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Help Wanted (Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 14:14, Matthew 15:32, 1 John 3:17, 1 Corinthians 3:9, Colossians 4:11, Philemon 1:24, Romans 16:3, 2 Corinthians 6:1, Philippians 4:3, Mark 9:16-29)

Ben BarnettBen Barnett, November 15, 2009
Part of the General Sermons series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

A reminder of the call to be workers, the necessity of compassion, and the urgency we need in today's world.

splagchnizomai - (Greek) be moved with compassion.

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About Ben Barnett: Ben was raised in Roanoke, Virginia and now lives in Fayetteville, Georgia with his wife Tammi of seventeen years and their three children: Peyton (13), Trey (11), and Jordan (9). Ben graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1990 as a distinguished graduate and captain of the Army football team. Ben has served in the full-time ministry for 13 years and holds a Masters of Divinity degree from the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University.
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Matthew 20:1-16

20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.” (ESV)

Matthew 14:14

14 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. (ESV)

Matthew 15:32

32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.” (ESV)

1 John 3:17

17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? (ESV)

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. (ESV)

Colossians 4:11

11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. (ESV)

Philemon 1:24

24 and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. (ESV)

Romans 16:3

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, (ESV)

2 Corinthians 6:1

6:1 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. (ESV)

Philippians 4:3

Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. (ESV)

Mark 9:16-29

16 And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” 19 And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” 20 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” 25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.” (ESV)

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