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SAA Notes
Jesus spoke this parable in Chapter 12 after the attack by the Chief Priests and others about Jesus’ authority to do and teach such things. What is the warning to those who are in the position of builders in God’s Church?
SJA Notes
* Creator God, You have written Your word to us for our good, please help us listen and obey today.
“And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.”
Jesus describes a hard truth for those who would listen.
The Pharisees certainly listened, and were perceptive enough to understand that they were the “baddies” in the parable.
There are more threads in what Jesus says.
Amazingly, He speaks clearly of His own pending death (as He had been speaking with His disciples about as they travelled to Jerusalem).
In John 15 we read Jesus words of the vineyard,
“I am the vine; you are the branches.”
The leaders of God’s people at that time refused to acknowledge Jesus, God in the Person of the Son, the VINE ITSELF.
Are we refusing to acknowledge Jesus today?
Let us examine our own motives, our actions and words and thoughts, in the light of God’s word to us today.
Let us be fruit-bearing branches of the true vine!
* Holy Father God,
Thank You that Jesus is the true vine. We are the branches.
Please mark us as fruit-bearing branches of the true vine.
We would bear much fruit.
Amen.