Sermon Notes From Luke 14 Who Is Coming To Dinner

Finally July 24, 2022 I was able to be back on my blog. From my Bible Lesson today: Luke 14 Luke 14:8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him, KJV Luke 14:8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him JESUS CONTINUES TO CONFRONT SELFISH PRIDE When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast - Jesus is going to point to a "danger" in making a mad dash for the places of honor.

Humbles (5013) (tapeinoo) is in the present tense signifying that pursuit of a humble attitude to be our continual practice (as alluded to in Paul's example above). The active voice signifies that humbling ourself is a choice of our will. We willingly accept humility. He who humbles himself will be exalted - The paradox that seems foolish to the unregenerate mind is that the way "up" in God's Kingdom is first "down!" It is only the humble man or woman who will acknowledge their inability to earn God's favor, and seeing that they fall short, they reach out by grace through faith to lay hold of Christ's perfect righteousness. "The true way to be humble, is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature."