Sep 29, 2026 · 39 min · 7 segments
Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 5:1-7, Philippians 3:4b-14, and Matthew 21:33-46.
Jacob SmithHost
Aaron ZimmermanHost
He expects it to yield wild grapes, or good grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
this uh and then it all goes it all goes south it's like uh the grapes aren't good so the one who planted the vineyard says I will remove its hedge I'll break down its wall I'll make it a waste it will not be pruned or hoed it will be overgrown with briars and thorns and uh yeah I'll command the clouds that they have no rain on it you could use that in Manhattan uh but uh here it's it's uh his guts withholding the rain and this and it says in if you're wondering what this whole parable is about is the vineyard really a vineyard no the the vineyard of the lord of hosts is the house of israel and the people is the house of israel and the people of judah are his pleasant planting he expected justice but saw bloodshed he expected righteousness but heard a cry so jake unwrap this for us, deliver it up on a platter.
And this would have been very, I mean, Isaiah's like any great preacher using an illustration because this would have been very familiar to the people of Israel, drawing them back to Psalm 80, et cetera, et cetera, where Israel is a vine planted by God and the prophets frequently use the vineyard as an image of God's covenant people.
You know, He chose the fertile ground, He clears it, He plants it, He builds a watchtower, He hewns out a wine vat.
And so I think that there's a couple of illustrations here that you can draw from or a couple of points.
The first is, is that God's lavish love does not always produce the righteousness that we think it should.
You know, sometimes, you know, we don't know what God's doing and we don't know what's going on in this person.
Like what God is doing here with this illustration is that he's not giving the people of Israel a better vineyard management technique, you know, because the vineyard can't save itself.
And so the problem and what we begin to see here with this vineyard and what's being illustrated is that the problem isn't simply bad behavior.
He expects it to yield wild grapes, or good grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
this uh and then it all goes it all goes south it's like uh the grapes aren't good so the one who planted the vineyard says I will remove its hedge I'll break down its wall I'll make it a waste it will not be pruned or hoed it will be overgrown with briars and thorns and uh yeah I'll command the clouds that they have no rain on it you could use that in Manhattan uh but uh here it's it's uh his guts withholding the rain and this and it says in if you're wondering what this whole parable is about is the vineyard really a vineyard no the the vineyard of the lord of hosts is the house of israel and the people is the house of israel and the people of judah are his pleasant planting he expected justice but saw bloodshed he expected righteousness but heard a cry so jake unwrap this for us, deliver it up on a platter.
And this would have been very, I mean, Isaiah's like any great preacher using an illustration because this would have been very familiar to the people of Israel, drawing them back to Psalm 80, et cetera, et cetera, where Israel is a vine planted by God and the prophets frequently use the vineyard as an image of God's covenant people.
You know, He chose the fertile ground, He clears it, He plants it, He builds a watchtower, He hewns out a wine vat.
And so I think that there's a couple of illustrations here that you can draw from or a couple of points.
The first is, is that God's lavish love does not always produce the righteousness that we think it should.
You know, sometimes, you know, we don't know what God's doing and we don't know what's going on in this person.
Like what God is doing here with this illustration is that he's not giving the people of Israel a better vineyard management technique, you know, because the vineyard can't save itself.
And so the problem and what we begin to see here with this vineyard and what's being illustrated is that the problem isn't simply bad behavior.
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