The Parable Of The Wicked Tenants

“I wanted to tell you a story…”There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it to some tenants and went on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. He sent more servants-more than before. And they did the same to them.Last of all, he sent his son.

He said, “They will respect my son.”But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir! Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.”So they took him, threw him out of the vineyard-and killed him. Now-when the owner of the vineyard comes-what will he do to those tenants? They answered, “He will bring those wretches to a miserable end, and will rent the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

I said to them: “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”Therefore I tell you: The Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to people who will produce its fruit.

(This story is found in Matthew 21:33-44, Mark 12:1-11, and Luke 20:9-18.)

“Let Me explain what this story means…”The vineyard is the world.The landowner is the Father. The servants are the prophets-sent again and again to call people back. And the Son in this story… is Me. I came to My own-and was rejected. You can either receive the Son and bear fruit for the Kingdom…or reject Him-and face judgment. There are only two responses to the cornerstone:

You either build your life on Me…or stumble over Me.And what you choose will shape your eternity. “My parables matter because they reveal the Kingdom.”I didn’t speak these stories on My own.

In John 12:49-50, I said:”For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.”

This story came from the Father-to show that rejecting the Son is no small thing. And in Matthew 24:35, I said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.”
The Son was sent.The vineyard is still His.And the choice is still yours.