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Sermon 16. THE GOD OF ELEVENTH HOUR by Fortune Nwaiwu “And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, why stand ye here all the day idle?”─ Matt. 20:6 KJV. B rethren, do you know that an “eleventh hour” is an idiomatic expression which means the last hour─ the last possible moment for doing something [before it’s too late]. From the “Parable of the Vineyard workers” told in Matt. 20:1-7, we see a set of people who were not employed to work in the vineyard of God. They were like applicants seeking for employments but no one was hiring them, and so they stood idle perhaps in a main road or street. When there was a massive recruitment, their applications were not honored, and in the subsequent one, no one considered them but it was by God’s mercy that they were found standing idle at the late hour, a time they might have considered themselves as unlucky fellows, a time their children would look unto them for ...