Reading
SAA Notes
These two parables are told to the chief priests and the elders of Israel. What warning is there for you in these parables, for your acceptance of the Bible’s authority and for your practice?
SJA Notes
* Dear God, please show us Your wisdom today, please help us know how to live.
“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
These are a hard word.
The church today is often guilty of taking for granted the framework and the understanding and the structures that the Bible sets up and then building our own ways within it, moving away from God.
Are we a people producing fruits in keeping with repentance?
Have we fallen on the rock of Israel, the cornerstone, Jesus?
Are we broken into pieces before Him, our foundation?
As with the Pharisees, teachers of the law and chief priests – so with us. Guilty of thinking we are good people by keeping the law, instead of walking as saved through Jesus.
He is the stone that the builders rejected, the cornerstone.
He is the only rock we can build on and trust as a sure foundation!
* Father God,
You have ordained that Your Son would be rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Please remind us what it means that He is the cornerstone and capstone, the rock on which we build our foundations.
Hallelujah and thank You for this Lord God.
Amen.