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The Generous Master
The Generous Master
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Pastor Richard Yu
1/7/2018
Matthew 20:1~16
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"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.
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He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
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"About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
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He told them, `You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.
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'So they went. "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
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About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, `Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?
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"`'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, `You also go and work in my vineyard.
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"'When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, `Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.
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"'The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
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So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
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When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
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`These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, `and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.
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"'But he answered one of them, `Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?
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Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.
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Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?
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"'So the last will be first, and the first will be last."