Immediately after (and, if I mistake not, expressly put in close conjunction with this) is the parable of the nobleman who goes into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 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. Luke 12:35-48; Luke 14:7-24; Luke 21:5-33). And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." Little did they estimate the depth unfathomable of the cross, when God hid His face from Him. It often happens that a friend, a teacher, a doctor, a surgeon does something for us which it is impossible to repay; but the tragedy is that we often do not even try to repay it. Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. And it's no help to tell a person, "Well, if you just had enough faith you wouldn't be in this condition, brother." After this our Lord speaks once more of what was written in Moses and prophets and psalms concerning Him. And so the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed ( Luke 17:6 ). Further, we know that just as Matthew, for his design, so he displaces facts historically for the purpose of giving a more forcible moral picture of the truth in hand. In Luke we have not the charge of the work committed to the workmen, as in Mark, with signatures of God's gracious power accompanying; but here it is the message of a Saviour dead and risen, the Second Man, according to Scripture, and the moral need of man and the grace of God, who proclaims in His name repentance and remission to all the nations or Gentiles. or, lo there! This he had never suspected in himself before. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He cannot give us the understanding of a state which we have never experienced, unless it be by figures taken from the present state. The Lord intimates in reply that faith grows, and even in the presence of difficulty. He does not look at the devil, or Jews, or Gentiles. So, in the next scene at Jerusalem, this finds its full display; for the Lord Jesus comes into their midst, and partakes of food before their eyes. How perfect it all is! @keyframes ibDwUVR1CAykturOgqOS5{0%{transform:rotate(0deg)}to{transform:rotate(1turn)}}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq{--sizePx:0;font-size:4px;position:relative;text-indent:-9999em;border-radius:50%;border:4px solid var(--newCommunityTheme-bodyTextAlpha20);border-left-color:var(--newCommunityTheme-body);transform:translateZ(0);animation:ibDwUVR1CAykturOgqOS5 1.1s linear infinite}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq,._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq:after{width:var(--sizePx);height:var(--sizePx)}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq:after{border-radius:50%}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq._2qr28EeyPvBWAsPKl-KuWN{margin:0 auto} 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. 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. 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. On the subject of these verses see Matthew 24:40-41. It is absent in the best ancient Greek manuscripts. The Spirit of God speaks to be understood, and (if He is to be understood by men) He must deign to use language adapted to our comprehension. 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." The Greek masculine gender could describe a man and his wife, however. Jesus Second Coming is for those who have believed in Him for the forgiveness of their sins. There we discover Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are illustrations of the Judgment of the Nations, which is also called the Sheep and Goat Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46). These seem out of place in the Bible. A scribe probably inserted Luke 17:36 (cf. Here we have a signal change or converse. The Greek may mean two things. Just taking advantage of you. Such is another great point shown out here. Thus, the only perfect man, the last Adam, who was there rejected of the Jews, and despised of men, with a loud voice, which denied the exhaustion of nature in His death, commended His spirit, as man, to His Father. This may be the way of men, to avoid what they can, and think as little as possible of what is painful and disagreeable. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.". This means that both Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are events that will occur after the second coming of Christ. But the Lord adds more immediate blessedness now: "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." There is that life principle there that can move mountains. He was a man thus characterised; for it is no promise of what he is going to do, but he mentions that which was no doubt a fact about himself at that very moment. 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?) The design of the setting up of Christ's kingdom was not to make one nation great, but to make all nations good--some, at least, of all nations; and this point shall be gained, though the nations rage, and the kings of the earth set themselves with all their might against it. (VersesLuke 18:9-14; Luke 18:9-14.). One is taken, where Lord? Now I know that's difficult in marriage, and God help me, I'm trying. The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a common memory of something that differs from what is generally accepted to be fact. They may not obelize or obliterate; but they do not believe them. ._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} He is religious, but such religion is the most damning thing about him. Again, it is a scene peculiar to Luke, that, in the presence of the Saviour's death, Satan sifts one of the chief followers that belonged to the Saviour. ), Accordingly, the centurion is mentioned here as owning Jesus to be "a righteous man," whatever man might have judged or done. Speculation is vain. We are to be firm against ourselves; we are to be firm for our brethren, even where they touch ourselves. Would they get left out? 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! There never was any one that had such a sense of death before as Jesus, just because He was life, the energy of which, combined with perfect; love, made the power of death to be so sensible. or 'Look there!' The one in chapter 21 deals mainly with the near future from Jesus perspective and the destruction of Jerusalem. "[38] The evidence, however, favors the other view. He would erect no barricade of miracles to shelter Himself. ( Luke 17:1 ). The parable is intended to give or increase confidence in the heed God pays to the prayer of distress. In Matthew the point appears to be the rejection of Jerusalem, the rejecter, because of its Messiah, the discipular remnant starting from the mountain in Galilee; and the presence of the Lord being guaranteed till the end of the age, when other changes come. 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. The seal of the Holy Ghost is unknown until there is the submission of faith to the death of Jesus. A similar truth appears also later on in the case of the converted thief. At first, indeed, you will have wonderful success" (so they had, when thousands were added to the church in a day); "but do not think it will be always so; no, you will be persecuted and scattered, silenced and imprisoned, so that you will not have opportunities of preaching the gospel without fear, as you now have; people will grow cool to it, when they have enjoyed it awhile, so that you will not see such harvests of souls gathered in to Christ afterwards as at first, nor such multitudes flocking to him as doves to their windows." http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/7901.html, Just so you know You're inspiring me to go check. WebThis is a phenomenon where a large group of people collectively misremember a fact. 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. I wish I could, I wish I did, but I don't. I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. Such was man, to whom He had been delivered! It is not a question of signs, wonders, or outward show. Was this the condition of the disciples as yet? He was about to drink of a far different cup, which His Father would give Him the anti-type of the passover, and the basis of the Lord's Supper. If He was but a man there was no goodness in Him; it is only in God: God alone is good. This was for other hands. One would have thought that this discourse of our Saviour's, which was public, and not long after published to the world, should have awakened them; but it did not, for the hearts of that people were hardened, to their destruction. 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The same can be said of all religious texts, cults, governments, militaries, and so on and so forth. They are persons who live merely for the present. heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. But will you not rather say unto him, Prepare my supper, gird yourself, and serve me, until I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you can eat and drink? 2. We are not quite sure what Jesus went on to say. You wouldn't be as sick as you are if you just had enough faith." Now, verse Luke 17:29 I feel is significant, "But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all." To obey my master. Not that I allow it any more in Matthew. On the other hand, there is the hatred of man, the weakness of the disciples, the falsehood of Peter, the treachery of Judas, the subtlety and terrors of the enemy who had the power of death. God will provide for them on the other side Jordan, and then a deluge of judgments shall flow in upon them, which will destroy all the unbelieving Jews. In those days, it wasn't uncommon for people to share a bed, married or not, same sex or not. For itself it discovers the blessedness of freedom from the law, yet is not lawless to God, but, on the contrary, legitimately bound ( ) to Christ, really and duly subject to Him, and so much the more because not under law. Our countdown includes Tom Cruise Wearing Sunglasses, Bruce Springsteen Bandana or Cap?, DX Riding a Tank, John Lennon's Imagine Suit, and more! but woe unto him, through whom they come! And Lord, we would with Your disciples pray, increase our faith. Luke 17:34 and Matthew 24:40 both describe events that will occur at the Goat and Sheep Judgment. The evil is not merely his sins, but his religion: nothing more blinding to himself and other men, nothing more dishonouring to God. It will then be too late for people to do anything to save themselves. It was the last act of communion of Christ with them. 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. But if they do repent, then you . And He's talking to them a little about what a servant . Wherever there is sin, there the divine judgment will fall (Luke 17:37). He had come to do His will, and had done it in the face of growing scorn and rejection; and God had not guarded Him from the murderous hate of man, but contrariwise, delivered Him into their hands, greater things being in counsel and accomplishment than if He had been received. Also, there was a 1970s song, "I just died in your arms tonight." (2.) Observe, that he who exemplifies this action of divine grace was one that knew not traditional religion as the others did, that had no great privileges to boast of in comparison with the rest. It was common for a mother and daughter or two female friends to grind grain together in Jesus day (cf. Here is Luke 17:30-33, It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. Now I'm gonna grab my Mother's Bible and read it myself BRB. Luke, on the contrary, says nothing of Galilee at this point. Taken up to escape the Great Tribulation period. the ball is in your park and you've got to forgive. Slang changes every generation. God gave us his only Son and often we never give to him even a word of thanks. The honourable counsellor renounced the expediency and prudence of the past, horrified, no doubt, at their counsel and deed to which he had not assented. There is no greater mistake than to suppose, that an object of affection to Him before He died ceases to be such to Him when risen. . Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Would He, would God, not make them good? It is possible that offences will come; but woe to him through whom they come! ), There is a third supplemental point, which I only touch on His instant disappearance after He was made known to them in the sign of His death. In remorse and despair, casting the price of innocent blood into the very sanctuary, and going away to hang himself; here no imprecation of His blood on them and on their children; here no detail of the guilty people's unconscious accomplishment of the living oracles of God in the Psalms and Prophets; nor here any allusion to the earthquake, and the rent rocks, and opened graves, or the subsequent appearing of risen saints to many in the holy city. Rebuke him. How is He to be known? Simon, sadly ignorant of himself, is full of bold promises to go to prison or to death; but, says the Lord, "Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me." On the contrary, though the true God, He was a true man, and a holy sufferer, having a heart that felt every thing: this is the truth of Christ as man. Therefore, it is implied that the two are women. Not necessarily two separate people as we've always believed? Or, lo there! It is an important lesson, and not the first time we find it in Luke, and, indeed, in other Gospels also. Oh it is a truth for us to treasure in our hearts His weeping in divine grace over guilty Jerusalem, forsaking its own mercies, rejecting its own Saviour the Lord God. It was the Samaritan in whom the Lord illustrated the power of faith. What was the result? What would Christ's kingdom be to him, if his sins were not blotted out? Just keep the record clear. The figures, no doubt, are taken, as they must be, from the body. Now the Jews had no dealings with a Samaritan nor the Samaritans with the Jews. Substantially Mark gives Galilee for the active life of the Saviour like Matthew, because, as has been said, there His ministry was chiefly exercised, and only occasionally in Jerusalem or elsewhere. ( Luke 17:17 ). On the other hand, the poor publican has neither clear light nor peace, but at least he realises the commencement of all true light he has learned enough of God to condemn himself. (VersesLuke 23:44-46; Luke 23:44-46. The lepers stood far off. for if he had, he would, of course, have put it forward. 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. These times are going on now. But it was not possible; and so He adds, "Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." This one stresses the distant future and the Second Coming. (Luke 21:1-4.) The Lord, therefore calls upon him to give them up, and follow Him. This is the main subject with which the parable opens. Towards the end of the chapter (ver. They started with similar advantages. "Take heed to yourselves. The healing of the blind man was a kind of final testimony that Messiah was there. 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. Apparently the wife of Lot was rescued by angelic power; she was certainly brought out of the doomed city; but it was only the more strikingly to be the monument of God's all-searching judgment. People will come with false prophecies and false predictions; but we must not leave our ordinary work to follow them. Had they possessed the faith only to cry to Messiah about their blindness, He was therewith power and willingness to heal them. Of course, whenever He returns some people on earth will be sleeping and others will be awake. Thus at the present time the Turks are the actual holders of it. On the face of the account, this was the great living lesson that our Lord was teaching, us through the two disciples. . (Verses Luke 18:35-43. This is not the theme predicted by prophets, but a glory which the person of Jesus alone can account for, and His grace alone introduce to. This is a matter of fact description of what was really fulfilled to the letter in the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus. And we think of it in quantity or in size. "There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people." [4.] Henceforth it was not a question of a living, Messiah on the earth, but of Him that was dead and risen, now seen by faith in the word of God. Let him not regard his stuff at such a time, when it will be next to a miracle of mercy if he have his life given him for a prey. By Good And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? How can we know the Messiah would be God incarnate? It was probably borrowed from Matthew 24:40. It is the ever perfect man, Christ Jesus, with unwavering confidence committing His spirit into His Father's keeping. He first must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation. No blow fell upon them. "Yes, I forgive you." He never cast out either a soul that came to Him, or a prayer that was founded on His glory, and desired association with Him. Two shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, the other left. For, as the flashing lightning lights up the sky from one side to another, so shall be the Son of Man in his day. (i) Luke 17:1-2 condemn the man who teaches others to sin. It was the same tale at the end as at the beginning. "And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, [what a rebuke to their unbelief!] And they said, Nothing. Its common for people to remember situations differently. Jesus is dead and risen, and so must be known, if He is to be known aright. Luke 17:34 | New King James Version (NKJV) [ 34 ] I 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. They proclaim that Luke 17:34-35 said two people would be in the same bed, not two men. This looks forward to his disciples in after-ages; they must expect much disappointment; the gospel will not be always preached with equal liberty and success. He's called these disciples to be a servant. . In Matthew, Galilee is the quarter especially noticed. Often one will be taken and another left. Look as far back as the old world, when all flesh had corrupted their way, and the earth was filled with violence. Thus the parable is a very complete sketch of the general results of the Lord's second advent for the citizens of the world, as well as of the occupation and reward of the servants who serve Him faithfully meanwhile. "Behold the fig-tree and all the trees." It were wise, not to say becoming humility, to wait and learn. That's no help at all. Two women will be grinding together. 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. It was not at the grave of the one He loved, though about to call from the grave. The nine--where are they? When they should have been, as the men of Nineveh, fasting and praying, repenting and reforming, upon warning given them of an approaching judgment, they were going on securely, eating flesh, and drinking wine, when God called to weeping and to mourning,Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13. Our Lord is next (ver. But this presentation to faith now, as we have seen does not hinder the Lord from speaking of another day, when the kingdom of God would be manifest. Why not lament for themselves; for in truth there were days of sorrow coming, when they should say, "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare; and the paps that never gave suck." Because to me, the problem is that man has tried to make it so complex when God has made the believing in Jesus so simple that even a child can believe and be saved. (Luke 19:1-10.). . And he fell down on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan ( Luke 17:15-16 ). Luke groups the external facts together, and leaves the Lord's death more alone with its moral adjuncts. Sleeping with someone having a sexual connotation is a modern invention. Who that believes and understands the cross could dream longer of man's worthiness? But it is much to believe it to be what it really is, not (as unbelief thinks) a field of darkness and uncertainty, requiring light upon it, but a light itself, which communicates light to the dark, through the power of the Holy Ghost revealing Christ. "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. When shall we see this long-looked-for kingdom?". The opportunity of just growing in our walk and in our fellowship. There is not a witness for Jesus now. And Jesus said unless you become as a little child you won't be able to come in to the kingdom of Heaven. God will not forgive you if you don't repent, therefore, God does not require that you forgive outside of repentance. (Verses Luke 18:18-25.). 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. Luke 24:5-8; Luke 24:5-8.) 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. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" In some time of bitter need we pray with desperate intensity; the time passes and we forget God. They asked when it would come. Luke 20:1-8), then the people hearing the history of God's dealings with them, and their moral condition fully brought out. Thus Jesus was pleased, Himself with them, that the truth of His death should flash upon the two souls at Emmaus. That judgment is the Goat and Sheep Judgment. Next, we have the entrance into Jerusalem. or, lo there! Next is set forth humility, founded on our littleness (ver. "Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together." "And they worshipped him." The verb grinding is feminine. 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. A common misfortune had broken down the racial and national barriers. (Ver. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. But here we have another scene, His weeping over that very city that was about to cast Him out and crucify Him. We have the priests with their question of authority (ver. And he said to him, "Rise and go! Hence our Lord expounds to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. 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. The answer begins by understanding that duosimply means two. The word can refer to two men, two women, two children, a mother and a child, or two of anything. And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come ( Luke 17:20 ). How it had been with sinners formerly, and in what posture the judgments of God, of which they had been fairly warned, did at length find them. When God's judgments are laying all waste, he will take an effectual course to preserve those that are his, by remarkable providences distinguishing between them and others that were nearest to them: two in a bed, one taken and the other left; one snatched out of the burning and taken into a place of safety, while the other is left to perish in the common ruin. Certainly God will not be heedless to the continual cry of His own seemingly desolate elect in their fiery trial, where all the might of man is against them; but still the duty always remains true. "Glory in the highest" is the result, not the introduction; and instead of "peace on earth," (which will, no doubt, be the fruit by and by, as it is according to God's mind, the anticipation from the beginning,) the disciples meanwhile and most appropriately, sing, "Peace in heaven." Ministers and churches will sometimes be under outward restraints. It was not called this in the 1970s, but the songwriter was hiding it by using the really old slang. Accordingly, Luke puts together those two features the grace that illustrates His first coming, and the real nature of the second coming of Christ, as far as regards the appearing of God's kingdom. It was indeed concurrent with a change of vast import for Himself not awaiting His death, but in many respects beginning before it. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under. The Lord is exhorting to prayer, in view of the final trial; nevertheless, He prefaces it with a plain moral precept on the value. the converse proves true. And this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken." So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we haven't done any more than what was our duty to do ( Luke 17:9-10 ). 8. And so, that same hour, we see the disciples returning to Jerusalem, and finding the eleven there, who say, "The Lord hath risen, and appeared unto Simon." And if he repents forgive him. It simply means that the Christian standard of forgiveness must immeasurably exceed the best the world can achieve. WebLuke 17:34. 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 Always been this way for me. Come a little lower, and think how it was with the men of Sodom, who were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. Accordingly they do but discover and condemn themselves. According to the Lord's word, the place was given. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, at the end of time, sinners will be found in the same secure and careless posture, altogether regardless of the judgment approaching, which will therefore come upon them as a snare; and in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end, nor the account that they must give.