The chief priests and the scribes demanded that Jesus tell them by what authority He did what He did. He also asked a question asking from did the baptism of John came from. They reasoned themselves and could not say it was from heaven because they didn't believe him nor from earth because they would be stoned to death and they answered that they didn't know. Jesus also never gave an answer.
The chief priests were the great preachers of the day and they got irritated because Jesus didn't get ordained by them or trained by any of them in their bible schools. He never consulted them yet they thought they were the most important people who everyone must consult. In their spiritual pride, they were blind to the fact that God was with Jesus yet the common people knew it.
Jesus exposed their hypocrisy by asking them a question which they couldn't be honest enough to answer because either way they could get themselves into trouble. They never got Jesus to submit Himself to them.
He gave a parable owner who rented His vineyard to stewards but when the harvest time came sent his servants to collect the fruit but the were mistreated and beaten and sent away empty. He finally sent his son who they killed so that they may seize his inheritance. The owner will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
We learn here that we are tenants or stewards of the resources and gifts and talents and abilities and ministries that God has given us. God expects fruit from our lives and He will always come to look for fruit. When we don't produce fruit in our lives, he still gives more time to repent. He does not immediately come and judge our fruitlessness but He will not always wait. When the grace period comes, He will come to us in judgment and destroy us all take away the ministry He gave us and give it to someone else who will produce fruit.
We cannot relax in the assignment God has given us. We must always be producing fruit. You cannot boast on how long you have bore fruit. If a branch which was bearing fruit for 50years stop bearing fruit, it will be cut off and thrown in the fire. No one will remember that it bore fruit for 50years. In the same way, you have to bear fruit until the end. It's easy to start well but it's difficult to finish the race well. Don't get sidetracked along the way and you start congratulating yourself on how much you have accomplished; concentrate on how much you are yet to accomplish.
When Joshua has old and stricken in years, God told Him that there is still much ground to be possessed. Josh 13:1. There are still more giants to be killed.
This is a picture of a believer who has been faithful to God from a young age and is now a grand-parent. The word old people who have been faithful to God from a very tender age is that there is still much ground to be possessed; there are still more giants to be overcome. There is still more of heavenly riches to be experienced before going to the other world. There are more glory of Christ they haven't seen. There is still more than God wants to accomplish through them than God has been able so far to accomplish. If that word if for the elderly who have been faithful to God from childhood, what about you and me?
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