Bible Questions Answered:
“To what people was Jesus talking to
in Luke 7:31-34?...”
Lorain/ Aberdeen, Scotland United
Kingdom
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
Luke 7:31-35 KJV
31 And The Lord said, Whereunto then
shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children
sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying,
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to
you, and ye have not wept.
33 For John the Baptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
34 The Son Of Man is come eating and
drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine bibber, a
friend of publicans and sinners!
35 But wisdom is justified of all
her children.
Luke 7:31-35 NLT
31 “To what can I compare the
people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “How can I describe
them?
32 They are like children playing a
game in the public square. They complain to their friends, ‘We
played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral
songs, and you didn’t weep.’
33 For John the Baptist didn’t
spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s
possessed by a demon.’
34 The Son Of Man, on the other
hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a
drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’
35 But wisdom is shown to be right
by the lives of those who follow it
Jesus was speaking
to self-righteous Pharisees.
The lawyers and Pharisees of the day,
rejected Jesus, saying....
Of John the baptist, because he
abstained from most worldly things. (Luke 7:33)
“ For John the Baptist didn’t
spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s
possessed by a demon.”
Of Jesus because, He took part with
them, eating and drinking as they did. (Luke 7:34)
“The Son Of Man, on the other
hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a
drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!”
The point here being, whatever God
offered them, it wasn't good enough, they refused all invitations
regardless of the messenger.
This is the “unpardonable sin, the
profanation of God The Holy Spirit.
Homily:
Question: How may a man be saved
at sea, if he refuses, life saver after life saver, thrown to him?
Answer: He will be lost, and by his own design.
Those who reject Christ, for any and
all reasons, are cutting every thread of a life saving cord, cast out
to rescue them. Can anything save them? No, for they refuse all
efforts of salvation.
UNPARDONABLE SIN
(True of those who have never received
The Lord, and true of those who have, and are turned back.)
Hebrews 6:4-6 NLT
4 For it is impossible to bring back
to repentance those who were once enlightened—those who have
experienced the good things of
heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit,
5 who have tasted the goodness of
the word of God and the power of the age to come—
6 and who then turn away from God.
It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by
rejecting the Son of God, they
themselves are nailing Him to the cross once again and holding Him up
to public shame.
Hebrew 10:26-31 NLT
26 Dear friends, if we deliberately
continue sinning after we have received knowledge of The Truth,
there is no longer any sacrifice
that will cover these sins.
27 There is only the terrible
expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume
His
enemies.
28 For anyone who refused to obey
the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of
two or three witnesses.
29 Just think how much worse the
punishment will be for those who have trampled on The Son Of God, and
have treated The Blood Of The Covenant, which made us holy, as if it
were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained The Holy
Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.
30 For we know The One who said, “I
will take revenge. I will pay them back.” He also said,
“The Lord will judge His own
people.”
31 It is a terrible thing to fall
into the hands of The Living God.
Mark 3:22,28-30 NLT
22 But the teachers of religious
law who had arrived from Jerusalem said, “He’s possessed by
Satan, the prince of demons. That’s where He gets The Power to cast
out demons.”
(Jesus)
28 “I tell you The Truth, all sin
and blasphemy can be forgiven,
29 but anyone who blasphemes The
Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. This is a sin with eternal
consequences.”
30 He told them this because they
were saying, “He’s possessed by an evil spirit.”
Want to read more
of our Lord's comments to the Pharisees, read Matthew the 23rd
chapter.
