luke 19:30 commentary

One woman kept grimly silent. The triumphant entry of Jesus, riding on a colt, takes us back to the prophecy of Zechariah, chapter 9. It is always thus in grace. Their love lingered. Matthew 25 New Testament. "Art thou the Christ?" For as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth." Lukes Good News. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Masters University and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. 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. 119. For the days shall come upon you, your enemies will cast a trench about you, they will compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side ( Luke 19:43 ). And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.. Genesis 33. But the words here are no expression of His suffering, as thus abandoned and atoning, but of the peaceful departure of His spirit, as man, into the hands of God the Father. It simply means in the wrong place. As a matter of human righteousness it was well; it was the proof that Zaccheus exercised himself as a man to have a conscience void offence in his own way. . "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. This account of the rich man and Lazarus is either a parable or a real history. He gave his servants the money and then went away and left them to use it as they could and as they thought best. How great is the simplicity and assurance of faith! Web19 It is like a mustard seed that a person took and planted in the garden. [Note: J. D. M. Derrett, "Law in the New Testament: The Palm Sunday Colt," Novum Testamentum 13 (1971):244.] Luke And may they see so, God, their fraudulent ways. And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. 34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him. 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. Jesus was the green tree; and if Jesus was so treated, what should be their fate, as set forth fully by that dry tree, which was Israel? Why seek ye the living (One) among the dead? I think that He had a keen sense of humor. Luke 19:30 (2) This parable was spoken to the promiscuous crowd; that, to the Twelve alone. It is the word of God again brought out; not merely to two of them, but its unspeakable value for them all. The religious leaders question the authority of Jesus. In modern days they manage things both more prudently and more effectually. To give up the reality of the soul's existence in either misery or blessedness at once is only a stepping-stone to materialism; and materialism is but a prelude to giving up both the truth and the grace of God, and all the awful reality of man's sin and Satan's power. He said to those standing by, 'Take the 5 pounds from him and give it to him who has 50 pounds.' Little did they estimate the depth unfathomable of the cross, when God hid His face from Him. His citizens hated him, and they despatched an embassy after him, saying, 'We do not wish this man to be king over us.' This proves yet more than in the other case how far they laboured. (Luke 22:19-20.) But yet, there were those periods of silence where they didn't hear the laughter outside, those times when Jesus was probing, talking, dealing with Zacchaeus.Now the doors are opening again and Zacchaeus is standing there before the Lord. 37, 38.) And if any man asks you, Why are you loosing him? He knew neither God nor good. So the ministers took on such awell, they wore the black suits. (Verses Luke 19:41-44.) Until now, Jesus typically discouraged people from proclaiming that He was the Messiah. As the news of Jesus raising of Lazarus spread, more and more people flocked to see him. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.". The godly remnant of the Jews must know the rejected Messiah there. He was a man of faith, and for his faith, God accounted him as righteous (Genesis 15:16; Romans 4:3). Luke Luke 22. We should follow Jesus because He is the Lord of authority, the Lord of creation, the Lord of prophecy, and the Lord of judgment. ), Thus the great evangelist, who exhibits what is most real for man's heart now, and what most of all maintains the glory of God in Christ, binds these things together for our instruction. said they all. We owe it to Christ to resent every misinterpretation which goes to undo what He has done on the cross. Expository Sermons All the evangelists record the fall; Luke alone records Christ's gracious prayer for, and purpose in, his restoration. He that filled with blessing the hearts devoted to Him in His life, was still blessing them when He was separated from them for heaven. And as they heard these things, he added a parable, because they were near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear ( Luke 19:11 ). Gospel of Luke from Various Versions of the Holy Scriptures. Sermons on Luke Webd. What a league of peace over the rejection of the Saviour! Before that day of His appearing there might be a premature "Lo here! The entry of Jesus into Jerusalem (Luke 19:28 This is the reason why difficulties are felt and abound. Such was the fruit of His blessing, and of His great grace. Luke Luke 22:23; Luke 22:23.) Because that I may have to do. ), Luke then ushers in another scene, still more precious, peculiar in its details at least to himself the journey to Emmaus, where Jesus joins Himself to the two downcast disciples, who discoursed, as they went, on the irreparable loss they had sustained. 35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon. THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY (Mark 11:1 *, Matthew 21:1 *). (The word Hosanna, meaning Save us, O Lord, came from two Hebrew words found in Psalms 118:0, where Israels victorious king was welcomed with the words, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; Psalms 118:25-26. I take for granted now that there is a firm hold of His bearing God's wrath on the cross. It was an opportunity not to be missed. It is the more striking, because the circumstances are evidently limited; while that which He draws from them is universal. More remains of similar character, especially the very distinct privileges of the understanding opened to understand, and the power of the Holy Ghost; the one given then, the other not till Pentecost. Who was he that could correct the judgment of priests or governor? Oh, praise the Lord." It would have been natural that, if he must go into Jerusalem at all, he should have slipped in unseen and hidden away in some secret place in the back streets. There is retributive severity, but not a sign appears of its being anything unparalleled. However, those servants to whom He has entrusted His goods will be judged according to what they did, their stewardship of those goods with which they were entrusted. He who on the cross tasted, for expiation, the unutterable woe of which Matthew and Mark speak, is the same Jesus who, Luke tells us, never wavered for a moment, not merely in His obedience, but in unreserved confidence in God; and the expression of this, not of atonement, I read in the precious words, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." 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. is not he that sitteth at meat? Luke did not record Jesus actual entrance into the city of Jerusalem. But here, on the contrary, by virtue of Christ's death who put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, all disappears in the presence of the infinite grace of God all blessing secured, if there be but the acceptance of Christ and His work. 19:1-10 Those who sincerely desire a sight of Christ, like Zaccheus, will break through opposition, and take pains to see him. There was a meeting in progress at which several women were giving their testimony. Then came the first, and he said, Lord, your pound has gained ten pounds. Only there is a difficulty here to some that Luke appears to contradict what we have in the other accounts of this part of Christ's progress. Therefore He takes all from God, and feels all, as it really was for His glory. "This is the day that the Lord has made." Because the Pharisees knew that that was a Messianic Psalm, they began to rebuke the disciples, or began to tell Jesus, "You better rebuke them." Sermon Commentary for Sunday, October 30, 2022. They both agree to give glory to God in the highest. To change a coin of exact value they charged one maah, which was equal to 1 pence. Not only is there the sack of the city, the slaughter and captivity of the people, but continual occupation by their enemies till the termination of the period God allows the nations to have the supremacy over Israel. What was the matter or occasion of their joy and praise. However, we do not feel this is the best method for using the Blue Letter Bible. He called His ten servants, and delivered to them ten pounds; and said unto them, "Occupy till I come." Well, the Lord is coming; there's no sense of not entering into this business ventureor, let's just wait, because the Lord is coming." Indeed, what else can incredulity ever pretend to? He alone of the two judged things according to his little light. 19:30 Commentaries It was not a question of peace on earth now. Christ sent to fetch an ass and her colt from their owner's and master's crib, when he had occasion for their service, and might do so, for all the beasts of the forest are his, and the tame beasts too. 28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem. Jesus must first suffer; so "the sufferings of Christ," as Peter said afterwards, "and the glories that should follow." We are planning to go on the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation that covers all of the area of the Philippines on into large areas of China and into India. And when he went to Rome, he left his duties in the hands of some of his subordinates with whom he left the funds that they might run the affairs of state. WebLuke. Here there is no cry to God in the sense of being forsaken, when His soul was made an offering for sin. 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." How Can We Model the Love of Jesus by Showing Compassion? "No man can serve two masters; you cannot serve God and mammon." The evil is not merely his sins, but his religion: nothing more blinding to himself and other men, nothing more dishonouring to God. Luke 24:5-8; Luke 24:5-8.) WebBible > Commentaries > Luke 19:7 [This act is going even yet further than the act of eating with sinners in the way which is mentioned in ch. If I have taken anything from any man by fraud I give it back to him four times over." Wherever there is that which is dead, and consequently offensive morally unto God, there unquestionably will His judgments fall. Towards the end of the chapter (ver. It was Simon that furnished the material. That is (comp. (Verses Luke 18:18-25.). John tells us that "Jesus did not need that any man should testify Him of man, because He knew man and He knew what was in man." And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. "It came to pass, that as he came nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging." When the last days come, be assured they will learn too late that there is no hyperbole with God or His word. May we prove that it is indeed like Christ, of whom it speaks, needed, real, and unerring light to our souls; that it is also the sole, adequate, and irrefragable witness of divine wisdom and grace, but this only as revealed in and by Christ! A rejected Messiah, fitly and according to prophecy, finds Himself in Galilee, the despised place. Luke It is more personal, and hence deals more closely with the heart and conscience.
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