LUKE 14:7-11 ARE YOU HUMBLE?

 PARABLE OF THE WEDDING RECEPTION

WHERE SHOULD I BE SEATED?

JESUS spoke a parable:

"Then he gave a little word of advice to the guests when he noticed how they were choosing the best seats.

“When you are invited to a wedding reception, don’t sit down in the best seat. 

It might happen that a more distinguished man than you has also been invited. Then your host might say,  ‘I am afraid you must give up your seat for this man.’ And then, with considerable embarrassment, you will have to sit in the humblest place. No, when you are invited, go and take your seat in an inconspicuous place, so that when your host comes in he may say to you, ‘Come on, my dear fellow, we have a much better seat than this for you.’ That is the way to be important in the eyes of all your fellow-guests! For everyone who makes himself important will become insignificant, while the man who makes himself insignificant will find himself important.”   

Luke 14:7-11  J B Phillips Translation  (Phillips)

"For everyone who EXALTS himself will be humbled, and he who HUMBLES himself will be exalted."  

Luke 14:11  New American Standard 95  (NASB)