Luke 19:1 I. A whole paragraph is devoted to the delineation of one man's life, while so many great subjects are hardly touched upon in the Christian Scriptures. Yet let us not complain of what looks to us like capriciousness and incompleteness of Divine revelation, for in these portrayals of indiv... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:9 I. Zacchæus was, humanly speaking, in as unfavourable a situation for turning to God, as anyone could be at that time. He was one of a set of men who might emphatically be called "that which is lost." And, therefore, when we find our Lord saying of this man, "This day is salvation come to... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:10 The Redeemer's Errand to this World. I. We find in our text Christ's estimate of the condition of humanity. It is something that is lost. Man is a lost thing. You may look at him in many lights. He is a toiling, hardworking creature. He is an anxious, careworn creature. But for the Rede... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:13 We have four things here, which, keeping to the metaphor of the text, I may designate as the Capital, the Business, the Profits, and the Audit. I. The Capital. A pound was a very little thing for a prince who was going to get a kingdom to leave with his servants to trade upon. The small... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:17 There is a principle in this award which regulates God's dealings with us in either world. And it is this the ground and secret of all increase is faithfulness. And we may all rejoice that this is the rule of God's moral gifts, for had anything else except faithfulness been made the cond... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:20 "To him that hath shall be given.". I. The excuse of the slothful servant is the excuse of all lazy people. They cry themselves down lest they should be called upon to work; they avoid the duties of life till the world forgets to ask them to fulfil their duties, though God does not forge... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:21 The Religion of Fear. Such was the account, the only account, which a person could give why he had loved a useless, and because a useless a wrecked, life. There was indeed in his wickedness a strange inconsistency and contradiction. For he who could say, and truly say, as the secret of... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:41 I. It is interesting and instructive to notice in this passage how the Lord regards men both in their corporate and their individual capacities. He made us, and He knows what is in man. He knows that each immortal stands on His own feet, and must meet with God alone, as far as regards all... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:41 I. In the case before us spiritual indifference was the sign of concealed ruin. II. While spiritual indifference conceals the downward course of the soul's life, it at the same time hides the Christ who alone can save. III. In spiritual indifference Christ saw: (1) A self-wrought ruin;... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:44 To the account which St. Matthew gives of our Lord's entry into Jerusalem, St. Luke adds the passage of which these words are part. Let us take them home to ourselves in the trial which is ever going on of our own lives. The day of visitation, we may be sure, comes in one shape or another... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 19:45 The Cleansing of the Temple. In this passage we notice: I. Our Lord's zeal that zeal of which the Psalmist said, speaking prophetically: "The zeal of Thine house hath even eaten me." Let Christ our Lord be in this as in other things a pattern to us; let the honour of God be with us a g... [ Continue Reading ]