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So go to JesusInTheStreet.org slash tour, get your tickets and we'll see you guys in 2026 for the live podcast tour. What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryson and today we are going to be in Luke chapter 14, but before we get into it, it's time to open another gift. Elf Dillon! This one's very dear to my heart. Merry Christmas, Bryce. Thank you so much Elf Dillon, I appreciate you. Whoa! A multi-device wall charger. There you go. Whoa. You know what? This was very thoughtful of you Elf Dillon. Thank you so much. Why did you get this for me? Merry Christmas, Bryce. Oh, thanks man. Why did you get this for me? Have a good Christmas, Bryce. You earned it. Oh, thanks so much Elf Dillon. I appreciate you. I hope you enjoyed it. There you go. Thank you so much. That was kind of well. As always, we're going to be reading the Word of God today. We're going to be in Luke chapter 14. We're going to see Jesus Hill another man on the Sabbath. On the Sabbath when he went to dine at the house of the ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully and behold, there was a man who had dropped sea. And Jesus responded to the lawyers, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? It remained silent. It seems to be a common theme from Jesus. Healed on the Sabbath, he says, which of you have a son? He healed him and then he said, which of you having a son or not? Said, has fallen into a well on the Sabbath day. Would not immediately pull him out. And they could not reply to these things. That will do anything to reach my children at all times, at all costs. And then Jesus told them a parable to those who were invited when he noticed how they chose the places of honor. So when you're invited by someone at a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor. Let someone more distinguished than you be invited by him. And he who invited you both will come and say to you, give your place to this person. And then you will begin with shame to take the lowest spot. When you were invited, go and sit in the lowest place so that when your host comes, you may say to you, friend, move up higher, then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Jesus encouraging this lifestyle of humility and living a low life. Doesn't mean think less of yourself. I mean, think of yourself less. Does that make sense? We'll keep on reading in chapter 14, the parable of the great banquet. He also said to the man who invited them, when you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you for you, will be repaid at the resurrection of the just. Hey, look, listen, treat everyone with the utmost respect, value, and love. The same value that you show Bill Gates, you show the homeless man, not because their bank account number determines how valuable they are, but because the price that God has put on both of their lives was his own. So that's what we show with respect. With one of those who reclined at the table with him, heard these things. He said, and blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God, but he said to him, a man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, come, for everything is ready now, but they all alike began to make excuses. The verse said to him, I've bought a field and I must go and see it. Excuse me. And the other said, I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to examine them. Please have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, therefore I cannot come. So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, go quickly to the streets and the lanes of the city that bring in the poor and the crippled and the blind and the lame. So Jesus is giving you the same way you're saying, look, I don't want people that are in my kingdom that dine with me, that are intimate with me, just to be people that claim to love me with their mouth. That won't show up for me, that don't love me under their lives. He said, I want people that actually need to depend on me, trust on me, lean on me. So those are the people I want. If you don't want me, it breaks my heart, but I respect that wish. And verse 23 says, go out to the highways and the hedges and compel people to come in. My house may be filled, for I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste the banquet. And verse 26 says, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost? Whether he has enough completed, again, this idea of counting the cost, count the cost to follow Jesus, it costs something to follow Jesus. Come without reservation, come without hesitation. Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish. Or what king going out to encounter another king and war will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him and come down with him 20,000? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. Therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Full dependence and reliance on Jesus. And then he closes out chapter 14 with, salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is of no use either for the soil or the man your pilot is thrown away. He who has ears, let him hear. Let us be impacted by the words of Jesus in chapter 14 and tomorrow. We will see you guys for Luke chapter 15.
