The Landowner’s Development of a Planted Vineyard Property

• Walled Boundary (No Facility Confusion)
• Dug Winepress (State-of-the-Art Installation)
• Watchtower Built (Safety for Others)

The Tenants’ Abuse of Property Privileges

• Seized Servants

1. Beaten
2. Killed
3. Stoned

• Son Sacrificed

1. Took
2. Threw
3. Killed

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. [...] “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.  Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.   “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’  So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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Related posts:

1. Luke 20:9-12
2. Matthew 7:25
3. Matthew 10:35-42

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Even in the most productive ministry fields, a spiritual harvest depends in large part on the quality of the seeds of truth being planted.

Finding a starting point for a sermon or a lesson, for some servants of the Harvest-Lord, can be the hardest part of the process, so we’ve gathered a rich variety of Bible ideas– seeds that might otherwise be difficult to gather from locations scattered about the Good Book’s pages– and worked to plant them here in (relatively) neat rows.

Healthy kernels of truth based on the profoundly simple and fascinatingly intricate Truth (and truths) of Scripture are here for the taking and planting in every kind of human heart and mind– every kind of spiritual soil. May God bless the planting and watering and increase of His powerfully fertile and effective words– to a thirty-, sixty-, and hundred-fold return on truth sown and messages grown in ministry fields far and wide.

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“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law.”
–Psalm 119:18

C.S. Lewis says that Jesus is the “Myth [Who] Became Fact” (cf. Don Richardson’s great book, Eternity in Their Hearts) and Psalm 119:18′s “metaphor” is also literally the only way to go, too.

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