Jesus gave the parable of of the king who prepared a wedding feast for his son and invited many. When the preparation were done, he sent his slaves to call those who were invited but they didn't come. Again he sent others but they took it light and went on to their businesses and farms and others mistreated the servants and killed them.
The king was angry and he sent out his armies and destroyed their cities and killed them.
He said those who were invited were not worthy and thus he sent his slaves to the highways to invite as many as they found both good and bad and the house was filled with guests.
The king is a picture of God in heaven and the Son is Jesus Christ. The wedding feast is made for His Son and many guests are invited but they took light of it and continued in their daily activities.
One reason they took light of it is because they knew that when they attended the feast, all the attention will be on kings son and not them. All honor and admiration would be to the kings son. If positions of honour would have been promised to them, they would have come but they were just invited just like any other person.
This may represent people in church who would only serve if they are promised positions of honour and prestige. If they would be recognised they will serve. These kind always get hurt whenever they are not recognised among other brethren of what they do for the Lord.
They persecute the kings slaves and kill them with their tongues by speaking evil of them behind their backs.
Are you among them? Do you get hurt whenever you are not recognised? Do you gossip and speak evil of God's servants because you were not given honour or that position you longed for?
Do you only serve God when it's convenient for you and make excuses for not doing so?
Repent now, the king will send his armies to destroy your pride and your life and will leave you and choose others.
The king sent his servants to go to the highways to invite others as many as were found. This is a picture of God rejecting people and inside chooses those in worse conditions who are despised and rejected of men. These folks have nothing to boast about. They were already despised and rejected of men; to them it is such a privilege and honour to be invited to the wedding feast. They enjoyed it to the fullest. They were not seeking any honour and were perfectly contented that all attention was given to the kings Son and none was given to them. This could be a picture of those who serve God joyfully and are perfectly contented and are not seeking any honour unto themselves; the Kings Son is so glorious in their eyes that their sins have been washed away and now they are part of Kings family. The criticisms of men don't bother them; they are not seeking for positions of power. They are happy to be unknown.
Are you among them? If the position and honour you have would be stripped away from you, would your still serve joyfully?
As the king came to see His guests, he found one who had no wedding garment, he asked him how he came in without a wedding garment and he was speechless.
All the others had a wedding garment except him; this shows that when they came in, every one of them was given a wedding garment free of charge to go and put it on and all the thers joyfully did it except this man. He thought to himself, "this garment will make me look just like everyone else but I am better than all these people we came with, my dress is not as filthy as that of others, in fact i am their leader and i must be different from them for the king to easily recognise me". That is why He was speechless, he was a proud man. He wanted honour and position. He felt he should be given a privilege as a leader of all the others. Just like the labourers who worked in the first hour asked; how could you make these people equal to us; we are much better than them. These have spent all their lives in sin and I have spent mine in church, how could you make us equal? That's unfair?
Do you have such complaints against the Lord? Do you get hurt when you are treated just like other common people?
Your righteousness is like filthy rags and God will never accept it. Is 64:6.
When two people come to God for salvation, one have lived in the church all their lives and the other have lived openly in sin, God sees them equally as filthy sinners who need salvation. Our very good works can never save us.
Finally this proud man was bound hands and foot and was cast where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth.
For many are called but few are chosen. Many had been called but not all came; and those who came, one was proud and was cast out...
Thus the chosen few are those who hear the call and respond to it in humility and does not come for positions of honour or any such thing.
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