How much should a person be paid for a day's work? Should another person be paid less for a half day's work? Should still another person be paid even less for only an hour's work? What if all the laborers were paid the same amount despite the difference in hours worked? Would that be fair? Although most people would have a problem with equal pay for unequal work, Jesus used the above principal to teach a lesson about the kingdom of Heaven. Just like an employer is in charge of the terms offered for an employee's hire, God is in charge of the terms offered for our salvation. If He chooses to give a newborn babe in Christ the same eternal life He rewards the faithful, decades-old Christian, then that is not only His right, but it is also good, just, and fair. It is only unfair to those who refuse to see it as God sees it. In his continuing study of Matthew's gospel account, join Kevin Patterson of Sebring, Florida, as he preaches a sermon from Matthew 20:1-16 to the Sebring Parkway church of Christ entitled, "The Parable of the Laborers."