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Proper 18
Unless Jesus returns before September 9, 2007
15th Sunday After Pentecost; 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
 

The Price of Love

"And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."  - Luke 14:27
 

Reading

Common

Catholic

Episcopal

First

Jeremiah 18:1-11 

Wisdom 9:13-18

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Second

Philemon 1-21

Philemon 1:9-10, 12-17

Philemon 1-20

Psalm

139:1-6, 13-18

90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17

Psalm 1

Gospel

Luke 14:25-33

Luke 14:25-33

Luke 14:25-33
 

 

Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 14:27   

  • John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755):
    No comment on this verse.

  • Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984): 
    To be posted.
     

  • William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
     To be posted.
     

  • J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:

     To be posted.
     

  • I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:

     To be posted.
     

  • David Guzik, Study Guide:
    To be posted.
     

  • Chuck Smith, Study Guide:
    To be posted.
     

  • Catechism of the Catholic Church:
    To be posted.
     

  • J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960:

    To be posted.
     

  • Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929):

    To be posted.
     

  • D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866:

    To be posted.
     

  • Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901:

    To be posted.
     

  • Anchor Bible:

    To be posted.
     

  • The Fourfold Gospel:

     Christ must be followed and imitated even to the extremity of suffering. The costliness of discipleship is illustrated in the two brief parables which follow.

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

    * doth. Lu 9:23-25; Mt 10:38; 16:24-26; Mr 8:34-37; 10:21; 15:21; Joh 19:17 2Ti 3:12
    * cannot. Mt 13:21; Ac 14:22; 2Ti 1:12
     

  • Robertson's Word Pictures:
      His own cross (ton stauron heautoû). This familiar figure we have had already (Lu 9:23; Mr 8:34; Mt 10:38; 16:24). Each follower has a cross which he must bear as Jesus did his. Bastazô is used of cross bearing in the N.T. only here (figuratively) and Joh 19:17 literally of Jesus. Crucifixion was common enough in Palestine since the days of Antiochus Epiphanes and Alexander Jannaeus.
     

  • William Burkitt's Notes:

    No comment on this verse.
     

  • Family Bible Notes:

    No comment on this verse.
     

  • 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
     The true followers of Christ must at once build and fight, and therefore be ready and prepared to endure all types of miseries..
     

  • People's New Testament Commentary:

    To be posted.No comment on this verse.
     

  • Albert Barnes' Commentary:

     No comment on this verse.
     

  • Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

    No comment on this verse.
     

  • Spurgeon Devotional Commentary: 
    Still further, our Lord proceeds to lay down the terms of discipleship. His followers must suffer loss and shame, and be willing to do so, or they have not learned the first elements of the faith. Jesus denied himself for the good of others, and for the truth's sake, and so must we, or we cannot be his followers. What say we to this?
     

  • Adam Clarke's Commentary:

    No comment on this verse.
     

  • Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

    No comment on this verse.

     

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    • We are invited to complete Christian discipleship.

      • Disciple

      • Cross

      • Cost

    • How much do you want to follow Jesus?

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    • The cross is laid on every Christian.


      • - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

    • The cross alone is our theology.


      • - Martin Luther

    • The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. The old does not give way to the new without trying to overcome it.


      • - Reinhold Niebuhr

    • Via Crucis, Via Lucis (The Way of the Cross is the Way of Light).


      • - Latin Proverb

    • Crucified inwardly and outwardly with Christ, you will live in this life with fullness and satisfaction of soul, and possess your soul in patience.


      • - St. John of the Cross, Sayings of Light and Love, #87

    • Believer, Christ Jesus presents you with your crosses, and they are no trivial gifts.


      • - Spurgeon, C.H.

    • God gives us the cross, and the cross gives us God.


      • - Madame Guyon, A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer, Chp. 7.2

    • Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:


      • by whose stripes ye were healed.
      - St. Peter, 1 Peter 2:24

    • But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.


      • - St. Paul, Galatians 6:14

    • The saying in verse 27 does not mean that all true disciples must be martyrs in the literal sense.  Yet martyrdom is discipleship carried to its ultimate conclusion.


      • - Reginald H. Fuller, Preaching the Lectionary, p. 503

    • What the Lord here commands is, that each follower should take up, not his Savior's cross, but his own.  The requirement is, that as Christ bore his own cross to his own crucifixion, so his followers should bear each his own cross to his own crucifixion.  So the great crucified leader is followed by an endless train of crucified followers.  They are crucified symbolically, in all their sufferings of mind or body, in behalf of Christ and of truth.  Each follower who hath the spirit of his Master, is crucified in fact or in readiness of spirit.  The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of martyrdom.


      • - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Matthew-Mark, p. 137

    • Jesus here means that if it is necessary to make a choice between Him and Them, there must not be the slightest hesitancy.


      • - Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook, p. 513

    • The cross, a symbol of execution, indicates that a man must renounce all to follow Jesus.


      • - William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Luke, p. 693

    • The disciple must renounce everything that would prevent his dependence on Christ alone.


      • - J. McNicol, New Bible Commentary (1954): Luke, p. 855

    • Walk behind me.  I.e. follow as a disciple.


      • - Fitzmyer, Joseph A., Trans., Anchor Bible, Vol. Luke X-XXIV, p.1065
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    Hymns
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    • I Surrender All   
    • Take My Life and Let It Be   
    • I Have Decided to Follow Jesus   
    • O Jesus I have Promised   
    • The One is Blest - a version of Psalm 1   
    • O Lord My Inmost Heart and Thought - a version of Psalm 139   
    • You Are Before Me Lord - a version of Pslam 139   
    • True Hearted, Whole Hearted
    • At the Cross
    • Are Ye Able
    • I am Thine
    • The Way of the Cross Leads Home
    • The Old Rugged Cross
    • When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
    • Take Up Thy Cross the Savior Said
    • Onward Christian Soldiers
    • Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone
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    Philemon 1-21

    1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow labourer, 
    2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house: 
    3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
    4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 
    5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; 
    6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. 
    7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 
    8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 
    9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 
    10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 
    11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 
    12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 
    13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: 
    14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. 
    15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; 
    16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? 
    17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. 
    18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; 
    19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. 
    20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. 
    21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 
     
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    Luke  14:25-33

    25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 
    26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 
    27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 
    28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 
    29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 
    30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 
    31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 
    32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 
    33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. 
     
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