Luke 14:18

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But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him,‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’

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  • Isa 28:12-13 : 12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen. 13 So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.
  • Luke 17:26-31 : 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.
  • Heb 12:16 : 16 And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
  • Luke 18:24 : 24 When Jesus noticed this, he said,“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
  • Luke 20:4-5 : 4 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people?” 5 So they discussed it with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Why did you not believe him?’
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
  • John 5:40 : 40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
  • Acts 13:45-46 : 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him. 46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 18:5-6 : 5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
  • Acts 28:25-27 : 25 So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement:“The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
  • Isa 29:11-12 : 11 To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.” 12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them. 5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.
  • Jer 6:16-17 : 16 The LORD said to his people:“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said,“We will not follow it!” 17 The LORD said,“I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying:‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” But they said,“We will not pay attention!”
  • Matt 22:5-6 : 5 But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Luke 8:14 : 14 As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

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    19 Another said,‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

    20 Another said,‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’

    21 So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave,‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

    22 Then the slave said,‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’

    23 So the master said to his slave,‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

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  • Luke 14:16-17
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    16 But Jesus said to him,“A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

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    3 He sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come.

    4 Again he sent other slaves, saying,‘Tell those who have been invited,“Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’

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    29 The boy answered,‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.

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    9 So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you,‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

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