Be careful that you don't stumble your brother. is not he that sitteth at meat? The chapter closes with Jesus before the council of elders, chief priests, and scribes. ", Meanwhile, He gives them also a new thing. It's not just that, but virtually all Bibles are no longer what they once were until fairly recently, that is. The Greek may mean two things. The parable is intended to give or increase confidence in the heed God pays to the prayer of distress. (VerseLuke 24:30; Luke 24:30. 4. He that was fearful and unbelieving, on the contrary, has his mina taken from him. . 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. Let them retire, as Noah to his ark, and Lot to his Zoar. Remember Lots wife. I tell you, in that night,. Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luke 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the night: there shall be two [men] in one bed; this is said agreeably to the time, the night before mentioned, that being the time to be in bed, at rest and asleep; for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and still suggests the security the people of the Jews would be in, at the time of their destruction. The people behold, the rulers deride, and the soldiers mock; but a superscription was written over Him in Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters This is the King of the Jews. The phrase in Luke does not import some future dispensation or state of things about to be above or below, in visible power, but an imminent coming of God's kingdom, really and truly here. If flood surges over a piece of country and the wild animals congregate for safety on some little bit of higher ground, you will find standing peacefully together animals who are natural enemies and who at any other time would do their best to kill each other. But even so, the Lord Himself would not terminate the Gospel thus. To seek to put a stumbling stone or a block in their faith of Jesus Christ.Jesus said much the same thing at another occasion in which He took a little child and was using a child for an example. They thought it impossible that the Lord Jesus could suffer thus. So too the brief picture of His daily occupation in the temple and of His nights apart at Olivet which in no way precluded the people from coming to hear early in the morning. Little did they estimate the depth unfathomable of the cross, when God hid His face from Him. When He gets to Jerusalem? She only said, Fly, fly, fly!. They were not alone; angels appeared. How is He to be known? Again, then enemies are brought forward. Luke 18:15-17). Nothing of the sort was uttered, but "Lord, remember me." Men pass them over as if there was nothing for the soul in them, as if the Saviour Son of God condescended to a show, a pantomime, instead of enduring the severest conflict and anguish that ever had been the portion of a human heart on this earth. ), Accordingly, the centurion is mentioned here as owning Jesus to be "a righteous man," whatever man might have judged or done. That they had fair warning given them of the ruin that was coming upon them for their sins. Never was any thing but reality in Jesus; but if in the days of His flesh there was one passage more affecting than another, any thing which more than another presents to us His sorrows clearly, graphically and with solemn instruction for us, anything for God Himself above all glorifying (the cross alone excepted) it was this very scene where Jesus avoids and wards off no suffering, but bends to every stroke, (and what was He spared?) All this has its due place in the Gospel for the circumcision. God does not leave man without witness. Such was man, to whom He had been delivered! WebLuke 17:34-35.But the decision at the Parousia, what a separation it will be!a separation of those who are in the temporal life united in a perfectly common position. Need it be remarked here that this again falls in with our evangelist beyond all others? "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.". But here we have another scene, His weeping over that very city that was about to cast Him out and crucify Him. They asked when the kingdom of God should come, forming a notion of it as a temporal kingdom, which should advance the Jewish nation above the nations of the earth. Now doesn't say they were cleansed immediately, but as they went they were cleansed. Our Lord, however, cuts it all short. 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. And even if he trespasses against you seven times in the same day, and seven times in the same day he turns to you again, and says, I repent; thou shalt forgive him ( Luke 17:4 ). There would be no other way of saving their lives than by quitting the Jews, and, if they thought to save themselves by a coalition with them, they would find themselves mistaken (Luke 17:33; Luke 17:33): "Whosoever shall seek to save his life, by declining from his Christianity and complying with the Jews, he shall lose it with them and perish in the common calamity; but whosoever is willing to venture his life with the Christians, upon the same bottom on which they venture, to take his lot with them in life and in death, he shall preserve his life, for he shall make sure of eternal life, and is in a likelier way at that time to save his life than those who embark in a Jewish bottom, or ensure upon their securities." Just keep the record clear. 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. Luke 23:54-56.) It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to trip up. And he said to him, Arise, go your way: your faith has made you whole ( Luke 17:18-19 ). And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come ( Luke 17:20 ). Also, there was a 1970s song, "I just died in your arms tonight." How can we know the Messiah would be God incarnate? 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. Jeremiah 9:23-24. While there are certainly true believers in the phenomenon, uses of the Mandela Effect are First of all, then, we have, for the disciples, God's ways in grace, in the Son of man that first suffers, and finally will appear in power and glory. Posted December 26, 2020 by under Uncategorized December 26, 2020 by under Uncategorized Who could longer doubt that it was really the same Jesus who died, and will yet come in glory? It is intelligible that those who know should judge; not so, as it appears to me, that people should take the place of judging who confessedly do not know. 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. That Christ and his kingdom are not to be looked for in this or that particular place, but his appearance will be general in all places at once (Luke 17:23; Luke 17:24): "They will say to you, See here, or, See there; here is one that will deliver the Jews out of the hands of the oppressing Romans, or there is one that will deliver the Christians out of the hands of the oppressing Jews; here is the Messiah, and there is his prophet; here in this mountain, or there at Jerusalem, you will find the true church. I thought I I love the spunk that Jesus has. I didn't know mustard seeds had faith. Now, do Luke 17:34-37 and Matthew 24:40-41 refer to the rapture? 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. (iv) Luke 17:7-10 tell us that we can never put God in our debt and can never have any claim on him. The pretence of commentators, who rush to hyperbole as a cover for their misapplication, is cut off. The old covenant which condemned was limited. Had they not heard His words? Absolute grace begins, therefore, with the spot which needed it most, and Jerusalem is expressly named. He was what men call a just and good man, yet a chief tax-gatherer and a wealthy one, though they be hard things to put together. Note, Though the sword devours one as well as another, and all things seem to come alike to all, yet sooner or later it shall be made to appear that the Lord knows them that are his and them that are not, and how to take out the precious from the vile. or 'Look there!' I've only done that which was my duty to do. I have little doubt that in this case the reason for putting the blind man here rather than in leaving, the town was, that for Jericho He reserved the wonderful call of Zaccheus, with the object of bringing that tale of grace, characteristic of His first-advent, into juxtaposition with the question and parable of the kingdom, which illustrated His second advent; for immediately afterwards we have His correction of the disciples, thoughts, that the kingdom of God was immediately going to appear; because He was going up to Jerusalem. The Lord admits that there is no abandonment of faith but what will meet with a most adequate remembrance from the Lord another day. 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. We must live so that whenever he comes, at morning, at midday or at evening, he will find us ready. On the person and position of Christ depends the whole of Christianity. LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( Luke 17:1-10 ). Christ was going away to heaven to receive the kingdom from God there not about to take it from man now and in this world. donate paypal: Vlasin792@gmail.com subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClOwk30G5-MUcDm7-QY53mA Slang changes every generation. He only states that it was while the Lord was in the neighbourhood. Both the deprecation and the acceptance were thoroughly perfect both equally in their due place and season. After this our Lord speaks once more of what was written in Moses and prophets and psalms concerning Him. I don't think so. At the same time we have particulars which demonstrate the weighty difference between this description of the judgment of the Jews and Jerusalem, and mark it off from the accounts of either Matthew or Mark. "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations." God has many arrows in his quiver, and uses which he will in making war upon his rebellious subjects, for he can make which he will effectual. Matthew 24:37-39 (NASB). Here the Lord does not say, "Make disciples of all the Gentiles, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." 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. They "were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God;" but they were associated in life and love with One whose glory was far above them or any conceivable precincts of the earth, and were soon to be made one with Him, and to be the vessels of His power by the energy of the Holy Ghost, who would make this evident in due time. The kingdom of God was not designed to be the glory of one people only, but to give light to the Gentiles; for as the lightning that lightens out of one part under heaven, and shines all on a sudden irresistibly to the other part under heaven, so shall also the Son of man be in his day." They are not absolutely dependent on the resurrection. Now, had the story of the blind man healed at Jericho been left for its historical place, it would have cut the thread of these two circumstances. 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This was the sole warrant and ground. We praise the Lord for His goodness to us. These offenses, as people challenge your faith, as people ridicule you for your walk with Jesus Christ, it's gonna happen. ( Revelation 6:10.) But where the heart knows the work done for the soul, there is a work done in that very soul. God teaches us to know the worth of such mercies by the want of them. Depend upon it, we cannot be too stringent in maintaining, the importance both of the resurrection, and of the immediate blessedness or misery of the soul separate from the body before the resurrection.