The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Matthew 20: 1-16
Fr Groeschel used to say “ya you can get confession if you plan it out at the end of life, it’ll it works out that way. But I don’t recommend it”
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2nd Corinthians 6:1-2
New King James Version
1 We then, as workers together with Him
also plead with you not to receive the
Grace of God in vain.
2 For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the Day of Salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the Accepted Time;
behold, now is the Day of Salvation.
” “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.””
TRUE! As long as you are alive, its not too late.
The problem I have is that the article talks about him Converting to Christianity. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT GOOD WOULD THAT DO?
What, That he joined the “club”? Had some water sprinkled on him, Had some words said to him by a man in a black robe, a white collar, a leisure suit? Maybe some words said to him in a language he couldn’t understand (tongues/Latin)
He has to BELIEVE that Jesus is his one Lord and Savior. He has to confess his sins and repent of them. He MUST have a true conversion of his heart and soul, not just mumble a few words someone told him to repeat.
Unless Jesus intervenes, directly or with an angel, sorry to say, I don’t like Scott’s chances.