THE WEDDING BANQUET
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus:
This week we get back on track with the teachings for this coming Sunday with The Wedding Banquet found in Matthew 22: 1-14. In this parable the King had prepared a banquet for hi son's wedding and had sent out invitations. He had sent out his servants to invite those who were invited, but they refused to come for various reasons. He sent out his servants to invite those who had not originally been invited, but they paid no attention, and even seized his servants and killed them. The King was enraged and sent out his army to kill those murderers and burn their city and then he had his servants go to all of the people in the streets. Those who had not been invited and who were both good and bad that his hall might be filled...and when he came into the hall he found one man who had not worn wedding clothes...the man was speechless, and the king ordered him to be bound hand and foot and thrown out into the darkness.
When ever I hear this I think of what is going on today with our churches. It is not about the cloths we wear but about the preparations that we dare to make to be in the presence of our King. For a long time now we have been getting more and more lazy about preparing our hearts for worship, taking the time out of our day to spend with a God that we say that we love so dearly that it is beginning to show in our continence. For many of us instead of putting on our very best to be with God we have chosen to almost show it as a joke to the world around us. Instead of putting on our tuxedo to come to the wedding feast that God has prepared for us, we come in wearing a t-shit with the picture of a tuxedo on it...and that will not do.
When we as children of God take our relationship with Him so lightly that it can be seen by this world as a joke to us it will no longer hold any weight with their hearts. We will have easily lost our chance for witnessing what Christ has done for our lives by making it a laughing stock, and Christ will deny He ever knew us to the Father. Just as in that parable God has prepared for us a banquet feast, and has invited us first to be a part of it. While we may too busy to think we have the time to join in that celebration let me remind you who created time, and you. There is no excuse for us to turn this invitation down because of all that we owe in this world of debts the greatest debt of all is to God who gave us life.
When we speak about the needs to earn money and the need to pay debts everything that we do or have falls away into nothing compared to what we owe God. It also tells me that we should prepare ourselves for that feast as well as attend it. God accepts us at His discretion , and not ours. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
This week we get back on track with the teachings for this coming Sunday with The Wedding Banquet found in Matthew 22: 1-14. In this parable the King had prepared a banquet for hi son's wedding and had sent out invitations. He had sent out his servants to invite those who were invited, but they refused to come for various reasons. He sent out his servants to invite those who had not originally been invited, but they paid no attention, and even seized his servants and killed them. The King was enraged and sent out his army to kill those murderers and burn their city and then he had his servants go to all of the people in the streets. Those who had not been invited and who were both good and bad that his hall might be filled...and when he came into the hall he found one man who had not worn wedding clothes...the man was speechless, and the king ordered him to be bound hand and foot and thrown out into the darkness.
When ever I hear this I think of what is going on today with our churches. It is not about the cloths we wear but about the preparations that we dare to make to be in the presence of our King. For a long time now we have been getting more and more lazy about preparing our hearts for worship, taking the time out of our day to spend with a God that we say that we love so dearly that it is beginning to show in our continence. For many of us instead of putting on our very best to be with God we have chosen to almost show it as a joke to the world around us. Instead of putting on our tuxedo to come to the wedding feast that God has prepared for us, we come in wearing a t-shit with the picture of a tuxedo on it...and that will not do.
When we as children of God take our relationship with Him so lightly that it can be seen by this world as a joke to us it will no longer hold any weight with their hearts. We will have easily lost our chance for witnessing what Christ has done for our lives by making it a laughing stock, and Christ will deny He ever knew us to the Father. Just as in that parable God has prepared for us a banquet feast, and has invited us first to be a part of it. While we may too busy to think we have the time to join in that celebration let me remind you who created time, and you. There is no excuse for us to turn this invitation down because of all that we owe in this world of debts the greatest debt of all is to God who gave us life.
When we speak about the needs to earn money and the need to pay debts everything that we do or have falls away into nothing compared to what we owe God. It also tells me that we should prepare ourselves for that feast as well as attend it. God accepts us at His discretion , and not ours. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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