Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hired Help - Part 3\n Matthew 20:8-10\n 02\/19\/2025\n\n\n 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard\n said to his foreman, ``Call the laborers and pay\n them their wages, beginning with the last, up to\n the first.''\n 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came,\n each of them received a denarius.\n 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they\n would receive more, but each of them also received\n a denarius. (ESV)\n\n The master of the house had hired workers to labor in his\n vineyard. Some were hired at dawn, some were hired near the end\n of the day. Now the work day is over, and it is time to settle\n accounts.\n\n And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said\n to his foreman, ``Call the laborers and pay them their\n wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'' And\n when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of\n them received a denarius. Now when those hired first\n came, they thought they would receive more, but each of\n them also received a denarius.\n\n\n This parable is not about the hiring practices of a\n vineyard. This parable is about the kingdom of heaven. Those\n who do not reject the call to labor in the vineyard, those who\n have faith in God's promises, those who trust in Jesus Christ as\n their Redeemer from sin and death, are equal in the kingdom.\n After all, you cannot have partial eternal life. Either you are\n in God's presence for eternity, or you are removed from His\n sight.\n\n Evening was the end of the age. Those who were hired at the\n eleventh hour did not earn the gift of God's rich grace and\n favor. Those who were hired at the third hour, or the sixth\n hour, or the ninth hour did not earn the gift of God's rich love.\n Even those who were hired at dawn received more than a just wage,\n they also did not deserve the denarius. All people have sinned\n and have fallen short of the glory of God. Those who have not\n rejected God's invitation, no matter when that invitation was\n given, receive the same. God's ways are not our ways.\n\n May our Lord grant that we hear His invitation, that we\n enter into the vineyard of His Church to receive His eternal\n blessings of life and the forgiveness of our sins. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 19, 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-2945","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\/2945","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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}