Matthew 20:1-16:
Jesus starts off by teaching them what the kingdom of God consist of. He tells us all about the owner who owns the land and house, who needed laborers to keep it up for him. The land owner had a vineyard he needed worked, which was in the starting hour for a penny a day. Through out the day 3rd hour to the eleventh hour he hired people for the same penny. When the time came to pay, some murmured about his being unfair, they should of got more from him because of the work they did. In their minds eye, he should not give us all the same wage. The land owner stated, “is your eye evil because mine is good?”
The Land owner said everyone that agreed to come and work in my vineyard agreed to a penny. “So the first shall be last, and the last first… ( referring to the return of Jesus, when those who are alive will be caught up with those in the grave).” The Land Owner’s kingdom rules are His, and He chooses, but it appears not all who are called get chosen. Paula
“For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.“


