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Compel them to Come In
Luke 14:15-24
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
During our lives we will make many decisions that will
not only affect our present but our future realities as well.
While
some decisions are routine and often trivial such as what to eat,
what clothes to wear, or what route to take to work; other
decisions have much larger consequences such as who to marry,
what house to
purchase,
what
career path to take,
and
what
friendships
to
establish.
But
when we take off
our
temporal
glasses and put on
our spiritual ones, the decisions we make become infinitely more
important because they affect not only the present but also our
eternal destinies!
When a person experiences the great shadow
of the crucifixion tug at their souls, they must decide to either
accept Christ’s gracious invitation of salvation or reject Him.
This decision will determine if one goes to the fiery lake of hell
to be forever tormented in darkness or if one goes to the Great
Banquet in heaven where there will be no more tears, sorrow,
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pain, death, or sin!
While those who accepted the Host’s
invitation are to rejoice that their souls will one day return to the
One who gave them life, do they not also have an obligation to
He who purchased their seats at the Banquet to compel the lost
to accept the great invitation they so richly enjoy?
Why is it that
so many Christians feel so little desire to tell the world of the
Pearl and Treasure they found in the field?
Are they afraid that they won’t have sufficient
answers to the worldly excuses that others might
give to delay or outright reject the Host’s
invitation?
Is not the main reason why the fields
are so ripe and yet few conversions due to there
being only a few workers that truly desire to
preach the Good News to both the prominent
and chiefs of all sinners of this world?
The following sermon is going to review Jesus’ Parable of the
Great Banquet in hope to spur your heart on to compel the lost
to come in before it is too late!
Feasting in the Kingdom of God
“When one of those at the table with Him
heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the
one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom
of God” (15)
Chapter fourteen is all about hypocrisy.1
It was the
Sabbath and after attending the synagogue Jesus was invited to
eat at the house of one of the chief Pharisees (1).
A man with
dropsy (2)2 was also invited to see if Jesus would heal on the
Sabbath.
Jesus healed the man and asked: if one has a child or
ox that falls
into a well on
the Sabbath
wouldn’t most
people
pull
them out and
consider this
an act of
mercy,
not
work (3-5)?
Jesus
then
instructed them that “instead of trying to promote self by seeking
the seats of honor in a feast”3 only to have a more prominent
person attend and in disgrace have the host ask them to move,
they ought to seek the least important seat and wait for the host
to invite them to a better seat.
After having shown them their
hypocrisy, one of the “pious participants among the Pharisees’
dinner guests,”4 likely trying to appear to be super religious,
turns to Jesus and says, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the
feast in the kingdom of God” (15).
This was a “common figure
of speech amongst the Jewish rabbis”5 that pointed to every
Jew’s hope of partaking in the Messianic banquet one day in
heaven (Isaiah 25:6-9)!6 How they looked forward to the day of
the outpouring of God’s grace in which every tear would be
wiped away and the disgrace of God’s chosen people would be
removed.7 “While Isaiah makes it clear that the Messianic
banquet was for all people,”8 due to their mistaken belief that
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