The crowd viewed this group as the
On one of the days while He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders confronted (ephistemi) Him… – Luke 20:1 (NASB)
Confronted: ephistemi – assault, used especially of persons coming upon one suddenly (OTESD)
Question: What is the Gospel?
Gospel: euaggelizo – Good news (Strong’s)
Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
– 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (NASB95)
(Jesus) “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts (the Holy Spirit – Luke 11:13) to those who ask him!” – Matthew 7:9-11 (NIV)
…have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” – Romans 8:15 (NASB)
(Jesus) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”
– Matthew 23:15 (NASB)
(vv.3-4)
The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” – John 1:29 (NASB)
(vv. 5-8)
A Principle: The of a previously given truth is a to further revelation
The Parable (vv.9-16) (Isaiah 5:1-4)
The vineyard is (v.9)
Servants are the Old Testament (vv.10-12)
They were stoned (), they were sawn in two () – Hebrews 11:37 (NASB)
Jesus is the Son (v.13)
Jesus gives His own (v.15)
Jesus tells how this story (v.16)
“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” – Luke 20:15-16 (NIV)
The builders were the (v.17)
Everyone will (v.18)
2 Options:
If I fall on Him, that is a
Either we fall on Him and we are broken (of pride and self-will [Guzik]) in the sense that we will be by Him for
Those who to come will be crushed by Christ in (Guzik)