Luke 14:24 (KJV)
For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
While this parable is primarily directed at the Jews, there is still an application we may learn for our profit. We are prone to speak of God today as “the God of the second (and third, and fourth) chance.” God’s mercies are new every morning. I am confident that as long as there is breath in our lungs, there is hope — hope for the salvation of the sinner, the revival of the backslider, and the repentance of the fallen. I choose never to give up on a living soul, for I cannot see what is going on inside them. The very one I believe to be the most hardened may, in truth, be the one under the greatest conviction of the Holy Ghost.
Yet with that conviction in my heart, I also believe we are far too quick to forget the flip side. It is biblically clear that there comes a point when God’s mercy — whether toward an individual or a nation — runs out. There comes a moment when He declares, “None of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.”
Barnes puts it well:
“None who had so decidedly rejected the offer of the gospel would be saved. We may here see how dangerous it is once to reject the gospel; how dangerous to grieve away the Holy Spirit. How often God forsakes forever the sinner who has once been awakened and who grieves the Holy Spirit. The invitation is full and free; but when it is rejected, and people turn willfully away from it, God leaves them to their chosen way, and they are drowned in destruction and perdition. How important, then, is it to embrace the gospel at once—to accept the gracious invitation and enter without delay the path that conducts to heaven!”
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Mercy Has a Deadline: Don’t Wait to Say Yes
📖 God’s Invitation Won’t Stay Open Forever
The parable in Luke 14:24 reminds us that rejecting God’s call has eternal consequences. His invitation to salvation is free, but it’s not forever. Don’t wait until the door closes—come while grace still calls.
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