Welcome to Burning Lab Podcast. The daily refresh
for your life. Jesus is the center of everything
we do. Burning Lab Church. So we're gonna see
a parable that Jesus shared in a place where
he was invited. Oops. Can you hold this one for
me? This was two weeks ago. It's Luke 14. We're
gonna go just one chapter back. Now we're ready.
So now we're in the supper of the Lord. Verse
7. So he told a parable to those who were invited
when he noted how they chose the best places,
saying to them, when you are invited by anyone
to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best
place, lest one more honorable man you be invited
by him. And he who invited you and him come and
say to you give place to this man and then you
begin with shame to take the lowest place. But
when you are invited, go and sit down in the
lowest place, so that when he who invited you
comes to you, and he says, friend, go up higher,
then you will have the glory in the presence
of those who sit at the table with you. Or whoever
exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles
himself will be exalted. The reason for this
parable is because the Lord was seeing how The
people would walk in, and they were very picky
with where they were sitting. So he saw pride
in them. And he wanted to bring correction to
their life. But more than bring correction to
their life, he wanted to bring a principle to
the kingdom. The Lord allows to bring this parable.
And he says that whenever you're picking a place,
it's better for you to pick the lowest place.
In another translation, it says in the lower
place. And it speaks about a posture when someone
comes even to his house. Of how our posture should
be when we are invited by him. If I would give
today a title that I would tell them, invited
to his supper. You are invited to his supper.
Though that teaching was not a teaching for those
that were invited by ethics. It wasn't an etiquette.
It wasn't something about teaching them where
to sit. It was more of them. learning how to
grow close to the table of the king. How to come
close when the king or the lord is present. Who
invited them to the house was a Jewish governor.
He was a pharisee. He was a religious person
who walked with pride. And he invited his friends.
All his friends were similar like he was. I know
that there's a saying that says, show me who
you gather. Show me who you walk with and I'll
tell you who you are. Something like that. Tell
me who your friends are and I'll tell you who
you are. So the group of people that he had before
him were people that were prideful. There were
people that thought they deserved a position.
Pride allows you to think that something is already
yours. Like you deserve something. Today we live
in a very entitled generation. Not you. Not this
generation. But somewhere over there in Oklahoma.
So we live in a generation where we don't know
how to grow close to the table of the Lord. There's
a people that forgot how to come close to the
table of the Lord. And I believed on behalf of
the Lord that it was good to bring this teaching.
Because the Lord wants to re -teach us how to
come close to Him. So this teaching was not about
etiquette. But how the children of the Lord should
come close to, learn how to come close to His
table. And the way to come close to Him is through
humbleness. Not as if we deserve a position.
Not as if we deserve to gain the table. Or as
we deserve to get something from the kingdom.
In verse 12 we see something in particular. I'm
not going to enter into too much of the pride,
but there's something else that the Lord wants
me to teach you. Cuando hagas comida o cena,
no llames a tus amigos, ni a tus hermanos. You
can read up to there. Okay. Then he also said
to him, who invited him, when you give a dinner
or a supper, do not ask your friends or your
brothers. So, from verse 7 to verse 11, he spoke
to those that came close first. But then... On
verse 12, he speaks to the host. He says when
you give a dinner or supper do not ask your friends
your brothers your relatives nor rich neighbors
Lest they also invite you back and you be repaid
And jesus here begins to reveal the heart of
the father But when you give a feast invite the
poor the main the lame the blind And you will
be blessed because they cannot repay you For
you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the
just. And then in verse 15 he begins and he brings
another parable. Now one of those who sat at
the table with him heard these things. He said
to him blesses he who shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God. Versículo 21. Entonces enojado
el padre familia dijo a su siervo ve pronto por
las plazas y las calles y de la ciudad y trae
acá los pobres los mancos los cojos y los ciegos
Verse 16 and this is where he begins the parable
a certain man gave a great supper and Invited
many and sent his servant at suppertime to say
to those who were invited come for all things
are now ready But they all with one accord began
to make excuses the first said to him I have
bought a piece of ground or land and I must go
and see it I asked of you to excuse me and another
said I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am
going to test them I Asked you to have me excused
still another said I have married a wife and
therefore I cannot come So that servant came
and reported these things to his master then
the master of the house being angry said to his
servant Go out quickly into the streets and lane
and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor
the main the lane and the blind So commienza
dando una parabola de la boda so he begins to
give a parable of a wedding list I mean ghetto
porque los que estaban en la habitación estaban
He was uneasy because the first people to come
were ready to take the first seat. And they brought
in a spirit of pride, and we could see that because
in verse 11, he says, for whoever exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will
be exalted. And then he speaks to the host. And
he says, don't invite your friends. But he says,
go to the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the
blind. And then he speaks of a feast in verse
16. A certain man gave a great supper and invited
many. And this feast, sometimes we interpret
it as the feast that there will be on the wedding
day of the lamb. But it's not for the feast of
the lamb. It's for the feast of the banquet that
the father is inviting his children for today.
This isn't for... This isn't the feast for when
the bridegroom comes to look for his bride. But
this banquet is today. It's here. It's in this
moment. It's the father calling his children
to come. So how do we know it's the father? In
verse 21, he says, so that the servant came and
reported these things to his master. Then the
master of the house, if you read it, that's what
it says. And now there's wisdom in this. Because
he began speaking of the wedding. And then he
linked it to a banquet. And if you read the book
of Esther, in the first chapter, he begins with
a banquet, where the virgins come, and then they
prepare themselves in the palace, and then they
participate in the king's table, speaking prophetically.
of how the Lord is going to prepare his bride.
The bride prepares herself in the banquet with
the banquet. At the feet of the Lord. With Esther,
the king did that banquet. And he called the
candidates to come and get ready. Today, the
Spirit of God wants to prepare the bride. And
he calls a banquet. He calls us to the table.
To prepare the bride. Because surely he will
come to seek his bride quickly. The big difference
between Esther and the bride of Christ is that
in the bride of Christ, Christ already chose.
Esther had to wait to see who the king was going
to choose. But in us, who are the bride, Christ
has already chosen and Christ says, this is who
I want. that I want. Are we here? That's why
I pray that the Lord open up our hearts and open
up our vision. So for Esther, the preparations
were in the same palace. The virgins would eat
out of the table in the palace. They were prepared
with bossums, with oils. With perfumes. They
had royal robes. They were saturated in that
oil and they were perfumed. It speaks of the
preparation of the bride. It speaks about the
anointing of the Spirit of the Lord for the bride.
Today, the bride is prepared. With the presence
of the King With the presence of the Lord With
the washing of the water and the Word of God
If we go to Ephesians chapter 5 just to make
a quick reference Ephesians 5 25 para santificarla,
habiéndola purificado en el lavamiento del agua
por la palabra, a fin de presentársela a sí mismo.
¿Quién es que lava la novia? Él mismo lava la
novia. Una iglesia gloriosa que no tuviese mancha
ni arruga ni cosa semejante, sino que fuese santa
y sin mancha. husbands love your wives just as
Christ also loved the church and gave himself
for her that he might sanctify and cleanse her
with the washing of water by the word that he
might present her to himself as a glorious church
and who does as he does and that's what it says
not having spotted wrinkle or any such thing
but that he that she may but that she should
be holy and without blemish we shouldn't be aware
that we're in a time now of preparation The Lord
is preparing his bride. I'm heading with a direction
with this, okay? So it's in the presence of the
Lord. The preparation of the bride is there.
It's the washing of the water by the word of
God. It's to be anointed by the Holy Spirit himself.
It's to be dressed with the robes of justice,
and that's how the bride prepares himself. And
she's established in the love of the King. Nowadays.
You don't come to church. You come to a banquet.
You come to the table of the Lord. You come to
be prepared. Look at the person next to you and
tell them we're being prepared. Tell them we've
been invited and you are the bride. And you have
to prepare yourself. So all of this happens meanwhile
we are redeemed to the Lord. That we are surrendered.
Rendidos. Yielded. The one who is in charge of
preparing the bride is the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians
3 verse 16. It says that when we turn to the
Lord, the veil is falling. And that's where he
begins to prepare the bride. Nevertheless, when
one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Verse 17. Can I have verse 17? Now the Lord is
the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty. The original translation says
because the Lord is the Spirit and where the
Spirit is Lord, there is liberty. It's a surrender
or a yielding to the Lordship of the Spirit.
It's the Spirit of God that takes us. He's going
to prepare us. And then in verse 18 it says,
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as
in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed, from glory to glory, into the same
image of our Lord. And this is the work of the
Spirit. And that's how the scripture says. When
you come here to the church, it's the palace
where Esther would prepare herself. It's a place
that the Lord prepared to prepare yourself. You're
not here just coming to church. The King is here
present. His presence is here present. to prepare
you, to cleanse you, to purify you, to anoint
you, to dress you of righteousness, to establish
you in love, so that you may get to know Him.
But this is only able when one is surrendered
to the spirit. And barely the church is learning
to do this. But there comes a great transformation
and acceleration. Because there's an invitation.
And I think that we're in a season of preparation.
If I could have the worship team, please. So
let's go back to Luke 14. And we're gonna read
from verse 15. Verse 15 now when one of those
who sat at the table with him heard these things
He said to him blesses he who shall eat bread
in the kingdom of God and remember this is one
of the ones that took took the first seats El
quería porque normalmente Mucha gente se cerca
Dios por el beneficio because normally a lot
of people grow close to the Lord for its benefits
for his benefits No, it's not you Porque estamos
aprendiendo a marlo al porque somos amado por
él Because we're learning to love Him because
we are loved by Him. But it catches my attention
that when He sent this, this is basically correct.
Jesus comes and He gives a parable. He doesn't
affirm what He is saying. So then Jesus said
a certain man gave a great supper and invited
many Worship team And sent his servant at suppertime
to say to those who were invited come for all
things are now ready I love the way it says it
there And right here it says everything, in that
translation it says all things are ready. But
there's another translation that says All things
are ready now. It speaks about time. I believe
that for a long time now, the church, the body
of Christ has been in a posture as if we have
a lot of time. We don't have a lot of time. You
cannot be... You cannot be ready at the instant
that he comes to look, to seek. You can't go
and prepare yourself in the instant that he's
here looking for you. That's why this banquet
is not in the future. It's now. It's the preparation
now. It's coming close to the table now. It's
learning to abide in His presence now. It's being
anointed now. It's renewing your mind to know
that we are the righteousness of God now. It's
learning that we are established by love now.
This isn't for the future. It's the preparation
of the bride now. Many presented excuses. And
look, look here, the servant goes first to a
group. Say with me, this is the first group.
This is the first group. The first group that
he goes to is to his own children. this parable
we've used it as if it's for the world but he
begins first at the house