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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2856)	10/28/2000 12:04:29 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Hi Steve The ultimate deadbeat dad? No I don't think so. "Now listen to this story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country. At the time of the grape harvest he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop. But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same. "Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, 'Surely they will respect my son.' "But when the farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, 'Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let's kill him and get the estate for ourselves!' So they grabbed him, took him out of the vineyard, and murdered him. "When the owner of the vineyard returns,"...... "what do you think he will do to those farmers?" The.... leaders replied, "He will put the wicked men to a horrible death and lease the vineyard to others who will give him his share of the crop after each harvest." Since you didn't like my story I thought this one might better suit our subject. Notice it's the subjects of the story themselves who pronounce the judgement. What would you do under these or similar circumstances? While the immediate context clearly applies to the Jewish leaders of Jesus time, there is also a broader application to the soon return of Christ. Here is the rest of the story. Then Jesus asked them, "Didn't you ever read this in the Scriptures? 'The stone rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to see.' What I mean is that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit. Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls. When the leading priests and Pharisees heard Jesus, they realized he was pointing at them – that they were the farmers in his story. They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid to try because the crowds considered Jesus to be a prophet. Matt21:33 Good evening Greg