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MAKING EXCUSES

by Jerry Vines

Scripture: LUKE 14:16-24


Making Excuses
Luke 14:16-24


Interestingly enough Jesus told a parable about people who make excuses in Luke 14:16-24. In just a few minutes I'm going to invite many of you to leave where you are sitting and come forward to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. I do so on good Bible authority. From the beginning of the Bible to the last page of the Bible, God's Bible is a great invitation for people to come to Jesus Christ and receive Him as Lord and Savior of their life. I also extend the invitation on the basis of the truth which I find in this parable which the Lord Jesus told about those who were invited to the great supper.

Now, Jesus compared salvation in this parable to a great supper. I'm glad Jesus did that. Salvation is a feast, not a funeral. A lot of people have the idea and I think Satan has put it in their minds that when you come to know Christ, if you should become a Christian, all of the fun and excitement of life is over. Some Christians don't help matters a great deal. They walk around with a tombstone under one arm and a coffin under the other and give the people the idea that to come to Christ is the end of all of the fun of life. But salvation is a banquet hall, not a concentration camp.

Jesus compared salvation to a great supper. I want to think for a moment about a great supper or banquet you have ever attended? I don't know what it may be but compared to the salvation supper it's like watery soup at a rescue mission.

I think about some of the great banquets I have attended and in comparison to what Jesus talks about here it's like bread and water on a pauper's table. It's like cotton candy at a circus. The Lord Jesus Christ has invited you to come to a great supper.

The good news about it is that you have been invited. Everything you need has been provided for your life on the table of God's great salvation. There we find dishes of forgiveness and trays of peace. We find bowls o ...

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