Your life is not a purchase. It's a lease. The Owner kept the title, the terms are real, and one day He returns to settle accounts. Lady Pastor Nicky Boadum opens the parable of the leased vineyard in Matthew 21 and walks through the terms of the lease called life.
The seven movements
- The vineyard was leased, not sold. Matthew 21:33–41: the landowner planted it, hedged it, built the tower, then leased it out. The tenants grew so comfortable they forgot whose vineyard it was.
- We are all tenants. A lease grants the right of use, never the title. "The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof" (Psalm 24:1). You don't even own your body.
- Every lease has terms, and Eden saw the first eviction. Genesis 2:16–17 was the first lease agreement; Genesis 3:22–24 the first eviction story.
- Some leases end with a notice. Daniel 5: weighed on the scales and found wanting. Belshazzar's notice came in the evening, and the eviction came that very night.
- The Owner returns to settle accounts. Matthew 25:14–19: your breath, your family, your gifts, and your opportunities are entrusted wealth. And stop evicting yourself from rooms God never checked you out of.
- Some leases end without any notice. Luke 12:16–21: the rich fool had bigger barns and no tomorrow. The only safe posture is to be rich toward God.
- The lease can be extended. 2 Kings 20: Hezekiah wept, and God added fifteen years. But steward the extension, and keep some treasures between you and God alone.