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 ]