Albert Barnes Commentary Luke 14:22

"And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room." — Luke 14:22 (ASV)

Yet there is room. He went out and invited all he found in the lanes, and yet the table was not full. This he also reported to his master. There is room. What a glorious declaration this is in regard to the gospel! There still is room. Millions have been saved, but there still is room.

Millions have been invited, have come, and have gone to heaven, but heaven is not yet full. There is a banquet there which no number can exhaust; there are fountains which no number can drink dry; there are harps there which other hands may strike; and there are seats there which others may occupy.

Heaven is not full, and there still is room. The Sabbath-school teacher may say to his class, there still is room; the parent may say to his children, there still is room; the minister of the gospel may go and say to the wide world, there still is room. The mercy of God is not exhausted; the blood of the atonement has not lost its efficacy; heaven is not full. What a sad message it would be if we were compelled to go and say,

"There is no more room—heaven is full—not another one can be saved. No matter what their prayers, or tears, or sighs, they cannot be saved. Every place is filled; every seat is occupied."

But, thanks be to God, this is not the message which we are to bear; and if there still is room, come, sinners, young and old, and enter into heaven. Fill up that room, that heaven may be full of the happy and the blessed. If any part of the universe is to be vacant, O let it be the dark world of woe!