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0:00Luke chapter 13 verse [music] 1. In the
0:02previous chapter, Jesus has been warning
0:04us not to treat natural things as if
0:07they feed [music] our souls.
0:09He's been warning us that we need to
0:11settle with God quickly because we're
0:13moving toward [music] a judgment day and
0:15it's going to be too late. And now, in
0:18chapter 13 verse 1, it says,
0:21"Now on the same occasion so he's going
0:24to connect everything that comes
0:26>> [music]
0:26>> in chapter 13 to what he's just been
0:28ministering in chapter 12.
0:30>> [music]
0:30>> So, he's still in the same theme and we
0:34won't understand what's coming [music]
0:35if we don't keep that in mind. "Now on
0:38the same occasion
0:40there were some present who reported to
0:42him about [music] the Galileans whose
0:45blood Pilate had mixed with their
0:47sacrifice.
0:49There was a massacre
0:51where the Galileans [music] became
0:52rebellious against Rome.
0:54So, Pilate showed up at the sacrifice
0:57[music] that they were making to God
0:59and he killed them
1:01and put them on the altar and mixed
1:03their own blood with the sacrifice.
1:06So, people are reporting, "Did you hear
1:09what's going on?"
1:10And this is an example of the weather
1:13that he's talking about that they're not
1:15able to see. When he says, "You
1:16hypocrites, you can read the weather but
1:18you can't read the signs of the times."
1:21He's telling them terrible things are
1:22happening
1:23>> [music]
1:23>> and you're not getting right with God.
1:25You need to do it quickly.
1:27So then they come and tell him about the
1:29Galileans and Jesus said [music] to
1:30them,
1:31"Do you suppose
1:34that these [music] Galileans were
1:36greater sinners than all other Galileans
1:40because they [music] suffered this fate?
1:43Are you crazy?" He's saying.
1:45"Do you think that bad things only come
1:48to bad people?
1:50Do you think that they were
1:51exceptionally horrible and that's why
1:53this was able to happen?"
1:55No, he's saying, "Bad things come
1:58and they're not better than you and
1:59they're not worse than you. We're all in
2:01this together.
2:03I tell you no,
2:05but unless you repent, you will likewise
2:08perish."
2:10So, he's saying,
2:12"You're imagining that they suffered
2:14that judgment because they were really
2:16horrible. You're going to suffer the
2:17same judgment in eternity if you don't
2:20repent.
2:22Because God isn't just looking to judge
2:25those who are really bad.
2:28You were made in the image of God and
2:30you've been stealing his glory for
2:32yourself all this time. You've been
2:35stealing it to aggrandize yourself
2:37through your accumulation of possessions
2:39and until you stop making your life
2:41about yourself, until you repent and put
2:45him at the center,
2:46you have the same doom heading your way.
2:50I tell you no, but unless you repent,
2:52you will likewise perish. Or do you
2:54suppose that those 18 on whom the tower
2:58in Siloam fell and killed them were
3:00worse culprits than all other men who
3:03live in Jerusalem?
3:05I tell you no, but unless you repent,
3:08you will likewise perish."
3:10And he began telling this parable, "A
3:13man had a fig tree
3:15which had been planted." So, now this
3:16parable is going to show us the kind of
3:18culprits that we are.
3:21It's not that we're doing evil things,
3:23it's that we're neglecting
3:25the glory of God.
3:27We're omitting our purpose.
3:29We're falling short of the glory of God.
3:32All have sinned. How have they sinned?
3:35They've come short of their purpose.
3:38They've come short of the glory of God.
3:42So, here's how we come short. Here's how
3:44we sin. Here's how we get a tower
3:47dropping on us.
3:49Here's how we're going to get a big
3:50surprise in eternity.
3:52And he began telling this parable, "A
3:54man had a fig tree which had been
3:56planted in his vineyard
3:58and he came looking for fruit on it and
4:00did not find any.
4:03And he said to the vineyard keeper,
4:05"Behold, for 3 years I have come looking
4:08for fruit on this fig tree
4:11without finding any.
4:14Cut it down.
4:18Why does it even use up the ground?"
4:26And he answered and said to him, "Let it
4:28alone, sir,
4:30for this year, too,
4:32until I dig around it and put in
4:35fertilizer.
4:36And if it bears fruit next year, fine,
4:40but if not, cut it down."
4:43We have about 30 fruit trees planted
4:46around our house here
4:47and this is the third year.
4:50And there's an expectation in our hearts
4:52that in this third year, they will
4:54finally bear fruit.
4:57All the water,
4:59all the effort, all the pruning,
5:03all the fertilizing
5:05is going to be proven now in this third
5:07year.
5:08Jesus is saying, "You think you're less
5:12of a sinner than those on whom judgment
5:15came because you think sinning is doing
5:18evil things. But that fig tree didn't
5:21reach out its branch and kill somebody.
5:25That fig tree didn't reach out one of
5:27its limbs and trip the master.
5:30That fig tree just failed to give God
5:34what God deserved.
5:37It's fruit. It's substance.
5:40And that's the sin that Jesus is talking
5:43about here.
5:45Falling short of the glory of God.
5:49So, he says, "It's the third year. It's
5:52time for you to have been born fruit.
5:54It's time for you to be cut down. You're
5:56not giving God what you were planted to
5:59give him."
6:00He says, "Please give it one more year.
6:03Please give it one more year.
6:05Don't let the tower fall.
6:08Don't let the tragedy come.
6:11Give this tree just one more year of
6:14pruning and cultivating and water.
6:18And if it if it proves in the second
6:21chance that it can bear fruit, then
6:23leave it and if not, it can be cut
6:26down."
6:29And he was teaching
6:31in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath
6:34and there was a woman who for 18 years
6:38had had a sickness caused by a spirit
6:41and she was bent double and could not
6:44straighten up at all.
6:47When Jesus saw her, he called her over
6:50and said to her, "Woman,
6:52you are freed from your sickness."
6:58And he laid his hands on her and
7:00immediately she was made erect again and
7:04began glorifying God.
7:09So, this is kind of an example of
7:10someone who's been oppressed by the
7:12devil for many years, but when she comes
7:16into the presence of Jesus,
7:18she is able to stand upright, straighten
7:21up, and start giving glory to God with
7:24her life.
7:26But the synagogue official,
7:30indignant because Jesus had healed on
7:33the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd
7:36in response,
7:38"There are 6 days in which work should
7:42be done.
7:43So, come during them and get healed and
7:48not on the Sabbath day."
7:50>> [snorts]
7:52>> But the Lord answered him and said,
7:55"You hypocrite.
7:59Does not each of you on the Sabbath
8:03untie his ox or his donkey from the
8:07stall and lead him away to water him?
8:13And this woman, a daughter of Abraham,
8:18as she is, whom Satan has bound for 18
8:23long years, should she not have been
8:26released from this bond on the Sabbath
8:29day?"
8:31He's saying, "You fraud.
8:34You care about the animals that make you
8:38money.
8:40And so, they're tied up on the Sabbath
8:43and in the morning, you let them loose
8:46so that they can eat because they've
8:48been tied up for a few hours during the
8:51night.
8:52But this woman has been tied up by the
8:55devil for 18 years and you have so
8:58little love for her and for God
9:02that you don't care to untie her. You
9:05just care to untie the things that are
9:07going to help you make money on the
9:08morning after the Sabbath. That's why
9:11they're hypocrites because they show
9:13care for the things that give them
9:16riches and money, but they don't show
9:18care for the needs,
9:22the suffering
9:23of the children of Abraham. She is a
9:26daughter of Abraham. She's no ox. She's
9:29no donkey.
9:30She's a daughter of Abraham and I just
9:32came to untie her."
9:37As he said this, all his opponents were
9:40being humiliated.
9:44And the entire crowd was rejoicing over
9:48all the glorious things being done by
9:50him.
9:52>> [laughter]
9:52>> Wow.
9:54Well, there's why they wanted to kill
9:56him. They're being humiliated when their
9:59righteous principles don't hold up when
10:02it comes to their business.
10:04And they are shown to have more love for
10:07oxen and donkeys than for the poor
10:09woman.
10:10But the people were rejoicing.
10:13So he was saying,
10:15"What
10:17is the kingdom of God like?
10:19And to what shall I compare it?"
10:22Now if the kingdom of God were simple to
10:24explain, then Jesus wouldn't spend most
10:26of his parables trying to explain it.
10:29He'd just say, "Oh, it's like a
10:31millennial kingdom that's going to
10:32happen right after the rapture.
10:35And uh it's going to be a political
10:37system just like all the rest, only I'm
10:39going to be more powerful." Oh, great.
10:41No parables needed to describe that.
10:44But if the kingdom of God is something
10:45completely different,
10:48God reigning through the spirit,
10:50dominion through grace,
10:52power in weakness, glory in humility,
10:55then he's got to have a lot of parables
10:57to explain it.
10:59"What is the kingdom of God like?
11:03And to what shall I compare it?
11:05It is like a mustard seed,
11:08which a man took and threw into his own
11:10garden,
11:11and it grew and became a tree,
11:14and the birds of the air nested in its
11:17branches."
11:18The kingdom of God is like something
11:20tiny
11:21that gets proper cultivation. This is in
11:24line with what he was saying about the
11:27fig tree.
11:28The kingdom of God is a tiny seed of
11:31truth that you cultivate, water,
11:35and care for until it becomes something
11:39that
11:40the birds of the air can come and nest
11:42in its branches. And again he said, "To
11:45what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
11:47It is like leaven, which a woman took
11:50and hid in three pecks of flour until it
11:53was all leavened."
11:55So perhaps what he's saying is that
11:58the kingdom of God is like an influence
12:02that starts to permeate every area of
12:04life.
12:05Starts to change the way we work and the
12:08way we play and the way we think.
12:11It's a new priority
12:13that substantively changes
12:16how our life works.
12:19This is like the leaven of new wine that
12:22can burst the old wine skins. Well, now
12:26it's the leaven
12:28of a new perspective
12:30that utterly changes and transforms the
12:33old lumps of what we were until they
12:36become something different altogether.
12:39And as he was passing through from one
12:41city and village to another, teaching
12:44and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem,
12:48someone said to him, "Lord, are there
12:51just a few who are being saved?"
12:56And he said to them, "Strive to enter
13:00through the narrow door,
13:02for many, I tell you, will seek to enter
13:07and will not be able.
13:11Once the head of the house gets up and
13:13shuts the door,
13:15and you begin to stand outside and knock
13:17on the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us.'
13:22Then he will answer and say to you, 'I
13:25do not know where you are from.' Then he
13:28will answer and say to you, 'I do not
13:31know where you are from.'
13:34Now listen to this.
13:36The parable here is
13:38are many going to be saved or are few
13:41going to be saved? And he's basically
13:43telling them,
13:45"Many are going to try and only few are
13:48going to be saved."
13:50But this is important. I want you to
13:52understand this parable.
13:55He's using the metaphor
13:58of a household
14:00and a master
14:03and the servants of the house. This is
14:05the parable he's been using in the
14:07previous chapter.
14:10So here we have
14:11a household. Picture a great manor house
14:15in England, okay?
14:17And there's a master of this house.
14:21And included in the household are the
14:23children, the sons, the daughters, and
14:26the servants.
14:28And the servants, for whatever reason,
14:31are away.
14:33Okay? When those servants come and they
14:35knock on the door,
14:37that means it's late.
14:40That means the doors are already shut
14:41for safety. And they're saying, "Let me
14:44in."
14:46If the master knows who those servants
14:49are and that they belong in his
14:51household, he opens to them.
14:54And they come in
14:56and find the safety.
14:58But what he's saying is that people are
15:01going to come and knock on a door of a
15:03house where they never belonged.
15:06They never learned to serve in that
15:08house. They never became part. They
15:10never became a son, a daughter, a
15:12servant,
15:14which describes all of us.
15:17All of us are called to be sons and
15:18daughters in the sense
15:23slaves
15:24sense that our flesh is in total
15:26obedience and subjugation to his will.
15:31Do you understand?
15:32So the question is not
15:35whether you knock on the right door. The
15:37question is, did you belong there? Did
15:39you have history there? Were you
15:41employed there? Were you begotten there?
15:45Were you part of the household?
15:48Picture our house in England. If some
15:51servant comes and knocks on the door in
15:52the middle of the night,
15:54and he's been employed there for
15:5615 years,
15:58are they going to open the door? Yes,
16:00they know him.
16:01They know where he comes from. He comes
16:03from here, so he comes back in here,
16:06right? But what if someone knocks on the
16:08door in the middle of the night and they
16:09don't know where he's from? Are they
16:11going to open to him? No. They're going
16:13to say, "You don't belong here.
16:16You don't aren't employed here. You've
16:19been employed somewhere else.
16:22You belong in another system. What are
16:25you doing knocking at the last minute on
16:27this door?
16:28It's already shut."
16:30So what he's telling them is,
16:32"Yes, few are going to be saved, but if
16:34you wait until the door is shut before
16:36you become a member of the house, you're
16:38not going to be saved." When God says,
16:40"I don't know where you're from," he's
16:43saying, "You aren't part of my
16:44household." Once the head of the house
16:47gets up and shuts the door and you begin
16:49to stand outside and knock on the door,
16:52saying, "Lord, open to us." This isn't
16:54the time for employment.
16:56Judgment has already come. You should
16:58have come and and sought employment a
17:00long time ago.
17:01Then he will answer and say to you, "I
17:03do not know you or where you are from."
17:07Then you will begin to say, "We ate and
17:09drank in your presence,
17:11and you taught in our streets."
17:13So they're going to say, "We were around
17:15you.
17:17We saw you. We were in the same
17:19company."
17:20That's not what he's looking for. And he
17:22will say, "I tell you, I do not know you
17:27where you are from."
17:29[clears throat]
17:30I don't know what house you belong to.
17:32You don't belong in mine.
17:35"Depart from me,
17:37all you evildoers."
17:44In that place,
17:46there will be weeping
17:48and gnashing of teeth,
17:51when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
17:55and all the prophets in the kingdom of
17:57God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
18:03And they will come
18:04that we are children of God. in the
18:06from But all of us are called to be
18:07east and west and from north and south
18:09and will recline at the table in the
18:12kingdom of And behold, some last who
18:15will be first and some are first who
18:17will be last.
18:19He says, "Depart from me. I don't know
18:22where you're from."
18:25That's even what they would have said in
18:28the middle of the night. They would have
18:30said, "I
18:32am Sean of the household of
18:36Baruch."
18:38Or who whatever household you belong to.
18:41If you were a servant or a son, you
18:43would say you would introduce yourself
18:46through a closed door by declaring what
18:49household you were belonging at.
18:52So when he says, "I do not know where
18:53you're from," he's saying, "You're not
18:56part of my family.
18:58You waited until the last minute to
19:01build the relationship.
19:03You're not part of the family."
19:07But he says people are going to come
19:09from east and west. He's saying,
19:11"There're going to be a lot of people
19:13who are members of that household that
19:16you thought were inferior.
19:19But the sons of the kingdom are going to
19:20be cast out. And in that place there
19:22will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
19:26Gnashing of teeth is like regret.
19:31No. No.
19:35It's regret at an opportunity that
19:38should have been seized earlier.
19:41Not an opportunity to be perfect.
19:44Not an opportunity to have better works.
19:47An opportunity to belong in the house of
19:51God, in the family of Jesus.
19:55Just at that time, some Pharisees
19:57approached saying to him, "Go away,
20:00leave here, for Herod wants to kill
20:02you."
20:03This seems
20:04like a kind gesture on the part of the
20:06Pharisees. I think it was.
20:09I think they would have seen Herod as an
20:11enemy.
20:12And he they're saying, "You better hide
20:13yourself. Get out of here. Herod's about
20:16to kill you."
20:18They probably interrupted the sermon.
20:22And Jesus said to them,
20:24"Go and tell that fox,
20:26behold,
20:28I cast out demons and perform cures
20:31today and tomorrow,
20:33and the third day I reach my goal.
20:36Nevertheless, I must journey on today
20:39and tomorrow and the next day,
20:41for it cannot be that a prophet would
20:43perish outside Jerusalem."
20:45So,
20:47Jesus is not concerned about Herod.
20:50He is not scared. He says, "Go tell that
20:53fox,
20:55behold, I have a schedule.
20:59And I'm not going to rush my ministry
21:02timeline for your sake. I'm not going to
21:05run away from you, and I'm not going to
21:06run toward you.
21:07I'm casting out demons today, performing
21:10cures today, and I've got the same plans
21:12for tomorrow.
21:13And on the third day, I will reach my
21:15goal."
21:17And the goal is likely Jerusalem.
21:20Basically, "I'll meet you when I get
21:22there, but I'm not coming there because
21:23of you. I'm coming there because of what
21:25God wants to do."
21:28"Nevertheless, I must journey on today
21:30and tomorrow and the next day, for it
21:31cannot be that a prophet would perish
21:33outside of Jerusalem." So, he's like,
21:35"It does happen to be that I am going to
21:37be in Jerusalem, and that's not because
21:39you ordered it. That's not because
21:41you're threatening me.
21:43I'm not going to run away from you. It's
21:44because I'm in the will of God. The fact
21:46that it coincides with a meeting with
21:49you,
21:51well, a prophet can't die outside of
21:52Jerusalem."
21:54He's exhibiting, "I am not one bit
21:56afraid of you.
21:58You're a phony,
22:00and I am
22:01I'm going to encounter you only because
22:03I'm in the will of God. You don't scare
22:05me, you don't intimidate me.
22:07You're just a fox."
22:09And then,
22:11Jesus begins his lamentation over the
22:14city where he's going to die.
22:17"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
22:21the city that kills the prophets
22:24and stones those sent to her.
22:26How often I wanted to gather your
22:30children together,
22:32just as a hen gathers her brood under
22:35her wings,
22:37and you would not have it.
22:40Behold, your house is left to you
22:43desolate.
22:44And I say to you,
22:46you will not see me
22:48until the time comes when you say,
22:51'Blessed is he who comes in the name of
22:55the Lord.'"
22:58So, in this lamentation,
23:00Jesus [music] is weeping for the city.
23:03And if we put it together with the other
23:05gospel tellings,
23:07he adds, [music]
23:08"You don't know what makes for your
23:10peace.
23:12You think peace comes
23:14through big buildings. You think peace
23:17comes through compromise. You think
23:19peace comes through tradition,
23:22but peace comes through accepting the
23:26authority [music] of God,
23:28saying in your heart, 'Blessed is he who
23:31comes in the name and authority [music]
23:34of God.' That's what makes for
23:37Jerusalem's peace.
23:39But because she doesn't know that,
23:41her house is going to be left to her
23:43desolate. That's the temple, that's her
23:44house. Not one [music] stone is going to
23:46be left upon another.
23:48The walls are going to be torn down. The
23:51Romans are going to destroy everything.
23:53But if she had have accepted
23:56the anointed one, if she had accepted
23:58the one who comes in the name of the
24:00Lord, peace would have come.
24:03But she trusted in her military, she
24:06trusted in her compromises, she trusted
24:08in her traditions, she trusted in her
24:11teachers of the law. She trusted in
24:13everything, but she didn't trust in the
24:16one
24:17who could have brought peace.
24:19Only the authority of God.
24:22But here is God's sovereignty
24:24interacting with our free choice.
24:28He says, God says, "I wanted to gather
24:31your children together.
24:33I wanted to love you. I wanted to
24:35protect you. I wanted to save you like a
24:38hen gathers her chicks under her wings,
24:41but
24:43you would not have it. You were not
24:46willing."
24:48And here's God's sovereignty reaching
24:51our will and not coercing us to be
24:54saved.
24:55He wanted it, but we were not willing.
24:58So,
24:59we're going to be
25:00destroyed, we're going to be left
25:01desolate until we say, "Blessed is he
25:05that comes in the name of the Lord."
25:09>> [music]
25:18[music]

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