2. We have, further, the moral condition of man illustrated in two ways a broken spirit with little light but a real sense of sin, and another soul satisfied with itself in the presence of God. These offenses, as people challenge your faith, as people ridicule you for your walk with Jesus Christ, it's gonna happen. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." No prison closed its doors upon one of the twelve, or of the seventy. If Jesus were not God, He was not good. Nothing can be simpler. OMFG LOL It's right there. 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. After the Gentile domination is over (which clearly it is not yet), there shall be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and distress of nations; men's hearts failing them forfear; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall they see not when the Romans of old took the city but, in the future crisis, when these astonishing tokens, heavenly and earthly, are given by God then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Jesus was on the border between Galilee and Samaria and was met by a band of ten lepers. We shall find how much it was needed if we look into the Gospel of Luke. A very important study that also explains this illustration is, Seven Signs of Christs Second Coming.. 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. (Compare Psalms 16:1-11; Psalms 31:1-24) It was the atoning One. Then he turns to Jesus, and says, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." As King Lear said in the day of his own tragedy. They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building, but, on the day on which Lot went out of Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven and wiped them all out. 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. Or mulberry tree, whatever it might have been. I can remember when the slang term in the comics meant that someone had done a stupid, boneheaded stunt. He takes that place as man. He would erect no barricade of miracles to shelter Himself. (Verses Luke 18:35-43. The Messiah was about to be openly cut off. (VersesLuke 24:36-43; Luke 24:36-43.). ( Luke 17:7-9 ). In the 1960s it meant work. heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. WebLuke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Jesus said, "Were the ten not cleansed? Where are the nine? And he said to him, Arise, go your way: your faith has made you whole ( Luke 17:18-19 ). That God took care for the preservation of those that were his, who believed and feared, and took the warning themselves which they gave to others. This he saw not; and therefore, the Lord proves him, and searches the ground of his heart, and demonstrates that after all he valued the world more than God and eternal life. It is humility founded upon the sense of unworthiness, which is always right as far as it goes. The NKJV translates the Greek word duoas two men in Luke 17:34, but the NASB does not. Jesus told them that since he was the Messiah and was living among them, the Messiahs kingdom had already begun (Luke 17:20-21; cf. I thought I Coming of the kingdom (Luke 17:20-37). Another place the disciples said, "Lord, increase our faith," and perhaps He's just showing them how little they really do have, and if this be a standard then I must take my place with them. All Rights Reserved. And Lord, we would with Your disciples pray, increase our faith. He first must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation. Where shall those be safe that are taken? Next, we have the place of the servants responsible to use what the Lord gives. Only this I would add. It is an important lesson, and not the first time we find it in Luke, and, indeed, in other Gospels also. He was God, and proved it not least in a self-abnegation truly divine. The power that belongs to and comes out from God is but a small thing, in comparison with the knowledge of God Himself. They were very secure, went on in their business as unconcerned as you could imagine; they did eat, they drank, indulged themselves in their pleasures, and took no care of any thing else, but to make provision for the flesh, counted upon the perpetuity of their present flourishing state, and therefore married wives, and were given in marriage, that their families might be built up. And the other verse refers to a slang word! The judgment of God is an individual judgment. Matthew 24:41). Its common for people to remember situations differently. In fact that's actually the kind of "daily bread" the Lord's Prayer refers to. I don't know of a single instance where God forgave a person without repentance. He alone of the two judged things according to his little light. The Greek word duo simply means two two of anything. Hence was it of all importance that we should learn wherein He is to be known. And so they say they are taken to be put into the great battle of Armageddon where the birds are going to come and feast upon the body of the people. If the original had said "bottles" who in their right mind would deliberately pull "wineskins" out of their hat to ostensibly update and make that more intelligible in an era when bottles had long since replaced all of the old fashioned wineskins? Spite of indifference, an unjust judge yields to the importunity of a poor widow. I just don't say those things. People often shared beds. It is not a revolution in material things that we are to look for, but a revolution in the hearts of men. The verb grinding is feminine. 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. But it was truth that did not so directly build up the soul, nor did it so immediately concern the Lord Himself. By Good 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. It was an early error to suppose an impassible Christ. As to the first verse, 10 or 15 years ago there was a book that suggested Lincoln was gay. Now I know that's difficult in marriage, and God help me, I'm trying. Christ's reply to this demand, directed to the Pharisees first, and afterwards to his own disciples, who knew better how to understand it (Luke 17:22; Luke 17:22); what he said to both, he saith to us. "He fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. That the setting up of this kingdom was a work that would meet with a great deal of opposition and interruption,Luke 17:22; Luke 17:22. of prayer at all times "that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} What is Jesus saying? ._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa{margin-top:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._3EpRuHW1VpLFcj-lugsvP_{color:inherit}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa svg._31U86fGhtxsxdGmOUf3KOM{color:inherit;fill:inherit;padding-right:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._2mk9m3mkUAeEGtGQLNCVsJ{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;color:inherit} the ball is in your park and you've got to forgive. He was now about to face death; first in spirit, then in fact. There will be an irreversible separation between those who have lived for themselves and those who have put Gods interests first (Luke 17:31-36). They said to him, "Where, Lord?" When's the kingdom of God gonna come? And when it is planted in the ground and covered with dirt and there germinates. Was it a fitting time for speaking of himself? We are to be firm against ourselves; we are to be firm for our brethren, even where they touch ourselves. Wherever there is that which is dead, and consequently offensive morally unto God, there unquestionably will His judgments fall. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant* of my blood, which is shed for you." Memories are complex and influenced by various factors. In the old days, people actually went to sleep when they were in bed! In the common tragedy of their leprosy they had forgotten they were Jews and Samaritans and remembered only they were men in need. "There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people." II. Where, Lord? The parable of the one taken and the one left 17:34-36. Apparently, when Nelson Mandela died in 2013, some people thought they already had memories of him dying in prison, in the 1980s before he became South Africas president. Luke 17:11-19) presented in a very characteristic way, showing that faith does not necessarily wait for a change of dispensation. (Verses Luke 20:20-26.). Whatever there had been working in him at any time all was now swallowed up in the presence of the Son of man seeking and saving the lost. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Come quickly, Lord Jesus! "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." (VerseLuke 24:30; Luke 24:30. Or is not the sense of His sorrow to fill the heart in presence of this ineffable love, which endured all things for the elect's sake? WebThis is a phenomenon where a large group of people collectively misremember a fact. What was the result? But along with this we have also prayer (Luke 18:1-43), not merely as suitable to a soul's need, and in connection with the word of God received from Jesus, which we have seen in Luke 11:1-54. is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." Our Lord, however, first of all lays down this great principle: it is no question of a "lo here! Luke 20:39-44; Luke 20:39-44) our Lord puts the great question of His own person and the position He was just going to take not on the throne of David but on the throne of God. We owe it to Christ to resent every misinterpretation which goes to undo what He has done on the cross. It is listed in I Corinthians chapter 12 as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And there are two basic interpretations. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Therefore the evangelist of the ministry of Jesus draws attention to the place in which He had ministered most Galilee; but even he does not speak of it exclusively. But where the heart knows the work done for the soul, there is a work done in that very soul. Does two men in the field, one taken and one left refer to the rapture? The opportunity of just growing in our walk and in our fellowship. This great and glorious fact superseded all others. 3. The consistency of this with all we have seen in Luke, from first to last, is unquestionable: Son of God of the Highest, as of David also; but He is emphatically, and in every detail, the Son of man. He really clave to all these things without knowing it himself. When shall we see this long-looked-for kingdom?". Such is the true language and feeling for a disciple's heart. 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. He lets us know that in that night two should be in one bed; one taken, and the other left. 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. . 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. This is the opposite of what will happen at the Rapture (cf. 4. For example, it is important to notice that in Luke 17:22 we are told that Jesus referred to the days of the Son of Man, and He did it again in Luke 17:30. The presence of two men in one bed may be another indication of the moral condition of that time. He had told the ten equally to go and show themselves to the priest; and as they went they were cleansed. 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. He goes boldly to Pilate, and begs the body of Jesus, Which, being obtained, is worthily laid in the rock-hewn sepulchre, wherein never had man beenlaid. What is being referred to wherever the body is there will the eagles be gathered together. 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? 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. Its desolation He predicts, and destruction, because the time of its visitation was unknown. It refers to a situation in which a large group of people believe that an even occurred when it actually Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The other Gospels positively tell us it was as He went out. They were to be preached to all the nations, beginning with Jerusalem. It is not, therefore, the old limits of Israel and the lost sheep, but He extends the knowledge of His name and mission outside. [3.] Noah was a preacher of righteousness to the old world so was Lot to the Sodomites. You can't live your life without having stumbling stones placed in your path, but woe to the person who put the stumbling stone God must be God in His recognition of faith, as everywhere else. Were they not still cleaving to their own cherished expectations of Messiah, and an earthly kingdom? "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. The Lord said, "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. Not only is God not the God of the dead, but of the living; but "all live unto him." Here, too, the loved companion of Paul proves, in the history of the resurrection, the value of the Scriptures. Do you have to forgive him if he doesn't repent? To me it is a grievous thing, this denial practically of a large part of the sufferings of Christ. 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