"No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Meaning what?)

Question

found in Luke 9:62

Answer 1

This statement needs to be carefully considered ! Many think that they can go up to the preacher, shake hands, confess Jesus as Lord, then go about their way. There is SOOO much more than that !
When a person gets enlightenment from darkness, and they "think" (look) back, desiring the ways of darkness again, they need to check the heart, and the scriptures, because in them they 'THINK" they have salvation. Salvations definition is : Deliverance . The things they desire, looking back, determines if they are delivered.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and soul. A double minded person is unstable in all ways. Consider the parable from Jesus : seed of the sower...

Answer 2

I think, just from reading this verse alone, that "and looking back" is the main point. Like, that person is looking back and wishing that they weren't there ploughing. Maybe being envious of someone who doesn't have to do that kind of work. And that person thinking that they are too good to be ploughing. So I guess it means that anyone who is trying to do God's work, but keeps being distracted by others, or their past, isn't worthy of the kingdom of God.

Answer 3

Well if you put your faith in Christ and give up a "wild life", but then you keep thinking back on your wild days with fond remembrance instead of shunning that behavior then you are not fully committed.

you see plowing needs straight lines and if you look backwards your plough lines are going to be crooked and will need to be redone -- as if you had never plowed the lines in the first place.

So you say you have faith in Christ but you really don't if you long for the days you were sinning (more).

Make sense?

D

Answer 4

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"No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Meaning what?)

Answer 5

Ploughing is hard work. When you plough do it without considering how hard it is, or how much you already did or how much more there is ahead of you. If you can keep your focus to that single experience of ploughing you will at peace. Otherwise you may find yourself complaining and making yourself and others miserable. What ever you do, do it for the sake of doing... that way you can only enjoy it. Without that joy life is not really living. That is what Jesus had meant there really

Answer 6

Hand Plough

Answer 7

This line is the lament of the events of the past two days of putting up with dull-witted disciples, that have little awareness of what Jesus knows is about to take place, even after the subliminal transfiguration that occured just ONE DAY BEFORE! Jesus has been looking for signs of awareness in his followers...and sees none. He even tells them directly what must happen to Him (for the third time!) but they don't want to hear it. Instead they busy themselves asking Him annoying questions, and sending out messengers to the wrong cities! When they try to 'look good' in front of each other, vying for rank and attention (and after MANY such attempts), Jesus silences them all with the line in question. I think Jesus shows remarkable restraint here, in His rebuke, seeing as how He must have been under a great deal of stress thinking about what He had to face next...and that fits closely with the content of His own reply. It seems He was psyching Himself up for the big event, while at the same time, wondering if He had achieved anything with those disciples of his.

Answer 8

So much for once saved alway2. The rebuke which Christ gave him for this request (v. 62): "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and designing to make good work of his ploughing, will look back, or look behind him, for then he makes balks with his plough, and the ground he ploughs is not fit to be sown; so thou, if thou hast a design to follow me and to reap the advantages of those that do so, yet if thou lookest back to a worldly life again and hankerest after that, if thou lookest back as Lot’s wife did to Sodom, which seems to be alluded to here, thou art not fit for the kingdom of God.’’ (1.) "Thou art not soil fit to receive the good seed of the kingdom of God if thou art thus ploughed by the halves, and not gone through with.’’ (2.) "Thou art not a sower fit to scatter the good seed of the kingdom if thou canst hold the plough no better.’’ Ploughing is in order to sowing. As those are not fit to be sown with divine comforts whose fallow ground is not first broken up, so those are not fit to be employed in sowing who know not how to break up the fallow ground, but, when they have laid their hand to the plough, upon every occasion look back and think of quitting it. Note, Those who begin with the work of God must resolve to go on with it, or they will make nothing of it. Looking back inclines to drawing back, and drawing back is to perdition. Those are not fit for heaven who, having set their faces heavenward, face about. But he, and he only, that endures to the end, shall be saved. Matthew Henry

Answer 9

Luk 9:62 -
No man, having put his hand ... - To put one’s hand to a plow is a proverbial expression to signify undertaking any business. In order that a plowman may accomplish his work, it is necessary to look onward - to be intent on his employment - not to be looking back with regret that he undertook it. So in religion. He that enters on it must do it with his whole heart, He that comes still loving the world - still looking with regret on its pleasures, its wealth, and its honors - that has not “wholly” forsaken them as his portion, cannot be a Christian, and is not fit for the kingdom of God. How searching is this test to those who profess to be Christians! And how solemn the duty of all people to renounce all earthly objects, and to be not only “almost,” but “altogether,” followers of the Son of God! It is perilous to tamper with the world - to look at its pleasures or to seek its society. He that would enter heaven must come with a heart full of love to God; giving “all” into his hands, and prepared always to give up all his property, his health, his friends, his body, his soul to God, when he demands them, or he cannot be a Christian. Religion is everything or nothing. He that is not willing to sacrifice “everything” for the cause of God, is really willing to sacrifice nothing.

Answer 10

Any man who takes up the work of God then looks back on his old life and wishes that he could live it once more isn't worthy of The Kingdom of God