Thank God for the charge, I hope it's true. The verb grinding is feminine. But then, further, He shows that meanwhile His servants are called to occupy themselves till he come. 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Now I think that we oftentimes make a mistake in this, thinking of faith in quantity and we think oh a mustard seed is so tiny, just a little tiny tiny bit of faith. But that is not a true translation of the Greek aetos, which is eagles. The truth is, that our English version, excellent as it is, goes a little beyond the word of Luke; for our evangelist does not say "When he was come nigh unto Jericho," but "when he was nigh." You're as bad as those guys who came to comfort Job. We see how truly miraculous this power was apart from any exertion of it on their own behalf. And immediately his leprosy left him.Now here they stood afar off. They would use completely different slang then. Now does he thank that servant because he did those things which were commanded him? "And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." The patronizing, of the lordly benefactor has no place in Christ's mind for His followers. Hence he lets nothing stand in the way. In my mind you are making this one up. . If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. The veil of the temple, too, which characterized the whole system of the Jewish religion, was rent from top to bottom. "For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on; and they shall scourge Him, and put him to death; and the third day he shall rise again; and they understood none of these things. It seems particularly thus expressed in order not to continue the phrase to the Romans or previous imperial powers from Babylon downwards. Neither personal deficiency, nor the crowd that was there, is allowed to hinder his intense purpose of heart to see the Lord Jesus. In some time of bitter need we pray with desperate intensity; the time passes and we forget God. I take it to be a token of great good that, as in early days, the person of Christ was not only the fiercest battleground and prime object of the final struggle of the apostles on the earth, but was the means whereby the Spirit of God wrought to give a deeper and deepening enjoyment of the truth and grace of God more profoundly searching, no doubt, but at the same time more invigorating for the saints), so no otherwise, unless I be greatly mistaken, is it now. Their love lingered. The word "men" is not in the text, it is only, "there shall be two in one bed"; and may as well be understood of a man and his wife, since it is not so usual for two men to lie in one bed; and this the rather more strongly expresses the distinguishing providence of God in saving one, and suffering the other to be taken and lost: the words may be rendered, "there shall be two upon one couch": that is, sitting together at supper, which was also in the night season: it was the custom of the ancients to sit upon beds, or couches, at meals; and they had a bed, or couch, which held two persons only, and was called Biclinium h: and so this likewise intimates, that the destruction of the Jews would be at a time when they were thoughtless of it, and were eating and drinking, as in the days of Noah and of Lot, Luke 17:27. "Now," say the Pharisees, "when will that glorious view open? You say, "Oop, oh wait a minute." They just cried out and Jesus called back and said, "Go show yourself to the priest." What does the verse mean? Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it alive. They are persons who live merely for the present. Both, of course, were perfectly true. Coming of the kingdom (Luke 17:20-37). For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Jeremiah 9:23-24. "There was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted greatest." There was none but a blind man or two to own real need, but our Lord at least healed all who cried. Turning to his disciples, Jesus added that one day he would be taken from them. It is a false chimera of the enemy. God will then judge the quick; and so, no matter what the association, the employment, or the sex, whether within doors or without, there can be no shelter or exemption. Luke 17:35 (NASB). Darth Vader famously says, Luke, I am your father, in Star Wars: Episode VThe Empire Strikes Back. On the other hand, in the midst of any answers that God may vouchsafe, and of all service rendered to Him, the admonitory word is added that when we have done all things not when we have failed we are unprofitable servants. They may not obelize or obliterate; but they do not believe them. . 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[2.] Further, we have a remarkable difference in the rewards here. If flood surges over a piece of country and the wild animals congregate for safety on some little bit of higher ground, you will find standing peacefully together animals who are natural enemies and who at any other time would do their best to kill each other. Jesus is led away to the cross, and Simon is compelled to bear it after Jesus; for now man shows his needless cruelty in every form, The women that were there lament with the crowd after Jesus: there was much of human feeling in this, though not faith or real love. Like Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who got the nickname maybe 15 years ago. It may even be according to men's ideas of a hero, but it is not the truth of Christ. Now this last portion is difficult of interpretation. We praise the Lord for His goodness to us. or 'Look there!' It is always thus in grace. But the kingdom of God, revealed in the person of Christ, went deeper appeals to faith (not sight), and demands the Holy Ghost's action in the soul to give the sinner to see and enter it. Do you have to forgive him if he doesn't repent? 1. The kingdom of God was not designed to be the glory of one people only, but to give light to the Gentiles; for as the lightning that lightens out of one part under heaven, and shines all on a sudden irresistibly to the other part under heaven, so shall also the Son of man be in his day." Where shall those be safe that are taken? His coming would be visible and unmistakable (Luke 17:22-25). (Compare Psalms 16:1-11; Psalms 31:1-24) It was the atoning One. Wherever there is that which is dead, and consequently offensive morally unto God, there unquestionably will His judgments fall. Matthew and Mark tell us the sad truth that, when He needed the disciples most, they all forsook Him and fled. Simon, sadly ignorant of himself, is full of bold promises to go to prison or to death; but, says the Lord, "Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me." If aught which has been said here tends to remove somewhat of mist from any eyes, encourages, simplifies, or otherwise helps in reading God's word, surely my little labour will not have been in vain, either now or for eternity. A rejected Messiah, fitly and according to prophecy, finds Himself in Galilee, the despised place. Luke 20:38; Luke 20:38.) This was not the effect of an earthquake, nor of other physical causes. Those who confine Christianity and the church to this place or that party, cry, Lo here, or Lo there, than which nothing is more contrary to the designs of catholic Christianity; so do they who make prosperity and external pomp a mark of the true church. He was God, and proved it not least in a self-abnegation truly divine. ._2Gt13AX94UlLxkluAMsZqP{background-position:50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;position:relative;display:inline-block} The suffering but now risen Son of man takes the universal field of the world, and sends His disciples among all the nations to make disciples, and baptize them into the name of the Trinity. The reason seems to me manifest. But the main idea is their close association. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.". ), Luke then ushers in another scene, still more precious, peculiar in its details at least to himself the journey to Emmaus, where Jesus joins Himself to the two downcast disciples, who discoursed, as they went, on the irreparable loss they had sustained. They started with similar advantages. And that's what the word offense here; it's a stone of stumbling, a scandalon. That they had fair warning given them of the ruin that was coming upon them for their sins. Dorothy really says, Toto, Ive got a feeling were not in Kansas anymore.. I take for granted now that there is a firm hold of His bearing God's wrath on the cross. Perhaps Jesus intended the fact that one separation takes place at night and the other during daytime to reinforce the fact that He could return at either time. And so our Lord breaks bread with the disciples. .s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);padding-top:5px}.s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f._19JhaP1slDQqu2XgT3vVS0{color:#ea0027} And so with this soul whom grace had now touched. ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} But I believe that Lot is a classic sign of God's ability to deliver the righteous while reserving the ungodly for the day of judgment as Peter tells us in his second epistle. It does not address itself to the senses or the mere mind of man; it carries its own evidence with it to the conscience and the heart. The Jews having made themselves a dead and putrefied carcase, odious to God's holiness and obnoxious to his justice, wherever any of that unbelieving generation is, the judgments of God shall fasten upon them, as the eagles do upon the prey: Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies (Psalms 21:8), though they set their nests among the stars,Obadiah 1:4. The truth is, that Luke merely states the fact of vicinity here. We are sure that the Judge of all the earth will do right; and therefore, when he sends a judgment on purpose to avenge the death of his Son upon those that crucified him, he will take care that none of those who glorified him, and gloried in his cross, shall be taken away by that judgment. Press J to jump to the feed. There were years when we were dependent on our parents for literally everything. At first, indeed, you will have wonderful success" (so they had, when thousands were added to the church in a day); "but do not think it will be always so; no, you will be persecuted and scattered, silenced and imprisoned, so that you will not have opportunities of preaching the gospel without fear, as you now have; people will grow cool to it, when they have enjoyed it awhile, so that you will not see such harvests of souls gathered in to Christ afterwards as at first, nor such multitudes flocking to him as doves to their windows." All the evangelists record the fall; Luke alone records Christ's gracious prayer for, and purpose in, his restoration. It's not just that, but virtually all Bibles are no longer what they once were until fairly recently, that is. What had He not given up, and for whom? .LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH{fill:var(--newRedditTheme-actionIcon);height:18px;width:18px}.LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH rect{stroke:var(--newRedditTheme-metaText)}._3J2-xIxxxP9ISzeLWCOUVc{height:18px}.FyLpt0kIWG1bTDWZ8HIL1{margin-top:4px}._2ntJEAiwKXBGvxrJiqxx_2,._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{vertical-align:middle}._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-inline-flexbox;display:inline-flex;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center} Now a lot of times we are made to feel very guilty"Well, brother, if you just had enough faith. . It was not at the grave of the one He loved, though about to call from the grave. I wonder if the "two people" really represent our bi-polar nature? He was not like a mere man who waited till he could not help following, and then went in steel through the trouble. The chapter closes with Jesus before the council of elders, chief priests, and scribes. There would be no other way of saving their lives than by quitting the Jews, and, if they thought to save themselves by a coalition with them, they would find themselves mistaken (Luke 17:33; Luke 17:33): "Whosoever shall seek to save his life, by declining from his Christianity and complying with the Jews, he shall lose it with them and perish in the common calamity; but whosoever is willing to venture his life with the Christians, upon the same bottom on which they venture, to take his lot with them in life and in death, he shall preserve his life, for he shall make sure of eternal life, and is in a likelier way at that time to save his life than those who embark in a Jewish bottom, or ensure upon their securities." of prayer at all times "that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." Then they will wish to see such days of opportunity as they have formerly enjoyed, sabbath days, sacrament days, preaching days, praying days; these are days of the Son of man, in which we hear from him, and converse with him. These seem out of place in the Bible. People usually quote The Wizard of Oz as Toto, were not in Kansas anymore.. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. It will be better to leave his stuff behind him than to stay to look after it, and perish with them that believe not. The Roman soldiers will hunt the Jews out of all their recesses and fastnesses, and none shall escape. Again, it is a scene peculiar to Luke, that, in the presence of the Saviour's death, Satan sifts one of the chief followers that belonged to the Saviour. It was about to come morally; for Luke holds to that great principle the kingdom of God was about to be established in what you may call the Christian system. you might say to this sycamine tree ( Luke 17:6 ). Real faith which God gives is never so far wrong: and he who, instead of going on to the priest, recognizes in Jesus the power and goodness of God upon earth, (the instincts of that very faith that was of God working in his heart and carrying him back to the source of the blessing,) he, I say, was the only one of the ten who was in the spirit, not only of the blessing but of Him who gave the blessing. Then it comes when it makes those humble, and serious, and heavenly, that were proud, and vain, and carnal,--when it weans those from the world that were wedded to the world; and therefore look for the kingdom of God in the revolutions of the heart, not of the civil government. 4. It is intelligible that those who know should judge; not so, as it appears to me, that people should take the place of judging who confessedly do not know. If you recall these verses being different that's cool. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part of the heaven, shines to another part under the heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day ( Luke 17:22-24 ). Would they get left out? They were all very merry; so were the men of Sodom, and yet very busy too: they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. You're not gonna see an outward display of the kingdom at this time. (Luke 22:14-16.) His visit to the temple and its cleansing are mentioned summarily; as also His teaching there daily the chiefs of priest and people, With their desire to destroy Him but hardly knowing how, for all the people hung on Him to hear. And the other verse refers to a slang word! The point of these examples is that when Jesus returns He will separate people, even those who are intimate companions. The opportunity of just growing in our walk and in our fellowship. http://qbible.com/aramaic-new-testament/luke/17.html, Have you read Ezekiel 23? . Then, after settling this moral truth which was fundamental for the soul, He turns to His disciples, and tells them that the days would come when they should desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and should not see it; for the kingdom will be displayed by and by. Immediately after (and, if I mistake not, expressly put in close conjunction with this) is the parable of the nobleman who goes into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. But faith is always right, whatever appearances may say: I speak not now of a fancy, of course, not of any eccentric humour or delusion too often covered over with the name of faith. ( Luke 17:17 ). It is more personal, and hence deals more closely with the heart and conscience. . Two might be ever so closely knit together, but God would discriminate according to the nicety of His own discernment of their state: one should be taken, and the other left. He alone of the two judged things according to his little light. Jesus must first suffer; so "the sufferings of Christ," as Peter said afterwards, "and the glories that should follow." He that filled with blessing the hearts devoted to Him in His life, was still blessing them when He was separated from them for heaven. The design of the setting up of Christ's kingdom was not to make one nation great, but to make all nations good--some, at least, of all nations; and this point shall be gained, though the nations rage, and the kings of the earth set themselves with all their might against it. (Ver. They will continue secure, will go on in their neglect and opposition of Christ and his gospel, till all the Christians are withdrawn from among them and gone to the place of refuge. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." As a matter of human righteousness it was well; it was the proof that Zaccheus exercised himself as a man to have a conscience void offence in his own way. God has shown that His name is, as ever, a stumbling-stone for unbelief; but for the simple and spiritual a sure foundation, and most precious. Thus the Holy Ghost was not given yet as an indwelling person, but rather a reiteration of the Father's promise. When they should have been, as the men of Nineveh, fasting and praying, repenting and reforming, upon warning given them of an approaching judgment, they were going on securely, eating flesh, and drinking wine, when God called to weeping and to mourning,Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13. However, in Matthew, Galilee is the sign for a converted Jewish remnant till He come to reign in power and glory. "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous) and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican." It didn't mean the same thing 150 years ago. When God's judgments are laying all waste, he will take an effectual course to preserve those that are his, by remarkable providences distinguishing between them and others that were nearest to them: two in a bed, one taken and the other left; one snatched out of the burning and taken into a place of safety, while the other is left to perish in the common ruin. 106. He had told the ten equally to go and show themselves to the priest; and as they went they were cleansed. Wherever the godly are, who are marked for preservation, they shall be found happy in the enjoyment of Christ. Jesus said, "Were the ten not cleansed? The Christian standard takes the Rabbinic standard, doubles it and adds one; but it is not a matter of calculation. Before this they could not lay hands upon Him; but now, the active work done, and Himself definitively refused, Jesus accepts all humiliation, shame, and suffering. The reason was manifest: the earth was unready, was about to judge unjustly, and to be judged. Even in this case, where the effect was produced rapidly, the Spirit of God has given us the great moral traits of it. And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together ( Luke 17:33-37 ). (Verses Luke 24:32-34.) Faith is a gift of God. They "were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God;" but they were associated in life and love with One whose glory was far above them or any conceivable precincts of the earth, and were soon to be made one with Him, and to be the vessels of His power by the energy of the Holy Ghost, who would make this evident in due time. Only there is a difficulty here to some that Luke appears to contradict what we have in the other accounts of this part of Christ's progress. He was now about to face death; first in spirit, then in fact. 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