4-70. Continuing through Luke 13: Are There Just a Few Being Saved? (Part Two)

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Join Josh Brockman as he explores Luke 13, discussing salvation, the narrow gate, and the judgment of Jerusalem, with insights from biblical parables and prophecy. This episode offers a deep dive into biblical themes of salvation, judgment, and God's sovereignty.

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And he was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem, and someone said to him, Lord, are there just a few who are being saved? And he said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, Lord, open up to us. Then he will answer and say to you, I do not know where you are from. Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets, and he will say, I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourself being thrown out, and they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last. Just at that time some Pharisees approached him, saying, Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill you. And he said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach my goal. Nevertheless, I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stone those sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it. Behold, your house is left to you desolate, and I say to you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Well, welcome back again to the One Truth Podcast. This is your host, Josh Brockman, alongside his computer and his Bible today, and uh just me this week as we uh continue on through the spring. Uh, the way this will drop may be a spring break for many of you, as it is for my normal co-host, Dan Reed. Um, just uh again, as any of you that listen know, sometimes our schedules don't line up, can't make it work, sometimes they do. Uh, this is one of those times. And so, as we're kind of doing a part two from uh Luke 13, continuing on uh that we had there a couple of weeks ago. If you're listening in real time as these drop, um, this will be a continuation of that episode that we had on the front side of San Antonio. Um as uh as we continue on. This one will drop right here on the front side of Houston if you're showing uh market animals or at least bears and steers. So uh welcome back. Glad to have you back here on 4-70 as we continue through Luke. Uh, for those of you that have been uh following it along and listening, thank you. Uh, we appreciate it. It's fun to see the response. And when you guys reach out to Dan or I and and me and him get to talk about it, it's very encouraging on our end. So we appreciate that. Ask you to continue that. Um it uh it helps us to know that uh this is uh kind of confirming that we're uh should be doing this, and and it's certainly enjoyable on our end. So thank you. If you haven't already, uh we'd ask you to go ahead and follow, like, subscribe, wherever you listen to the podcast, that way uh it uh it helps it reach other people. Uh, if you find it useful, if you find it enjoyable, uh share it with somebody you think may as well. So as we continue on here through the spring, I'm kind of like I said, between San Antonio and Houston on the tail end of breeding sows for the summer of 26 and uh getting close to finishing up anyways. And uh so that's uh always always good. Uh it's been fun. This time of the year is a blast, but it is uh a big wait sometimes too. I know for not only me, but many of you. So uh hold on, we're almost to the end of Southwest show season for 2026. It seems like it just started, and and here we are already to the to the end of it. So good old saying time flies when you're having fun. I guess applies uh applies here. But um, anyways, glad you're with us. Glad you've uh found us, and maybe you found us for the first time, and uh welcome to you as well. So we uh we appreciate it. And if you are with us for the first time, uh everything goes in sync. Uh each season is its own study. Uh each each episode kind of builds upon one another. And if you were with us last week, uh again, thanks to Keith for uh Pastor Keith Fosky for joining me, sitting down with me uh to explore Calvinism. If you haven't heard that episode, go back and check it out. It was certainly uh fun for us to uh to sit down and record and uh then get out to you guys the feedback on that has been really fun to get as well. So thanks to you guys that have mentioned anything about that. We'll try, as we've said, to do more and more of those uh guest interview type episodes through the the remainder of this season and this year. So be looking for more of those. If you've got somebody you think that uh would be uh willing and and fun for us to sit down with, shoot me a message, shoot me an email at uh the one truthpodcast at gmail.com or my cell phone number is pretty easy to find on the internet. So uh Dan's probably as well. So just shoot us a message. Uh yeah, I'd love to sit down with and do more of those uh those type things that are really kind of starting to enjoy it and figure out maybe uh how to conduct those a little easier on my end. So with that being said, uh we are going to pick up where we left off in in Luke 13 and and finish Luke 13 this week. And um we put out the uh the episode there a couple of weeks ago of of continuing our journey through Luke 13, or there's just a few, or there be are there just a few being saved, or there those being saved a few, uh depending on which translation you read of how that sentence is worded uh here in Luke 13, 23. But uh we had a part one, kind of left it in the center uh there hanging, and we're gonna pick up on part two of the same this week. So as uh we kind of got back to our new intro type situations where we've read the scripture. Hopefully you got to hear that on the front end. Uh, if you're where you're sitting, you can have your Bible in front of you, that'll make it even better for you. Um, but if you're driving down the road, that's probably not the smartest, uh smartest way to go about it. So listen along, go back and read it again later. But as we continue here, and and just uh I know it's been a couple of weeks and set the scene of um this this week starts where we start in 22 of Luke 13, of that he was passing from one city and village to another, teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem. So again, Jesus traveling along, and as we've talked about before, um he's he's on his this is Luke's record of of his journey to Jerusalem, is what I think I've called it a few different times, that that this is the narrative of Jesus' travels and traveling there on this final trek and journey of his ministry towards the the last time into Jerusalem, um, which uh we're coming up on on Easter here pretty quick uh in 2026 to uh remember and celebrate our Lord's resurrection, uh remember his death and uh what it's for and the time. So this uh this record that we're working through again is is heading to that time, some 2,000 years ago. So he's passing and journeying from one city to the other, teaching, uh proceeding on his way to Jerusalem, and he says this statement, or his his followers say this statement to him, Lord, are there just a few who are being saved, or are those being saved few? And we talked about it in part one of what a profound statement to be asked. Are there just a few who are being saved? And so why would they ask this? We we'll just kind of refresh just a little bit. You think of the the times that they're going through, and then the the disciples and the apostles or what will be the apostles, uh looking uh looking around and always uh this in the scheme of things, just a few in this this time. Um I was reading just before I kind of got on here in John 6 and 60 through 66. Uh it says, Therefore, many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a difficult statement. Who could listen to it? But Jesus, conscious that his disciples grumbled at this, said to them, Does this cause you to stumble? What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life, the fur flesh profits nothing, the words that I've spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were, who did not believe, and it was who it was that would betray him. And he was saying, For this reason I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him from the Father. And then it finishes out, as a result of this, many of his disciples withdrew and were not walking with him anymore. So that's one account in John 6, but think of of the ins and outs in the times. Uh there there were probably many of those instances. There's probably other instances in the New Testament that I'm not thinking of, and probably could add it to my notes uh to bring out here. But they're looking around and saying, Are there few? Are there only a few, Lord, who are going to be saved? And so last time we talked about um the front side of this, and I said I wanted to look at it from a from a little bit of a different angle, and and I do, and uh and uh so he goes on, he says to them, strive to enter through the narrow door. We've talked about that last time. Once the head of the house gets up, shuts the door, you begin to stand outside, knock on the door, Lord opened us, he'll say, I do not know where you are from. And if you'll remember from from the last episode we talked about, and I referenced Sproul's notes of that God is patient. But he's not patient forever. There's an end to that patience, and God is slow to anger, as Sproul said, but God does get angry. So we've got these lines that are somewhat drawn here of that Christ says once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, you stand outside and knock on the door, and and um you know we see this also in Matthew, Matthew 7, uh, where they're standing out saying, Lord, Lord, did we not do this in your name and this in your name? And he says, Depart from me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity. Here we see the same thing. I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers. So we see this line drawn, that there's a limit, there's time, as Sproll talked about, and we talked about some last time. But as we and as we consider that for ourselves, we we should look at that very clearly. That uh in Acts 17 Paul says that uh that God is is looked over in times of ignorance, um, but now is commanding all men everywhere to repent. As Paul's standing on uh the Areopagus talking to the stoic philosophers and and such, and he says uh, for he's fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man who he raised from the dead. I'm paraphrasing, but Acts 17, 30-ish through thirty-three, I think. Check it out. Similar statement to us today. That was Paul talking there in uh Athens, Greece, Rome, wherever he was. Look at Acts 17, commanding all men everywhere to repent, for he's fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through Christ Jesus, whom he raised from the dead. Now, as we come back to Luke 13, here's Jesus telling them once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, those who stand on the outside will say, Lord, open up to this, and he'll say, I don't know where you're from, depart from me, all of you evildoers. And that that is a a perfect way to look at repent now while you have the time. Because as we talked about last week, as Sproul said, God's patience does run out, and there will become a judgment on all those who will be judged by their deeds, standing on their own, those not clothed in Christ, those not provided with Christ's righteousness, that righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees. But he goes on here in 28 and says, In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. And so here's where I wanted to kind of pick up on the part two of where we left off last time, because in context here, this is really interesting to me. Because he's obviously he's looking and speaking to a specific group of people. This is being recorded, and he says, in that place they'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth. We talked about that last time as well. Thought Sproul brought out some very good points of that. But then he says, When you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. Now, what's he talking about? You yourselves being thrown out. Now, I I still think the the application of that us today, 2026, looking forward, there's a judgment coming. You'll either be judged by your deeds and your works and cast out into hell because you will be deemed unrighteous and unholy, or you will be judged and clothed in Christ's righteousness, uh, sins paid for. Uh, he looks down upon me, sees my life of sin and that judgment, but sees Christ covering it. Um, and so he looks to me, but he sees Christ. And so with that, um we have that to look look forward to. And if you're not clothed in in the blood of Christ, if you are not in Christ, uh the Bible says you will be judged by your deeds and will be deemed unrighteous, unholy, unworthy to stand in the presence of God, as any of us will that are not in Christ. Here he says, you yourselves being thrown out. So what's he talking about here in this specific instance? So take a little Bible study with me in Matthew 21, 43, and then we'll get to it in Luke 20, and also in Matthew 22. I think we see some similarities of of what he's going on to say here. And again, this is all going to circle back to the few question to me of uh things that just crossed my mind. So I'm really just gonna go, what's what's going through my mind? I'm I'm not being dogmatic, I'm not saying this is the only way to view this text or this is how it must be viewed. I think there's the application we spoke of last time um in our life today, and that we've already spoken of today. But here, you yourselves being thrown out. So let me let me tell you uh Matthew 21. Um it'll be Matthew 21 and Luke 20, both speak to um the parable of the landowner, the parable of the vine growers, maybe the parable of the vineyard, depending on which Bible translation you have. Uh the subtitle may read any of those, I think. But might say the parable of the vine growers in Luke 20 and the uh parable of the landowner in Matthew 21. So um in Matthew 21 he says, listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it and built a tower and rented it out to vine growers and went on a journey. When the harvest time approached, it sent approached, approached it, whoo, it's early. When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine growers to receive his produce. The vine growers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first, and they did the same thing to him. So he's vine grower, the landowner, he's rented this out to some people, sent the first uh so the harvest time approached, uh he sends them to to receive some of the produce, sends one of his slaves. The people who he rented it out to took him, beat him, sends another one, killed him, sent a third one, stoned him. Verse thirty-six of Matthew twenty-one. And again he sent a group of slaves larger than the first, and they did the same thing to them. But afterward, so he sent a handful of different servants, they've been beaten, killed, and stoned. Afterward he sent his son and saying, They will respect my son. But when the vine growers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance. So they took him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to the vine growers? So this is this is Christ speaking this parable, asked this question, What will what will the owner of the vineyard do to the vine growers when this happens? He sent servant after servant that have been beaten, killed, stoned. Then he sent his son, saying, They will respect my son. They do the same to him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. And so now Jesus says, Therefore, the owner of the vineyard, when he comes, what will he do to the vine growers? They said back to him, He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons. So then Jesus goes on and says to them, Did you never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone? This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes. It's uh Psalm 118, 22. And um that he references there. And he goes on and he says, in verse 43, and this is where we've been trying to get to. Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing the fruit of it. And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust. Now that that passage in Matthew 21 goes on to say the Pharisees and the chief priests understood that he was speaking about them to them, and so uh he goes on and hears that, and uh or they go on and recognize that, and and and the the passage goes on. But how similar is that in 2143 that says, Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing the fruit of it. And here we see in that day there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the prophets of the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. Now, I do think that there's there's some things to consider here. I'm not saying that this is exact saying the exact same thing. I just think it's the similarities are very interesting. Because here in Matthew 21 that we just read is a parable. He's speaking to these, and I think we see this unfold in AD 70 as as the the Jerusalem's destroyed, just as Christ says it will. Um when we get to Luke 21, we'll get even to even more of that, and the the kingdom being taken from only the the Jews and given uh the the gospel goes out to the nations. Paul carries it to the Gentiles. Uh, we're blessed if you're listening to this and you're Gentile, non-Jew today, uh of hearing the gospel over and over that's from this. So I just think there's a there's a neat parallel at least here. I'm not saying that it's the that Christ here is saying of the final judgment or of that. Uh I do think in Matthew 21 and Luke 20, the parable of the vineyard is is speaking of of as he's ending the Jewish age at Aeon. As AD 70 happens and Jerusalem is destroyed, and the gospel goes out to the nations, and uh there will be you know the Israel of God that comes, no, no Jew nor Greek, on and so forth. It's just an interesting parallel to me. Um, so this is the same thing in Luke 20, 16, uh similar parable. Uh it's the same parable, and um that's Luke 20 verses 9 through 18. Uh, he gives the same parable, so we'll obviously get there here before too long as we continue to work through Luke, but it says he will come and destroy these vine growers and will give the vineyard to others. When they heard it, they said, May it never be. Um, and then that brings me to one other parallel here as we continue on and uh back in Luke 13, and then we'll we'll look at one other parallel that's I think just neat. And again, I'm just I'm thinking out loud, I'm reading the Bible and saying this, this, and this, uh, kind of seem like they're going the same way, which all of the scriptures you see, it it ties together into one perfect prophetic story of the Redeemer of Christ, of the Messiah, and God's plan of salvation. So in verse 29, it says, uh, back in Luke 13, so uh you'll uh we'll we'll start back in 28. In that place there will be weeping gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. And then verse 29, and they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. Now remember, this is all in response to the question, Lord, are there just a few being saved? He goes on, you know, just thinking about it back, getting the whole picture in before we continue on. Strive to enter through the narrow door. Many will seek to enter and not be able. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, you'll be outside standing, knocking. Lord, we ate and drank in your presence, taught in your streets. I tell you, I don't know where you're from. Depart from me, all you evildoers. In that place, there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Um, so those on the outside of the door, again, I think you can you can see that in in the final judgment. Uh, you know, a lot of the times hell seems to be described as the the outer darkness or where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, where you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the prophets in the kingdom, but you yourselves being thrown out, and here we are in 29. Again, they will come from east, west, north, south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. Now, again, this is a time that would really take a uh a Jew in this time. This would be a a a powerful statement to them that they will come from all over and will decline at the table in the kingdom of God. So as we kind of look and see another parallel that uh just caught my attention is in Matthew 22 in the parable of the marriage feast. And again, are there just a few being saved? Because these guys are looking around, thinking these there's not too many of us here. What's you know, all the Pharisees, all the religious leaders uh in Judaism, they're they seem pretty opposed what what's uh you know what's happening here. So in in Matthew 22, so we see another parable, the parable of the marriage feast, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. Again he sent out his other slaves, saying, Tell those who have been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen, my fatted livestock are all butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. But they paid no attention and went on, went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. Then he said to his slaves, The wedding is ready, but those who are invited were not worthy. Now, again we've talked about parables and dissecting and you take the parable as a whole and take the meaning of it. So I'll refrain from even doing that, never mind. Then he said to his slaves, The wedding is ready, that those who are invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast. Now that sounds very similar to me to they will come from east and west and north and south, when he says, Go to the main highways. Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. When they when the king came in to look over the dinner dinner guest, he saw a man there. He was not dressed in wedding clothes. He said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes? The man was speechless. Then the king said to his servants, Bind him hand and foot, throw him into the outer darkness, in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for many are called, but few are chosen. So again, I'm not saying that these two teachings of Christ are speaking exactly to the same thing. I just think there's some interesting overlays of the original guest in the parable of the marriage feast, the the Isra the Israelites, the the chosen people of God, declined the invitation. We're seeing that play out here in the gospel accounts. They beat slaves, they beat the prophets, they killed them, sent his son, killed him. We haven't got there yet, and the gospel's coming. And the gospel goes out to the nations. We see here you yourselves being thrown out, they will come from east, west, north, and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. And some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last. I just think that those parables in in uh Luke 20, Matthew uh 21, and Matthew 22 seem to be along the same lines of the same story, the same direction that we're heading. So again, back to answering the question are there just a few being saved? Um, I don't think it's no it's wrong at all to say, look around in the world. Do you see more believers, more followers of Christ, who again bear fruit of repentance, like we talked about in Luke 3, Matthew 3, uh that John the Baptist says, who who warns you to flee the wrath to come? Who you know we're talking about those in in uh bearing fruit of repentance. I don't think that uh if you look across the world, do you see more people bearing the fruit of repentance following the Lord Jesus Christ, or do you see more people that are walking in paganism, that are walking lost, that are living their lives to their flesh, that are in false religions, that are deceived? Which weighs the balance? Um but here also I see the the followers of Christ saying they're just a few, and he answers and says of the Jews that are refusing to walk through the narrow door to see the Messiah and the Christ that's right in front of them, they don't believe, then as a result of this, withdraw and are not walking with him anymore, that killed the prophets, and that will kill the Messiah. And then the gospel going out to every tongue tribe and nation, and many coming to him. So a couple of things that that's kind of the part two of what's really rolling through my mind of this question and his answer, of the two ways to me that to to look at it, that both ultimately end up in the same of strive to enter through the narrow door, being Christ Jesus, the Messiah, who provides the only way of salvation, the only way of righteousness, the narrow, specific way, the only way to salvation, the only way to God. No one will come to the Father but through me. So, anyways, a couple of thoughts, different ways to to uh think about that passage, to think about that question of are there just a few being saved? Uh love to hear y'all's thoughts on it. I'm gonna post this. Uh, this is maybe as good a time as any. In the uh been posting each episode in the uh new Facebook one, it's called the One Truth Podcast Community Facebook group. Um so uh when I'll post this one, I may ask that question uh in there and love to hear y'all's thoughts. Comment on there that that forum or whatever you want to call it, that group is there uh to kind of interject discussion uh amongst the the podcast listeners and and us, and I'd love to interact with you on that. So uh yeah, we'll uh look look for that if you haven't joined that group. If you're on Facebook, uh go find it. It's called the One Truth Podcast Community. Brand new, just kind of threw it out there um here very recently. And um, yeah, let me know what you think about about that. Let's let's kind of we can we can discuss this a lot deeper, obviously. Each week we're limited on time, so um, but yeah, it's uh it's interesting, it's something to been looking at for a minute. So moving on. The One Truth Podcast community, check it out. Moving on, verse 31. Just at that time, some Pharisees approached, saying to him, Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill you. And he said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach my goal. Nevertheless, I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem. Okay, so interesting here that the Pharisees speak to him and say, warn him, go away, leave here, because Herod wants to kill you. That there's got to be a little bit of an irony here, I would think, of uh now this is this is Josh chapter two, verse three of speculation, but that they aren't real honest and and goodwilled in this warning. Go away for Herod wants to kill you, leave here for Herod wants to kill you. Maybe so. Maybe there's some of these Pharisees that uh begun that have repented, that are beginning to see the truth. And uh it's legitimate, it's honest. Doesn't really matter either way, I guess, but it does matter, but uh, I don't know if there's a way to know for certain. But uh what he says back to them, he says, go and tell that fox. So obviously, fox uh sly cutting uh steals chicken eggs, whatever you want to think about a fox. Usually a fox, uh the that denotation's not a positive one. And uh he goes on, and I think what he with the response here is I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow on the third day I reach my goal. Now, when I read that the first time, I thought, well, he's just looking forward speaking to his death, burial, and resurrection. And maybe that's the case, but the more I looked into it, the more it seems this is another one of those idioms of culture of that time of the three-day thing of it's on my time, not Herod's. Herod can want to kill me, Christ says, but he has no control over that. And in God's timing, I will go today, tomorrow, and the third day I will reach my goal on my time as it's planned, and there's nothing he could do to stop that. That that I think is the more I look into it, what uh what he's saying there. So, nevertheless, I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem. Again, a little bit of a hyperbolic statement, I think. Um, but how many of the prophets were killed in Jerusalem? And they're leading in again to these next this next statement in this this prophecy here, uh 34 through 36. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it. Again, back to this, the doors shut, you yourselves being thrown out. The the parable of the marriage feast, the ones who were invited wouldn't come, and sending out to others. Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. So again, your house is left to you desolate. I have to think that that's pointing towards AD 70, um, as Christ continues. And when we continue on, we get closer, especially in the Luke 21, we'll talk about that destruction of the temple, destruction of Jerusalem, uh, a lot more, and um so on. But here, behold, your house is left you desolated. That's a strong statement that he that he leaves out on them. You're the city that killed the prophets, stones those sent to her. So we looked at the parable of the vineyard in uh Luke 20, Matthew 21. Sent a sent his servants, killed him, sent his son, killed him, and here we are. Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her. So your house has left you desolate, and then the last, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Again, a couple of options here for what he's speaking to. Um I'm just gonna read here and we'll kind of wrap up with this. Um but I want to read this paragraph um out of one of Sprohl's commentaries that I thought just kind of laid this out plainly. He says, as a parenthesis, he then utters this lament, his lament of tenderness and pathos over the holy city, or about the holy city, saying, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and we've read it. His heart breaks as he considers the history of Jerusalem, as a sprawl's writing. The city that was supposed to be consecrated to the service of the kingdom of God was the place where the prophets of the kingdom of God were slaughtered. Following his lament for Jerusalem, he then pronounces a dreadful judgment upon the city. And we've read that look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. In Scripture, the house of Jerusalem is the temple. And on more than one occasion, Jesus uttered specific prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem. So we've talked about that. In fact, one of the most powerful indicators of the identity of Jesus is found in the accuracy with which Jesus recorded, Jesus' recorded predictions were fulfilled. The rest of the prophecy which Jesus utters in verse 35 is perhaps a short-term prediction. It may be that Jesus was saying, You are not going to see me, Jerusalem, until I enter the city on Palm Sunday, which wasn't that long away. Then the crowds will come out and sing Hosanna and say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And that was my first thought when I read 35. Is that bl you won't see me until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, that he's looking into the short future, that he will enter Jerusalem for the final time, and they sing Hosanna, what we would call Palm Palm Sunday. Most commentators, however, this back to Sprole, do not think this is what Jesus had in view here, but rather that he was speaking eschatologically of the last days of the consummation of his kingdom. When he would return to this world in the clouds of glory, and those who would who would be saying, Blessed is he who's come in the name of the Lord will be saying it too late. At the last judgment, those who have been cut off from the kingdom of God will try to feign belief and hypocritically declare their allegiance to Jesus. It will be too late, however, for they have already resisted the call to discipleship that Jesus had given on this earth. So two ways to view maybe what what Christ is speaking to there, but again, an application for us. I think as we take this whole passage, this rest of Luke 13 in the whole, it's it's it's easy to make application to me of Christ is saying repent, believe, follow me, or perish. There's a narrow way, a narrow gate, a hard way to follow the Lord Jesus. Or on this side of the cross, you can look back. You live the perfect righteous life for each one of us that follow Him, that believe in Him, that are in Christ. You can be judged by your works, you can be judged by Christ's righteousness. The other thing he says is bear fruits of repentance. Again, back to that Matthew 21. Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. Over and over, we see producing the fruit of repentance, producing the fruit of being in Christ, the fruits of the Spirit. So what does it mean to be to be in Christ? To follow and walk with Him, to repent and believe, the Spirit change your heart, give you new a new heart with new desires to walk in those things that He's prepared beforehand for us to walk in. So regardless, you know, we've talked a lot, and he's saying, well, which way is the right way to answer the question? Are there just a few being saved? I'd say the best way to answer it is again walk in the ways of the Lord, repent and believe before the door is shut. Answer the call to the grace that the Lord has put out, to the gospel. That I'm a sinner. I know I I'm unworthy, nothing I can do to save myself. I'm guilty before God. But God has in his grace provided me salvation in his son with that new heart. He's provided me a new heart, new desires, a new way, a new creation. It's a beautiful thing to know and believe and trust in the Lord Jesus, to know and believe and trust in the gospel, the way of salvation provided from the very beginning. I pray that for you today, if you don't know Christ, that he would draw you, that you would repent and believe and follow him. It's been fun on Luke 13. Thank you guys for listening through. I'm glad we made it through. 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