WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.759 practical ways. Hey, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:14.160 This is a good day. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.120 We are having a great day. 6 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:17.879 He's Chris, I'm Jeff. 7 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:21.480 Yes, and we are the Bible Guys and so and 8 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.839 there's other Bible Guys that come on the show every 9 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:24.719 once in a while. 10 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.519 But we're the Bible Guys. O. The was the although, 11 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.679 although didn't we just talk about humility? Yeah, yeah, well 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:36.039 that was yesterday. We got that one done. We mastered it. 13 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:41.439 We mastered the humility thing. We're moving on. Well. Actually, 14 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:43.719 Wesley Woods when he was on, he said it was 15 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:47.000 the platinum edition. Platinum, platinum edition. Yeah, that's great. 16 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.479 So so, to his credit, he said you're diamond. 17 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:57.119 Oh yeah, exactly after he realized he overstepped it. So so, 18 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.759 so today is everybody's favorite segment. I don't know about that, 19 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.079 Oh it is. It is. We get so many card 20 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.319 and letter and email about it that people get so 21 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.079 excited about. What made meant? Actually, last week's really got 22 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:11.920 people going. 23 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:12.959 Oh because it was about driving. 24 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.000 Yeah yeah, yeah, the one that the one that aired 25 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.959 last week on Friday was about driving and you're just 26 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.280 mad about bad drivers. 27 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.359 Well it was the right of ways. Learn, learn your. 28 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.040 Traffic yeah yeah, right aways. 29 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.400 Yeah yeah, learn learn what yield sign means. 30 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.560 That's right. So uh uh and people were really with 31 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:30.439 you on that one. So this week, it's what made 32 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.760 Chris mad this week? Yes, And and I have to 33 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.159 tell our listeners they don't know this. Usually when we say, 34 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.439 oh hey, the next segment is what made Chris mad 35 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:41.640 this week? He goes, I know is that fast? You 36 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.560 don't have to think twice about it, you just know. 37 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:45.319 But this one you had to get up go for 38 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:45.719 a walk. 39 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:46.959 Well, I went to the restaurant. 40 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.159 Yeah yeah, yah, yeah, so I was being delicate no one. 41 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.159 And so so you took a few minutes to think 42 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:52.959 about this one. 43 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.239 Yes, yes I did. I did. Yes, Well, because here's 44 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.040 a confession. You know the reason why, because I had two. 45 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:04.000 So it wasn't like, oh, I know, it's like, oh 46 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:04.480 which one? 47 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.400 Yeah, yeah, it was which one? It was which one? 48 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.199 So I'll save the other one for next week. That's 49 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.039 fabulous because so this one I'm mad for the world. 50 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:14.840 Yes, thank you, Chris, because. 51 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.400 All of them are. I'm mad for the world. 52 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.479 Yes, okay, so you are mad vicariously for the rest 53 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:20.759 of us. 54 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.639 Yes. And by the way, I'm going to announce on 55 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.520 the front end of this that not everybody is going 56 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.120 to agree with me. 57 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.000 Oh wow, okay, because everybody can be controversial. 58 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.280 Yeah, well everybody can agree like, hey, yeah, if you're 59 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:34.680 going to drive, learn learn the rules of the road, right, yeah, 60 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.199 Like people get behind that, and it makes people frustrated. 61 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.479 But I have a strong feeling that what that my 62 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.960 opinion on this matter is going to be probably like 63 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.319 thirty percent of everybody's opinion, and seventy percent will be 64 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:48.840 like I'm not sure I agree with that, but yet 65 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:54.439 I still feel strongly enough to give my opinion so 66 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.199 that maybe perhaps people should consider what I'm saying. 67 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:02.080 Yes, okay, well, thank you, Chris, thank you talking about generous, magnanimous. 68 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.479 Yes, that's me. I'm so humble. So when I was 69 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.560 walking or I was driving, I was driving in my 70 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.400 car yesterday and it was a very hot day yesterday, right. 71 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.159 It was a very hot day for Michigan, for Michigan. 72 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.719 There was a guy walking on the side of the road. 73 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.800 Actually I think he was jogging, but he would come 74 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.439 up to an intersection. I think he I think maybe 75 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.319 you know, how like when you jog sometimes you're like, Okay, 76 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:28.199 I'm gonna walk for this half a mile. I think 77 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.080 that was him because he had headphones in all this 78 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:31.879 kind of stuff. So I think he was a runner. 79 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.039 But but he but he was walking because he was 80 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:35.479 not fit. 81 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.800 Yes, okay, that makes sense, it makes sense. 82 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:43.000 But this guy did not look good. But he did 83 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.639 not have a shirt on. And to be quite honestly, 84 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:51.240 he was assaulting all the people at the intersection and 85 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.560 subjecting us to look at his torso. 86 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.840 And you didn't have to. There's no choice the missing it. 87 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.560 There's no missing it. And so I thought, and there's 88 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.199 just my thought to myself was this. I've seen runners 89 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.759 who run with their shirt off, and they have earned 90 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:14.080 the right to take their shirt off in public. In fact, 91 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.879 when they run by, I go, good for you, buddy, 92 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.120 good for you. You have earned the right. You are fine, 93 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:23.040 right this. 94 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.000 Guy, guy was in the process of earning the right. 95 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.199 No, I would, I would argue and say he is. 96 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:30.839 He's a far way away. 97 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:32.279 From he's beginning. 98 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.000 Your intention does not equal have not yet earned, You 99 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.399 have not yet earned. Okay, you're on your way to earning. Yes, 100 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.600 but you have not earned the right to take your 101 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.439 shirt off and assault everybody. I see, right, So it 102 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:49.639 is offensive to be honest, I'm just thinking, I'm like, 103 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.000 why would you why would you subject everybody to that? 104 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:53.040 Why would you? 105 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:57.000 Like, like, there's not a listen, this is he's feeling 106 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:57.839 good about himself. 107 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.639 This is where I think people are going to disagree 108 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.759 with me, because people are like, hey, man, leave the 109 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.319 guy alone. Poor guy. He's out there, he's trying to 110 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.120 do what's right. He's probably running. I don't I don't 111 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.720 know if he was running. I'm assuming he was running. 112 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.839 Uh you know, so if the guy was hot, let 113 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.480 him take his shirt off. I disagree. I say plan better. 114 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.639 I'm like, go out and get a shirt that, like 115 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:22.759 you know, is breatheable, and stops subjecting subjecting people to that, 116 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.519 because that was because there isn't a person that and 117 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:28.639 I don't mean to be rude, but there isn't a 118 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.839 person that probably looked over and probably didn't go ooh right. 119 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.800 And I'm just like, hey, you have a responsibility for your. 120 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.240 Own body, okay, And and and it's like. 121 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.959 Hey, if you have worked really hard, you have earned 122 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.199 the right to be shirtless. Other than that, wait until 123 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:43.800 you've earned the right. 124 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.040 Okay, well all right now, thank you, Chris. Now let 125 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:48.199 me just ask being. 126 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.959 Let me ask you personally. Do you agree with that 127 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.720 in general or are you under the like. 128 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.000 Oh, I'm gonna go one step further. I don't really 129 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.959 see the need to take off your shirt to go running. 130 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.360 Oh yeah, yeah there there. There was a dude a 131 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.360 couple of days ago was jogging as we were driving, 132 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:11.040 and he looked like a statue, like a Greek god 133 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.920 like he was amazing. Yeah, oh yeah, like two percent 134 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.959 body fat kind of guy. His muscles had muscles. He's 135 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:18.680 just running, yeah, listening. 136 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:19.120 Yeah. 137 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:22.240 And I looked at that and went peacock. 138 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.879 Oh yeah, so the opposite kidse. 139 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.000 Y, Yeah, yeah, it was the other way because it 140 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.160 wasn't that hot, like four days ago, it was like 141 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.600 seventy r anyone. He didn't take a shirt out. He 142 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.720 just did. I just I don't know, I don't see that. Sure, yeah, 143 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:38.920 you're hot anyways. The reality is keeping a shirt on 144 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.519 and sweating into your shirt. It's going to keep you 145 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.720 cooler than letting it all evaporate. Right, It's true. It's true. 146 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.360 So it's just showing off. It's just showing off. Yeah, 147 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:51.120 so you have to I don't see the need. 148 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:52.240 I don't have to be medium. 149 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:53.879 I don't see the need to take off your shirt 150 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.680 to mow the lawn. I don't know. I don't see 151 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.000 the need to go to go running with your clothes 152 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.720 off to see that. I don't on either side, because 153 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:03.319 you know what it is. 154 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.839 It is it is a public forum. You're out in 155 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.639 the public. If you're on a sidewalk on a busy intersection, 156 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.279 you are in public, right, And so it's like, so 157 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.839 do public things, right, when you're in private, do private things? 158 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:21.480 Yeah. I have a high sense of modesty anyways. Right, 159 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:23.560 So in the in the days I was super fit 160 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.160 or in the current days, both ways, I still took 161 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.319 the same same tact, and that was, Hey, this is mine, 162 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.240 not everybody else's, and I don't need to put it 163 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:33.040 in everybody's face. 164 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.399 Yeah yeah, yeah, Well that's there's something that you said 165 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:39.279 for that too, right, Yeah, yeah, so there it is 166 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:39.560 for me. 167 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.920 Well, thank you Chris for being our rate for all 168 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:42.480 the rest of us. 169 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.279 Yeah. And if you're a person who, by the way, 170 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.240 just loves to do what that guy was doing the 171 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:51.079 other day. Just reconsider, that's all unless you that's all 172 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.639 I'm asking you. Just reconsider. You'll eventually get their pal. 173 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:56.600 Yeah right, just just not yet. 174 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.480 Or maybe that's not the goal of your should be 175 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.040 the goal of your life, which running without your. 176 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.959 Shirt, which is which is your contribution? Right? 177 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:10.680 Your contribution is just why? 178 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:11.199 Why? 179 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:12.639 Why? 180 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:14.439 That's great? Okay, we need to move on? 181 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.199 Yes, so hey, by the way. 182 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.759 Speaking of moving on and working hard and working hard? 183 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.160 Oh wait, no, those are two different things. I was 184 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.360 gonna say, speaking of moving on, Jesus is telling people 185 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.040 to move on in this story. He's well, he's telling 186 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.840 people to move on to the next group of people 187 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:34.279 and the next group of people in the next. 188 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:34.600 Group of people. 189 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:36.879 Oh okay, and so that's that's what we're gonna be 190 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.919 reading today. It really was. 191 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.159 Okay, that's the goal. That's the goal. 192 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.360 I made it up. I started it. Have you ever 193 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.279 seen Michael Scott in the office where he says, sometimes 194 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.679 I form a sentence and I don't know where it's going. 195 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:52.639 Until I let you get there, get there? Okay. Well, 196 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.480 we were in Matthew chapter twenty, and we're gonna read 197 00:08:55.519 --> 00:09:00.000 one through sixteen and this has always been a channel 198 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.320 lenging parable I think for people. 199 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.440 Yeah, I believe so, yep. 200 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:08.519 And so he says, Jesus says, for the Kingdom of 201 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.039 Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one 202 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.759 morning to hire workers for his vineyard, and he graded 203 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.080 to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out 204 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.080 to work. And at nine o'clock in the morning, he 205 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.759 was passing through the marketplace saw some people standing around 206 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.159 doing nothing, so he hired them, telling them he would 207 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.080 pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. 208 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.679 So they went to work in the vineyard. And at noon, 209 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:29.799 and again at three o'clock he did the same thing. 210 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.679 At five o'clock that afternoon, he was in town again 211 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.840 and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, 212 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:36.840 why haven't you been working today, and they replied because 213 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.120 no one hired us. A landowner told them to go 214 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.039 out and join the others on my vineyard. That evening, 215 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:44.000 he told the foreman to call the workers in and 216 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.639 pay them, beginning with the last workers first. When those 217 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.120 hired at five o'clock were paid, each received a full 218 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:53.200 day's wage. When those hired first came to get their pay, 219 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.639 they assumed they would receive more, but they too were 220 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.840 paid a day's wage. When they received their pay, they 221 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:02.000 protested to the owner. Those people worked only in one hour, 222 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:03.559 and yet you've paid them just as much as you 223 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.559 paid us, who worked all day in the scorching heat. 224 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.720 He answered one of them, friend, I haven't been unfair. 225 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.000 Didn't you agree to work for all day for the 226 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.039 usual wage? Take your money and go. I wanted to 227 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.080 pay this last worker the same as you. Is it 228 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:17.559 against the law for me to do what I want 229 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.159 with my money? Should you be jealous because I'm kind 230 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.039 to others. So those who are last now will be 231 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:27.159 first then, and those who will be first will be last? Wow? 232 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:28.000 There you go. 233 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:34.279 Yeah, So, so I love how God doesn't pretend to 234 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:38.080 be fair, right right? So my saying is God is 235 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.759 incredibly unfair in our favor? 236 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:41.960 Yeah, or to our favor? 237 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.879 Which is grammatically correct? Is it both? I think it's both. 238 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.919 He's radically unfair to our favor. 239 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:47.480 Is it too? 240 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:51.279 Or in two it's two to our favor in our favor? 241 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:51.639 It's both. 242 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.559 It's both, Yeah, I think it's both. So bottom line 243 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.600 is is I. 244 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.679 Love unless you were the first own the first worker? 245 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.399 What do you mean you're just assuming that you're the 246 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.559 one that got got in at the five o'clock hour. 247 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:05.480 What if you were the first one? 248 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:08.480 Oh no, what I'm saying. What I'm saying is God 249 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.320 is fair to the first person. But what I'm saying is, like. 250 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.440 You said, he's radically unfair to our favor. He was 251 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:15.600 just fair to the first ones. 252 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:20.600 Yeah, well, well it is. He's unfair, meaning fairness is 253 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:25.320 not a value that God necessarily. 254 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.279 Well, there's a famous preachrier that tells his kids fairness 255 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:30.159 ended at the garden. 256 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.519 Yes, yes, Well, the last thing that I think that 257 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.240 we want is for God to be fair, because if 258 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.240 you got what you deserved, you would not be happy. 259 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:40.039 That's right, right. 260 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:44.759 So God gives us mercy and grace. Mercy is mercy 261 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:48.320 spares us, which means God's not giving us what we deserve. 262 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:53.039 But grace is actually favor, right, which means that God's 263 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.399 giving us what we don't deserve. Right. So God's not 264 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.159 giving us what we deserve, and He's giving us what 265 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.840 we don't deserve, mercy and grace. And so the last 266 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.080 thing we want is for God to be fair. And 267 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.320 so that's why I say he's unfair. He wasn't unfair 268 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:08.399 to the guy who worked all day, but he was 269 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.759 incredibly unfair to the favor of the guy who only 270 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.960 worked one hour. Right, So fairness is not something that 271 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.519 God holds across the board, and so you know, God 272 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.039 is just right, but fairness across the board. Hey, that's 273 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.759 fair compared to the other guy. Because that's what fairness is, 274 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.919 isn't it. Fairness is supposed to be what people deserve 275 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:32.679 compared to other people, because that's how it's measured. And 276 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.639 so I think that in the end, I love how, 277 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:39.600 you know, the Bible goes out of its way. Jesus 278 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.799 actually goes out of its way to tell a story, 279 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:47.320 and he actually gives very, very very specific detail. He 280 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:52.159 creates such a dramatic story that everybody's falling along. He says, 281 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:53.639 you know, in the first hour, which would have been 282 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.399 six am, right, he hires somebody and you know, at 283 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:57.080 the beginning of the. 284 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:58.720 Morning, and then he goes, weal can buy home depot. 285 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.080 There's a bunch of guys out there waiting for Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 286 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:02.120 I'll pay you a day's wage. 287 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.440 Yeah that's right, that's right. And he says, I'll give 288 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.960 you in the day's wage that he chose to choose 289 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:12.080 as a denarius, which was a fair day's wage as 290 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.480 given by Moses and Deuteronomy. But it's also the same 291 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.639 wage that the Roman soldiers would have paid somebody for 292 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.960 a day's wage. So denarius was a very fair wage. 293 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.720 So he even uses you know, it would be equivalent 294 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.600 for us to say, you know, at the end of 295 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.639 the day, I'm going to give you x amount of dollars, right, 296 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.159 you know, I'm going to give you fifteen bucks an 297 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.600 hour or twenty bucks an hour times eight hours, right, whatever. 298 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:36.639 So that's what Jesus was doing here. 299 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.279 Yes, so he didn't pay him by the hour, correct, 300 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:40.960 he paid another day, right, he paid him by the day. 301 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.279 That's right, because that's a very important distinction, that's right. Otherwise, 302 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.759 the guys who worked one hour and the guy who 303 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:48.919 worked ten hours. The guy who worked ten hours had 304 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.360 a fair argument. But it wasn't an hourly agreement. It 305 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:53.960 was just at the beginning, if you work for me today, 306 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.440 I'll give you a thousand bucks. Okay, great, that's right, 307 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:56.960 that's right. 308 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.720 I was trying to process math in my mind. 309 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.039 Yea yea yeah, yeah, what's the whatever I'll give you 310 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.039 two hundred dollars if you work for me today. Okay, great. 311 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:04.559 Then the next guy he comes back and goes, I'll 312 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:05.639 give you two hundred dollars if you work. 313 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.399 Well, no, he didn't say say how much. He just said, 314 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.399 I'll give you what's fair, give you what's fair, what's right. 315 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.039 And so and by the way, that's also another good point. 316 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.919 Jesus tells the story masterfully because he starts off with 317 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.240 the denarius, and then then it goes a few hours later, 318 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.080 a few hours later, a few hours later, and then 319 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.639 finally it's one hour left. Right, So we're talking five pm? 320 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.639 Is what is what he grabbed the last guy to 321 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.159 work an hour or the last group of people. So 322 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.879 so Jesus masterfully says, and I'll give you what's right. 323 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:34.559 I'll give you what's right. I'll give you it's right. 324 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.000 One hour left, I'll give you what's right. So everybody 325 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.000 listening is saying, oh, well, what's right is uh? You know, 326 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.039 one out one twelfth of what the first guy has 327 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.080 made right, that's what people are thinking. 328 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:45.360 Yes. 329 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.399 And then at the end and then and then I 330 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.279 love how he starts with the last guy first. Right, 331 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.960 So the guy's only work. 332 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.440 One hour gets the full It is a big twist. 333 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.840 What yes, And I just love it because and then you. 334 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.480 Start doing the math, going, oh, the next guy is 335 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.120 gonna getting paid is going to get paid a fortune 336 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:03.120 right over time. 337 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:08.200 And and by the way, this is a parable that 338 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.559 starts off by him saying the kingdom of Heaven is like, 339 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:16.600 which means this is how God treats people spiritually the 340 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.759 way that this vineyard would have treated them monetarily and physically. 341 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.000 So I think that what he's saying is is he 342 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.879 saying the same thing that Jesus demonstrated later on to 343 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:30.720 the criminal lacross. So he says, God, remember me and 344 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:32.799 your kingdom. The criminal says, and he says, I tell 345 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.799 you the truth today, You're going to be with me 346 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.200 in paradise. So how does that guy get to go 347 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.559 to heaven when somebody who serves their entire life gets 348 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:42.840 to go to heaven. Both of them get heaven. And 349 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:43.519 so the guy who. 350 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:45.960 Sometimes people will be kind of frustrated with that. Right 351 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.720 when they start learning about they're saying, are you telling 352 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:54.320 me that if a murderer accepts Jesus right before they're executed, 353 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.320 that they're going to go to heaven. Right, that doesn't 354 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:59.879 seem right. How many times have you heard that phrase? Yes, well, 355 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.360 that's horrified by this idea. And that's the point Jesus 356 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.039 is making. So I think it's interesting. The amount that 357 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.200 was going to be paid to everybody had been predetermined already, 358 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.759 right right, This, this wealthy man, this businessman, this landowner 359 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:14.639 had already determined WWA, he's gonna pay everybody. He didn't 360 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.120 tell everybody, but he had already determined it. And and 361 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.320 so what he's highlighting here is the guy who comes 362 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.639 in one hour or the guy who works twelve hours, 363 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.759 you're gonna get paid what's fair. The guy who works 364 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.279 twelve hours, you're gonna get paid what is normal. The 365 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.799 guy who squeaks in at the end. I'm gonna just 366 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.639 be generous to you. And it's okay. It's okay that 367 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.720 I choose to be generous to you. Everybody's getting the same. 368 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.679 I'm going to treat everybody the same in that the 369 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.360 payment is predetermined, and I'm going to be good to you. 370 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.360 And then when the when the other guy complains, what 371 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.879 he's saying is for those of you who come from 372 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.519 a deeply religious background and your family has been deeply 373 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.080 religious for generations. You're going to get the same heaven 374 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.159 that the guy who came from a bunch of a 375 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.399 whole long line of pagans and lived a sinful life 376 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.399 and then at the end of his life comes to 377 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.079 faith in Christ. You're going to get the same. Right, 378 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.640 your pedigree, your experiences, all those things. When it comes 379 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.759 to God's grace, he gives to whom he wishes, as 380 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.759 he wishes, and there's not going to be able to 381 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.960 be any complaint. And so his defense of his own 382 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.359 behavior was, it's not against the law for me to 383 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.039 just be generous to whom I want to be generous. 384 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:25.519 I can do whatever I want to with my money. 385 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.440 And that's God establishing he's gotten. We're not right. 386 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:31.880 So do you want to know what I believe is 387 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.880 the most overlooked verse. 388 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:36.000 In this parable, which one? 389 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:41.279 It is verse number six where he says about the 390 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.440 eleventh hour, he went out and still and found still 391 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.680 others standing around, And then here it is he asked them, 392 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:50.400 why have you been standing around here? 393 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:50.559 All? 394 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:51.559 They doing nothing? 395 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:51.799 Oh? 396 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.440 Yeah, yeah, And then he says, because no one has 397 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:58.640 hired us, So there's a reason why Jesus included that 398 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:00.720 in the story. Yeah, because that's unificant as well. 399 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.079 There's a compassionate angle to this loap. 400 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.839 Well, they're they're the forgotten, they're the overlooked, they're the unreached, right, 401 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.039