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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 to those who would listen.
The Pharisees certainly listened, and were perceptive enough to understand the parable was told with them as the “baddies”.
But there are a few threads in this story from Jesus.
Amazingly, He speaks clearly (as He has been to His disciples in the moving toward Jerusalem) of His own pending death.
In John 15 Jesus speaks to us in 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 the Son, the VINE ITSELF – That they were supposed to be tending.
Are we refusing today to acknowledge Jesus?
Let us examine our own motives and actions/words/thoughts today in the light of God’s word to us.
May we 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.