Mark 12:1-12 The Lesson Learned From The Parable of the Vine-growers

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers. They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others. He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others. Have you not even read this Scripture:

‘THE stone which the builders rejected,

This became the chief corner stone;

This came about from the Lord,

And it is marvelous in our eyes’?” And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

When we read these verses, we wonder, what kind of persons are these?” Sadly they are much like us. We have a very selfish nature and in our flesh, we cannot please God. Even those who declare they are Christians are often times fleshly sinners. Jesus taught us that flesh begets flesh, but that which is born of spirit is spirit. We must be born again of the spirit in order to rid ourselves of the problems of the flesh. “Walk by the Spirit and do not fulfill the desires of the flesh.”

Daily Prayer: Father, let me rise to a day of abiding by the Spirit today. Keep my walk in the Spirit so that the world does not have its way with me. In Jesus name I pray Amen.