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Luke 20:16

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He will come and kill these farmers and let others have the vineyard.” When they heard the story, they said, “May this never happen!”

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At harvest-time, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect the fruit that belonged to him.

The chief priests and elders said to Jesus, “He will put to death those wicked men in the most awful way, and rent out the vineyard to other farmers who will be sure to give him his fruit at harvest-time.”

The king became furious. He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and burn down their town.

Now what is the owner of the vineyard going to do? He will come and kill those farmers, and then he will lease the vineyard to others.

And as for my enemies who didn't want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”

They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out strongly, saying “We had to speak the word of God to you first. But now that you're rejecting it—you're deciding that you're not worthy of eternal life—well now we're turning to the foreigners.

But then I ask, “Has God rejected his people?” Of course not! I'm an Israelite myself, from the tribe of Benjamin.

So am I saying that they stumbled and consequently failed completely? Not at all! But as a result of their mistakes, salvation came to other nations, to “make them jealous.”

Does that mean that by trusting in God we do away with the law? Of course not! In fact we affirm the importance of the law.

Of course not! Even if everyone else is proved to be lying, God always tells the truth. As Scripture says, “What you say will be proved right, and you will win your case when you are judged.”

Of course not! How else could God judge the world?

So then, should we sin because we're not under law, but under grace? Of course not!

Of course not! Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin?

Now would something that is good kill me? Of course not! But sin shows itself to be sin by using good to cause my death. So by means of the commandment, it's revealed how evil sin really is.

So what do we conclude? That the law is sin? Of course not! I wouldn't have known what sin was unless the law defined it. I wouldn't have realized that wanting to have other people's things for myself was wrong without the law that says, “Don't desire for yourself what belongs to someone else.”

So what should we conclude? That God was unjust? Certainly not!

Don't you know your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Should I take the parts of Christ's body and join them to a prostitute? Absolutely not!

For if, as we look to be made right in Christ, we ourselves prove to be sinners, does that then mean that Christ is in the service of sin? Of course not!

So does the law work against God's promises? Of course not! For if there was a law that could give life, then we could be made right by keeping it.

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through this cross, the world has been crucified to me, and I've been crucified as far as the world is concerned.




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