Why Isn’t God Fair? | Christ For You

Text: Matthew 20:1–16 | The Workers in the Vineyard (Septuagesima)

“Why isn’t God fair?” It’s one of the most common complaints people make about Christianity — and sometimes the quiet question Christians carry when life hurts. Jesus answers it with a story about workers in a vineyard, a grumbling crew, and a master who refuses to run His kingdom like a payroll office. The early workers want wages. The master gives gifts. And that difference changes everything.

This sermon exposes the dangerous assumption that God owes us for our faithfulness, our suffering, or our years in the Church. That’s Law. But then comes the Gospel: God does not deal with you on the basis of fairness, but mercy. Your standing with Him was settled not by your hours in the vineyard, but by Christ’s work on the cross. The “unfairness” of God is the very thing that saves you.

Here is the comfort: when you compare your life to others and wonder why theirs seems easier, Jesus points you away from the scoreboard and back to His generosity. At the end of the day, the wage is the same — forgiveness, resurrection, eternal life — not because you earned it, but because Christ did. What unbelief calls unfair, faith calls grace.

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