Luke 13:22-35

The strait gate and a message for Herod -- Luke 13:22-35: We do not know who it was but someone asked Jesus, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus told this person that they should "Strive to enter in at the strait gate." Many who thought they would enter in would not because they had not walked with Jesus nor did they have a relationship with Him. Jesus said, "There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God." Some Jews would not be in the kingdom while some Gentiles would be. This was the great reversal; Israel had always been first, now they were last.

Certain of the Pharisees warned Jesus that He had better get away from there because Herod was seeking to kill Him. Herod was sly and destructive so Jesus called him a fox. Jesus said, "Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." When Jesus said "I shall be perfected" He was saying that He would have accomplished the purpose for which He came into the world. He would have left nothing undone which the counsel of God designed Him to complete Jesus was heartbroken over the condition of Jerusalem. He would have gathered them as a hen does her chick, but they were not willing. With the coming of Christianity the Jewish house would become desolate!