{"id":3978,"date":"2009-02-11T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/mark-1414"},"modified":"2009-02-11T20:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T01:11:43","slug":"mark-1414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/02\/11\/mark-1414\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 14:14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall
       eat the passover with my disciples?” 
              — Mark 14:14 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; each
householder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the
Saviour, and he had no dwelling of his own. It was by his own
supernatural power that he found himself an upper room in which to keep
the feast. It is so even to this day-Jesus is not received among the
sons of men save only where by his supernatural power and grace he
makes the heart anew. All doors are open enough to the prince of
darkness, but Jesus must clear a way for himself or lodge in the
streets. It was through the mysterious power exerted by our Lord that
the householder raised no question, but at once cheerfully and joyfully
opened his guestchamber. Who he was, and what he was, we do not know,
but he readily accepted the honour which the Redeemer proposed to
confer upon him. In like manner it is still discovered who are the
Lord’s chosen, and who are not; for when the gospel comes to some, they
fight against it, and will not have it, but where men receive it,
welcoming it, this is a sure indication that there is a secret work
going on in the soul, and that God has chosen them unto eternal life.
Are you willing, dear reader, to receive Christ? then there is no
difficulty in the way; Christ will be your guest; his own power is
working with you, making you willing. What an honour to entertain the
Son of God! The heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he
condescends to find a house within our hearts! We are not worthy that
he should come under our roof, but what an unutterable privilege when
he condescends to enter! for then he makes a feast, and causes us to
feast with him upon royal dainties, we sit at a banquet where the
viands are immortal, and give immortality to those who feed thereon.
Blessed among the sons of Adam is he who entertains the angels’ Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall       eat the passover with my disciples?”                — Mark 14:14 Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; eachhouseholder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited theSaviour, and he had no dwelling of his own. It was by his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}