March 23, 2025 | Dave McGinley
Passage: Luke 14:12-24
"Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread." – DT Niles
“On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, o aged wine well refined.” Isaiah 25:6
Kingdom of God: “where the rule and reign of God is present in His people”
“One Sabbath, when he (Jesus) went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.” Luke 14:1
“He said also to the man who had invited him, ‘When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.’” Luke 14:12-14
God’s upside kingdom invites all to the table.
“But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the servant came and reported these things to his master.” Luke 14:16-20
“I don’t want what the HOST is offering”
“So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry….” Luke 14:21a
What will the master do with his anger? He gives “amazing grace.”
“and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’” Luke 14:21b-24
The Christian life is a feast not a funeral and all are invited to come.
God’s rule and reign invite us to something extravagant, everlasting, and embracing the hungry. Isaiah 25:6-9
Series Information
We will see how Jesus turns upside down the very expectations of a king, a kingdom, and His kingdom people through our series on the Gospel of Luke.
