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Day: January 11, 2020

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Part 5

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Part 5

God’s Service is Its Own Reward Is not the service of God its own reward that we should be unduly concerned about how we are to be paid for it? or that we should spend any time comparing our wage with our brother’s, or grudge that he should have as much as or more than we? If we recall the greatest happiness we have ever known, the purest and deepest, do we not find that it came in connection with…

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The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Part 4

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Part 4

The Last-called Gentiles became First Compare with the Jews the case of the Gentiles. They were not even permitted to enter into the vineyard until the seventy weeks of special covenant favor which God had made with the Jews had expired. They stood idle in the market-place. If any should ask them why they remained unemployed so long they might truthfully reply: “Because no man hath hired us”, we were there in the market-place, at least a good many of…

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