Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come ( Luke 17:1 ): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have offenses come your way. Matthew passes by the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and fixes attention upon that which will take place in the end of the age. The old covenant which condemned was limited. Now their hour was come, and the power of darkness. The word of God here the Old Testament interpreted by Jesus is the most valuable means for ascertaining the mind of God. The Messiah was about to be openly cut off. (VersesLuke 18:9-14; Luke 18:9-14.). He was right; and Jesus replies with ineffable grace, and according to that style so worthy of God (compare Psalms 132:1-18), which not only answers the prayer of faith, but invariably surpasses it. What I really find most worrisome about all this is that if an irreplaceable reference work and resource like the Bible can be rendered unreliable, untrustworthy, and impotent for the average person, then so too can any and all others they now have free and open access to. Then he turns to Jesus, and says, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." It would be wrong to say that the kingdom of God was in the Pharisees. I'm so good." So it was here: and it is of great importance that those who maintain the work for, should equally maintain the work in. Still farther to show its character, and His unimpeachable relation to God, as well as how really He was a suffering man, "there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. They desired to have their curiosity satisfied concerning the time of it, to which Christ does not give them any answer, but will have their mistakes rectified concerning the nature of it: "It is not for you to know the times of this kingdom, these are secret things, which belong not to you; but the great intentions of this kingdom, these are things revealed." (Wasn't it two people or a couple implying a man and a woman More particularly remark this that he alone, of all the evangelists, here characterizes men, in the activities of this life, as "the children of this world," or age. But here the Saviour is viewed in His absolute dependence and trust in Him, whom He had set before Him, as in life always, so with equal affiance of heart in death. but woe unto him, through whom they come! There was a time in our lives when a week's neglect would have killed us. Our Lord is next (ver. There was a sense of grace, as well as of sin, and sensitiveness about God's will. And I'm trudging upstairs to bed and, "Oh, Lord, You ought to really lay a heavy one on me now. ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} This indicates that the Lord is looking for thanks when He has worked in a person's life. 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Oh, let me ask you a question. When a man is made willing to receive the truth, his eye is single and his whole body full of light. We know that the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans; yet in this band there was at least one Samaritan. It is described in Matthew 25:31-46. Luke 17:34 | New King James Version (NKJV) [ 34 ] I "And they worshipped him." It was the province of John to show Him even then above all circumstances in personal glory. It is not a question of signs, wonders, or outward show. In verse 35 we enter on the closing section of all the historical Gospels, as is well known, that is to say, the entrance into Jerusalem from Jericho. In my mind you are making this one up. For example, an English professor once told my class that the word "plowing" in a poem meant sex. But, in view of the Gentile calling, New Testament grace has here a happier task. (Compare Psalms 16:1-11; Psalms 31:1-24) It was the atoning One. This is made perfectly plain to any one who considers it patiently. And that's what the word offense here; it's a stone of stumbling, a scandalon. As being the kingdom of God, it is impossible that His kingdom should come, without adequate testimony in love to man, who is sought for it. You're kicking a guy when he's down.I cannot generate faith; I cannot produce faith. He compares it to the days of Noe (that is, to the day of God's past judgment of man and his ways); then to the days of Lot. 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. That they were surprised with the ruin which they would not fear, and were swallowed up in it, to their unspeakable horror and amazement. 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. Observe more especially this, that here the Lord Jesus brings before us a very direct and immediate picture of the destruction of Jerusalem that was then imminent. ._3-SW6hQX6gXK9G4FM74obr{display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;font-size:16px;line-height:16px} (Verses Luke 18:18-25.). He led them out, then, as far as Bethany, the retreat of the Saviour, to which His heart turned in the days of His flesh. Those who confine Christianity and the church to this place or that party, cry, Lo here, or Lo there, than which nothing is more contrary to the designs of catholic Christianity; so do they who make prosperity and external pomp a mark of the true church. "The judgments that are to destroy the Jewish nation, to lay them waste, and to deliver the Christians from them, shall fly like lightning through the land, shall lay all waste from one end of it to another; and those that are marked for this destruction can no more avoid it, nor oppose it, than they can a flash of lightning." We cannot discharge our duty to God by proxy nor even by association. The one shall be taken; by the Roman soldiers: and the other shall be left; being, by one providence or another preserved; which is mentioned, to show the distinction God will make in his providence, and to encourage believers to trust in it. He lets us know that in that night two should be in one bed; one taken, and the other left. No prison closed its doors upon one of the twelve, or of the seventy. Further, He opens their understanding to understand the Scriptures, and gives them their great commission, but bids them remain in Jerusalem till endued with power from on high, when He sends them the promise of the Father. Luke 17:11-19) presented in a very characteristic way, showing that faith does not necessarily wait for a change of dispensation. They will continue secure, will go on in their neglect and opposition of Christ and his gospel, till all the Christians are withdrawn from among them and gone to the place of refuge. The verse in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) and the New King James Version Bible (NKJV) reads as follows, I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. The figures, no doubt, are taken, as they must be, from the body. "No man can deliver his brother." There is no worse invention against the truth, unless it be the lie which denies Him to be God the Son. Therefore He takes all from God, and feels all, as it really was for His glory. It matters not whether it be in Abraham or in a Samaritan leper, its path is entirely outside the ken of nature, yet faith does not fail to discern it; the Lord assuredly puts His seal upon it, and grace supplies all needed strength to follow. If you were a leper you had to cry, "Unclean," and could not allow anyone to approach you. But if God invites a believer now to draw near into the holiest of all, is it not equal presumption for that soul to quarrel with the grace of God displayed in Christ's work of redemption, and to raise questions about its effects for itself? "And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous) and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican." If He was but a man there was no goodness in Him; it is only in God: God alone is good. It was meet it should be so. ._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 veil of the temple, too, which characterized the whole system of the Jewish religion, was rent from top to bottom. (Ver. (Verses Luke 18:1-8. "He fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. The NKJV translates the Greek word duoas two men in Luke 17:34, but the NASB does not. How many a man acknowledges justification by faith in a general sense, who, the moment you make it personal, would shrink from taking the place of a justified man, as if this would be too much for God to give him! Because I don't pat people on the back. The one in chapter 21 deals mainly with the near future from Jesus perspective and the destruction of Jerusalem. As we know, the Lord deigns to go yet farther in John; but there it was to convict Thomas's unbelief, as well as with a mysterious typical meaning behind. On the subject of these verses see Matthew 24:40-41. But Mandela was very much alive at the time of the conference, and when he died four years later in 2013, he was a free man. Say, I'm an unprofitable servant. It was part of the very perfection of Jesus that he felt and deprecated the awful cup. A Definitive Study of the Rapture of the Church, pp. As the dissolution of the Jewish church shall be extended to all parts, so shall the constitution of the Christian church. But, at the same time, Luke never confines his view to outward facts. "Oh, I'm sorry. And it is a great failing of mine not to give her more recognition for those good traits, those beautiful traits that she has. Be assured that we know but in part, and have much to learn, especially of that which does not touch our own immediate necessities; but there is one thing we are always responsible for and that is, to submit to God, to believe Him, even though we enter very little into the depths of all that He has written for us of Jesus. But with Jesus, there the kingdom of God was among them. In Matthew and Mark, and even in John, their forsaking of Christ is very conspicuous a little later. Lord says, "No, no." The gospel is preached, it is confirmed by miracles, it is embraced by multitudes, so that it is in your nation, though not in your hearts." It is evident, whether you go into a place or whether you come out of it, you are equally nigh on one side of the town or on the other. Now it is glorious when God plants that faith in your heart, but if He doesn't I don't know what you can do about it. 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