They are not interested in the message of Jesus Christ or in Jesus Christ.

When the true gospel of salvation came, they wanted to stone him.

One message in the synagogue in Nazareth, and they try to throw him off a cliff,

they have no interest in the banquet of God if Jesus Christ is the door.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Imagine if, in 1976, you were given a 10% stake in the Apple Corporation.

That was the case for Ronald Wayne. He was a man named in the first partnership agreement

for the company, but in an effort to protect himself from what he thought was a failing business.

Wayne sold his stake in Apple less than two weeks after being awarded stock in the company.

He made $800 in the deal. Today, that stock would be worth almost $100 billion.

While that may be one of history's greatest missed opportunities, today on Grace to You,

John MacArthur shows you how you could be missing an even greater opportunity, namely spending

eternity with Christ. With that in mind, stay here as John continues his series on the parables

of Jesus. It's called Stories with Purpose. Open your Bible to Luke 14. They were all raised up

in a work system. You tried to achieve the highest place of prominence, and they were sure they

would be in the chief seats in the heavenly banquet. And while this is not directly an

adversarial comment, this is not an attack on what Jesus says directly, indirectly, it is a

scorn and a rebuke of the Lord's insinuation that they were too proud to be in God's kingdom.

That only the humble were going to show up at the righteous resurrection.

On the contrary, we are the blessed who will eat bread in the kingdom of God, and all the rest

would have said, yes, amen, we'll all be there. And Jesus is going to shatter their false hope with

a story, a parable. And in fact, as a brief outline, four points, invitation, excuses, inclusion,

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