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“What shall I do? I will send My beloved Son” (Luke 20:13).
This question is asked in the form of a parable, which the Lord Jesus told to the Jewish people. (You may read it in Luke 20:9-18). It talks about a man who owned a vineyard, and who arranged for men to look after it in his absence. But when the owner sent servants to get some of the grapes of the vineyard, the men who looked after it treated them all badly. Finally the owner said, “What shall I do? I will send My beloved Son.” You know who that Son was—the Lord Jesus. The owner is a picture of God the Father.
But what did the men do with the Lord Jesus? It says in the 15th verse that “they cast Him out of the vineyard and killed Him.” That is what men did with the Lord Jesus, and God has not forgotten it. But all who come to the Lord Jesus, admitting that they are sinners, can be saved through what He suffered on the cross.
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