Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

We are learning how to sit in a seat called Beloved at a table called goodness, in a house called

Abbas, in a land called free indeed. A seat, number one, a seat called Beloved.

Number two, a table called goodness.

Number three, a house called Abbas.

And number four, a land called free indeed.

So I begin to ask myself some questions, especially, I'm like you, Johnson.

When we came into the last week of this, you want to sort of look and say, if this

is what the Lord's doing, what would preclude people from getting connected to the degree

that we want to see them connected? And he brought us such a beautiful picture out of Matthew 20

with the parable of the laborers and the vineyard and how the man who owned the farm, owned the ranch, owned the home, how that

particular man went out and hired people at various different hours. And the premise for those

of you that weren't here, of the message this morning was simply he gave the same wage to the

person who worked in the 11th hour, one hour, the same wage to the person who worked in the

11th hour, one hour as he did to the person who worked all day. Here's what I believe about that.

What I believe about that is simply that he knew if he only in compassion hired people to work one hour, he knew several things.

One, he knew they'd be absolutely no benefit in an hour.

It's not worth it to go and get them, to have them come work one hour.

So he knows there'll be very little benefit to the harvest. That's what he's hiring people for,

is harvest. And so he recognizes there's not going to be a lot of benefit for the harvest.

Second thing he knew is he knew that he was about to be extravagantly generous,

and he was jealous to make sure nobody missed out on that extravagance based upon what they had

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