A Great Banquet

Luke 14:1-24

About the Sermon

“May I please be excused?” This is what parents teach their children to say when they’d like to leave the dinner table. It’s a polite expression. In Luke 14:1–24 we find a similar expression but the motive is more sinister. Some who are invited to a great banquet will at first accept the initiation but then at the last moment offer some reason they need to decline after all. But the host of this feast is determined to fill his house with eating and fellowship and laughter. Which is why Christ invites us to the table. How have you responded? Who will you bring?

About the Series

Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God’s terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.
Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God's terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.

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