The basic items of the Great Banquet Parable are easy to determine. What's the status of your account right now? Will some areas of your report be filled in with excuses? Notice particularly that Romans 14:12 indicates that we will not be silent at the judgment seat of Christ. Our salvation will be secure - that was settled when we trusted in Christ - but the 'service record' of our lives will be reviewed (2 Corinthians 5:10 and Romans 14:10-12). The fact that these excuses were totally unacceptable in the parable (v24), certainly indicates that similar excuses will be unacceptable when made by Christians at the judgment seat of Christ. Non-Christians who are unwilling to accept the Lord, and Christians who are unwilling to be more committed to Him often use the same excuses. In this parable, God tells us in no uncertain terms that He sees right through our excuses and finds them unacceptable! Although the context of the parable concerns salvation, the excuses made by the unbelievers can be applied to 'excuse attitudes' of Christians. That's exactly what the Lord did in the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14. We know it - and the Lord knows it! It's a wonder that God doesn't call out to us from heaven, 'Excuses, excuses! All I ever hear are excuses!' Has anyone ever given you a lame excuse? No doubt it was easy for you to detect! If this is true on the human level, how much more on the divine level! Did you ever give God a lame excuse for what you were doing - or not doing? Did you really think you could pull the wool over God's eyes with an excuse? How often we try to justify our questionable activities (or our lazy inactivity) to the Lord, and think that He is somehow impressed with tales that are nothing more than excuses. Please excuse me.' Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.' Please excuse me.' Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. The first said, 'I have just bought a field and I must go and see it.

Luke 14:18-20 - But they all began to make excuses. Devotions for Growing Christians Excuses, Excuses!

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