SUNDAY SERVICE [5/10/26] - The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers

You have to reckon with the Jesus Christ who rose from the dead and places demands on those and expectations on those who call on his name. The same expectations that a farmer has when he plants seed in the ground, and he expects that there will be results. He either is or he isn't the cornerstone of your life. There's no middle ground. There's no gray area on that. I will not give my glory to another. [01:06:49] (35 seconds)  #ChristIsCornerstone

But let me put the question a little bit more pointedly, and perhaps I'm gonna touch a nerve. Have you ever felt rejected by God? That your prayers just hit a busy signal? That he hears everybody else but not you? He loves everybody else but you he just tolerates. If you have ever felt like that or you feel like that this morning, you're in good company, You're in bed with or you're in league with a gentleman by the name of Joseph Barsabbas. Yeah. We could say, and you'll forgive me for putting it this way, that Joseph Barsabbas in God's economy of things was always the bridesmaid, but he was never picked to be the the bride at all. [00:32:09] (51 seconds)  #RejectedButKnown

I would suggest to you that God knows what it feels like for the lot not to land on him. God knows a thing or two about rejection. As I noted earlier, Adam and Eve rejected God and his sovereign rulership. The nation of Israel rejected God as her groom. The Israelites rejected God as king. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ as messiah. Some in the early church, as I said, rejected sound doctrine. The shorthand, folks, is I think God knows what it feels like to be rejected and by those whom he loves. [00:35:25] (36 seconds)  #GodUnderstandsRejection

There's no way. Here again, this is another example granted by way of parable, but this is another example of men rejecting God. First, the Jews had rejected our God's prophets, then he reject they rejected our God's son, the ultimate prophet, according to the book of Deuteronomy, which is tantamount, by the way, to rejecting God himself. To reject Jesus Christ is to reject the one who sent him. It's a very important it's a very important truth that I think the Bible hammers repeatedly. If you do not have the son, you do not have his father. There's no gray area here gray area here. [00:56:20] (44 seconds)  #RejectChristRejectGod