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How Does the Parable of the Willing and Unwilling Sons Teach about Christ? #671 · Scripture Central

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  but what think he a certain man had two sons and he came to the
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  first and said, Son go work today in my Vineyard and he
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  answered and said, I will not but afterward, he repented and
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  went Hey, listeners. This is Nick from scripture
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  Central. And today's podcast addresses,
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  the question, how does the parable of the willing and
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  unwilling Sons teach about Christ?
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  The day after Jesus, cleanse the temple, their Chief priests and
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  Elders. Came to him and demanded to know
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  why he performed such an action asking by what Authority doest,
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  thou these things and who gave you this Authority in response.
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  Jesus posed a question, where John the Baptist received his
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  authority to baptize, which the priests and Elders, could not
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  answer, Jesus responded. Neither tell I you by what
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  Authority I do these things. Jesus done.
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  Offered numerous Parables beginning with the parable of
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  the willing and the unwilling sons while Jesus is moved to
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  teaching with parables. In this instance may seem out of
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  place John and Jenni Welch have observed that the parable of the
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  willing and unwilling Sons is quite pertinent to the context
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  while Jesus would not expand on his authority in any explicit
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  terms. He would answer both of their to
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  calculating questions. Only those who were spiritually
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  attuned with then be able to discern his answer.
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  Ultimately this Parable Embraces three elements of the Plan of
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  Salvation one that the plan was set forth by the father in the
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  premortal council in heaven to that Jesus was selected by the
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  father in the premortal council in heaven.
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  And three that the father had conferred Upon Jesus, the
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  all-important authority to act in the father's name according
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  to his will, this is especially evident when one examines the
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  underlying Greek text, when the father approaches his first son,
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  the King James version, records, the interaction thus, son go
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  work. Today in my Vineyard, he
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  answered and said, I will not but afterward, he repented and
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  went this translation is ambiguous partially because the
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  Greek itself is purposefully ambiguous and Modern English
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  readers. Might understand that the Sun
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  appears to be utterly refusing to go.
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  However, the Greek text does not imply, this rather it should be
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  translated more like it is not my will or my wish to go.
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  When understood in this context it becomes clearer how this
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  first son might typify Christ throughout his mortal Ministry.
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  Jesus often said that he came to do not his own will but rather
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  the will of the Father for I came down from heaven not to do
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  mine own will but the will of him that sent me even in
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  Gethsemane as Jesus suffered for the sins of the world.
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  His prayer was to reconcile. His will with the father's o my
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  father. If it be possible, let this cup
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  pass from me. nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt
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  Similarly, the first son in this Parable reconciled himself to
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  the will of his father and went to the vineyard John and Judy
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  Welch note that the King James rendering as repented is
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  unfortunate as the Greek employs a word with only a similar
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  meeting, but not the same meaning, understanding the sun
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  is reconciling his will with his father's allows us to understand
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  more deeply how Jesus suffered willingly for us.
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  The Second Son in this Parable, likewise desire to go into the
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  vineyard but for drastically different.
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  Reasons. Well, the King James version
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  says that this son enthusiastically States.
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  I go the Greek text simply reads.
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  I yet this son did not do the will of the Father John and
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  Jenni Welch note the similarities between this,
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  Parable with accounts of the premortal council.
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  In heaven found in Moses and Abraham.
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  And Moses 4:1, Lucifer is recorded as giving a very
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  similar response to the father. As the second son gives to his
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  Lucifer's response. Focuses inordinately on the man
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  himself seeking to draw the attention of those present
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  behold here. Am I send me?
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  I will be thy son and I will redeem all mankind.
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  That one Soul shall not be lost, and surely, I will do it.
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  Wherefore give me thine honor. Such a lofty response stands in
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  stark contrast to the answer of Jesus Christ.
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  Father thy will be done and the glory be thine forever.
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  Thus, this Parable offers a direct declaration that Jesus
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  Christ, is the first son who went to do the will of his
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  father as he agreed to do in the premortal council, such a
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  declaration would not have been lost on his audience.
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  Either John and Jenni Welch note that the chief priests knew
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  enough about Heavenly councils from their own Hebrew, prophetic
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  Traditions as well as from Jesus open statements at the temple
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  about coming to do the will of the father who had sent him that
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  they would well have Understood what Jesus was talking about.
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  Jesus Christ, is our perfect Exemplar from the very
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  beginning. He recognized the father's will
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  and sought to do all that was needed of him as we seek to
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  follow. Jesus example.
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  Then we can learn how we are to continually reconcile.
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  Our will with God's by repenting of our sins, and seeking the
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  presence of the Holy Ghost In Our Lives.
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  We can, similarly see, this Parable is an invitation to
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  follow Jesus example, as Jesus himself taught with the
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  publicans and harlots heard, John the Baptist, preached in
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  the wilderness they believed in his words and repented of their
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  sins. In other words, they reconciled
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  their will with the father's will allowing their desires to
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  be swallowed up in his. Because of this Christ assured
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  them, that they would have a place in the father's Kingdom
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  that promised blessing of peace and enjoyment of the father's
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  kingdom is similarly open to all who repent and follow Jesus
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  Christ. As his disciples it is never too
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  Too late, no matter where we are on life's path to leave our
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  worldly desires behind us and follow him as we do.
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  So we can have the same mentality that Jesus had.
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  And similarly promised, the Lord, father thy will be done
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  and the glory be thine forever. Thank you for listening to this
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