'Which of the two sons obeyed his father?"
The truth for today is found in the Lord's parable about a father and his two sons. The oldest son was asked to go and work in his father's vineyard. In your life this would be the Lord asking you to go and work in His church, here on earth today. Just as the son refused to go and work in the vineyard have you refused to obey the Lord's call for your life? The first son eventually did what his father had requested and obeyed him. How many have come to a knowledge of what the Lord desired of their lives and then obeyed Him and did the Lord's will? Do you want to do the Lord's will in your life, and have you come to a knowledge of acceptance?
When the first son refused to go to work for his father, he turned to his other son and asked him to go. The second son said that he would go and work in the vineyard. The problem was that the second son did not go and do the will of his father's request. He never even intended to do as his father requested. The second son just gave lip service to his father and pretended to do his father's will. This brought the Lord to ask the threshold question that applies to many of us today. Which of the two sons obeyed his father? Which son are you like? Did you OBEY YOUR FATHER?
Even the priests and elders seemed to know the right answer. They knew that the first son had truly obeyed his father and did what was asked of him in the end. The problem was that they did not understand that the second son represented them. They missed the truth for today and the message of the parable. We can not just say we are going to do the will of the Lord, and then not do it. You can not agree to do the will of the Father then do your own will. What is it that we must do, OBEY YOUR FATHER. We must trust in and rely on the commands of our Father in Heaven. We must put them into action in our lives now! We must be doers of the Word and not just hearers only. We need to go to work in our Father's vineyard today and now. If you want to be a good son or daughter of the God, OBEY YOUR FATHER!
