{"id":1462,"date":"2026-10-04T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:30:22","slug":"the-parable-of-the-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/10\/04\/the-parable-of-the-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable Of The Tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our one time vicar Rev Cathy Pullinger on  4\/10\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/041026_202610\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/041026_202610\/041026.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 4:43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Isaiah 5 v 1-7\n<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: my loved one had a\nvineyard on a fertile hillside. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2<\/b><\/font> He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted\nit with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepressas well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font>\n\u201cNow you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and\nmy vineyard. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have\ndone for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> Now I\nwill tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge,\nand it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> I will\nmake it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will\ngrow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font> The vineyard of the\nLORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of\nhis delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness,\nbut cries of distress.\n\n<br><br><br>\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 21:33-46\n<br><br>\nThe parable of the tenants<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font>\n\u201cListen to another parable: there was a landowner who planted a vineyard.\nHe put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower, Then he\nrented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>34<\/b><\/font> When the\nharvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>35<\/b><\/font>\nThe tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another and stoned a\nthird. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>36<\/b><\/font> Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the\ntenants treated them the same way. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>37<\/b><\/font> Last of all, he sent his son to them.\n\u2018They will respect my son,\u2019 he said. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>38<\/b><\/font> But when the tenants saw then son, they\nsaid to each other, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let\u2019s kill him and take his\ninheritance.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>39<\/b><\/font> So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed\nhim. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>40<\/b><\/font> Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to\nthose tenants? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>41<\/b><\/font> He will bring those wretches to a wretched end.\u201d they\nreplied, \u201cand he will rent the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his\nshare of the crop at harvest time.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>42<\/b><\/font>\nJesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the Scriptures:\nThe stone the builders rejected\nhas become the capstone;\nthe Lord has done this,\nand it is marvellous in our eyes?\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>43<\/b><\/font>\nTherefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and\ngiven to a people who will produce its fruit. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>44<\/b><\/font> He who falls on this stone will be\nbroken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>45<\/b><\/font>\nWhen the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus\u2019 parables, they knew\nhe was talking about them. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>46<\/b><\/font> They looked for a way to arrest him, but they\nwere afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our one time vicar Rev Cathy Pullinger on 4\/10\/26 Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 4:43 Isaiah 5 v 1-7 1 I will sing for the one I love a song &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/10\/04\/the-parable-of-the-tenants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}