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Confession Time

Is God Fair? | A Sermon for Lent from Matthew 20:1-16

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Confession Time

Hard Work is Good

That’s not…

FAIR!

Following the rules is Good

That’s not…

FAIR!

‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Matthew 20:13

‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I

choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Matthew 20:13

Or is your eye evilbecause I am good?

“What good must I do to have eternal life?”

-the Rich Young ManMatthew 19

The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.”

morning

mid-day

evening

He says, “why are you standing here

idle all day?”

They replied, “because no one has hired us.”

Matthew 20:6

“What good must I do to have eternal life?”

-the Rich Young ManMatthew 19

Or is your eye evilbecause I am good?

Genesis 6:16-22, 9:8-15

God is GOOD