Summary
Like the laborers who were called to work and serve in the vineyard, we, as baptized Christians, are called into faith to work and to serve, to live a life of faith serving others, but really serving God in our baptisms we were called into service to him. And like the workers who were called to work and serve in the vineyard, we bear the burden of our day, we bear the burden of serving in the scorching heat. All of those workers that the land owner came out to invite to work in his vineyard, it says they stood idle. When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first. We are, indeed, as a Christian people called to do good works, but the good works that we are called to do are not in order to make us worthy of being called into the vineyard, to make us worthy of salvation. Prior to the Reformation, the church taught that those idle workers had to work really, really hard for their invitation into the vineyard.
Video citations
- “Grace to Serve—Serve to Glorify” 10-31-21 — Open to the gospel of Matthew, we are going to be diving into this parable. We have been going through Jesus' teachings, Jesus' parables for the past four weeks. I said, this is the fourth week. And…