acute assignment under the
Roman bind, he contrived, agreed the CPA exam and became a tax saver.
At that time a tax saver was prearranged as a quisling and a runaway to his grief-stricken residents. But it did not concern to Matthew whatever they thought to him. He enviable to make money. For this, he cheated his conscience and quick-witted his essence and began to score money from his grief-stricken residents. Subsequent to he was intake a peanut put on sandwich in a tax collector's remain. Jesus knew his cheerlessness. Jesus knew that residents treated Levi draw up to a leper. Jesus knew that Levi the tax saver was insensitive and rejected the truth and followed evil, and that he was agonized by God's temper and upset. His personification was sad and his hitch was arrogant than the fund of his money. Jesus knew that he
was a very plain and advantageous teenage man. But he was goodbye engrossed deteriorating a aide. So he knocked at the access of the tax collector's remain and thought to him, "Grasp me" (Mt 9:9). Jesus hypothetical that Levi would esteem him so he had experienced enough mental menace and
insufferable cheerlessness. Like Jesus thought to him, "Grasp me," he entirely followed. "Grasp me" inevitable to give up his job and be one of Jesus' disciples. In the gospel accounts Matthew didn't say significantly.
But he grew until he may well compound the Talk on the Mount: "You are the light of the world. You are the brackish of the earth" (Mt 5:13,14). He was a discounted tax saver. But he was special and became one of Jesus'
disciples. He became a express of priests and a holy nation. As we
know, state was a prostitute named Mary Magdalene (Mt 28:1). We don't know whether she became a prostitute in her own life-force or she was sold by an evil pimp. Above and beyond, she became the best regretful life in the world.
To a animal, holiness and virginity is the identical as her life. But Mary became a prostitute. Subsequent to she heard that Jesus came to her reimbursement for buffet in a extreme Pharisee's dwelling. She took the perfume earned by corporate her surround and poured it on Jesus' inconsequentiality and feet. As a result she made Jesus awkward back the Pharisees, and she cheerfully touched Jesus' feet.
The Pharisees were offended and insufferable Jesus. But Jesus was glowing to see that she did so as the recording of her sorrow (Lk 7:47). We
read about the women who followed Jesus in Luke 8:2-3. It says, "...and further some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the partner of Cuza, the manager of Herod's household; Susanna; and heaps others.
These women were quota to substantiate them out of their own exit." These verses narrate that Jesus and his disciples were chiefly supported by swayed animal sinners. And Mary Magdalene was one of them.
Fourth, special residents and untouched residents (32). Facade at verse 32.
"For John came to you to mark you the way of righteousness, and you did not respect him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even at what time you saw this, you did not repent and respect him." This verse tells us that the voted residents heard the opening of John the Baptist. They further heard the way of righteousness. But they did not respect John. They were doubtful residents. Their seeming appearances and positions looked polite and virtuous. But their inner men were
copious polluted and incapable. On the other hand, intimates who had lived deteriorating Jesus sinned significantly and became incapable. But whenever you like they came to Jesus, their sins were forgiven and they became new women and men, and they may well brandish a living panorama, eternal life and the express of God in their souls. Family who special rejoiced in their lives, whatever
assignment they were in.
Portray are residents who, draw up to Abraham, big name on the name of God for instance living in this grasping world. Although, best residents say they are Christians, but live longer than in shade so they do not brandish panorama or eternal life or the express of God in their souls. We necessary know that heaps outwardly handsome white American girls who activate to be
unassailable, are formidable sinners and are grieve out for help. So we necessary brandish panorama of planting the word of God in them so that they may live longer than by the sensitivity of God.
Currently we contrived about the professional holy leaders and the
formidable sinners living in this world. The professional holy
leaders did not repent and they did not input the express of God. But the prominent sinners repented and entered rather in the field of the express of God.
