PCC Sermons Podcast · Pompey Community Church

Kingdom Feast

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Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Pompey Community Church opens the sermon with a welcome and a reading from Luke 14:1-24. The preacher asks the congregation to imagine the best feast they could hope for. Family Thanksgivings and Christmases are used as familiar examples. The sermon then widens the question to the feast Jesus is about to reveal. It moves into a dinner party where a man with dropsy is present. Jesus heals him in the middle of the meal. The Pharisees react with outrage because they believe the Sabbath has been broken. The sermon draws attention to the way Jesus is doing the same restoring work God has always done for his people. God's Word and human tradition are now in conflict. The Pharisees cannot answer Jesus, and that silence is treated as a sign that they are clinging to their tradition. Jesus then turns to the invited guests and speaks about the places of honor at a wedding feast. He warns against taking the best seat too quickly. Shame follows when someone more distinguished arrives and the host moves you down. The sermon names spiritual pride as the deeper problem. It presses the listener to take the low place instead. From there, the message returns to the larger kingdom picture. The closing prayer asks for humility, forgiveness, and joy in the healing still to come. It looks forward to the day believers will sit with the Son and feast fully satisfied forever. The episode ends with a simple invitation to subscribe and keep listening.

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A steady Luke 14 sermon on mercy, pride, and the feast that ends in fullness.

This sermon stays close to Luke 14, using the meal table to set mercy against pride. It begins with a question about the best feast to attend, then moves into Jesus healing a man with dropsy and the clash with Pharisaic Sabbath concern, showing how quickly religious caution can…

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A Luke 14 sermon that turns a dinner table into a lesson on pride, mercy, and the kingdom feast.

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