~~The Harvest Is Plenty But The Laborers Are Few~~
Mat 20:1 NIV - "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.
Mat 20:2 NIV - He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
Mat 20:3 NIV - "About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
Mat 20:4 NIV - He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'
Mat 20:5 NIV - So they went. "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
Mat 20:6 NIV - About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'
Mat 20:8 NIV - "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'
Mat 20:9 NIV - "The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
Mat 20:10 NIV - So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
Mat 20:11 NIV - When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
Mat 20:12 NIV - 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.'
Mat 20:13 NIV - "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?
Mat 20:14 NIV - Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.
Mat 20:15 NIV - Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
Mat 20:16 NIV - "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
The SMILE Creative Ministries Unlimted ~ Minister Charles Lee, Jr - SpA, CMPS
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