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Luke 14:19
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Then there is another person who has already bought, apparently, a number of oxen, and he has got to go and try them out: drive them, test them. He is so anxious that he has made a good purchase, that he can’t put it off. He has so much anxiety over this that he can’t even trust his servant to go and do it – with a purchase that size, it is likely that he had servants. No, he has got to deal with this thing himself: it is totally unnecessary. In other words, the picture is of completely superficial and ridiculous excuses. The picture is of people who instantly decided that it didn’t matter if they snubbed the host; they were going to do what they wanted first. Perhaps he was anxious because he feared he may not have had value for his money. Nothing on earth would have held him from satisfying his concerns about this transaction.
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That is how the things of the world get hold of us: all its fashions, its entertainments, its affairs, petty as they might be. The little things of life fill our horizons and seize our hours and our days and God becomes insignificant to us by comparison, and he is shut out. That is the picture we are being given here.
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