{Here is a commentary from the Life Application Bible on our scripture reading for today} The characters in this story are easily identified. Even the religious leaders understood it. The owner of the vineyard is God; the vineyard is Israel: the tenant farmers are the religious leader,; the servants are the prophets and priests God sent to Israel; the son is the Messiah, Jesus; the others are the Gentiles, Jesus parable indirectly answered the religious leaders question about his authority. It is also showed them that he knew about their plan to kill him. Jesus showed the unbelieving leader that even their rejection of the Messiah had been prophesied in Scripture. Ignoring the cornerstone was dangerous. A person could be tripped or crushed (judged and punished) Jesus comments were veiled, but the religious leaders had no trouble interpreting them. They immediately wanted to arrest him.
(O) I love it! Jesus turns back and began to teach the crowd and he uses the perfect parable right after the chief priests, teacher of the law, and elders interrupts his teaching and proclamation with a question of where his authority comes from....so Jesus turns his focus back continues his assignment.......he tells the parable to the crowd with the on-lookers of those the parable refers to....those who wanted him killed, those who didn't want to recognize who he was and who wanted to question his authority will and has rejected him but what they will reject will the be the cornerstone. The Son of God that is the fullness of everything and the everything is hinged and supported by! Without Him, there is not a solid foundation. But what I love about this everyone who falls on this stone will become broken, surrendering themselves to him, but those that this stone will fall upon (the rejected, the doubtful, those who don't believe) will be crushed by him!
(A) David says in Psalms 118:21 - 23 "I shall give thanks to You, You have answered me, and You have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing: It is marvelous in our eyes...." I rejoice because I have surrendered my life to him. Everything I am is built of upon Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my life. He is my foundation, He is my stability, He is my support, and through trials and tests, there will be times where I will become broken, but my cornerstone will support me, and I will not be crushed but will be sustained and endure to the end!
(P) Heavenly Father, Chief Cornerstone, My Rock, My Buckler, My Shield, My Foundation......Lord Jesus, I thank you for saving a sinner like me. I thank you for allowing me to have a relationship with the Father. I confess those sins that I have committed wrongfully, known and unknown, and I ask for your forgiveness. Lord, thank you for my salvation. I thank you for helping me to see who you are and what you have come to bring me! You are my foundation, my cornerstone, and I pray that as I continue to seek your daily, break me Lord, so that I won't have the mind to depend on myself, but I surrender my spirit to you, that it may be broken and that I will decrease (my own desires) as your Spirit increases in me (what you have for me IN you!) In Jesus Name! Amen!
{Here is a commentary from the Life Application Bible on our scripture reading for today} The characters in this story are easily identified. Even the religious leaders understood it. The owner of the vineyard is God; the vineyard is Israel: the tenant farmers are the religious leader,; the servants are the prophets and priests God sent to Israel; the son is the Messiah, Jesus; the others are the Gentiles, Jesus parable indirectly answered the religious leaders question about his authority. It is also showed them that he knew about their plan to kill him. Jesus showed the unbelieving leader that even their rejection of the Messiah had been prophesied in Scripture. Ignoring the cornerstone was dangerous. A person could be tripped or crushed (judged and punished) Jesus comments were veiled, but the religious leaders had no trouble interpreting them. They immediately wanted to arrest him.
ReplyDelete(O) I love it! Jesus turns back and began to teach the crowd and he uses the perfect parable right after the chief priests, teacher of the law, and elders interrupts his teaching and proclamation with a question of where his authority comes from....so Jesus turns his focus back continues his assignment.......he tells the parable to the crowd with the on-lookers of those the parable refers to....those who wanted him killed, those who didn't want to recognize who he was and who wanted to question his authority will and has rejected him but what they will reject will the be the cornerstone. The Son of God that is the fullness of everything and the everything is hinged and supported by! Without Him, there is not a solid foundation. But what I love about this everyone who falls on this stone will become broken, surrendering themselves to him, but those that this stone will fall upon (the rejected, the doubtful, those who don't believe) will be crushed by him!
ReplyDelete(A) David says in Psalms 118:21 - 23 "I shall give thanks to You, You have answered me, and You have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing: It is marvelous in our eyes...." I rejoice because I have surrendered my life to him. Everything I am is built of upon Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my life. He is my foundation, He is my stability, He is my support, and through trials and tests, there will be times where I will become broken, but my cornerstone will support me, and I will not be crushed but will be sustained and endure to the end!
(P) Heavenly Father, Chief Cornerstone, My Rock, My Buckler, My Shield, My Foundation......Lord Jesus, I thank you for saving a sinner like me. I thank you for allowing me to have a relationship with the Father. I confess those sins that I have committed wrongfully, known and unknown, and I ask for your forgiveness. Lord, thank you for my salvation. I thank you for helping me to see who you are and what you have come to bring me! You are my foundation, my cornerstone, and I pray that as I continue to seek your daily, break me Lord, so that I won't have the mind to depend on myself, but I surrender my spirit to you, that it may be broken and that I will decrease (my own desires) as your Spirit increases in me (what you have for me IN you!) In Jesus Name! Amen!