He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”(Luke 14:12-14 ESV)
Having addressed the rest of the guests, Jesus now turns to His host and tells him he has invited the wrong guests. Rather than inviting those who could (and did) invite him back, (and thus perpetuate the idea that they were all okay), Jesus challenged him to invite those who could not repay, and who therefore would be truly grateful for the invitation to the banquet(unlike these, who were being invited to the banquet in the kingdom and were not thankful. The bottom line is again that the kingdom of God is focus not on the temporal, but the eternal. They and we, have a hard time remembering that.
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