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Service Notes
There will not be a service tonight.
Review of last nights events.
VBS coming up.
Video after the Offering Devo
Review
In Luke’s gospel, Jesus was either going to a meal, was at a meal, or coming from a meal.
(Robert Karris, Eating Your Way Through Luke’s Gospel)
People who have experienced Jesus’ gracious hospitality should extend the same type of gracious hospitality.
This is the greatest foundation for ministry, wanting to give something to others because Jesus gave you everything.
We should show grace because of Jesus’ grace toward us.
We were not deserving of His table!
.We were poor (Matt 5:3), maimed (powerless), blind (unable to see truth), lame (unable to come to God).
You need to see that you identify with them.
Don’t be self-righteous.
Realize that you had nothing, and have been brought to the table.
Jesus has changed your moral life, but He wants my social life, too.
Don’t live by the law of “pay-back.”
Reciprocation as a goal is about self, but the Kingdom isn’t about self.
“Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return.”
(Paul Zahl)
Don’t always think of missions as extraordinary.
Jesus didn’t start a program, a school, or have a crusade; He ate meals.
“Ordinary people doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality” (Timmis)
John Newton, “Hospitality; One would think that this was not part of God’s Word because it is so neglected by God’s people.”
Jesus turns the values of the world on their head.
Transition v.15
This man breaks an awkward silence with an awkward statement.
This is a pious statement; a lead balloon.
The underlying assumption of his remarks is that the Pharisees will sit at the table.
Jesus takes this statement and follows it up with a parable.
His message: “just because you talk about heaven doesn’t mean you’re going there.”
Simple Outline
The Enticement of a Great Supper
The Excuses Given
The Extended Guest List
The Exclusion Guaranteed
Luke 14:15–24 (KJV 1900)
15 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.
16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
18 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.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
21 So that servant came, and shewed 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.
22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
23 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.
24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Pastoral Prayer
Mr. Junior in Florida
That I will not make what Jesus explained in simple terms a complicated manner.
Sermon Introduction
How would you complete this sentence:
The Son of Man Came…
1. “To serve, not to be served, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
2. “To seek and save the lost”
3. “Has come eating and drinking”
The first two describe why, the third describes how He came.
The Enticement of a Great Supper
Messiah Banquet
Luke 14:15 “15 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.”
They knew that a feast with the Messiah had been prophesied.
Isaiah 25:6 “6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.”
You may not be familiar with this passage but remember these are the teachers of the law.
Jesus teaches that we are to use our houses and our wealth to make friends for the Kingdom.
Luke 16:9 “9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”
Invitation Given
Luke 14:16 “16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:”
In an age before the clock, the date of the banquet was announced long before, but the exact time only was announced the very day.
The first invitation went out weeks ago, RSVP.
Second, when it was time to come.
To refuse was a massive insult.
This is a picture of the Jewish leaders who believed in the law and prophets, and the Kingdom, but rejected the second invitation, Jesus, the King Himself.
This imagery pictures Israel’s and the leadership’s rejection of the invitation.
A man of great means
The Excuses Given
Luke 14:17-20 “17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
18 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.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.”
One Consent
Luke 14:18 “18 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.”
The Field - Land isn’t changing.
[Today a Dollar General might pop-up but not then]
Oxen – He was a man of means and didn’t need to do this himself and not on this day.
[“Go try them out” seems like a preoccupation with something new]
Marriage - Most excuses are financial or family.
[Why not request a Plus One?]
Different but the same
Excuses were different but they were all the same.
Something else is more important to them than attending the Great Feast.
Death by a thousand little excuses
“Excuses are curses, and when you have no excuses left there will be hope for you.”
(Spurgeon)
Only a fool first buys a piece of land, and then goes to check it.
Only a fool buys ten oxen and is only interested in testing them after the purchase.
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