TABLE MANNERS

PRIDE BUSTERS 

"Now Jesus began telling a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been selecting the places of honor at the table, saying to them,"    Luke 14:7 AMP

When you are invited to a special feast, don't sit in the place of honor.  The host may embarrass you, moving you to a lower place at the table.

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down [to eat] at the place of honor, since a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by the host, and he who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place,’ and then, in disgrace you proceed to take the last place." Luke 14:8-9 AMP

It is better to be HUMBLE and sit at the table at the lowest place, and be moved up to a better seat later by the host.

"But when you are invited, go and sit down [to eat] at the last place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; and then you will be honored in the presence of all who are at the table with you."  Luke 14:10 AMP

God hates PRIDE!   If you exalt yourself, you will be humbled. But if you HUMBLE yourself, God will exalt you.

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled [before others], and he who habitually humbles himself (keeps a realistic self-view) will be exalted.”  

Luke 14:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)

At the LAST SUPPER, John sat on one side of Jesus and Judas Iscariot sat on the other side of him.  Is it possible Judas was exalting himself to sit in the place of honor?