Our paragraph topic is: (The vine-dressers kill the master's son) Part 4.
They killed the master's son, the most precious gift of all. Greed had turned them into evil men. They sought to steal and kill to get what they wanted. They sought to lie and cheat to take what was not theirs. They sought to influence others to support their evil schemes to enrich themselves to reach their goals.
How often do we see these themes today. They are presented to us as normal and an accepted way of life, what one must do to get ahead. This is true especially in business. You have to be ruthless to get ahead. Destroy the competition. Slander their products. Take over their customers and you will win. And what did Jesus ask will happen to this type of person: They said to him, "He will utterly destroy those evil men."
Who are our idols? What do we look up to as our model in life? What do we desire more than anything else in this world? We want to be like the rich and the famous. We want to have money, and leisure, and yachts and penthouse condominiums and gold chains and diamond rings and fur coats and travel in our own jets. We want all that is shown to us each and every day in the media. They advertise to us. They project to us the way that we should live. They provide the model by which we dream. They are our motivation for all that we desire.
What must we do to get there? What must we forsake, what must we give up to get what we want? We must change. We must turn away from what was freely given us. We must become ruthless and focused on our target. We must not be distracted away by morals and ethics, those boundaries that hold us back from reaching our goals. What would you do given the chance, the opportunity to reach your goals?
How blinded are we? How deceived are we? How innocent are we to accept the vision that is given us on a daily basis. We are the children of the creator of the universe. We are created in his image and likeness. We are children of light and not of darkness. Yet the world would have us become dark, to turn away from ourselves, to give up that which was freely given through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.
He came to give us life. He came that we would know. He came to show us a way to find him in his kingdom. We are his children and he is our savior. It is he who purchased us with his blood. It is he who was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. It is he who seeks to help you find the way into the light and out of the darkness of this world. The shell will be broken but what comes forth will be in your hands. Will it be the child of God or the creation of darkness? The choice is yours and the opportunity is now.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
They killed the master's son, the most precious gift of all. Greed had turned them into evil men. They sought to steal and kill to get what they wanted. They sought to lie and cheat to take what was not theirs. They sought to influence others to support their evil schemes to enrich themselves to reach their goals.
How often do we see these themes today. They are presented to us as normal and an accepted way of life, what one must do to get ahead. This is true especially in business. You have to be ruthless to get ahead. Destroy the competition. Slander their products. Take over their customers and you will win. And what did Jesus ask will happen to this type of person: They said to him, "He will utterly destroy those evil men."
Who are our idols? What do we look up to as our model in life? What do we desire more than anything else in this world? We want to be like the rich and the famous. We want to have money, and leisure, and yachts and penthouse condominiums and gold chains and diamond rings and fur coats and travel in our own jets. We want all that is shown to us each and every day in the media. They advertise to us. They project to us the way that we should live. They provide the model by which we dream. They are our motivation for all that we desire.
What must we do to get there? What must we forsake, what must we give up to get what we want? We must change. We must turn away from what was freely given us. We must become ruthless and focused on our target. We must not be distracted away by morals and ethics, those boundaries that hold us back from reaching our goals. What would you do given the chance, the opportunity to reach your goals?
How blinded are we? How deceived are we? How innocent are we to accept the vision that is given us on a daily basis. We are the children of the creator of the universe. We are created in his image and likeness. We are children of light and not of darkness. Yet the world would have us become dark, to turn away from ourselves, to give up that which was freely given through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.
He came to give us life. He came that we would know. He came to show us a way to find him in his kingdom. We are his children and he is our savior. It is he who purchased us with his blood. It is he who was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. It is he who seeks to help you find the way into the light and out of the darkness of this world. The shell will be broken but what comes forth will be in your hands. Will it be the child of God or the creation of darkness? The choice is yours and the opportunity is now.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
