April 1, 2010 – Matthew 21:18-21:46

Happy Birthday Paul. 

The Parable of the vineyard is a great one.  It gets right to the heart of the Pharisees.  Those in the story are so blinded by greed they are not thinking clearly.  How does it make any sense at all that if they kill the owners son, they receive the inheritance.  Likewise, the Pharisees are blinded by their want of power and maintaining the status quo that they ignore what Jesus is teaching and the good acts that He is doing and plot to get rid of Him because they are greedy.  They are not concerned where He came from and even if the believe He could be the Messiah, they don’t want their power taken away.