FW: The Word for Today

主啊，赦免我论断人、论断灵恩派、论断现代赞美诗的罪过。我这样不正犯了雇工的罪过吗？以为自己先来，就比别人好。论断别人不对，其实就是标榜只有自己对，其实也就是在高举人本主义，潜意识里面在说："我肯定做了一些合乎主旨意的事情，才蒙恩典"。论断别人不对，其实也就是论断赐恩给别人的主。主啊，我不要做那忘恩的人。

 

主啊，不管是传统的，还是灵恩派的，都是罪人，却蒙了你的恩典。谢谢你。

 

【太20:1】  因为天国好像家主，清早去雇人，进他的葡萄园作工。

【太20:2】  和工人讲定一天一钱银子，就打发他们进葡萄园去。

【太20:3】  约在巳初出去，看见市上还有闲站的人。

【太20:4】  就对他们说，你们也进葡萄园去，所当给的，我必给你们。他们也进去了。

【太20:5】  约在午正和申初又出去，也是这样行。

【太20:6】  约在酉初出去，看见还有人站在那里。就问他们说，你们为什么整天在这里闲站呢？

【太20:7】  他们说，因为没有人雇我们。他说，你们也进葡萄园去。

【太20:8】  到了晚上，园主对管事的说，叫工人都来，给他们工钱，从后来的起，到先来的为止。

【太20:9】  约在酉初雇的人来了，各人得了一钱银子。

【太20:10】 及至那先雇的来了，他们以为必要多得。谁知也是各得一钱。

【太20:11】 他们得了，就埋怨家主说，

【太20:12】 我们整天劳苦受热，那后来的只做了一小时，你竟叫他们和我们一样吗？

【太20:13】 家主回答其中的一人说，朋友，我不亏负你。你与我讲定的，不是一钱银子吗？

【太20:14】 拿你的走吧。我给那后来的和给你一样，这是我愿意的。

【太20:15】 我的东西难道不可随我的意思用吗？因为我作好人，你就红了眼吗？

【太20:16】 这样，那在后的将要在前，在前的将要在后了。（有古卷在此有因为被召的人多，选上的人少）

 

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The Word for Today

11 TH HOUR REAPERS

By Rev. Bob Gass

I will give unto this last even as unto thee.
Matthew 20:14

It's going to take an 11th hour crew to reap the 11th hour harvest. The previous generation of reapers struggles to understand them.

Recently I spent two days listening to contemporary Christian music, including Christian Rock and Rap. The guitars wailed, the bass throbbed, the drums pounded, and they sounded like they were screaming the words. I got a headache. Later, when someone read them to me, the words were solidly scriptural and Christ-exalting. What does this mean? It means it's going to take a redeemed generation of their peers, who understand and speak their language, to gather this final harvest.

The 11th hour reapers grew up in a generation where guns go to school, and drugs are available on every corner. Half of them come from single parent families, and others sought for companionship and worth in a gang. Their mentors and heroes had blue cropped-off hair, multiple earrings, and wore leather. But the 11th hour reapers know how to gather in this harvest. So to us, who are part of another generation, let's withhold criticism and pray for a heart of love. God is visiting them, just like He did us. We have only to rejoice in the harvest and remember the promise, "I will give unto this last, even as unto thee." (Matthew 20:14)

Read Matthew 20 and think about it.

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