July 31, 2024
Morning Bible Reading and Meditation from Luke 14 KJV
Morning Online Devotional Bible Study August 1, 2024
For Mithcah Bible Baptist Church – Bahrain
“23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”
“Compel them to Come in, That My House May Be Filled”
Invitation: It’s The LORD’s given algorithm to mankind .
He invited us all through His pure and whole spoken word; His written words which should not be added with nor subtracted, but rightly divide for us to multiply. And not only that; we can bear multiple fruits if we did.
In this chapter, The LORD attended and not refused Invitations. Whether it be from dining with Pharisees or wedding invitation, there is no record that He refused. He took every opportunity to preach and to teach; setting an example of giving time and importance to people’s invitation, obviously, for The LORD to establish the form of His mission ministry.
That through this example, He conveyed through us His message: that if He sent His invitation to everyone, everybody should also attend as their response.
The LORD of hosts, the Son of GOD, Choses to become the Son of man, for invitations.
He did many miracles of feeding the multitude, healed the sickly even the leprous, He even enter into the house of sinners and dine with them, speaking to them His words; testifying to them through His magnificent works, for them to know He is The True Sent One.
Sadly, in His parable here v.15-24, some of those to whom He intentionally sent His messenger to give them invitation, they make excuses not to come.
And from God’s own people refusal, them who are in the high ways and hedges were given privilege to come. The LORD’s teachings, ushers us to understand the things that happened now. Where we, who are not among His people, who have come to take heed to The LORD’s teachings understood these:
The LORD commanded His servants to invite and compel people to come in, that His house may be filled. The same way, we who received The LORD were also commanded to invite “diners” to feast with us from the spiritual food, supposedly for everyone He has prepared . That people should be nourished by the sincere, pure and true words of The LORD which answers all life’s issues.
Let us be diligent to learn more from GOD’s words, that we may be confident to invite others who have not yet tasted GOD’s nourishing words. Counting all the cost we should spend or we may lost for the cause of CHRIST, yet and nonetheless, should not despairs us, for everything we did for CHRIST adds up to our eternal gain .
Let us learn from Christ preference, prompted always by the Holy Spirit, for we are privileged to be already in the House of GOD; that we should be passionate such as in the likeness of CHRIST.
Good morning.
Luke 14
King James Version
14 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.
8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourableman than thou be bidden of him;
9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sittethnot down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consultethwhether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desirethconditions of peace.
33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakethnot all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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