To continue the thought from yesterday, I want to encourage you with this parable of Jesus.
There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”
“I will not,” he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, “I will, sir,” but he did not go.
Of the two sons, it was the one who first said no but ultimately listened that did the will of the Father. There are certain things in each of our lives that Holy Spirit has either asked of us or that we have read in scripture that we have yet to walk out.
Jesus continues on to describe how the tax collectors and prostitutes were entering the Kingdom of God a head of everyone else. It is those that have been forgiven much that love much. And love of God is always shown in our obedience.
They were truly grateful for the loving mercy of the Father they repented of their wrongdoing, their sin, their lack of obedience and entered the Kingdom.
Jesus continued His teaching with 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 moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
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.
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
Jesus summed this parable up by saying we can either submit in obedience or be submitted by dominance. If we submit in obedience the Kingdom and all it has to offer will be ours. But if we choose the latter, we will be crushed to nothing and lose everything we have worked for.
I for one do not want to be crushed in judgment. I would much rather enter into the Kingdom by repentance, through the door of Jesus, and receive all that Jesus purchased for me upon the cross, bearing all the fruit of His Kingdom.
It is not too late for us to begin to be obedient in what we know we should be doing. Let us through off every weight, hindrance and excuse that keeps us from submitting to the will of God, so that we will not miss out on all He has for us.
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