Experience TRUTH - #20

This is Darren Kuhn with the Masculine Journey Podcast, where we search the ancient paths to find ways that God brings light into a dark world and helps set men free from the struggles that we all face on a day-to-day basis. Your chosen Truth Network Podcast is starting in just a few seconds. Enjoy it. Share it. But most of all, thank you for listening and for choosing the Truth Podcast Network. Welcome to Experience Truth. I'm Stu Everson, and alongside me is my main man, man of God, mentor, the Christian car guy, Robby Dillmore.

Robby, we've got a good one this week. Luke chapter 20. Picking up in verse 9, the parable of the unjust tenants. A lot of misunderstanding swirls around this parable. But let's try to open some eyes and encourage some folks and kind of figure out what the Lord's trying to tell us through this this week. treated him shamefully and sent him away empty handed and again he sent a third and they wounded him also and cast him out then the owner of the vineyard said what shall i do i will send my beloved son probably they will respect him when they see him but when the vine dresser saw him they reasoned among themselves saying this is the heir come let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours so they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them he will come and destroy those vine dressers and give the vineyard to others and when they heard it they said certainly not then he looked at them and said what then is that which is written the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone whoever falls on that stone will be broken but on whomever it falls it will grind him to powder and the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on him but they feared the people for they knew he had spoken this parable against them wow a lot in that a lot of that parable robbie can you take us into the first question here that will kind of get us teed up here on the context yeah well the first question is what prompted jesus to tell this parable how does it further amplify the rejecting of his authority in the final days before the cross yeah and context is key here because what is happening is jesus christ has come in he's cleansed the temple they've challenged his authority last time we talked about what authority do you do this by jesus flipped it right back on them and he said the baptism of john was it from heaven was it for man he had them flummoxed he had them trapped they went to trap him all the greatest theologians in the world were in the epicenter of the only theistic monotheistic uh nation jerusalem the capital at holy week the height of past over thousands of pilgrims coming in to the city two million plus people bombarding the city and here the the cram de la creme of theologians high priest chief priest leaders are challenging jesus and out of this response to his authority he tells this parable which really sets up the description of what jesus christ would do this isn't to be confused with a parable of the steward or the you know the parable there's some other parables throughout the scripture but this is this one is very unique and it presents a a real tragedy it presents something that is really heartbreaking and ultimately they did not want god as their authority in the form of the son of god jesus christ so let's jump on these next questions how do we see god portrayed in this parable wow so we see god as the he's the owner which he is the owner we're all stewards we're all managers right he is the landlord and we forget that sometimes don't we robbie we walk around like these are my rights and i'm in full ownership and we forget that we are simply the yogi bara he is the george time bringer he is the one in control he owns everything and we see him as someone who's reasonable as gracious he's benevolent he's given them a lot of time yet they don't pay well so he sends someone what do they do they kill him or they they beat him up they send someone else they beat him up worse he sends his own son so it it it progresses or you could say it digresses let's keep going so how do we see the nature of man portrayed in the parable wow look at that what a great question i mean when you look at what what he gives them every chance to to work the land to live off the land to earn on land but then it says what what does this tell you tell you not just about the jews which this is clearly about them directly but really about all of us they have the fruit of the vineyard and they jesus or god sins or the the owner of the land the planter the guy who leased it to the vinedressers he simply sends a servant to give to glean some of the fruit i mean this is my land i should get some of the fruit a percentage very fair very equitable and they beat him and sent him away into empty-handed what they do the next guy he sent he sends another guy they they beat him also treated him shamefully and sent him away in the empty-handed as though it's theirs it's not his what are you doing here who are these guys you're sending so he sent a third person and they wounded him which is the word wounded stronger word for like near near near death near fatal and they cast him out so goodness it tells us robbie there's a hard hardness in all there's a hard hardness in all of us we like to portray we like to put it on hitler and we like to put it on the bad people out there right you see these evil people and i'm scrolling through facebook i see a guy just come up and just cold cock a fella and i'm so mad at that guy but what is it about all of us that has this rebellious nature against god we don't want anyone telling us what to do even as believers like you said you just keep perceiving that it's you versus the world yeah and this question right here opens up a whole nother understanding of this going back farther thousands of years sure what caused israel's deplorable treatment of the prophets servants and the beloved son yeah over and over again jesus said you know jerusalem jerusalem you who killed the prophets well the prophets were sent to declare god's word to the people here god dispatches an elijah a jeremiah an ezekiel a daniel a joel and amos he even dispatches a habacchic i mean come on robbie surely you've got a grandkid named habacchic what a great name but think about what god does to send his word to man how much he loves us he cares us and what did they do they killed him and jesus confronted the religious leaders you're the same guys that spilled the blood of these honorable godly men who simply did their duty and yet you wanted their blood because they told the truth and so this is a this this parable is really a picture of what they did prophet after prophet god would send and his people instead of receiving it repenting and in some cases they did in some cases there were godly kings like a josiah you know godly kings who said you know what i'm you know what i'm gonna repent we're gonna reform we're gonna turn back to god but by and large they absolutely rejected and even in many cases killed brutally killed the prophets and uh and then god sends his son this is where we get this this question here so what's significant about jesus being the cornerstone yeah so here we have the vine dressers saw him the owner of the vineyard says what shall i do i will send my beloved son great statement beloved son he god's only begotten son god said of jesus on multiple times this is my beloved son of the mountain transfiguration at the baptist christ hear him just listen to him he is the word of god to you probably they will respect him back to verse 13 when they see him but when the vine dresser saw him verse 14 they reasoned among themselves saying hey this is the heir come let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours now it takes some explaining there in in that day much like in our day today there's this law there's no living heir to the land to the inheritance for all they knew the owner was dead and his son was the last living person coming to claim his his father's stake his father's land is you know his inheritance they kill him it's up for grabs it goes to a common court they've been the ones working it they've been the ones paying taxes on it maybe but they've been the ones in care of this land so they get to keep it and there's that there's laws like that in america today like if you if you you know there's a right-of-way laws and other things like if you have land that someone else's but you work that land you protect that land you take care of that land over a period of time the limitation runs out and you can claim that land and maybe they were you know hoping to do that so when the son comes they're like let's kill him we're going to do it so what a great you know picture of what happened to jesus they cast him out of the vineyard and they killed him therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them he will come and destroy those vine dressers and give the vineyard to others boy and give the vineyard to others boy what a strong language and when they heard it they said certainly not those the pharisees in all those in jesus hearing and he looked at them and said what then is that is written the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone wow cornerstone was this massive tonnage of stone that was used to grind wheat corn other things but also a that's a millstone the cornerstone language is the building block of a building when you find the cornerstone you know that building's either the building's good or bad based on the cornerstone well this son is the chief cornerstone and the stone which the builders rejected jesus christ cornerstone and there's a there's a great song christ alone cornerstone and it's a fulfillment of psalm 118 which also says this is the day the lord is made which they said by the way bless as he who comes in the name of the lord psalm 118 was quoted just earlier at his great triumphal entry in luke 19 now the other part of that the chief cornerstone part is quoted verse 18 whoever falls on the stone will be broken but on whomever it falls it will grind him to powder and which is you know king david was the author of that line yes and you know it's it's it's told in the in the jewish midrash that it was king david's mother that originally said that to him when he was anointed king um after being made the shepherd because there was some confusion about how legitimate david was so they they kind of had him out there as the rejected son the shepherd but when he was anointed by samuel is quoted that david's mother said that and so when he quotes it in the 118th psalm just think all these jews they knew this really really well i mean they knew exactly what this meant and they actually knew as soon as he said that they knew you're talking about me and you're talking about that but how many times like you said stu do we in our own lives right we we reject the cornerstone we you know we we think that we know how to do something or we think we need to be an authority or we think you know and instead of you know just simply you know going back to god and saying who is you know the cornerstone because we don't want to get ground that looks bad well we don't want to get ground we don't want the stone to crush us don't want the stone to crush us as it talks about in the language peter used that language later about the chief cornerstone and that you know if you fall on it or it's going to fall on you but the question is has jesus christ rocked your world yeah you use that language of a stone of a rock and it's 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