Thursday, March 3, 2022

Go Out into the Streets - Luke 14:21

The beloved physician Luke wrote how Jesus said, “A certain man made a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 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 you have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come”, and in chapter fourteen and verse twenty-one of his book Luke shared how Jesus said, “then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city” where we read:

So that servant came, and showed 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 here the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

The verse reads, “So that servant came, and showed his lord these things.” Luke began with the words, “so that servant came” or “therefore, wherefore, consequently and these things being so the man of servile condition, slave or bondman arose and appeared”, “and showed his lord” which means “and brought tidings, word and report to his master and one to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding” “these things” or “the excuses made by the people invited”. Luke shared how Jesus said the “servant” returned to his “master” and reported all the “excuses” which were made by those who refused the invitation to his feast.

The verse continues, “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 here the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.” Luke added the words, “then the master of the house” or “at that time the householder” “being angry” which means “provoked and aroused to wrath and exasperation” “said to his servant” or “uttered, declared and proclaimed to the master's man of servile condition, slave or bondman”, “go out quickly” which means “depart and leave shortly, briefly, rapidly and suddenly” “into the streets and lanes of the city” or “into the traveled and journeyed broad ways, squares and tracts of way in a town which was shut in by buildings on both sides”, “and bring in here” which means “and lead in the master's home” “the poor” or “the people who are reduced to beggary, begging, asking of alms, destitute of wealth, position, influence and honor”, “and the maimed” which refers to “people who disabled in the limbs, injured and bereft of some member of the body”, “and the halt” or “and the crippled, limping or deprived of foot”, “and the blind” which refers to “and the people with opaque or smokey vision”. Luke shared how Jesus said the “master of the house” was “filled with wrath” and told his “servant” to depart immediately and invite people who were disadvantaged by “poverty, disability and blindness” to come to his feast.

When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we see how Jesus used this parable to show the reaction of the master of the house to those who rejected the invitation to his feast. Because those he invited made excuses to attend his “supper”, he became “angry” and told his servant to leave and invite people who were disadvantaged in the world. People who are “poor, maimed, halt and blind” have great difficulties, and the master of the house wanted them to come to his feast. God desires all people, regardless of their condition or status, to be in a personal relationship with Him through His Son Jesus. When they yield their lives to Him, they have received the greatest invitation to a “feast” that has ever been offered to mankind.

Next time Luke shares how Jesus continued, “the servant said, Lord it is done as you commanded, and yet there is room”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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