Luke 14:1-6
CHRIST THE GUEST OF A PHARISEE. Luke 14:1 Healing a man afflicted with dropsy on the Sabbath:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST THE GUEST OF A PHARISEE. Luke 14:1 Healing a man afflicted with dropsy on the Sabbath:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT BREAD ON THE SABBATH-DAY THAT THEY WATCHED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM WHICH HAD THE DROPSY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SPAKE UNTO THE LAWYERS AND PHARISEES, SAYING, IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH-DAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY HELD THEIR PEACE. AND HE TOOK HIM, AND HEALED HIM, AND LET HIM GO;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, WHICH OF YOU SHALL HAVE AN ASS OR AN OX FALLEN INTO A PIT, AND WILL NOT STRAIGHTWAY PULL HIM OUT ON THE SABBATH-DAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY COULD NOT ANSWER HIM AGAIN TO THESE THINGS. The Pharisees continued their method of attempting to provoke Jesus to some rash utterance, Luke 11:53. It was for this reason, also, that He was invited by one of their number, as once before. His host was one of the chief, or first, among the Ph... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE PUT FORTH A PARABLE TO THOSE WHICH WERE BIDDEN, WHEN HE MARKED HOW THEY CHOSE OUT THE CHIEF ROOMS, SAYING UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
A parable teaching humility:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THOU ART BIDDEN OF ANY MAN TO A WEDDING, SIT NOT DOWN IN THE HIGHEST ROOM, LEST A MORE HONORABLE MAN THAN THOU BE BIDDEN OF HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT BADE THEE AND HIM COME AND SAY TO THEE, GIVE THIS MAN PLACE; AND THOU BEGIN WITH SHAME TO TAKE THE LOWEST ROOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THOU ART BIDDEN, GO AND SIT DOWN IN THE LOWEST ROOM, THAT, WHEN HE THAT BADE THEE COMETH, HE MAY SAY UNTO THEE, FRIEND, GO UP HIGHER; THEN SHALT THOU HAVE WORSHIP IN THE PRESENCE OF THEM THAT SIT AT MEAT WITH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER EXALTETH HIMSELF SHALL BE ABASED, AND HE THAT HUMBLETH HIMSELF SHALL BE EXALTED. The eyes of Jesus were always observing the manner in which people behaved under various conditions of life, for He drew lessons from everything. At the ordinary feasts of the Jews there was a good deal of... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HE ALSO TO HIM THAT BADE HIM, WHEN THOU MAKEST A DINNER OR A SUPPER, CALL NOT THY FRIENDS, NOR THY BRETHREN, NEITHER THY KINSMEN, NOR THY RICH NEIGHBORS, LEST THEY ALSO BID THEE AGAIN, AND A RECOMPENSE BE MADE THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Advice to the host:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THOU MAKEST A FEAST, CALL THE POOR, THE MAIMED, THE LAME, THE BLIND,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU SHALT BE BLESSED; FOR THEY CANNOT RECOMPENSE THEE; FOR THOU SHALT BE RECOMPENSED AT THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST. A lesson in true, selfless service. Upon the occasion of a dinner or supper the invitations should not go out to friends and relatives and brothers, and especially not to rich n... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN ONE OF THEM THAT SAT AT MEAT WITH HIM HEARD THESE THINGS, HE SAID UNTO HIM, BLESSED IS HE THAT SHALL EAT BREAD IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT SUPPER. The invitation:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HE UNTO HIM, A CERTAIN MAN MADE A GREAT SUPPER AND BADE MANY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SENT HIS SERVANT AT SUPPER TIME TO SAY TO THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN, COME; FOR ALL THINGS ARE NOW READY. One of the guests at the feast of the Pharisee was deeply impressed by the words of Christ, and especially by His allusion to the happiness which would be the lot of those that would be included... [ Continue Reading ]
The excuses:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ALL WITH ONE CONSENT BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSE. THE FIRST SAID UNTO HIM, I HAVE BOUGHT A PIECE OF GROUND, AND I MUST NEEDS GO AND SEE IT; I PRAY THEE HAVE ME EXCUSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER SAID, I HAVE BOUGHT FIVE YOKE OF OXEN, AND I GO TO PROVE THEM; I PRAY THEE HAVE ME. EXCUSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER SAID, I HAVE MARRIED A WIFE, AND THEREFORE I CANNOT COME. With one consent, as if by previous agreement, the invited guests began to excuse themselves, courteously enough, but with an air of finality which cannot be overlooked; they begged off, they did not want to 'come. The excuses of... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT SERVANT CAME, AND SHOWED HIS LORD THESE THINGS. THEN THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, BEING ANGRY, SAID TO HIS SERVANT, GO OUT QUICKLY INTO THE STREETS AND LANES OF THE CITY, AND BRING IN HITHER THE POOR, AND THE MAIMED, AND THE HALT, AND THE BLIND.... [ Continue Reading ]
The result:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SERVANT SAID, LORD, IT IS DONE AS THOU HAST COMMANDED, AND YET THERE IS ROOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO THE SERVANT, GO OUT INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES, AND COMPEL THEM TO COME IN, THAT MY HOUSE MAY BE FILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT NONE OF THOSE MEN WHICH WERE BIDDEN SHALL TASTE OF MY SUPPER. The servant was obliged to bring his master the news of the rejection of the invitations. The latter naturally became angry over such behavior, but immediately thought of a plan by which he might procure guests fo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WENT GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM; AND HE TURNED AND SAID UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE OBLIGATIONS OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLESHIP. Bearing the cross:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN COME TO ME AND HATE NOT HIS FATHER, AND MOTHER, AND WIFE, AND CHILDREN, AND BRETHREN, AND SISTERS, YEA, AND HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER DOTH NOT BEAR HIS CROSS AND COME AFTER ME CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. When Jesus left the house of the Pharisee to continue His journey, there followed Him, as usual, great multitudes of people, going with Him for the usual reason, mere external inquisitiveness. To these Jesus expounded the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHICH OF YOU, INTENDING TO BUILD A TOWER, SITTETH NOT DOWN FIRST, AND COUNTETH THE COST, WHETHER HE HAVE SUFFICIENT TO FINISH IT?... [ Continue Reading ]
Two parables for emphasis:... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST HAPLY, AFTER HE HATH LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND IS NOT ABLE TO FINISH IT, ALL THAT BEHOLD IT BEGIN TO MOCK HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, THIS MAN BEGAN TO BUILD, AND WAS NOT ABLE TO FINISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
OR WHAT KING, GOING TO MAKE WAR AGAINST ANOTHER KING, SITTETH NOT DOWN FIRST AND CONSULTETH WHETHER HE BE ABLE WITH TEN THOUSAND TO MEET HIM THAT COMETH AGAINST HIM WITH TWENTY THOUSAND?... [ Continue Reading ]
OR ELSE, WHILE THE OTHER IS YET A GREAT WAY OFF, HE SENDETH AN EMBASSAGE, AND DESIRETH CONDITIONS OF PEACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO LIKEWISE, WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU THAT FORSAKETH NOT ALL THAT HE HATH, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. Foolish is he that counteth not the cost. If a man wants to build a tower, a fine, high structure, prominent before all the buildings in the neighborhood, prudence will dictate that he sit down first a... [ Continue Reading ]
SALT IS GOOD; BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST ITS SAVOR, WHEREWITH. SHALL IT BE SEASONED?... [ Continue Reading ]
A final warning:... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND, NOR YET FOR THE DUNGHILL; BUT MEN CAST IT OUT. HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. The very fact of self-renunciation brings out the genuineness of the discipleship, which must have the same seasoning power as salt. See Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50. As long as salt is... [ Continue Reading ]