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Luke 20 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word together. In Luke chapter 20, Jesus tells
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  the story of a man who planted a vineyard and rented it out to
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  vine growers. The way this relationship would
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  work is that these vine growers would farm the land, nurturing
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  and growing this vineyard that the man had planted and then we
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  get to keep a portion of the produce.
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  In exchange for their effort, they would give the rest of the
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  yield from the vineyard to the owner.
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  Well, when it was time for harvest, the field's owner sent
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  one of his slaves to go and collect his share of the
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  produce. Rather than give what was owed,
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  the vine growers beat the slave and sent him back empty handed
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  to the owner of the field. The owner of the field sent two
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  more slaves for the same purpose who were both beaten on arrival
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  and given none of the crop. Finally, the owner of the field
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  said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son.
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  Perhaps they will respect him. The vine growers, though, saw
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  this as an opportunity to fully lay claim to the field once and
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  for all. They agreed together.
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  This is the air. Let us kill him so that the
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  inheritance will be ours. That's exactly what they did.
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  Let's listen in to what Jesus said next to those listening to
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  him tell the story. He said.
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  What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
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  He will come and destroy these vine growers and will give the
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  vineyard to others. When they heard it, they said,
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  May it never be. But Jesus looked at them and
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  said, What then is this that is written?
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  The stone which the builders rejected?
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  This became the chief cornerstone.
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  Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but on
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  whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.
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  Ultimately, this parable is a word of judgment against the
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  Pharisees and against those like them who had rejected God's
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  prophets and ultimately rejected God himself in the person of
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  Christ, the owner of the field. God had sent his servants to an
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  obstinate people, and they had been rejected.
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  And now in Christ he was sending his own beloved son, this Son
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  who a few chapters later, though he was sinless, would be
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  executed. And for those who reject him,
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  for those who in doing so arrogantly take for granted
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  God's mercy and God's patience, it will not end well.
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  Judgment is coming for all those who would oppose God by
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  rejecting Christ. And here is the point of
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  decision for you and for me. Ultimately, what you do with
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  Jesus is all that matters, and there's no neutral ground.
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  Christ is the stone which the builders rejected, and He is the
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  chief cornerstone. In other words, He is the
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  foundation of the Kingdom of God, the rock on which the
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  people of God stand, and He is the stone which will crush all
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  of those who reject Him. Either we will receive God's
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  Son, either we will build our lives on this chief cornerstone,
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  or we will refuse him. Either we will recognize our sin
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  and our need of a Savior and repent, or we will face eternal
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  judgment at the hand of a holy God.
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  So how will you respond to Jesus?
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  Will you reject him and be crushed, broken and scattered
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  like dust? Or will you receive him in
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  repentance and faith and become part of that great building
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  God's church built upon Christ, the cornerstone?