New Testament: Matt 20.8
To read the Bible in a year, read Matthew 20.1–16 on January 29, In the year of our Lord Christ 2024
By Don Ruhl
Jesus gave a parable on the kingdom of heaven in which he likened it to a landowner who hired laborers at different times of the day, yet, he paid them all the same.
The time arrived to pay the workers: “So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first’” (Matthew 20.8).
You have labored in the kingdom and the Lord knows what you have done. At the right time, he will compensate you for what you have done. May you be pleased with what he gives you.
Questions:
- How many servants of God have gone on before us?
- Are you doing all that you are capable of doing for the kingdom of heaven?
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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Paul was to go to the Gentiles, but not the Gentiles only. Moreover, Paul himself wrote in Romans 1.16: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” Paul went to the Jews because God ordained that they were to hear the Gospel first, but God did not ordain that the church only go to the Jews. It is for Jew and Gentile, and Paul went to areas that were mostly Gentile. However, he did not ignore his Jewish brethren, nor did the Spirit want him to.
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No, actually you ignored my devotional. What you wrote has nothing to do with the devotional.
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You know something, mosckerr, you have been posting irrelevant comments to my posts for years. You do not address what I wrote in all those devotionals where you have posted a comment. However, I sought to be kind to you, letting you speak your mind. Then the one time I offer a little reply to your comment, and amazingly you said that I had ignored what you wrote, although I addressed precisely what you had written. Your response was to use foul language, showing that you are unable or unwilling to have a discussion in which we reason with one another. As King Solomon wrote: “The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness” (Proverbs 15.2). And again: “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit” (Proverbs 15.4).
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