MK 12:1 And He began to speak to them in parables: “ A man PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
Let’s zero in on the “VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS” and let's apply it to salvation.
The vat and the wine press here are both containers. Harvested grapes are placed in a wine press. In there, the grapes are trodden and pressed. In the wine press is where the blood of the grapes is shed. Its juice would then trickle through an aperture or an opening down into the vat. The vat is where all the juice are contained.
If you are still unsaved, take a lesson from the vat. You must humble yourself and place yourself under the wine press in order to receive its desirable juice. If you place yourself above it in pride you will never enjoy what it offers.
If the vat is a picture of a humble sinner then the wine press is a picture of Calvary. There on Calvary was where the Savior of the world was trodden down by the wrath of God. There on Calvary was where His blood was shed.
If you want to be saved, if you want the juice of salvation to trickle down on you, you must, by faith, place yourself under Calvary as a sinner depending on the work of Calvary’s wine press. You don’t have to work for the juice. All the hard work was done at the wine press of Calvary. What you must do is to freely receive it as the vat freely received from the wine press.
Let’s zero in on the “VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS” and let's apply it to salvation.
The vat and the wine press here are both containers. Harvested grapes are placed in a wine press. In there, the grapes are trodden and pressed. In the wine press is where the blood of the grapes is shed. Its juice would then trickle through an aperture or an opening down into the vat. The vat is where all the juice are contained.
If you are still unsaved, take a lesson from the vat. You must humble yourself and place yourself under the wine press in order to receive its desirable juice. If you place yourself above it in pride you will never enjoy what it offers.
If the vat is a picture of a humble sinner then the wine press is a picture of Calvary. There on Calvary was where the Savior of the world was trodden down by the wrath of God. There on Calvary was where His blood was shed.
If you want to be saved, if you want the juice of salvation to trickle down on you, you must, by faith, place yourself under Calvary as a sinner depending on the work of Calvary’s wine press. You don’t have to work for the juice. All the hard work was done at the wine press of Calvary. What you must do is to freely receive it as the vat freely received from the wine press.
