The Renewal Of Communion - In The Last Days

Those humble shall be raised up to be with the Lord forever! Alleluia!

Luke 14
Healing on the Sabbath: Man rescues the Ox - God rescues the sick (Both break the Sabbath) 
Taking the lower seat at the feast: The proud are humbled; the humble are honored

7 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8 “When 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. 9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. 11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

12 Then Jesus said to his host, “When 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. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”

16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ (is the "Time of the Banquet" the Last Days "All is now ready"

18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’ (Busy with investments)

19 “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’ (Busy with my business)

20 “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’ (busy with relationships)

21 “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’

22 “ ‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’

23 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads (Journey) and country lanes (The Fenced) and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. 24 I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’ ”  

COMPEL: to compel (constrain), doing so with urgency (as a pressing necessity). anágkē ("a necessity") calls for timely help, i.e. strong force needed to accomplish something compulsory (absolutely required). This kind of situation is typically brought on by great pain or distress - distress, necessity.From ana and the base of agkale; constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication, distress -- distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.

The POOR: not the wealthy who can repay
The CRIPPLED: those who have no destiny - the hopeless
The BLIND: If their eyes were opened they would believe vs. Those who think they see
The LAME: The injured, hurting, needy who know they need a crutch - the truth of God's presence could set them free to walk and leap and give praise to God.

Can't make this stuff up! "Compel Them to Come" "Go to those who JOURNEY and to those who are FENCED!" - At the Feast Mary said, "They have no more wine!" Jesus Said, "Come to me". "I am the Bread of life - whoever eats the bread that I shall give shall never hunger. Whoever drinks the drink that I shall give - out of your life my life will flow..." We say, "Lord its no longer we who are alive but you who is alive inside us!" Blessed are those who come to the Table - The Glorious table of God!

Thought some of your might enjoy this - From Luke 14:23 as per the Surfside Gathering last night: And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways (find the JOURNEY people) and hedges (find the FENCED people), and COMPEL "them" to come in (to Sharon & Sal's House), that my house may be filled...

Here's the actual Greek from Strongs: 
Highways = hodos --> Short Definition: a way, road, journey
Hedges = phragmos --> Short Definition: a hedge, fence, partition from a root phrag- to fence in, to stop

Compel here is (as Jesus would) lovingly urge them to His Great Feast (The Communion Table - as The Great Feast is not the Wedding Feast of the Lamb) It begins: a man gave a great feast. Greatness in the midst of the other parables has to do with priority, This Feast is a God Feast. It is food that feeds for eternity. It is much more important than any other meal in this life. So to Compel means to verbally and physically urge them to come to God's Table. He has it prepared. Those invited found every excuse to excuse themselves - too many other things to do. So we are to go to those at "Journey" who have no destination, ie. Jesus is the Good Shepherd who leads us to a destination: His Table where we feed on eternal life in the face of those looking on from a temporary one. Then find those who are "Stopped" or "Fenced" from the Destination - take them by the hand and lead them to their place at the Lord's Table (no fence) to eat and drink the joy of salvation with US comprised of:

The POOR: healthy just not the wealthy who can afford to repay
The CRIPPLED: those who 'don't have a leg to walk on' who have no sense of destiny - the hopeless
The BLIND: If their eyes were opened they would believe vs. Those who think they see everything just fine in their own eyes
The LAME: The injured, hurting, needy who know they need a crutch - the truth of God's presence could set them free to walk and leap and give praise to God - they just need someone to care

He said - those who were invited will never taste a morsel of the Feast that you sit down to eat!

Are you rejecting the call to daily and regular Communion - from house to house... breaking bread with those who have found the warmth of the fire of the glorious presence of Jesus? Are you distracted from spending 3-5 minutes a day to digest a small piece of eternal life and sip the fountain of eternal life?

I want to COMPEL you to take the hand of Jesus. He will lead you to His Table. It is better than lookout mountain, its a mirror that reveals His Face. When we are in His presence we can see forever! Alleluia! Jesus died, rose and revived to become Lord of the dead and the living so that in His presence we feed on life forever more!


Find those who Journey          Tell them I have no fence     Mary, "They have no wine"     Jesus, "Come to me"

COMPEL THEM 

◄ 315. anagkazó ►

Strong's Concordance
anagkazó: to necessitate, compel
Original Word: ἀναγκάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: anagkazó
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ang-kad'-zo)
Short Definition: I force, compel
Definition: I force, compel, constrain, urge.HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 315 anagkázō – to compel (constrain), doing so with urgency (as a pressing necessity). See 318 (anagkē).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from anagké
Definition
to necessitate, compel
NASB Translation
compel (3), compelled (2), force (1), forced (1), made (2).


Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 315: ἀναγκάζω

ἀναγκάζω; (imperfect ἠνάγκαζον); 1 aorist ἠνάγκασα; 1 aorist passive ἠναγκάσθην; (from ἀνάγκη); (fr. Sophoclesdown); to necessitate, compel, drive to, constrain, whether by force, threats, etc., or by persuasion, entreaties, etc., or by other means: τινα, 2 Corinthians 12:11 (by your behavior toward me);τινα followed by an infinitive, Acts 26:11; Acts 28:19; Galatians 2:3, 14 (by your example); ; Matthew 14:22; Mark 6:45; Luke 14:23. 

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
compel, constrain.From anagke; to necessitate -- compel, constrain.

see GREEK anagke

From Root Word

318. anagké ►

Strong's Concordance
anagké: necessity
Original Word: ἀνάγκη, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: anagké
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ang-kay')
Short Definition: necessity, constraint, compulsion
Definition: necessity, constraint, compulsion; there is need to; force, violence.HELPS Word-studies
318 anágkē (perhaps cognate with 43 /agkálē, "arm," which is derived from angkos, "a bent/uplifted arm poised to meet a pressing need") –necessity; a compelling need requiring immediate action, i.e. in apressing situation.

318 /anágkē ("a necessity") calls for timely help, i.e. strong force needed to accomplish something compulsory (absolutely required). This kind of situation is typically brought on by great pain or distress (so Diod., LXX, Abbott-Smith).

["In classical Greek many words take their stem from anank-. The verbanankazō denotes the outward influence or pressure exerted bysomeone upon another. . . . At times there is implied in anankazō the idea of 'force,' thus it can even mean 'to torture' someone" (Liddell-Scott).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ana and agchó (to compress, press tight)
Definition
necessity
NASB Translation
compulsion (3), constraint (1), distress (3), distresses (1), hardships (1), inevitable (1), necessary (2), necessity (3), need (2), obliged* (1).


Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 318: ἀνάγκη

ἀνάγκη, (ης, ἡ;1. necessity, imposed either by the external condition of things, or by the law of duty, regard to one's advantage, custom, argument: κατ'ἀνάγκην perforce (opposed to κατά ἑκούσιον), Philemon 1:14;ἐξ ἀνάγκης of necessity, compelled, 2 Corinthians 9:7; Hebrews 7:12 (necessarily); ἔχω ἀνάγκην I have (am compelled by) necessity, (also in Greek writings): 1 Corinthians 7:37; Hebrews 7:27; followed by an infinitive, Luke 14:18; Luke 23:17 R L brackets; Jude 1:3; ἀν. μοι ἐπίκειται necessity is laid upon me, 1 Corinthians 9:16; ἀνάγκη (equivalent to ἀναγκαῖον ἐστι) followed by an infinitive: Matthew 18:7; Romans 13:5; Hebrews 9:16, 23 (also in Greek writings).

2. in a sense rare in the classics (Diodorus 4, 43), but very common in Hellenistic writings (also in Josephus, b. j. 5, 13, 7, etc.; see Winers Grammar, 30), calamity, distress, straits: Luke 21:23; 1 Corinthians 7:26; 1 Thessalonians 3:7; plural ἐν ἀνάγκαις, 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 12:10. 

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
distress, necessity.From ana and the base of agkale; constraint (literally or figuratively); by implication, distress -- distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.

see GREEK ana
see GREEK agkale

Luke 15
The Parable of the Lost Sheep - the 1%
The Parable of the lost Coin - the 10%
The Parable of the Lost Son - the 50%

Luke 16
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager - Faithful with Little (Can't serve God & Money)
The Self-Righteous are Lost in Sin - Everyone wants into The Kingdom of Heaven but the law condemns their sin until dead and separated from God forever

Luke 17
Forgiveness and Faith
One out of ten - His tithe from the earth

7 “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? 8 Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’” (See the book of Ruth)


Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy
One out of ten - His tithe from the earth

11Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosyb met him. They stood at a distance 13and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

14When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.

15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.

17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

Leads into:

The Coming of the Kingdom of God and the Second Coming of the King

20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, 21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

22 Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 23 People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them. 24 For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.” 36 "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."

37 “Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

The reason for Verse 37?
A thought: Body, soul, spirit - Jesus returns and the dead in Christ are raised first then those who are alive and remain - as Jesus promised those are at His Table receiving His Body and Blood in Communion "I will raise you up in the last day!" When He does, he gives us a new body. The old body remains for the vultures? 
He also says we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. New Bodies and New Life - Eternity with Jesus!

Englishman's Concordance
Strong's Greek 315
9 Occurrences

ἀνάγκασον — 1 Occ.
ἀναγκάζεις — 1 Occ.
ἀναγκάζουσιν — 1 Occ.
ἠναγκάσατε — 1 Occ.
ἠνάγκασεν — 2 Occ.
ἠναγκάσθη — 1 Occ.
ἠναγκάσθην — 1 Occ.
ἠνάγκαζον — 1 Occ.

Matthew 14:22 V-AIA-3S
GRK: Καὶ εὐθέως ἠνάγκασεν τοὺς μαθητὰς
NAS: Immediately He made the disciples get
KJV: Jesus constrained his
INT: And immediately he compelled the disciplesMark 6:45 V-AIA-3S
GRK: Καὶ εὐθὺς ἠνάγκασεν τοὺς μαθητὰς
NAS: Immediately Jesus made His disciples
KJV: straightway he constrained his
INT: And immediately he compelled the disciples

Luke 14:23 V-AMA-2S
GRK: φραγμοὺς καὶ ἀνάγκασονεἰσελθεῖν ἵνα
NAS: and along the hedges, and compel [them] to come
KJV: and compel [them] to come in,
INT: hedges and compel to come in that

Acts 26:11 V-IIA-1S
GRK: τιμωρῶν αὐτοὺς ἠνάγκαζονβλασφημεῖν περισσῶς
NAS: the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme;
KJV: synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme;
INT: punishing them I compelled [them] to blaspheme Exceedingly

Acts 28:19 V-AIP-1S
GRK: τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἠναγκάσθηνἐπικαλέσασθαι Καίσαρα
NAS: objected, I was forced to appeal
KJV: spake against [it], I was constrained to appeal
INT: of the Jews I was compelled to appeal to Ceasar

2 Corinthians 12:11 V-AIA-2P
GRK: ὑμεῖς με ἠναγκάσατε ἐγὼ γὰρ
NAS: you yourselves compelled me. Actually
KJV: in glorying; ye have compelled me: for
INT: you me compelled I indeed

Galatians 2:3 V-AIP-3S
GRK: Ἕλλην ὤν ἠναγκάσθηπεριτμηθῆναι 
NAS: was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
KJV: a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
INT: a Greek being was compelled to be circumcised

Galatians 2:14 V-PIA-2S
GRK: τὰ ἔθνη ἀναγκάζεις Ἰουδαΐζειν 
NAS: how [is it that] you compel the Gentiles
KJV: why compellest thou the Gentiles
INT: the Gentiles do you compel to Judaize

Galatians 6:12 V-PIA-3P
GRK: σαρκί οὗτοι ἀναγκάζουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι
NAS: in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised,
KJV: they constrain you
INT: [the] flesh these compel you to be circumcised

FROM root word anagke
Strong's Greek 318
18 Occurrences

ἀνάγκαις — 2 Occ.
ἀνάγκη — 7 Occ.
ἀνάγκην — 7 Occ.
ἀνάγκης — 2 Occ.

Matthew 18:7 N-NFS
GRK: τῶν σκανδάλων ἀνάγκη γὰρ ἐλθεῖν
NAS: blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks
KJV: for it must needs be
INT: the temptations to sin for necessary [is]indeed to comeLuke 14:18 N-AFS
GRK: καὶ ἔχω ἀνάγκην ἐξελθὼν ἰδεῖν
NAS: a piece of land and I need to go
KJV: and I must needs go and
INT: and I have need going out to see

Luke 21:23 N-NFS
GRK: ἔσται γὰρ ἀνάγκη μεγάλη ἐπὶ
NAS: for there will be great distress upon the land
KJV: great distress in
INT: there will be indeed distress great upon

Luke 23:17 Noun-AFS
GRK: ἀνάγκην δέ εἶχεν
KJV: (For of necessity he must
INT: of necessity now he had

Romans 13:5 N-NFS
GRK: διὸ ἀνάγκη ὑποτάσσεσθαι οὐ
NAS: Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection,
KJV: Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject,
INT: Therefore necessary [it is] to be subject not

1 Corinthians 7:26 N-AFS
GRK: τὴν ἐνεστῶσαν ἀνάγκην ὅτι καλὸν
NAS: of the present distress, that it is good
KJV: the present distress, [I say], that
INT: the present necessity that [it is] good

1 Corinthians 7:37 N-AFS
GRK: μὴ ἔχων ἀνάγκην ἐξουσίαν δὲ
NAS: under no constraint, but has authority
KJV: having no necessity, but hath
INT: not having necessity authority moreover

1 Corinthians 9:16 N-NFS
GRK: μοι καύχημα ἀνάγκη γάρ μοι
NAS: of, for I am under compulsion; for woe
KJV: for necessity is laid upon
INT: to me boasting for necessity indeed me

2 Corinthians 6:4 N-DFP
GRK: θλίψεσιν ἐν ἀνάγκαις ἐν στενοχωρίαις
NAS: in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
KJV: in necessities, in
INT: tribulations in hardships in distresses

2 Corinthians 9:7 N-GFS
GRK: ἢ ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἱλαρὸν γὰρ
NAS: or under compulsion, for God loves
KJV: or of necessity: for God
INT: or of necessity a cheerful indeed

2 Corinthians 12:10 N-DFP
GRK: ὕβρεσιν ἐν ἀνάγκαις ἐν διωγμοῖς
NAS: with insults, with distresses, with persecutions,
KJV: in necessities, in
INT: insults in hardships in persecutions

1 Thessalonians 3:7 N-DFS
GRK: πάσῃ τῇ ἀνάγκῃ καὶ θλίψει
NAS: in all our distress and affliction
KJV: affliction and distress by your
INT: all the distress and tribulation

Philemon 1:14 N-AFS
GRK: ὡς κατὰ ἀνάγκην τὸ ἀγαθόν
NAS: would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.
KJV: it were of necessity, but
INT: as effect of necessity the good

Hebrews 7:12 N-GFS
GRK: ἱερωσύνης ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νόμου
NAS: is changed, of necessity there takes place
KJV: of necessity a change
INT: priesthood from necessity also of law

Hebrews 7:27 N-AFS
GRK: καθ' ἡμέραν ἀνάγκην ὥσπερ οἱ
NAS: who does not need daily, like
INT: every day necessity as the

Hebrews 9:16 N-NFS
GRK: διαθήκη θάνατον ἀνάγκηφέρεσθαι τοῦ
NAS: a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death
KJV: a testament [is], there must also of necessity be
INT: [there is] a will [the] death [is] necessary to bring in of the [one]

Hebrews 9:23 N-NFS
GRK: Ἀνάγκη οὖν τὰ
NAS: Therefore it was necessary for the copies
KJV: [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns
INT: [It was] necessary then [for] the

Jude 1:3 N-AFS
GRK: ἡμῶν σωτηρίας ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γράψαι
NAS: I felt the necessity to write
KJV: it was needful for me
INT: of us salvation necessity I had to write

As at the Wedding of Cana His Glory Covers the Earth as the Waters cover the Seas