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1.) What was wrong about the hut builder’s approach?
2.) Why is it mud pies in this world can be so attractive if we have never tasted a real pie?
3.) The son who judged the first son was just as bad but compared himself. What does Romans 2:1 say about that attitude?
4.) Religion is man’s idea of what he thinks God expects from him. Do you agree or disagree?
5.) The legalist wanted to save himself. How do Christians fall from grace and put more faith in keeping the rules than in the grace of God?
6.) What type of things do we begin to credit to our religious accounts?
7.) Which of these sons were the most like you before you surrendered to Jesus?
Read Matthew 20:
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage 1 * and sent them out to work. 3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing. 4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. 5 So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing. 6 “At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been
working today?’ 7 “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’ 8 “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first. 9 When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage. 10 When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage. 11 When they received their pay, they protested to the owner, 12 ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’ 13 “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage? 14 Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you. 15 Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’ 2
8.) What is the complaint most people have about the workers who came last?
9.) Why is it not a legitimate complaint?
10.) Do you ever have to fight comparison? How do you combat it?
