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INTRODUCTION:
In April of 1980, Liberia experienced a violent change in leadership.
We went to bed with one government and woke up with another.
The president was killed at his residence in the capital city.
The military took over.
And within days, most of the cabinet ministers were publicly executed.
Every 4 years, we all gather around our television sets t in November to see whether there will be a change in leadership or party.
The election tells us whether the country wants to go in the same direction or it wants to switch direction.
In our story today, we will seeing a change in direction.
Every 4 years, we all gather around our television sets to watch the returns from our national election.
We watch to see whether there will be a change in leadership or will the nation continue in the same direction.
It is fascinating to watch the returns on election night.
The question that is usually asked is this, “Will the ruling party retain power or will it be changed?”
As the results come in, people are glue to the television and radio to see whether the country will be changing leadership or going in the same direction.
Do you know that God changed leadership in Israel?
We will see the future laid out and a pronouncement of a change in leadership.
In our text today, Jesus is engaged with the religious leaders in the temple.
The chief priests, scribes and elders were questioning His authority.
They wanted to know who gave Him the right to do what He had done in the temple, when He drove out people involved in commerce.
He decided to respond to the interlocutors with a parable.
A. The Introduction: The planting and renting of the vineyard (V. 1).
A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it.
He dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower.
He then leased it to tenants and went into another country.
B. The Sending of the Servants (VV.
2-5).
At harvest time, the landlord of the vineyard sent a servant to the tenants to receive some fruit from the tenants.
They took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Again, he sent another, “and they struck Him on the head and treated him shamefully.”
And he sent another, and they killed Him.
One commentator points out that “the tenants paid their dues in blows.”
C.
He sent His beloved Son (VV.
6-8).
The owner sent His beloved son to the tenants.
He said to Himself that “They will respect my Son.”
But the tenants said to one another, “This is the heir.
Come, let us kill Him and the inheritance will be ours.”
And they took Him and killed him and threw Him outside of the vineyard.
D. He changed the leadership (VV.
9-11).
And at the end of the parable, Jesus pointed out that there will be a change in leadership in the future.
Why would God change leadership?
Why was God changing leadership?
The Leadership Persecuted His Servants ().
The religious leaders who were entrusted to lead the nation of Israel would not listen to God when He sent His prophets to confront them about their sins.
These religious leaders persecuted the servants of God who served as God’s messengers to the nation of Israel.
We see this in the parable.
The owner sent one servant or messenger after another, and each was persecuted.
Jeremiah writes in , “From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.
yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear but stiffened.
They did worse than their fathers.”
The nation of Israel refused to listen to God and His prophets.
John the Baptist was the last of the prophets.
But the nation rejected Him too.
Someone rightly said that as God sent more messengers, the resistance got harder.
In Jesus’ parable, when the servants confronted the tenants about paying their master or honoring their commitment to Him, the “tenants paid with blows.”
A. The wickedness was progressive:
A. The wickedness was progressive:
When you look into the parable, you will notice that the wickedness of the tenants was progressive.
They started with the beating of the servants and gradually went to killing.
Similarly, the Old Testament’s prophets were persecuted and killed because they were guilty of calling the nation back to holiness.
It is reported that Isaiah the prophet was sawn in half.
Jeremiah was stoned to death.
Amos fled for his life.
The prophets of God were rejected.
By rejecting God’s prophets and their message, the leadership of Israel was rejecting God.
Society does not persecute those who have embraced the morality of the dominant culture.
They persecute those who go against the culture’s accepted mores.
Society will make life difficult for you.
The gospel of Jesus causes us to go against the culture’s morality.
The gospel reminds us of our redemption and demands that we live the redeemed life.
The gospel-centered life comes with persecution.
Paul writes in , “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”
The apostle is pointing out that if we strongly wish or intend on living for God, we must be ready for persecution from the world.
The apostle is pointing out that if you live and work for God in a world controlled by the devil, You will experience persecution.
If you want the world to love you, act like the world.
But when you go against the world, you will feel the pressure coming from the world.
The prophets of old were persecuted because of their god-centered lifestyle.
B. The patience of the Father on Display:
We see the patience of God on display.
In the parable, the Father kept sending one servant after another.
In the face of the persecution and death, He continued to send His servants to call on the tenants to honor Him.
This demonstrates the patience of God.
Peter writes in , “The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
In the context of 2 Peter, there were people who were mocking believers and asking when is the Lord coming?
And Peter was pointing out that the Day of the Lord hasn’t come yet because of God’s patience.
The Leadership Persecuted His Son (VV.
6-8).
Listen to Jesus in verse 6. “He still had another, a beloved Son.”
We are hearing the echo of , “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son or beloved Son...”
He sent His only Son, hoping that the tenants were going to respect His son.
There is no doubt that the Son in this story is Jesus.
The word recalls Abraham’s love for Isaac (Gen 22:2), Jacob’s love for Joseph (Gen 37:3), God’s love for Israel (Isa 5:1), and especially the Father’s love for “the beloved Son” at the baptism (1:11).
The reference to the “beloved son” (Gk.
huion agapēton) in the parable recalls only one other relationship in the Gospel, that of Jesus and the Father (1:11; 9:7).
In the story of the sending of the son Jesus is speaking of his own unprecedented role in the history of Israel.
This is no doubt that the Son in this story is Jesus.
The tenants consulted with one another and came up with a plan.
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