Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hired Help - Part 2\n Matthew 20:6-7\n 02\/18\/2025\n\n\n 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found\n others standing. And he said to them, ``Why do you\n stand here idle all day?''\n 7 They said to him, ``Because no one has hired us.''\n He said to them, ``You go into the vineyard too.''\n (ESV)\n\n The master of the house went out at dawn to hire laborers to\n work in his vineyard. After negotiating a fair wage with the\n laborers, the master sent them to work. Because there was much\n to accomplish, and little time to finish the work, the master\n went out multiple times during the day, each time finding more\n people to do the work needed.\n\n And about the eleventh hour he went out and found\n others standing. And he said to them, ``Why do you\n stand here idle all day?'' They said to him, ``Because\n no one has hired us.'' He said to them, ``You go into\n the vineyard too.''\n\n\n The laborers hired at dawn knew they would get a standard\n day's wage. Those hired later in the morning, those hired in the\n early afternoon, knew they would receive fair compensation.\n Finally, the laborers hired for one hour of work knew their day\n would not be a complete loss, but they would earn something.\n\n This parable is about the kingdom of heaven. God's ways are\n not our ways. What seems fair to you and I turns out to be\n opposed to God's rich love, grace, and mercy.\n\n The master, God the Father, calls people into His Church,\n into His presence, to bring the good news of salvation by grace\n through faith for the sake of Christ to all nations. The Church\n exists to pour out God's love, to give to people the gift of\n eternal life. It does not exist to give us the rules by which we\n earn God's favor, but rather to give us the forgiveness of our\n sins. The works done by those who are called into the Church are\n done in response to the gift they receive from God.\n\n May our Lord grant that we hear His call, receive His grace,\n and reflect His mercy. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 18, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}