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Luke 20 9-18 THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE 07 Luke 20 10-13 As He is, so are we in this world
📖 Luke 20:9-18
23Feb2021 - *As He is, so are we in this world* - _Luke 20:9-18_ - THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE 7 – Bible reading: _I John 4:9-15_
The Son has come, to receive from us the results that are expected of us, for we were kept here on earth as God’s vine growers.
_Luke 20:10-13 Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. (11) Again he sent another servant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. (12) And again he sent a third; and they wounded him also and cast him out. (13) "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*.'_
The Owner sent His Son. The Owner’s expectation was that the vine-growers would respect the Son and deliver the results that the Owner expected from the vine-growers
Let us look at this passage in _I John 4:9-15_ to understand God’s expectation of us.
_I John 4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him._
God out of His great love for us, sent us His Son so that we will live the fullness of life in Christ. God has made all the provision for us to deliver the results.
_(10) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins._
We were not loving God but God loved us. We needed a propitiation. God’s love made God provide the propitiation for our sin.
Our sin acquires the wrath of God. The wrath of God had to be fully met, which our sin deserves. This wrath of God cannot be put aside. The wrath of God was met by Jesus on the cross when He was separated from the Father and there were the three hours of darkness.
If our sins would not be propitiated then our sins would stand as a hindrance between us and God.
Jesus, therefore, became our propitiation and settled the wrath of God, which stood between us and God, and reconciled us to God. This is God’s love for us.
When we come to Jesus, confess, repent of our sin, accept and receive by faith what Jesus did for us on the cross, (which is being our propitiation), and we surrender to Him to be in His habitat, then we are reconciled with God. We become His bride, His subjects, His family.
Since we have benefited from what Jesus did for us on the cross, can we say the work of God in us is complete? No. The work of God in us now begins.
_(11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (12) No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us._
We are here to love one another and reconcile a lost world back to God. This is when the purpose for which He became our propitiation is completed.
It is the love of God that radiates through our lives that make people know the truth of God. People have not seen God or known God.
The love of God being manifested amongst those who have profited by what Jesus did on the cross, is the revelation of God to the world.
_(13) By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit._
It is the Holy Spirit in us, who enables us to live out the life of Christ from within us. We, therefore, have no excuse to say that it is not possible for us to produce the results that are expected of us. The Holy Spirit is our guarantee for us to deliver God’s expectations from the vine-growers.
_(14) And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (15) Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God._
This confession of Jesus being the Son of God is because God abides us and our life is full of His love.
_(16) And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
(17) Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world._
We will have boldness on the day of accounting for our task as vine growers. As He is, so are we in this world. This is the fruit that is expected of us in being propitiated by Jesus.
*Thought to ponder*
```Is the world seeing Jesus in us?```