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 words 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; often guilty of building our own ways within what scripture details, 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, the teachers of the law and the chief priests – so with us. Guilty of thinking we are good people by keeping the law, instead of walked 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 in – Our sure foundation!
* Father God,
You have ordained that You in the Person of the Son would be rejected by men – To become a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Please remind us what it means that Jesus is the cornerstone and capstone, the rock on which we build our foundation.
Hallelujah for Your grace to us Lord God!
Amen.