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September 17, 2025; Luke 20:1-19

September 17, 2025; Luke 20:1-19

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 Daily Dose of Hope September 17, 2025 Scripture - Luke 20:1-19 Prayer: Heavenly Father, Provider, Sustainer, Thank you for being the God who creates, cares, loves, and saves. All we have is from you. As we talk about today’s text, give us a fresh revelation; help us see your Word in a new way. Lord, thank you most of all for Jesus. Thank you for his sacrifice. Thank you for showing us a different way of doing life. Help us actually live the way you taught us. In Your Name, Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Bible reading plan at New Hope Church in Brandon, Florida. We are currently doing a deep dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we begin a deep dive into Luke 20. We start today’s text with the Pharisees asking Jesus by what authority he speaks and teaches. Keep in mind, this was right after Jesus cleanses the Temple and the Pharisees are a bit annoyed. In Jewish culture, authority was based on lineage and education. Jesus’ authority was divine and so these earthly leaders are feeling incredibly threatened. They are more concerned with losing their own power and authority than anything else at this point, or so it seems. I do love how Jesus so often answers a question with a question, as he does in this text. He asks the men where the authority of John of Baptist came from. They were in a bind and knew that whatever they answered, it would get them into trouble. So, because they said they didn’t know, Jesus told them he had no need to say from where his authority came from either. We move from there to the parable of the tenants. This is a hard parable with violence involved in every aspect of it. A landowner, presumably a man of means, builds a vineyard and gets it set up with all the right equipment. He has tenants plant the vines and run the farm for him, while he lives in another place. When the harvest comes, the absent landowner sends a slave to collect his portion of the harvest or profits. The slave is beaten up pretty badly by the tenant farmers and limps away. You would think the landowner might do something different next time but he doesn’t. He sends another slave. Actually, he sends a lot of different slaves to collect on his behalf. Some are badly beaten while others are actually killed. We get the impression this happens over many growing seasons. The landowner decides he has one option left, his beloved son. He feels assured that the tenants won’t hurt him. Did the son feel the same way? Not sure. But things don’t go so well. The tenants know this is the heir and they kill him too, throwing his body out to the wild animals. The question that Jesus asks is what will the landowner do? The answer is that he will come there himself, kill the tenants, and give the land to others (or possibly get new tenants.) What in the world is meant by all of this? There are several possible things to think about here and none of them are pleasant. First, throughout the Bible, the concept of the vineyard is associated with the people of Israel. With that as a backdrop, could it be that God is the stubborn landowner, the slaves are prophets, and the son is Jesus? That would make the tenant farmers the corrupt religious leaders. Second, there are aspects to the parable that the first-century hearers would get that aren’t necessarily evident to us. It wasn’t that unusual for the wealthy to obtain the land of those who were poor, possibly because of outstanding debts or because the impoverished are forced to sell land to feed their families. Life was hard. It also wasn’t that unusual for landlords to live elsewhere and demand a large percentage of the harvest from those who are performing the labor. The reaction of the parable will be different for different people, depending on where they fall on the social ladder in Israel. There are those who will identify with the slaves. There are those who will see the landowner as uncaring and reckless and possibly identify with the plight of the tenants. There are those who will identify with the landowner and his son. Every single reaction is unsettling. One thing I do want to mention is that people have used this parable over the years in an antisemitic way, stating that it was the Jews who killed the son and it is the Jews who should then be killed by the landowner. Jesus is not speaking of ethnicity or religion here, he is speaking about faithfulness. The big issue in the parable is not the identity of the players but rather the failure of the tenants to respond faithfully to their obligations. It’s no secret that Christians over the centuries have also treated the cornerstone with disrespect, irreverence, and indignation, while Jews can (and many have) responded faithfully to God’s revelation. What do you make of this parable? Why...
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