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    1 Parable of The Laborers in The Vineyard, Retrieved On September 21, 2016 From 2 Ibid

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    This document summarizes and analyzes the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard from the Gospel of Matthew. The parable tells the story of a landowner who hires several groups of workers throughout the day to work in his vineyard, promising each group the usual daily wage. At the end of the day, he pays all the workers the same wage regardless of how long they worked. The document explains that this shows God's justice through mercy - that God's grace and reward of eternal life are given equally to all believers, not based on their works or how long they believed. The student draws a parallel to their own father who rewards his children equally despite differing levels of work or achievement.

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    This document summarizes and analyzes the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard from the Gospel of Matthew. The parable tells the story of a landowner who hires several groups of workers throughout the day to work in his vineyard, promising each group the usual daily wage. At the end of the day, he pays all the workers the same wage regardless of how long they worked. The document explains that this shows God's justice through mercy - that God's grace and reward of eternal life are given equally to all believers, not based on their works or how long they believed. The student draws a parallel to their own father who rewards his children equally despite differing levels of work or achievement.

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    This document summarizes and analyzes the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard from the Gospel of Matthew. The parable tells the story of a landowner who hires several groups of workers throughout the day to work in his vineyard, promising each group the usual daily wage. At the end of the day, he pays all the workers the same wage regardless of how long they worked. The document explains that this shows God's justice through mercy - that God's grace and reward of eternal life are given equally to all believers, not based on their works or how long they believed. The student draws a parallel to their own father who rewards his children equally despite differing levels of work or achievement.

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    Tulod, Byron Jon

    Seminar 3

    2016400264, 2-E, Th, 7:30 8:30

    September 22, 2016


    Laborers in the Vineyard

    This particular Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard is found in the gospel of Matthew
    20:1-16. It is basically about the communication of Gods justice through his act of mercy as
    particularly shown in the passage when workers were paid equally regardless of how long each
    worker worked. I have specifically chosen this parable because I can take some very important
    principles from this parable and apply to them to my personal life, especially with my family.
    For a brief story of this parable, in first-century Israel, planting, maintaining and
    harvesting vineyards was strenuous work requiring hard physical labor in the heat of summer.
    Often, additional laborers were required to get all the work done. The owner of this particular
    vineyard went to the marketplace at the first hour of the morning to find workers for the day. His
    offered wage of one denarius, a Romans soldiers pay for a day, was generous indeed. The
    workers in the first group were more than happy to work for the generous wage.1
    As the day progressed and more workers were hired, the specific wage was not
    mentioned, but the landowner promised to pay whatever is right. Apparently, the workers were
    sufficiently confident of the landowners character that they trusted him at his word. Altogether,
    four groups of workers were hired, the last group just one hour before the end of the day. When
    the time came for the wages to be paid, the first group of workers saw the last group being paid a
    denarius and were naturally thinking they would be paid more since they had worked the longest.
    Their anger against the landowner spilled forth when they saw they would all be paid the same,
    even though they got exactly what they had agreed upon when they were hired. The landowner
    was forced to defend his actions to the first group, even though he had dealt them in perfect
    fairness according to the contract.2

    1 Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, retrieved on September 21, 2016 from
    https://www.gotquestions.org/parable-laborers-vineyard.html
    2 Ibid

    This is where the act of mercy of God comes into play. For some, the act of landowner in
    paying for the labor of the workers might perhaps be viewed as an injustice. However, it really is
    an act of mercy by God, the landowner in this case, whose grace and mercy are spread
    abundantly upon everyone. That is, His grace and mercy is not given only to those who more
    deserve to receive it or those people who work the longest, but also to those who believe. In
    other words, no matter how long or how hard a believer works during his lifetime, the reward of
    eternal life will be the same given to allan eternity of bliss in heaven in the presence of God
    the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 This has brought me to the realization that this particular
    parable is applied in my family because my father, who of course the God of the family, would
    always give his children rewards equally despite some do not work as much as the other
    members of the family. By work, at least for my father, it means pursuing dreams and achieving
    things that are capable of supporting us in building our bright future. And so, I would say that I
    find this parable interesting and remarkable because, not only does it produce notable lesson to
    strengthen my faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, but it has also moved me to further strengthen my
    faith and love for my father.

    3 Ibid

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