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Title: Three Banquets: Three lessons about going to heaven Luke 14:1-24 Message 6 in our 9-part series called Table Talk with Jesus.


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Three Banquets Three lessons about going to
heavenLuke 141-24Message 6 in our 9-part
series called Table Talk with Jesus.
  • Sunday, August 4, 2013
  • Speaker Doug Virgint

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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Introduction
  • Luke 14 follows Luke 13
  • The last paragraph of Luke 13 anticipates our
    Lords rejection and crucifixion in Jerusalem
  • Why did the Jewish people reject Jesus
  • Because their leaders rejected him
  • And this chapter helps explain why

5
Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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The Sabbath meal
  • We have three characters
  • The Pharisees
  • The sick man
  • Our Lord Jesus Christ

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The Sabbath meal
  • The Pharisees
  • Their origin 160 BC (period of Maccabees)
  • A lay movement in synagogues
  • Reaction against Greco-Roman idolatry
  • Respect of the Scriptures and Law
  • Popular and respected
  • About 6000 members
  • Strongly legalistic

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The Sabbath meal
  • The sick man
  • Dropsy hydropikos - edema
  • A somewhat technical medical term
  • Considered to be ceremonially impure
  • Why was he at a meal in Pharisees home?

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The Sabbath meal
  • Our Lord
  • Took hold of him (see Acts 16)
  • Healed him on the Sabbath
  • Sent him away
  • Confronted the Pharisees hypocritical legalism
  • The Pharisees were more interested in saving an
    ox drowning in a well than a man drowning in his
    own fluids

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The Sabbath meal
  • The lesson
  • Legalistic people
  • tend to be so inconsistent
  • lack compassion to the point of cruelty
  • do not understand the reason for the law
  • apply the Scriptures wrongly

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The Sabbath meal
  • The lesson
  • You can be devout, dutiful, outwardly good,
    serious about God, a defender of your religion, a
    good person
  • and still not be invited to heaven!

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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The wedding banquet
  • The illustration
  • The scramble
  • The lesson

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The wedding banquet
  • The illustration
  • A parable is not an allegory with details we
    should attempt to interpret
  • It is a story that makes one main point
  • It is a story that illustrates

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The wedding banquet
  • The scramble
  • Keeping up appearances (Hyacinthe Bucket)
  • A U-shaped table with 3-person couches
  • People scrambling to sit next to the host
  • Think about Jamess and Johns mother making her
    request!

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The wedding banquet
  • The scramble
  • They do all their deeds to be seen by others.
    For they make their phylacteries broad and their
    fringes long, and they love the place of honour
    at feasts and the best seats in the
    synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and
    being called rabbi by others. (Matthew 235-7)

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The wedding banquet
  • The scramble
  • Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best
    seat in the synagogues and greetings in the
    marketplaces. (Luke 1143)

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The wedding banquet
  • The scramble
  • Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around
    in long robes, and love greetings in the
    marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues
    and the places of honour at feasts (Luke
    2046)

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The wedding banquet
  • The lesson
  • The seating arrangements were just external
    evidence of a heart-problem
  • The narrow way is not for those who are swollen
    with the dropsy of pride
  • Blessed are the meek!
  • Salvation is for the humble in heart 
  • God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the
    humble. (James 46)

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The wedding banquet
  • The lesson
  • The Pharisees believed in the resurrection
  • This story is all about preparation for the
    resurrection of the just.
  • Jesus was identifying the outward expression of a
    humble heart
  • Works, merit, external religion, pride will shut
    us out of heaven!

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The wedding banquet
  • The lesson
  • The Pharisees invited those who had influence
    today we call that networking
  • They invited those who could invite them in
    return
  • They had their reward on earth our Lord invites
    them to invite those who could not return the
    favour and to be rewarded in heaven!

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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The great banquet
  • The invitation
  • The excuses
  • The inclusions
  • The exclusions

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The great banquet
  • The invitation
  • A great feast was the pinnacle of social life
  • Being invited was a great privilege
  • Invitations were in two stages
  • A preliminary invitation you are invited
    details will come later
  • A final invitation details, when, where
  • Great feasts could last for days

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The great banquet
  • The invitation
  • The Pharisees understood the parable
  • See verse 15
  • When one of those who reclined at table with him
    heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is
    everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of
    God! (Luke 2415)

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The great banquet
  • The invitation
  • This concept finds its roots in the Old Testament

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The great banquet
  • On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for
    all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of
    well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of
    aged wine well refined.And he will swallow up on
    this mountainthe covering that is cast over all
    peoples,the veil that is spread over all
    nations.He will swallow up death
    foreverand the Lord God will wipe away tears
    from all faces (Isaiah 256-8)

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The great banquet
  • The invitation
  • Look at how much room there is at the banquet
    (verses 22, 23)
  • and still there is room . that my house may
    be filled (Luke 2422, 23)

29
The great banquet
  • The excuses
  • bad, bad excuses!
  • two concerned possessions, one concerned
    relationships

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The great banquet
  • The excuses
  • a field
  • do you think a Jew would buy a field without
    first checking it out!
  • what was the hurry?

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The great banquet
  • The excuses
  • 5 yoke of oxen
  • Only a very rich man could afford that
  • Do you think a Jew would buy them without being
    sure of what he was buying!
  • Do you think that a rich man would be ploughing
    or driving his oxen himself?

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The great banquet
  • The excuses
  • A new wife
  • I couldnt keep my wife away from a wedding
    reception!
  • Would a man in that era admit publically that his
    agenda was controlled by his wife?

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The great banquet
  • The excuses
  • In those days and in that culture, refusing an
    invitation to a feast was tantamount to a
    declaration of war.
  • Are possessions or relationships stopping you
    from accepting Christs invitation to you?
  • Are you declaring war on the Sovereign of the
    universe? The Lord was very angry!

34
The great banquet
  • The inclusions
  • The Pharisees would have laughed at the idea that
    the poor, crippled, blind and lame might be
    invited to the final great banquet.
  • But that is the way our God acts he gives
    pardon and an invitation to those who can give
    nothing in return.
  • And so everyone in this room is included in his
    invitation.

35
The great banquet
  • The exclusions
  • Religious people who looked down on our Lord were
    excluded.
  • People who refused the invitation were excluded.

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The great banquet
  • The lesson
  • It is so very perilous to refuse to accept our
    Lords invitation when he calls us to himself.
  • No one is too poor or too wicked or has made too
    many mistakes to receive the invitation to
    heaven.
  • If people do not make it to heaven, it will
    because they refused the invitation.

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Outline
  • Introduction
  • The Sabbath meal
  • The wedding banquet
  • The great banquet
  • Transition

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The transition
  • Father, we thank You now as we come to this
    table that You have humbled us, that You have
    brought us to this place of humility. This is not
    some human virtue, but You have broken us by Your
    spirit and Your word. And You have drawn us to an
    awareness of our own sin and hopelessness and
    then You have lifted us to look at the cross and
    see there the sacrifice for our sins.

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The transition
  • We thank You for the Lord Jesus Christ who
    responds to our humiliation our shame, our sorrow
    with grace and salvation. Father, we now thank
    You for the wondrous time we've had in Your word.
    It's glories are endless and may we apply its
    truth. Would You humble us before You, the great
    and Almighty God?

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The transition
  • Show us the folly of human pride and religious
    merit and efforts and ceremony and ritual. May we
    fall on our faces humbling ourselves pleading for
    mercy that You will always give the penitent
    believer in Christ and know that one day having
    been humbled we will be by You exalted in the
    glory of Your eternal kingdom. Work Your work in
    every heart.

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Three banquets
  • Three lessons about going to heaven
  • Luke 141-24
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