Mark 12:1-12

Players in the Parable:
• Owner = God
• Vineyard = People of God
• Farmers/Tenants = Religious Leaders

The Tenants became

. They forget they are tenants. They start acting like owners.

The owner

with many representatives, some were beaten, and others were killed.

Lessons from the Vineyard:

(1) God repeatedly

with incredible grace and forbearance (1-6).

The Bible teaches God is incredibly

(Exodus 34:6-7; Nehemiah 9:16-18).

God

through his creation, his Word, his Son, and his Spirit.

(2) Many refuse to honor God and they

of their lives (7-8).

These tenants even reject the owners

.

When all God’s efforts to engage with people are ignored,

is inevitable (9-12).

God has repeatedly made himself available to us, but some day, no one knows when, the

(Isaiah 55:6).

Application/Implications:

What kind of a tenant are you?