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. So take heed to yourselves ( Luke 17:3 ): Be careful that you're not a stumbling stone. Had he really known how good God is he would have soon seen God in Jesus. is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." No story in all the gospels so poignantly shows man's ingratitude. In Luke 22:1-71 we see our Lord with the disciples not now as a prophet, but about to become a sacrifice meanwhile giving them the sweetest pledge of His love. It is one of several teachings that Luke recorded that deals with the future (cf. Near its centre two roads met and crossed, and, standing at the cross-roads, was an old rickety sign-post. The state of the heart, as ever, was in question; the will was at fault, even though they were regenerate. If you recall these verses being different that's cool. Pushed out, it rests on a want of faith in the real humanity of the Lord. They had enquired concerning the time, and he would not gratify their curiosity with any information concerning that; they therefore tried him with another question: "Where, Lord? (Verses Luke 23:39-43.). ), Thus the great evangelist, who exhibits what is most real for man's heart now, and what most of all maintains the glory of God in Christ, binds these things together for our instruction. * "Testament" is wrong here, and, indeed, everywhere else in the New Testament, save in the parenthesis ofHebrews 9:16-17; Hebrews 9:16-17. (ii) Luke 17:3-4 speak of the necessity of forgiveness in the Christian life. Both the deprecation and the acceptance were thoroughly perfect both equally in their due place and season. The pretence of commentators, who rush to hyperbole as a cover for their misapplication, is cut off. It was indeed concurrent with a change of vast import for Himself not awaiting His death, but in many respects beginning before it. And one of them, returned when he saw that he was healed, he turned back, and with a loud voice he glorified God. It is not a question, however, of His merely being God; and you destroy the value of the suffering if you do not give full place to His humanity. But it is much to believe it to be what it really is, not (as unbelief thinks) a field of darkness and uncertainty, requiring light upon it, but a light itself, which communicates light to the dark, through the power of the Holy Ghost revealing Christ. But you can't generate faith. Had they possessed the faith only to cry to Messiah about their blindness, He was therewith power and willingness to heal them. Christ will not come with all this talk; it will not be set up in this or that particular place; nor will the court of that kingdom be here or there; nor will it be here or there as it respects the country men are of, or the place they dwell in, as if that would place them nearer to, or further from, that kingdom. It was probably borrowed from Matthew 24:40. ( Luke 17:7-9 ). For us it is the question of what God tells us in His word of the sufferings of Christ not whether we understand all He says about them. That is to say, the kingdom of God works in men's hearts; it is to produce not new things, but new people. A similar truth appears also later on in the case of the converted thief. Luke shows it as a question of the heart's state and trust in God. Each of them falls into the trap which they had made for Him. It was the power of faith leaving Judaism to itself, mounting in Jesus to the source of both law and grace, but not putting the legal system down. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Weren't they grinding grain?). The archaic King James that advised against not putting new wine into "old wineskins" but rather "new wineskins" to preserve both has now been altered to read "bottles", while the much later updated and Revised KJV that formerly read "bottles" as a more modern rendition and equivalent of that which is still in common usage today now has the more archaic "wineskins" now in that passage. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, at the end of time, sinners will be found in the same secure and careless posture, altogether regardless of the judgment approaching, which will therefore come upon them as a snare; and in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end, nor the account that they must give. Ego and soul? Though Scripture was perfectly expounded by Jesus, and though hearts burned as they heard of these wondrous things, still it must be shown in concentrated form that the knowledge which alone can be commended by God or trusted by man is this Jesus known in that which brings His death before the soul. "This day is salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham. It is a very serious thing to tamper with someone's faith in Jesus Christ. I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be He that was fearful and unbelieving, on the contrary, has his mina taken from him. I'm stunned!!! Matthew 24:40-41 communicates the same facts. When we have done our best, we have done only our duty; and a man who has done his duty has done only what, in any event, he could be compelled to do. ), Accordingly, the centurion is mentioned here as owning Jesus to be "a righteous man," whatever man might have judged or done. When he saw them, he said, "Go, and show yourselves to the priests." Our countdown includes Tom Cruise Wearing Sunglasses, Bruce Springsteen Bandana or Cap?, DX Riding a Tank, John Lennon's Imagine Suit, and more! Luke 20:1-8), then the people hearing the history of God's dealings with them, and their moral condition fully brought out. In this passage it is even clearer that Jesus was referring to His second coming because He said the coming of the Son of Man. This means the illustration of the two men in the field or the two women grinding is not about the rapture. The parable is intended to give or increase confidence in the heed God pays to the prayer of distress. Is Luke 17:34 referring to Two HOMOSEXUALS ????? But even so, the Lord Himself would not terminate the Gospel thus. And Lord, we pray that we might walk in the light of Thy truth, the path illumined by Your Holy Spirit. People will be going on with business as usual, eating, drinking, marrying wives, buying, selling, planting, building; business as usual. Go not after them, nor follow them; do not heed such suggestions. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is. ._3oeM4kc-2-4z-A0RTQLg0I{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between} Here it is not a question exactly of entering or seeing, as inJohn 3:1-36; John 3:1-36, but rather the moral character of the entrance of God's kingdom among men. This means that both Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are events that will occur after the second coming of Christ. This was for other hands. Was it a fitting time for speaking of himself? Not that the Pharisee represents a man who denies God, or who is not a religious man. What more convincing proof that the man had not an anxiety about his sins? They are not absolutely dependent on the resurrection. My attitude after I come in from serving the Lord, and the Lord gives me another task to do, and I'm so tired I feel oh I can't move. or 'Look there!' This is The utmost which can or ought to be allowed is, that if the context so required, it might bear the translation (a paraphrase rather) of coming nigh; but this case demands the very reverse. So He closes this matter. Sleeping with someone having a sexual connotation is a modern invention. This is made perfectly plain to any one who considers it patiently. "Then they shall begin to say to the mountains fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. We cannot discharge our duty to God by proxy nor even by association. They were not alone; angels appeared. Jesus Second Coming is for those who have believed in Him for the forgiveness of their sins. This truth was combated and refused by the most active sect among the Jews at that time, the most intellectual and the best informed naturally. ), Then, as He entered Jericho, Zaccheus, the chief of the tax-gatherers, was mightily stirred with the desire to see this wondrous man, the Son of man. The Greek may mean two things. There is retributive severity, but not a sign appears of its being anything unparalleled. God will provide for them on the other side Jordan, and then a deluge of judgments shall flow in upon them, which will destroy all the unbelieving Jews. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). Luke 17:35 (NASB). Here are clips of actual Batman comics that mean something completely different now than when they were written. 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Father, we thank You for Your Word, a lamp unto our feet, a light into our path to guide us as we walk with Thee. The lepers stood far off. His having power to banish death weakened His sense of it in no respect. He is drinking the cup in Matthew and Mark; He, the true, but rejected Messiah, the faithful servant, now suffering for sin, who had laboured in grace here below. This flight of theirs from Jerusalem must be expeditious, and must not be retarded by any concern about their worldly affairs (Luke 17:31; Luke 17:31): "He that shall be on the house-top, when the alarm is given, let him not come down, to take his stuff away, both because he cannot spare so much time, and because the carrying away of his effects will but encumber him and retard his flight." THE RARITY OF GRATITUDE ( Luke 17:11-19 ), 17:11-19 When Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he was going along between Samaria and Galilee; and, as he entered a village, ten lepers, who stood far off, met him. 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