with this the text literally says right Jesus saying that the disciples like this The last will be first and the first will be last because Many are called but few are chosen good nation as always the golden rule for interpreting texts particularly the biblical texts is remembered the context in which circumstance in which experiential environment in which time Jesus uttered these sayings, they are sometimes difficult to interpret then we have to go back to chapter 19 because the story is long, right and everything seems to have started with that episode in which Jesus meets a
rich young man who approaches him and asks what he could do to inherit eternal life Jesus said you want to enter life keep the commandments right I'm here in Matthew 19 from verse 17 then the boy asked what commandments Oh Jesus quotes the commandments of the law of God And then the young man retorts Jesus saying but I've been keeping this since my youth, it's not you I'm missing there Jesus said you want to be perfect in selling your goods poor God and you'll have treasure in heaven then come and follow me it's not clear
that this demand that Jesus made that young man, it is not a paradigm for everyone because in the particular case of that young man it was the attachment to riches that prevented him from loving Jesus to love God a God of his was the riches that's why Jesus demanded the resignation right and the result we know is that that young man is not hearing this word, he retired sad because he was owner of many properties they were very rich then Jesus turned to the disciples right and said look, it's very difficult for a rich man
to enter the kingdom of heaven it's easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven it's not even soon ask him about this statement wait for it right there What is the disciple to be more then who can be saved there Jesus replied saying it was impossible for men but for God everything is possible is there when Peter says so more master We gave we x all things and we follow what will become of us Jesus said no in the Regeneration or in my life in
the restoration of all things in the New Heaven and New Earth I will sit on the throne of my glory and you will sit with me on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel but many first will be last and the last will be first so Jesus was referring to the fact the first here are the Jews to sit who first announced the kingdom of God who was given the first the oracles of God covenant the promises the prophecies and everything else the last that were called are Gentiles in non-Jewish peoples that the
result throughout the Roman empire who had never heard anything about God or His law or the Gospel of Hope Messianic So many first that is many of the Jews who were called who heard the word of God they didn't believe they didn't receive But those who were called after urgent US believed the gospel message and made the churches of the first century as the Jews rejected the gospel they who were the first but we use accepted they were the last that Jesus then tells a parable to illustrate what the parable of the laborers in the
vineyard in them that renders the it's like a landowner, it's not a farmer who goes looking for day laborers, right to work on his farm, then he gets there in the square that was where the available people were, right, he hires people very early and sends them to work there on his farm. hours later he passes it's another unoccupied group they won't you you'll work there on the farm right then it's close to the end of the day he leaves the process in the same way finds the staff Unoccupied I hope you spent the day
Unoccupied no one find all let's go there for me to do it, I'll work there at the end of the day, he calls the manager of people, let's adjust the accounts, right, with these people and they pay the same salary to everyone. so the people here were hired at 6 am that work all day, they grew their eyes, wait, wait, I worked all day and I'll earn the same thing as the other one who worked two hours an hour, right? That's not fair, right how am I supposed there were outraged right as making it asked
how do you make a deal this is his answer was a friend I do not I doing wrong I combined with you I'm paying what I combined can I not do what I want what is mine if I want to give the one who worked 30 minutes the same thing what I would give you what is the problem with this dealt with is not expensive right And then Jesus ends up saying this The last will be first and the first will be the last What does this parable represent if those who are called the first
are the Jews is not that from early on again I spoke a few minutes ago the Jews received the first the oracles of God received the promises and were the first to listen to the Messianic hope with them God made a covenant Finally everything to all those privileges and God of today the God these are the first workers yes but then at the end of the day already reaching the end of time God decided to call the Gentile right those who were not Jews and they will enter the kingdom of heaven in the same condition
as the Jew enters which is through faith in Jesus Christ surely there would be help I wanted to be more it is not fair we are the chosen people ansa the seed of Abraham those to whom God has given as And then with whom God has a pact is not and now these pay These gentile peoples right ignorant barbarian idolaters they are entering the kingdom of God in the same condition We entered ie God is not making distinction between us and them Really God does not do distinction between Jew and Gentile because all have sinned
and lack the Glory to God and we are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus explanation is means is justification is the same for Jews and Gentiles the first and the last So this is what Jesus meant then this expression Many are called but few chosen it has to be seen In this context God called many through the Gospel then he called Jews he called The descendants of Abraham but the chosen ones, that is, those among those who were called and who reacted positively to the call they are Hi
people here you have to make a distinction between two calls is a distinction that we make in theology is the general call if it is done to Jews and Gentiles through the proclamation of the gospel in an inner world throughout the world through missionary work through literature distributed in the world. God uses dozens and dozens of different means to call all people to repentance and faith in his son Jesus Christ Many are calls Many are called to God calls for conscience God calls By the Light of nature God has revealed himself to the world through
the things he creates das in the heart of man man is the image and likeness of God Many are called I would even say that everyone if you understand that this call consists of God revealing himself to speak of his existence of his sovereignty of his glory of his divinity we will there is not a single person in this world who has not been called in yours who has not been alerted to the existence of God along with this comes the preaching of the gospel Which Paul said that this general call even makes man sorry
sorry I was getting one right God reveals himself from nature from conscience and people know that and therefore they are inexcusable and beyond this natural Revelation and in the conscience and by which God calls us to also the most complete and perfect revelation right Salvador here the coming revelation through the Gospel of Jesus Christ So this is the first call I called general but a special or efficacious call which is the call that the Holy Spirit makes in the hearts of the elect of God and who is irresistible That is, the person hears the general
call to preach the gospel and the Holy Spirit goes there in the heart and calls and says so it's for you I'm talking to you right you need it and the Holy Spirit illuminates the eyes move the heart and bend the will of the person in such a way that that call becomes effective and Irresistible so Many are called but few are chosen in the sense that few will be irresistibly called those who come is because God chose them Among these many interesting that this preaching is effective part of the Spirit of God is not
a pastor because sometimes there are thousands of people there Listening to a preaching And then as you showed me very clearly the Holy Spirit of isolation is this whole movement here this one preacher came here It's for you that I didn't come, it's you that's coming, that's it God like that attracts us irresistibly by the word showing the beauty of Christ our sin Our need for salvation and the person comes voluntarily attracted by the love of God so this Irresistible effective call is only for the elect Many are called but few chosen blessing Sometimes you
who are there listening to this program at this moment understand very well of it Damn I was there so lost I heard so many times and suddenly the holy spirit said it's for you you're still there with me following Christ glory to God so ok oh
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