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Luke 20:16

New Century Version

He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.” When the people heard this story, they said, “Let this never happen!”

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When it was time for the grapes to be picked, he sent his servants to the farmers to get his share of the grapes.

The priests and leaders said, “He will surely kill those evil men. Then he will lease the vineyard to some other farmers who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

The king was furious and sent his army to kill the murderers and burn their city.

“So what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.

Now where are my enemies who didn’t want me to be king? Bring them here and kill them before me.’ ”

So the farmers threw the son out of the vineyard and killed him. “What will the owner of this vineyard do to them?

But Paul and Barnabas spoke very boldly, saying, “We must speak the message of God to you first. But you refuse to listen. You are judging yourselves not worthy of having eternal life! So we will now go to the people of other nations.

So I ask: Did God throw out his people? No! I myself am an Israelite from the family of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

So I ask: When the Jews fell, did that fall destroy them? No! But their failure brought salvation to those who are not Jews, in order to make the Jews jealous.

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

No! God will continue to be true even when every person is false. As the Scriptures say: “So you will be shown to be right when you speak, and you will win your case.”

No! If God could not punish us, he could not judge the world.

So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!

No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin?

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! Sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like; the command was used to show that sin is very evil.

You might think I am saying that sin and the law are the same thing. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin meant. I would never have known what it means to want to take something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “You must not want to take your neighbor’s things.”

So what should we say about this? Is God unfair? In no way.

Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute!

We Jews came to Christ, trying to be made right with God, and it became clear that we are sinners, too. Does this mean that Christ encourages sin? No!

Does this mean that the law is against God’s promises? Never! That would be true only if the law could make us right with God. But God did not give a law that can bring life.

I hope I will never brag about things like that. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for bragging. Through the cross of Jesus my world was crucified, and I died to the world.




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