Dinner
Jesus asks the Pharisees what is lawful to do on this day.
What is the Sabbath?
The dinner/banquet often symbolizes this greater spiritual reality.
What is the Kingdom of God?
Why does the servant continue searching for more guests?
What is the master wants his house completely full?
Jesus says anyone unwilling to carry this cannot be His disciple.
What is their cross?
Why did Jesus ask the Pharisees if they would pull out a fallen child or ox?
Jesus warns against taking this kind of seat at a wedding feast.
What is the place of honour?
Why is Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath more than just a miracle?
What is a challenge to legalism and a "saved by works" mindset that the Pharisees had?
One guest refused the banquet because he bought 5 of these.
Jesus compares discipleship to calculating the cost before doing this.
What is building a tower.
How does it benefit you to humble yourself rather than be humbled by someone else?
Jesus heals a man suffering from this condition at the Pharisee’s house.
What is abnormal swelling?
Salt losing its taste symbolizes believers losing this.
What is true discipleship/faithfulness?
There are 4 places that the servant was ordered to go out and bring people. Name 2.
What is streets, alleys, roads, and country lanes. [Any 2/4 of these]
Jesus says disciples must be willing to give up this.
What is everything they have/all possessions?
Where is the table that Jesus was sitting at before he said the Parable of the Great Banquet
Pharisee's House
Jesus said to invite the invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind becuase they...
What is cannot repay you?
Jesus tells hosts to invite the poor, crippled, blind, and lame. Why were these groups especially significant in the culture of the time?
What is they could not repay social favors, exposing whether generosity was truly selfless?
Why is the timing of the invitation important when the servant says, “Come, for everything is now ready”?
What is God’s Kingdom had arrived through Jesus and everyone should respond immediately?
A king first considers whether he can defeat an army of this size.
What is 20,000.
In verse 15, who is getting blessed and how?
What is the one who eats at the Kingdom of God.
According to Jesus, those who exalt themselves will experience this.
What is being humbled?
The Resurrection of the Righteous is...
The servant is commanded to go out and get these 4 types of people.
What are the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame?
Salt without usefulness is fit for neither ____ nor the ____.
What is the soil/earth and the manure pile.
How many soldiers does the king have to go to war with?
What is ten thousand?