To love without expectation means to keep loving. After hearing last week that loving without condition means that we love first, then we have expectations. In our minds, when we love first, then a time should come when we get what we want or need. “I loved first, so now you will”…fill in the blank. Love me back, support me, defer to me, give me what I want whatever that might be, and so on.  But that isn’t a love without “if”. That just means we moved the “if” from the front to the middle. Loving without condition meant to love first. Loving without expectation means we keep loving. And that is what makes the parable of the tenants so shocking. Landowners have expectations of their tenants, and they should. That is the deal. So when the landowner sent servant after servant to the tenants and they mistreated them, why would he send his son? It makes no sense! It is because this isn’t just a business relationship. This parable represents the relationship between God and people. And God loves people, even people who reject him. God wanted all people to love him back, but that wasn’t an “if”. It wasn’t an expectation. He knew the rejection would come. He knew the sacrifice would come. And he loved anyway.