CHAPTER 14 OFFENSES Luke 17:1-2. _“And He said to His disciples, It is impossible that offenses should not come; but woe unto him by whom they come! It is better for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he has been precipitated into the sea, rather than that he may offend one of these l... [ Continue Reading ]
FORGIVENESS INDEFINITE Luke 17:3-4. _“Take heed unto yourselves: If thy brother may sin, correct him: if he may repent, forgive him. And if he may sin against thee seven times a day, and turn unto thee, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him.”_ This Scripture follows in immediate connection with th... [ Continue Reading ]
QUALITY RATHER THAN QUANTITY Luke 17:5-6. _“And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If you have faith as a seed of mustard, you said to this sycamine-tree, Be thou plucked up and planted in the sea, and it obeyed you.”_ The apostles, heating and considering His weig... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HERESY OF SUPEREROGATION Luke 17:7-10. _“And which one of you having a servant, plowing or herding stock, who will say to him, having returned from the field, having come in immediately, Sit down to eat? But will he not say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and girding thyself, wait on me until t... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 1 THE TEN LEPERS Luke 17:11-19. _“And it came to pass, while He was journeying to Jerusalem, and He was going through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.”_ These two countries lie side by side. I traveled that same route from the, Sea of Galilee, through Samaria and Judea, to Jerusalem. _“An... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNOBSERVABLE Luke 17:20-21. _“And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God is coming, He responded to them and said, The kingdom of God comes not wit observation; neither shall they say, Lo here or there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is among you.”_ Our Savior's tea... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR LORD'S SECOND COMING Luke 17:22; Luke 18:8. _“And He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it.”_ Having answered the captious question of those critical Pharisees, informing them that the kingdom of God, which c... [ Continue Reading ]
WARNING AGAINST IMPOSTORS Luke 17:23-24. _“And they will say to you, Lo here! lo there! Go not away, neither pursue them; for as the lightning, shining from the region under heaven, flashes out to that which is under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in His day.”_ Jesus knew that impostors were goi... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SUFFERINGS Luke 17:25. _“But in the first place, it behooveth Him to suffer many things, and to be set at naught by this generation.”_ The whole panorama of the Messianic history was simultaneously moving before His eyes. He saw the cruel mob, the frowning tribunals, the rugged cross, the bloo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAYS OF NOAH Luke 17:26-27. _“And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of man. They were eating, drinking, marrying, getting married, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”_ Abel was a holy man, and God's first... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAYS OF LOT Luke 17:28-30. _“Likewise it was thus in the days of Lot. They were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; and on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven, and destroyed them all. According to these things shall it be in the day the Son o... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPEDITION Luke 17:31-32. _“In that day, let him who shall be upon the housetop, and his goods in the house, not come down to take them; and he who is in the field, likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife.”_ From these and many other clear affirmations of our Savior, we learn that He will come... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFICATION AND GLORIFICATION Luke 17:33. _“Whosoever may seek to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose it, shall find it.”_ The E. V. here says “life,” where I have translated “soul.” The Greek is not _zoe_, “life,” but _psyche_, the regular word always used for soul. If you will... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS Luke 17:34-35. _“I say unto you, That night two men shall be on one couch; one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.”_ As the coming of the Lord will be simultaneous to all the world, t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CARCASS AND THE EAGLES Luke 17:37. _“And responding, they say to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the carcass is, there the eagles will also be gathered.”_ This statement is momentously significant. Humanity has always been a failure, every dispensation winding up with tremendous cal... [ Continue Reading ]