Posted: 2/11/2010 1:06:16 PM EDT
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some are last who will be first, and some who are first will be last.
Luke:13-30. What does this mean to you? Thanks, SAE |
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This is part of the story of the Narrow Door. (Luke 13:22-30)
People can enter God's Kingdom only through Jesus. Time is indeed slipping away for us and soon the door will be shut; slammed shut. Jesus is calling us to the door so that we can attend "the great wedding banquet", and we'd better enter without delay. After the door is shut, there will only be true believers inside, and there will be those hypocrites and pharisees and those others in charge clamoring unsuccessfully to get in. Specifically the verse... Outsiders and the dregs of society will be saved, while supposedly important people in civil and religious life will lose out. Why? Not because of their status, but rather their faith. (or lack of it) Luke 13:22-30 (English Standard Version) The Narrow Door 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' 26Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 27But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!' 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." |
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This is part of the story of the Narrow Door. (Luke 13:22-30) People can enter God's Kingdom only through Jesus. Time is indeed slipping away for us and soon the door will be shut; slammed shut. Jesus is calling us to the door so that we can attend "the great wedding banquet", and we'd better enter without delay. After the door is shut, there will only be true believers inside, and there will be those hypocrites and pharisees and those others in charge clamoring unsuccessfully to get in. Specifically the verse... Outsiders and the dregs of society will be saved, while supposedly important people in civil and religious life will lose out. Why? Not because of their status, but rather their faith. (or lack of it) Luke 13:22-30 (English Standard Version) The Narrow Door 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' 26Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 27But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!' 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." WindKnot1-1, What is the,''narrow door'' identified in verse twenty four? Thanks, SAE |
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Quoted: Jesus often explained a concept in several examples that followed a similar vein perhaps to better illustrate a concept or to drive home its significance. I would guess that Luke 14:7-14 continues the concept of Luke 13:30. Specifically Luke 14:11 "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." This followed Jesus describing the seating arrangements at a meal where places of honor were assumed or outright taken without authority only to be reassigned by the host.some are last who will be first, and some who are first will be last. Luke:13-30. What does this mean to you? Thanks, SAE |
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This is part of the story of the Narrow Door. (Luke 13:22-30) People can enter God's Kingdom only through Jesus. Time is indeed slipping away for us and soon the door will be shut; slammed shut. Jesus is calling us to the door so that we can attend "the great wedding banquet", and we'd better enter without delay. After the door is shut, there will only be true believers inside, and there will be those hypocrites and pharisees and those others in charge clamoring unsuccessfully to get in. Specifically the verse... Outsiders and the dregs of society will be saved, while supposedly important people in civil and religious life will lose out. Why? Not because of their status, but rather their faith. (or lack of it) Luke 13:22-30 (English Standard Version) The Narrow Door 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' 26Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 27But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!' 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." WindKnot1-1, What is the,''narrow door'' identified in verse twenty four? Thanks, SAE ''Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it. How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few that find it.'' Matthew 7:13-14 |
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''For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the workers on one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard to work.
When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others(laborers)standing in the marketplace doing nothing. To those men he said,'I will hire you to go into my vinyard and work and at the end of the day I will pay you whatever that I decide is right.' So then the hired laborers went down to the vineyard owner's land to work for the day. Around noon and also around mid-afternoon, he went back over to the marketplace and did and said the same thing to other day laborers who were congregating there looking for work to do. Then latter on around five near the end of the work day he again returned to the marketplace and yet found others standing around, and he said directly to them,'Why have you been standing around here all day doing nothing?' '' 'Because no one hired us today,' they said to him. " ' You also go to my vineyard,' he told them. When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman,' Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.' ''When those who were hired about five came to recieve their pay, they each recieved a full day's wages, one denarius each. So when the first to be hired that day came to recieve their wages, they each recieved one denarius for their pay also. The ones who were hired first early that morning assumed that they would recieve more for working more but only recieved one denarius each. When they recieved it they begain to complain to the landowner and said to him,' These men that you hired last, only put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of working all day out here in this burning heat!' ''He replied to one of them,' Friend, I'm not doing you any wrong. Didn't you agree with me on the amount which you and I have settled for? Take what is yours and go. It is my desire and my decision to give these last men I hired last the same as I gave to you. Don't I have the right to do what I want seeing how that this is my own money and business to do with any way that I want to? Are you being jealous because I am a generous man?' '' So the last will be first and the first will be last.'' Matthew 20:1-16 The Words of Jesus/The Parable of the Vinyard Thanks, SAE |