This morning I read the Parable of the Wedding Feast. I must not have been fully awake, because it clicked in my head this afternoon.
The King invited guests to his son’s wedding feast. They all refused to attend. The king sent out his servants to his invited guests to remind them to come, dinner was ready. The invited guests ignored them. One went back to his farm, one to his business. Others seized the servants and killed them. When they king heard, he was angry and sent his army to destroy the murderers and burnt down their town. The King said they were not worthy of the honor, so he asked the servants to invite everyone they saw, good and bad. The servants brought in everyone they could find. One man wasn’t dressed in wedding attire, so the king had hime captured and thrown out in the darkness.
I think this story means that Jesus invited the Jews to follow Him. Next, he invited Gentiles, which is everyone else, good and bad. We are all invited to follow Jesus. Some will follow Jesus, some will prosecute those spreading the good news of Jesus and some will not be ready, when the the time comes.
“For many are called, but few are chosen.” —Matthew 22:14 NLT
We are all welcome to His house in heaven. Don’t get consumed by your daily obligations that you miss it. When God calls us, we should stop and listen.
Parable of the Great Feast
Jesus also told them other parables. He said, “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!
“So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’ But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
“The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor. Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
—Matthew 22:1-14 NLT
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