Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hired Help - Part 4\n Matthew 20:11-14\n 02\/20\/2025\n\n\n 11 And on receiving [the denarius] they grumbled at\n the master of the house,\n 12 saying, ``These last worked only one hour, and you\n have made them equal to us who have borne the\n burden of the day and the scorching heat.''\n 13 But he replied to one of them, ``Friend, I am\n doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for\n a denarius?\n 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give\n to this last worker as I give to you.'' (ESV)\n\n The workday is over. The master of the house instructed his\n steward to pay those who were laboring in the vineyard. To the\n ones who worked an hour, the steward gave a full day's pay. To\n the ones who worked from dawn, the steward gave a full day's pay.\n\n And on receiving [the denarius] they grumbled at the\n master of the house, saying, ``These last worked only\n one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have\n borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.''\n But he replied to one of them, ``Friend, I am doing you\n no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?\n Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to\n this last worker as I give to you.''\n\n\n Even in the vineyard, the Church, there are people who take\n their eyes off of the Master to compare themselves with others.\n ``Why is he getting better treatment?'' We become jealous. ``I\n do more than he does.'' We become proud.\n\n God the Father sent His Son into the world to redeem each\n sinner as an individual. You and I are different, having been\n called to different vocations, having been called into God's\n vineyard at different times. You and I are treated as\n individuals by God, not as another face in the crowd. The Father\n loved you enough to send His Son to redeem you from sin and\n death.\n\n As we look at the Father, as we look at Jesus Christ, we see\n God's love in action. That you received the same gift of grace\n that I received reflects on God's mercy, not our twisted sense of\n right and wrong.\n\n May our Lord grant us faith to accept with thanksgiving and\n praise the gift of life given to us for the sake of Jesus Christ.\n Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 20, 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-2947","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\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}