Kerwin Baptist Church Daily Broadcast

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville, North Carolina. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ.

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ.

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today.

Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today.

Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. I guess I'll never be honest with us about that. I loved him like I could never describe, but he didn't love me. He couldn't. He had no ability to.

And for the first time in your life, you love an object, a person that does not love you back. And that's exactly what you and I were. We didn't know how to love God.

We didn't have the ability. We didn't know him, but he loved us. He initiated that relationship with us. And we love him now because he loved us when we couldn't even love him back.

We didn't know him back. Who hired them? The owner came and found them. Number two, where were they hired? Well, verse three, the Bible uses this term and does later on the passage as well that the Bible says that this owner went out the third hour and saw others, he said, standing idle in the marketplace.

We didn't say that particular term, but we find out later that what it was called was the marketplace. And this is where all the people, individuals that were there, they were there to be hired by someone. And it literally means they didn't have work. They didn't have an owner. They didn't have a boss.

They didn't have somebody that had hired them or is going to pay them wages. And so they were there to be hired. And by the way, the soul of man, even right now, it literally stands in the marketplace waiting to be hired by somebody. And if you've never been saved, you don't know it right now, but you're in the marketplace and you're waiting to be hired by somebody.

Now get this. Do you know that that owner that day wasn't probably the only man that was hiring? Can I tell you something? While God is at the marketplace looking for you, just as this owner was looking for laborers, I guarantee you that Satan is just as busy hiring in the marketplace. And we have a generation of young people that don't realize it, but literally Satan is bidding on their lives. That's why the Bible says, choose you this day whom ye will serve. We're going to serve somebody and it's either going to be the Lord, it's going to be ourselves, it's going to be Satan. And dear friend, I want you to know that the owner isn't the only one there at the marketplace looking for laborers. And Satan is just as busy doing it right now. The Bible says whosoever will may come. God's hiring today.

Interesting. May I say this, that many refuse the Lord's offer. They choose to serve a different owner and they live to regret it. You see, we have young people, teenagers here, not just in this building, but in this country. They're deciding who they're going to serve. They're deciding who they're going to work for. They're trying to choose whose vineyard they're going to help grow.

And it's a scary decision. Number three, what were they hired to do? What were they hired to do?

Verse one, now put on your big boy britches, okay? Verse one, for the kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire what? Laborers. So, we're talking about the contract here.

We're talking about the agreement. What were they hired to do? They were hired to serve. They were hired to labor. They were hired laborers. Now, like I said, now put your seatbelt on.

Are you listening? They were not hired to run the vineyard. They were not hired to fix the vineyard. They were not hired to advise the owner on how to run the vineyard. They were not hired to tell the other laborers how to do their job. They were not hired to sit back and critique those who actually were working in the vineyard. They were not hired to sit and drink grape juice and enjoy the blessings of the vineyard while others were working in it. They were not hired to be the owner. They were hired to be the laborer.

They were hired to serve. Don't you think it's ironic that vineyard work is much like church work? Vineyard work and church work, it involves pruning and dressing and digging and watering and fencing and weeding and late nights and early mornings. And by the way, the vineyard is God. It's God's. He's the owner and we are called to labor and serve and dress up the vineyard for him. Not for us. I guess I'm going to get off that one.

I thought that was a better point than apparently it seems to be. Next part of the contract, what were the wages? What were the wages going to be?

Look at verse two. And when he had agreed with the labors for a penny a day, a denari, they call it, it was literally at that point what you would pay a normal rate for a day's work. So we see first that he says a penny. It was promised to those that he hired early. But what is interesting that beginning in verse seven and those that were hired at the third hour and the sixth hour and the ninth hour and the eleventh hour, look at verse seven, it says they say unto him, because no man hath hired us, he said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right that shall you receive. Now there's no dollar figure put on it. I mean, the ones that jumped right onto the truck and went to work early that morning, they agreed for a penny a day. But those that were hired labor later on, the owner just said, listen, what is right you'll receive. No particular number, just whatever is right.

Remember that. Last, I would ask you this, what was the time period that they were hired for? Look at verse two. And when he had agreed with the labors for a penny, a what?

A day. So a day was the period of time that they were chosen for. That's why literally the Bible says choose you this day whom you will serve. You see, the time of life is the day in which the Bible says we must work the works of him that sent us. Job chapter 14 has an interesting take.

I want you to see this. Job have some insight here. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee. Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, speaking of God. Look at verse six.

Turn from him that he may rest till he shall accomplish as an hireling his day. Our life is literally referred to as a day. In fact, the Bible says a day is as a thousand years. And a thousand years is as a day in heaven. Literally that our life goes by so quickly. It's just a day.

Isn't that interesting? The Jews were called early in the morning. The gentiles were called later in the day. I was saved as a young man at nine years of age in a Christian home. Some of you were saved in your twenties or thirties after being involved in a life of sin. We have some who have been saved in the middle of their life. And we've even had some through the ministries of this church that have been saved in their eighties, nineties.

And even in the early one hundreds before they died. Isn't that interesting? So we've seen the context in the contract. Now, number three, we're not far from being done.

I want you to see the compensation. We're looking at this whole thing. Look at verse six, excuse me, verse eight. So when even was come, all this had transpired. Now the day is done.

So when even was come the Lord of the vineyard. Wow. Now we're introduced.

It was it was householder. Now we're given a little bit more information. Don't you love how God speaks? See, you and I, if we're not careful, we can get in ministry and think we're just serving a boss.

But he is Lord. Wow. So when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard sayeth unto his steward, call the laborers and give them their hire beginning from the last unto the first. Can I can I give you just a little bit of information here? You notice that they did not come to get paid till the owner called.

Their day wasn't done till the owner said it was. May I say this? I don't care what sickness you may have, what disease you might have. I've sat in homes and hospital beds and I've told people this and I'm going to tell you again. I don't care what you have. You are safe as safe can be till it's God's time to take you in your life.

No disease will ever take a child of God. Your day is not done till the owner says it is. And when your work is finished, then it's time to come in. The work was not done till he said it was done. Notice the order of the reward given. He started with the last ones that arrived.

Isn't that interesting? And I don't know, maybe during this period of time, those that had been there early in the morning, they've been working all day. You would think that maybe they would think, OK, we're going to get paid first.

We've been here the longest. But no, they had to sit and watch everybody else that had just showed up. They had to watch them get paid.

And maybe that that time period, maybe all during that, they was just churning inside and maybe it set a little bit wrong with them. But I do know that as they watched all of them get paid, the Bible says a penny. They were all paid the same.

Those that had worked an hour and those that had worked three hours and those that had worked six hours and those that had worked nine hours and those they were all getting a penny. So maybe those that were their first thought, if they're getting that, surely we're going to get more. But the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Do you know at the rapture, listen to me, though the dead in Christ shall rise first, yet we which are alive and remain on whom the ends of the 11th hour has been laid, we shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. The first shall be last. The last shall be first. There is no seniority.

There is no favorites. It literally is this that all of us will enter into heaven with our glorified bodies together. Verse nine says this, and when they came that were hired about the 11th hour, they received every man a penny, the compensation. Now you would think, OK, they're all thrilled. They didn't have work, they didn't have a job, they all had families, they all had to try to put food on the table. You would think, hey, but this job, the owner showed up and hired us, we're thankful, we're grateful.

I can take this full day's wage and I can go provide food and put food on the table. But they all weren't happy. So I want you to notice, fourthly, the complaint. Verse 10. 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.

I don't know about you, but sometimes us laborers can get a bit cantankerous. I want you to notice, number one, they were discontent. They were discontent. You see, in verse 10, the Bible says that when they came, they supposed, they supposed that they should receive more. And they murmured about it.

They supposed. You know, oftentimes you and I think we have too little and others have too much of the blessings of God. And then we think that we do too much and others do too little in the work of God. We think that they have too much of the blessings of God, and I have too little, and I'm over here doing too much of the work of the God, and they're doing too little, and oftentimes you and I can suppose things in our life. We begin to make judgments and comparisons, and we become discontent as we look around, and we see the grace that God has bestowed on fellow laborers, and we become discontent. Thank you for listening to the Kerwin Broadcast today. God bless you. .