What’s your opinion? If you have two sons, and you tell one of them to do a job, and his answer is no, then afterwards he does it, and you tell the second one to do the same job and his answer is, "Sure, I’ll go," and he doesn’t do it, which one is doing what you told him and following your will?

That’s the story Jesus told the crowd, and that’s the question he posed to the religious leaders of his day. The crowd answered Jesus by saying the son who said, "No," and then changed his mind and did the work was better than the other son. Jesus said, "That’s right," and he illustrated that by saying that the tax collectors and the harlots of the day would go into the kingdom of God before the Jewish religious leaders to whom he was speaking.

This parable was told for a special reason. Jesus was s…