Bro Gary Sunday Morning 7/17/11
Mat 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Mat 20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Mat 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
Mat 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Mat 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
Mat 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Mat 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Mat 20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Mat 20:9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Mat 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Mat 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Mat 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Mat 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
Mat 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
This parable is only recorded in Matthew. The author is Jesus Christ and this parable is about Him, the householder. In this parable Jesus tells us of the Kingdom of Heaven where we sit together in Christ Jesus.
This householder had holdings and hired men to go out into the vineyards as laborers. A vineyard is designed to be beautiful and requires much work. There must be the preparation of the soil, the rocks and weeds must continually be removed. The rocks keep coming up and the weeds need no planting to grow. The vineyard is to bear fruit and must have support for the vines. They must be pruned of the dead and the branches that take from the size of the grapes must be pruned out.
There are things that are destructive to the vines and the branches. Foxes were some of the greatest destroyers in the days of Jesus. “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that destroy the vines.” The bears wreck havoc with the vines. There are things in our lives not in the thought of sin that will take away from the fruit: the little foxes. The bears don’t just jump through the vines, they claw at the vines. We’ve seen the bears climb into the apple trees to pick apples. When they go into a patch of huckleberries then they just claw at the fruit. There are things that will come into our life that will completely destroy the fruit: the bears.
The householder went out at the eleventh hour to hire laborers. God is still hiring laborers in this eleventh hour. May God encourage us that God is still working with souls. There will be laborers that will only have one hour to labor but will give great strength to that hour of labor.
When it comes harvest time the entire family of the householder and all the laborers spend all day and night in the field to protect the harvest and because of the workload.
The householder establishes stations throughout the borders of his dominion and there are individuals placed there to watch and to take diligent care throughout the harvest time.
Verse 1: This householder is unique. Jesus is the one that has called us. He draws upon our hearts, sends us into the vineyard to labor for Him. There is something unique to He that has called us. It is one thing to be hired and another to have a boss that has something unique to the industry they are working in. What makes Jesus unique is that He is the anointed one. You may have an excellent boss, you may not have a boss because of the transition you are in, or you may be the boss at work. To us that have been called to labor, the householder Jesus is the anointed one.
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
It is unique to work for someone who has a heart in the job that they desire you to do. We’ve worked for managers that are only there because they want their paycheck. Jesus is unique because He calls men and women to labor again and again. The first call goes out at six. The first call is to those that are very young. He calls again at the third hour, 9 o’clock and at noon, the 9th hour. The eleventh hour is before the very end. We’ve witnessed those that have been called in the eleventh hour.
There are going to be men and women, some in this very audience, that will choose to let the anointing of the great householder put them into his service, not necessarily as a preacher, teacher, pastor, evangelist, but in the thought of we are laborers together. I’m inspired by the uniqueness of the householder, Jesus the anointed one, that goes out to preach the gospel to the poor.
I’m not knocking programs, but the poor that will have the gospel preached to them are those that realize that their life needs changed. I’m not preaching against giving someone soup. The poor in spirit are those that recognize that they need something in their life to live for, to inspire them. When God has forgiven us, why should we dwell on the past.
This householder is unique because He has a message to the poor, spiritually: those that realize that there is a void in their life. There is a part of us that was created to know and serve God. If you don’t have this, then you will be hungering for something and won’t seem to be able to get your hands on it. You may look at people and think that they have no interest in God but there is an emptiness in every soul that does not have Jesus at the center. Jesus had an anointing to preach the gospel to the poor.
Jesus wants us to labor with the anointing and inspiration that He has, to preach the gospel to the poor. He has a special love and care for the poor. Karen grows blueberries and she loves them. If you don’t love them like she does she will not let you out there to work in the blueberries. Jesus wants you to have the same love for the poor that He has. He wants you to carry His anointing.
When He was going, there were two blind men that cried out for mercy. They didn’t ask for dimes and dollars or great wisdom; they wanted to receive their sight. Without a question Jesus has power to heal and to forgive sins; He has power to do miracles. He didn’t get the blind men glasses; He healed them.
The ten lepers probably smelled and looked horrible. No one wanted to get close to a leper. Jesus healed them. Leprosy is a type of sin. The very worst sins that can come to your mind today, Jesus has the miraculous power to heal them.
He was sent to heal the broken hearted. Broken hearts are not something that just a few people experience in life. The journey of life leaves people broken hearted. For some life hasn’t produced what they had hoped. Sometimes people are broken hearted because of foolish mistakes that they have made; maybe they were taken advantage of, or the events of life placed them in a heartache. The anointing of Jesus Christ was this: I have been sent to heal the broken hearted.
The great householder has called laborers. He has a way of renewing us.
Psa 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
You may go out and labor hard; God being our helper we will do this today in our afternoon services. The congregation has a real burden for the work that we are doing. We’ve had our ups and downs but there is something that has caused us to keep going on in our outreaches. As we go into the rest-homes, the assisted livings, and the boys ranch; we are laborers.
We can mechanically take the message and tell people that they need to get saved, we can tell those that are hurting that we feel for them or that we’re happy to see them. But there is an anointing that comes from the householder, Jesus, that can cause you to have a personal interest in that soul. I’m not looking for a mom, a dad, a son, or a daughter, I want to labor to see some fruit in this life.
I think of the marvelous instruction in the word of God that Godly sorrow works repentance not to be repented of. If you and I meet someone today that is really sorry for sin, may we have the anointing in our life so that we don’t deal with them mechanically as if we’re doing the paperwork, but with anointing. If you confess and repent, God will forgive you.
Jesus said that he was sent to preach deliverance to the captives. There are great bondages in the world today. When I was in Glacier a young looking man, clean cut, was going to get me a bowl of oatmeal. When I asked if he’d been going on any hikes he said, “I’m from Georgia and I won’t be going on a hike, I brought my video games.” I said “you’re bound to be homesick.” He said, “I don’t miss it at all.” I told him when he came back that I could tell that he was hurting and to read Isaiah 61:1. He said that he would do that. I don’t know what happened in his life but he was in bondage to the past, hurting and in bondage.
We live in a world where millions are captives. Jesus had something unique about Him; He was anointed to preach deliverance to the captives. There are those in bondage right here where we live. We can look upon them with distain or think how terrible their condition is, but unless we have an anointing we cannot help a soul. We haven’t been hired, called, and sent to go out in our own strength and power to labor.
John the beloved, when he was very aged, wrote to whom he called ‘little children’. He was talking to those that were saved:
1Jn 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
You cannot go to school to learn how to meet the needs of lives. Each life is unique. Each has a nature that has lead them to the position that they are in. The one that has called you to labor had the anointing. You have an unction and an anointing from Him. You don’t need the pastor to teach you how to deal with that soul as you heart reaches out and you taste their bondage and you taste their heartache and disappointment. As you see that their sufficiency is mostly a front to cover the heartache that is there because of the bad choices that they have made.
Don’t go down the road that they are where they are because of what someone else has done. If they will realize that they are poor, if they will look for something genuine, if they will be honest with their soul, then they can receive help from God. The householder has called you and given you His anointing to preach the gospel to the poor, to bind up the broken hearted, the recovering of sight to the blind.
Are you burdened for someone that once walked with God and today they are blinded? You must have an anointing to help them.
Isa 45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Dear Laborers this morning, God speaks to His anointed. Cyrus was a man. God chose and held his right hand. As you go out into the vineyard, take the anointed one with you and rely on Him. “I need your anointing.”
I think of special ones that are here this morning, young mothers and fathers. There was a little baby named Moses, hid as a little baby. Jochabed was his mother’s name. Pharaoh’s daughter told Miriam, his sister, to call his mother for a nurse and she would receive wages.
The wages of a good mother! You all know something about Moses. What a man! The wages of a good father, grandma, grandpa, a friend! A friend loves at all times. There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother; we know that is Jesus but sometimes He chooses one of his laborers and gives them an anointing.
We have an unction, ‘the anointing that I will give you’. There would be some that would really like to help a soul. Are you willing to go into His vineyard where he sends you. Are you willing to let him give you an anointing?
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