Involved with God

Over this coming time, during August, we are going to be looking at different parables. Everything revolves around Jesus Christ and the work of God, and what He is doing in His church, in His time. All of us are involved in what He is doing, because of His work within us. That doesn’t mean that we have to go abroad, or have to be someone special in some way; we are all one hundred percent involved in the work of God.

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Including Andrew Love's testimony of his family's mission trip to Africa

This parable refers fundamentally to the character of God. Let’s zero in on what you here are involved in now and what God is doing for you.

Matthew 20:1-4

A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. The householder here is God. It is God who got up early in the morning to hire labourers. He then agreed a penny for their work.

Matthew 20:4-16

Each one of us here is a partaker of God’s grace. There is no one here who can say that because they have been a Christian for a long time they deserve more of a blessing than a younger Christian. I want to emphasize that God found you and it is by His grace that you are here at all. What God is doing in our midst is stirring each one of us to evaluate what we now need to prioritise in order for our lives to in line with His will. The perspective of all this is that God is a good God and He draws us by His love. There is no one here who could look God in the face and say: ‘you never told me’. It’s His love that has, and is finding, you. What we need to do is to focus on Jesus Christ and lift Him up. Are we selfish in our life? Or is our attitude toward the life God has given us to find out and obey God’s will?