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What Does the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard Teach about God’s Mercy? #670 · Scripture Central

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  And about the eleventh hour. He went out and found others
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  standing idle and saith unto them.
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  Why stand ye here, all the day idle go.
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  Ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever, is right that shall
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  ye receive a-listers? This is Nick from scripture
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  Central. And today's podcast addresses,
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  the question, what does the parable of the laborers in the
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  vineyard? Teach about God's mercy Well, on
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  his way to Jerusalem for the last time, Jesus taught very
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  demanding and exalting doctrines relating to marriage in
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  consecration Jesus. Then answered concerns related
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  to those doctrines that some of his disciples had regarding
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  salvation and who would be the greatest in heaven?
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  Jesus tenderly. Crafted his Corrections through
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  a parable about day. Laborers.
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  Hired to work in a Vineyard through this Parable, Jesus
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  demonstrates. How all who enter the Covenant
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  path and endure to the end. End in following him will be
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  blessed with exaltation and eternal life.
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  As the Lord has agreed in this. Parable God has cast as a
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  householder which went out early in the morning to hire labourers
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  into his Vineyard after making a covenant with some workers to
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  labor. In his Vineyard, the man
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  ultimately returns for other times to the marketplace at the
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  3rd, 6th 9th and 11th hours in order to hire other laborers.
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  Well as John and Jenni Welch observed, this Parable
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  accurately describes the hiring practices for day workers.
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  In New Testament times it is unusual in the sense that an
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  employer did not normally hire workers by the hour or for half
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  days hiring day workers later. The day shows how great and
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  Urgent to work, is that the householder needs to have done?
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  It is likely that the householder wants to maximize
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  the Harvest before the crop is too ripe or too late or the
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  weather. Turns bad.
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  Similarly, God is concerned for all his children and is
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  constantly at work to be sure that we all have the opportunity
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  to be gathered into his barn. This Parable further diverges
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  from standard expectations of a mortal mind set when all the
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  workers are paid at the end of the day beginning from the last
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  unto the first, the workers are all paid the same amount of
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  money at an area, which was the standard days wage that the time
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  no matter what time. They were hired and began work
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  in the vineyard. This seeming unfairness LED,
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  some of the workers hired earlier in the Arid.
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  This seeming unfairness LED some of the workers hired earlier in
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  the day to complain at the householders generosity and when
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  they had received their pay, they murmured against the good
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  man of the house saying these last have wrought or labored,
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  but one hour and thou Hast made them equal unto us which have
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  borne the burden and heat of the day.
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  Such comments throughout the householders.
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  Gentle rebuke friend, I do thee, no wrong didst not thou agree
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  with me for a penny a Denarius take that thine is and go thy
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  way. I will give unto this last even
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  as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do
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  what I will with mine? Own is thine eye evil because I
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  am good. Well, Jesus does not say what
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  the reaction of the laborers was following this correction this
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  Parable forces us as Disciples of Iced to re-evaluate our
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  expectations regarding the nature of the blessings.
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  God offers and gives to all his children.
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  While in a mortal economy, it would make sense to expect, more
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  pay for more hours of work. Such is not the order of Heaven,
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  those who enter the Covenant path, at the start of the day
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  and work with the Lord will be just as blessed as those who
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  enter the Covenant path at Twilight heads.
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  Not only will the last be first, and the first last But the first
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  will be equal to the last and the last will be equal to the
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  first as Giada Jeanne Welsh of observed.
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  Because of the Lord's goodness, those who are hired at the
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  beginning of the day, should in no way.
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  Feel slighted, just as promised they have received their pay,
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  rather all can Rejoice together in the fact that the Lord is so
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  merciful that he would offer the same blessings to all people who
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  have come and labored for him. Some who have studied this
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  Parable. See this as referring
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  allegorically to the Gentiles who will readily accept and
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  follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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  First While the Jews and the house of Israel will come last
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  because they will be slow to recognize him.
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  Well, that is a possible reading John and Jenni Welch, note that,
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  in this context, Jesus was more likely thinking of disciples who
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  had followed him from day one, as opposed to others would come
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  along in the second and third years of Jesus ministry.
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  Furthermore, it is also possible that this meaning could be
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  expanded to show that the disciples who joined at the
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  first hour, could be understood as the Lord's.
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  In the first dispensation with successive, dispensations of the
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  Gospel being brought to pass as the Lord visits again and calls
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  new profits in Doctrine and Covenants, section. 88 verses
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  51, through 61 the Lord describes how he works with his
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  disciples at the various hours of the day, when the Lord visits
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  each servant, they enjoyed the light of the countenance of
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  their Lord. In this scenario, those who work
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  with the Lord, in the first hour could possibly represent Eden
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  and the Dispensation of Adam the 11th Hour as evidenced in
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  Doctrine and Covenants section 33, verse 3 would be the latter
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  days Preparatory to the 12th hour and second coming of the
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  Lord ultimately this. Parable demonstrates, God's love
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  Justice. And mercy towards his children,
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  he loves all his children and desires that they will come to
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  him and he is continually at work in his Vineyard calling
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  others to join him in his work, especially as any time is
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  running out and the needs and opportunities.
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  These for Success are growing more critical this Parable.
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  Likewise demonstrates that God is a god of covenants.
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  As such he will always honor his promises.
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  He will just lie reward. All who have covenanted with him
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  and have worked to keep their covenants In Deed.
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  Covenants are Central to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and all
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  people are invited to make these sacred covenants as they
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  participate in ordinances of the gospel, and fulfill the will of
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  the father Just as the laborers in this, Parable joined at
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  various times of the day and each was generously given the
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  same reward people over. The centuries who joined the
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  Covenant path at various times. Will be equally rewarded indeed.
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  The Lord knows that those who were hired in the late afternoon
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  had spent the entire day waiting patiently in the marketplace.
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  Hoping that someone would give them the opportunity.
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  They longed for to join the Lord and to thrust in their sickles
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  with all their might mercifully heavenly.
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  Father is most interested in what we become in this life as
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  we progress along the Covenant path of the Plan of Salvation
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  that leads to life eternal, how fast?
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  How soon, how proficiently we move?
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  Is not the issue. God, cares, much less about
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  where we stand then, where we are headed and light of all
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  that. This Parable teaches us about
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  the Lord. Elder Jeffrey.
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  Are Holland. Explained this Parable like all
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  Parables is not really about laborers or wages.
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  Any more than the others are about sheep.
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  And goats this is a story about God's goodness his patience and
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  forgiveness and the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It is a story about generosity and compassion.
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  It is a story about Grace, it underscores.
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  The thought I heard many years ago.
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  That surely the thing God enjoys most about being.
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  God is the thrill of being merciful especially to those who
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  don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.
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