The Wedding Feast

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by Joshua Slade3 views·Updated Apr 7, 2021
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  1. to help us understand what his kingdom is like.
  2. Jesus told us this story.
  3. It was once a king who prepared a wedding feast
  4. for his son.
  5. He sent servants to invite guests to the wedding feast
  6. guests from throughout his kingdom.
  7. But when the king's servants arrived with the invitations, the
  8. guest refused to come.
  9. They rejected the invitation.
  10. The king sent more servants.
  11. Tell those who have been invited.
  12. He said that I have prepared a dinner.
  13. There's going to be a feast and everything is ready.
  14. Please come to the wedding party.
  15. Please come to the wedding feast.
  16. But the people who had been invited paid no attention.
  17. They just didn't listen.
  18. One even went off to his fields to work.
  19. Another went to his business.
  20. And even worse, some of the guests took the king's
  21. servants, treated them badly and beat them.
  22. When the king here's what had happened, he was incredibly
  23. cross. He sent his army and destroyed the city of
  24. the guests who rejected his invitation.
  25. Another came with a problem, he said to his servants.
  26. The wedding feast is ready, but those that I invited
  27. didn't come.
  28. They didn't deserve to come.
  29. They rejected my invitation.
  30. So this is how the king responded, he said to
  31. his servants.
  32. Go now to the street corners and invite to this
  33. feast. Anybody you can find.
  34. So out went the servants into the streets and they
  35. gathered all the people.
  36. They could find the good and the bad and invited
  37. them to the wedding feast.
  38. The wedding hall was completely filled with guests.
  39. The king noticed one of his guests was not wearing
  40. wedding clothes.
  41. Yes. How did you get in here without wedding clothes?
  42. The man was speechless.
  43. Then the king told his attendance to take the man
  44. and throw him out into the darkness.
  45. He just finished his story by saying that many are
  46. invited, but few are chosen.
  47. Now you see in the story the wedding feast represents
  48. heaven. The king represents God, and we are all invited
  49. to join God in Heaven for the feast for the
  50. party. Each of us has the option to accept God's
  51. invitation or reject God's invitation.
  52. There are two responses for us.
  53. The invite is their God makes the invite to us
  54. in his word, the Bible.
  55. And he tells us that if we accept the invitation.
  56. Then we will be brought in to happen.
  57. We will be brought into this feast.
  58. The feast represents heaven.
  59. All we have to do is accept the invitation.
  60. However, if we reject the invitation what happened in the
  61. stories of the people who rejected the invitation?
  62. Well, the answer is that they were destroyed and there
  63. are consequences for us.
  64. If we reject God's invitation, the party in heaven will
  65. be the best ever.
  66. The wise decision for us.
  67. The only sensible decision for us to make is to
  68. accept the invitation.
  69. Yeah, the question is, will we Will we reject God's
  70. invitation and be destroyed?
  71. Or will we accept God's invitation and be brought into
  72. heaven?