Episode Transcript
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In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells a very pointed
parable to the religious leaders of His time.
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He is actually assessing their leadership without
them realising that the parable is about them.
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So oblivious are they that, when Jesus asks what
the landowner will do to the wicked tenants,
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they condemn themselves by saying: “He will
bring those wretches to a wretched end.”
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The vineyard in the parable
represents the people of God.
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The tenants are the religious leaders.
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The servants are the prophets, and the
landowner’s son is Jesus, the Son of God.
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The religious leaders had failed in their
responsibility to lead God’s people
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into a living life-giving relationship with God.
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And ultimately, they rejected and killed Jesus.
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Jesus then declares: “It was the stone rejected
by the builder that has become the keystone.”
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And perhaps that is the challenge
for every one of us today:
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Who—or what—is the keystone of my life?
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For those entrusted with leadership,
the question is even more confronting.
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Is Jesus truly at the centre of our leadership,
our decisions, and our service of others?
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Because when Jesus is removed from the
centre, the whole vineyard suffers.
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But when Jesus is our keystone,
our lives bear abundant fruit
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- fruit born from selfless service,
sacrificial love,
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and the giving of ourselves
completely for others.
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So may Jesus always be the keystone
of our lives, so that through us,
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God’s vineyard may flourish and
bear abundant delicious fruit for God.
