Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

The master of the house, the man who planted the vineyard in today's parable is not God. For the man in the parable is the poster child for what a fool looks like, and the very definition of insanity -- doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And God is neither insane nor a fool. And yet what the mad did is what God did. For God did sent His servants, the prophets, to His people time and time again. And then God sent His Son. And while the man in the parable thought that perhaps things would be different with his son... here's how God is different than the man in the parable -- God knew the result would be the same.