One only, seeing he was cleansed, turns back, and with a loud voice glorified God. Then the Lord adds some moral considerations for the heart: "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares. 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. What is being referred to wherever the body is there will the eagles be gathered together. And he was a Samaritan. Put your nose to the grindstone." The unfaithful servant is not called an enemy, though, no doubt, he was no friend of the Son, and dealt with righteously. This is the necessary moral order of God. We have similar teaching elsewhere. I've only done what is my duty to do. (Ver. When the last days come, be assured they will learn too late that there is no hyperbole with God or His word. Matthew 24:40-41 communicates the same facts. Nothing can be simpler. We have only to think of the number of scientific marvels, of the number of surgical operations, of the feats of endurance which today have been achieved and which less than fifty years ago would have been regarded as utterly impossible. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. Sleeping with someone having a sexual connotation is a modern invention. And Lord, we would with Your disciples pray, increase our faith. The Mandela effect is a situation where a large group of individuals incorrectly believes an event occurred when it didnt. Thank God for the charge, I hope it's true. This he had never suspected in himself before. Get out of there, escape. (VersesLuke 23:27-31; Luke 23:27-31. "And truly the Son of man goeth, but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!" To me it is a grievous thing, this denial practically of a large part of the sufferings of Christ. Matthew and Mark tell us the sad truth that, when He needed the disciples most, they all forsook Him and fled. It doesn't say anything about Jesus touching them. When a man is made willing to receive the truth, his eye is single and his whole body full of light. I can remember when the slang term in the comics meant that someone had done a stupid, boneheaded stunt. It is not that God did not accompany His message with signs. "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.". There was a sense of grace, as well as of sin, and sensitiveness about God's will. Does God forgive a man without repentance? Who that believes and understands the cross could dream longer of man's worthiness? How infinite the blessing! 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. These were lawful things, but the fault was that they minded these inordinately, and their hearts were entirely set upon them, as that they had no heart at all to prepare against the threatened judgments. I do not believe that God's judgment will come upon the earth until the church is taken out. In Matthew, Galilee is the quarter especially noticed. Jesus was on the very point of being cast out and cut off. It was the last act of communion of Christ with them. Where are the nine? Many good interpreters understand it of the gathering of the saints together to Christ in the kingdom of glory: "Ask not where the carcase will be, and how they shall find the way to it, for they shall be under infallible direction; to him who is their living, quickening Head, and the centre of their unity, to him shall the gathering of the people be.". I say unto you, In that night, there shall be two men on one bed; and the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. One interpretation. The Lord's relation to the kingdom at the second advent is contrasted with the grace that flows out in the former part of the chapter. It is therefore infinitely more personal, though it be also the wondrous sight of One who, coming, with the consciousness of divine power to banish death and bring life into the scene, yet in grace nevertheless did not one whit the less, but the more, feel the power of death as no mere man ever felt, yet as none but a real man could feel. Luke 20:1-8), then the people hearing the history of God's dealings with them, and their moral condition fully brought out. ), But there was more. It is possible that offences will come; but woe to him through whom they come! He judged himself truly, and, therefore, was in a moral condition to see other things aright, as God should bring them before him. No prison closed its doors upon one of the twelve, or of the seventy. It was the Samaritan in whom the Lord illustrated the power of faith. The final scene comes on apace; and not more surely, according to the word of Christ, the murderous malice of the priests, than the energy of Peter, so fatal, to himself, who could not face the difficulty into which his self-confidence carried him. He wanted us to just be free to the working of God in different ways. Wherever Christ records his name he will meet his people, and bless them, John 4:21; 1 Timothy 2:8. /*# 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} How admirably this tale is adapted to the whole tone and character of the Gospel, I need not delay to prove. They proclaim that Luke 17:34-35 said two people would be in the same bed, not two men. (i) There will be times when the Christian will long for the coming of Christ. http://qbible.com/aramaic-new-testament/luke/17.html, Have you read Ezekiel 23? What can give us amore vivid, true, and blessed representation of the Lord Jesus Christ in His first coming with the grace of God that brings salvation? That they were surprised with the ruin which they would not fear, and were swallowed up in it, to their unspeakable horror and amazement. Come a little lower, and think how it was with the men of Sodom, who were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. Next, we have the entrance into Jerusalem. The state of the heart, as ever, was in question; the will was at fault, even though they were regenerate. Even if he sins against you seven times in the day, and if seven times he turns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him.". LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( Luke 17:1-10 ). The people seem conscious that it was all over with them stricken in heart over a deed they could not but feel to be dreadful, though hardly defined. It was really the Lord who had deigned to continue with them, and had sustained their faltering steps; but He could say, "Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. But they are not as the vultures who eat human flesh. but woe unto him, through whom they come! Luke 24:44.) Not that His Godhead ever made His suffering less; else the result would have been some nondescript estate which was neither Godhead nor manhood, but somewhat made up of both. When Jesus referred to the days of the Son of Man, He was speaking about His second coming, that is, the second coming of Christ. What grace! In Luke 17:34 Jesus says, 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. To make those matters worse, this was all foretold in the Bible itself that a time would come when a great "famine" would descend upon all of mankind and that people would search far and wide for the word of God and not be able to find it. (Luke 19:1-10.). And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." He forgot Himself in Christ the Lord thus vindicated. A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. ( Revelation 6:10.) The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon in which a large group of people shares a false memory. This, I apprehend, is the clear meaning of His altered language here. 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. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekial+23&version=NIV. So the Lord here settles it for them personally. As to the first verse, 10 or 15 years ago there was a book that suggested Lincoln was gay. He was not like a mere man who waited till he could not help following, and then went in steel through the trouble. Remark here the absence of a crowd of circumstances of the deepest interest to the Jew, when grace makes him meek, and obedient in heart of solemn warning to him, whatever the unbelief which shuts up his heart and seals his ears, to the truth Here is no dream and message from Pilate's wife; here no awful episode of Judas . "It came to pass, that as he came nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging." It is the act and language of Him whose confidence was unlimited in the One He was going to. You're not gonna see an outward display of the kingdom at this time. It is always thus in grace. More remains of similar character, especially the very distinct privileges of the understanding opened to understand, and the power of the Holy Ghost; the one given then, the other not till Pentecost. Besides, there is the final publicly adjudicated portion of misery for body and soul before the great white throne. It was a spot that used to be most precious to Him, and, observe it well, was not less precious to Him after He rose from the dead. It was not a question of human willingness or power, but of receiving from God. Had they discerned this better, and been simple in the faith of His real manhood, and held to the written word about His sufferings on and before the cross, they had not been so easily stumbled. There is, therefore, in this, as it appears to me, an ample and divine reason why the Spirit of God led the writer to present the cure of the blind man as we find it. But which of you, who has a servant plowing or feeding your cattle, will say to him by and by, when he's come in from the field, Go and sit down and eat your dinner? The judgment of God is an individual judgment. Like Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who got the nickname maybe 15 years ago. it's . He was now about to face death; first in spirit, then in fact. Jesus was the green tree; and if Jesus was so treated, what should be their fate, as set forth fully by that dry tree, which was Israel? The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and this as the only true power of estimating the present world (that is to say, by the standard of the future the eternal future of God. In those days, it wasn't uncommon for people to share a bed, married or not, same sex or not. (VerseLuke 24:30; Luke 24:30. "The gospel that is to set up Christ's kingdom in the world shall fly like lightning through the nations. These times are going on now. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.". If we approach a thing saying, "It can't be done," it will not; if we approach it saying, "It must be done," the chances are that it will. In the 1960s it meant work. Christianity is based not on the work only but on the glory of the person and place of Him who is glorified in God. This means that both Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are events that will occur after the second coming of Christ. Finding an original Luke might be easier said than done, but how about do a search on Aramaic primacy and then check here? where are the nine? (VerseLuke 24:31; Luke 24:31. Let them not look back, lest they should be tempted to go back; nay, lest that be construed a going back in heart, or an evidence that the heart was left behind. That the Messiah must suffer before he must reign (Luke 17:25; Luke 17:25): "First must he suffer many things, many hard things, and be rejected of this generation; and, if he be thus treated, his disciples must expect no other than to suffer and be rejected too for his sake." And those that would try to rob a child of that pure, simplistic faith in Jesus. We have after this the hearts of the disciples proved to be still earthly and Jewish; but the Lord brings before them not the glory and beauty yet in store for Jerusalem but it is judgment specially on the temple. "This day is salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham. But that is not a true translation of the Greek aetos, which is eagles. It is a very serious thing to tamper with someone's faith in Jesus Christ. There is no worse invention against the truth, unless it be the lie which denies Him to be God the Son. "Lord, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom." It is not here, therefore, One speaking in the sense of God's abandonment (as we saw in Matthew and Mark), though this cup He had, indeed, drank to the dregs. Web( Luke 17:1 ) You can't live your life unscathed. "When I was a lad," he said, "I often played on a wide common. Hence was it of all importance that we should learn wherein He is to be known. Now the Jews had no dealings with a Samaritan nor the Samaritans with the Jews. In Luke 17:1-37 there follow further lessons communicated still to the disciples; and first of all, a solemn warning as to stumbling-blocks. Such was the fruit of His blessing, and of His great grace. The healing of the Lord was equally manifest in all; but there is a power superior to that which cleanses the body, even were it desperately leprous. When Messiah the Prince comes to set up his kingdom, they shall not say, Lo here, or Lo there, as when a prince goes in progress to visit his territories it is in every body's mouth, he is here, or he is there; for where the king is there is the court. He saw nothing of the sort. But then he does not say what the English version makes him say, "As he was come nigh," but simply, "When he was nigh to Jericho," leaving it open to other Scriptures to define the time with more precision. 3. Protecting The Most Valuable Treasure On Earth. I take for granted now that there is a firm hold of His bearing God's wrath on the cross. The verb grinding is feminine. There were years when we were dependent on our parents for literally everything. (Verses Luke 20:9-19.) The arm that had upheld them, and the shield that had been over them, are removed. 5. It is man giving up himself as altogether bad, man resting upon God as altogether good to the bad, and both proved in the remission of sins by Jesus, whom man, Jew and Gentile, crucified and slew. 24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. (Bible Changes- Mandela Effect) Jan 27, 2018, 5065 views. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? 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. 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