{"id":1287,"date":"2025-09-14T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:25:21","slug":"the-humble-exalted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/09\/14\/the-humble-exalted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humble Exalted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 14\/9\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/140925_202509\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/140925_202509\/140925.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 14 v 1-14\n<br><br>\nJesus at a Pharisee\u2019s House<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2<\/b><\/font> There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3 <\/b><\/font>Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, \u201cIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> Then he asked them, \u201cIf one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> And they had nothing to say.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font> When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable:\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font> \u201cWhen someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font> If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, \u2018Give this person your seat.\u2019 Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, \u2018Friend, move up to a better place.\u2019 Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11<\/b><\/font> For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12<\/b><\/font> Then Jesus said to his host, \u201cWhen you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font> But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 14\/9\/25 Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! 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