The Five Invitations of Jesus 

The Invitation to the Kingdom  

Luke 14:12-24 

February 15, 2026  

Dr. Brad Hoffmann, pastor 

 The MISSION of Cool Spring Baptist Church is to reach and develop all people into fully committed followers of Jesus Christ. 

Our BRAND: Cool Spring is all about living connected.  We are connected to each other, our community, but most of all, connected to Christ. We do this intentionally in three unique ways: we link, we learn, and we live. 

Luke 14:12-15 ESV: He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” 15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”  

Luke 14:16-17 ESV:  But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’  

Luke 14:18-20 ESV: But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’  

Luke 14:21 ESV:  So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’  

Luke 14:22-24 ESV:  And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’ ”