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22And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. -

Today I drove our family to my parents house. We drove from Charlotte were we had just spent an amazing lunch made by my mother-in-law. When we got to my moms house I was amazed by all the food that she had prepared. She had spent a lot of time doing that ahead of time so that we would have enough, she did that because she wanted it to be special. She wanted us to remember the time we had at her house as something to remember. - here we have this king who has prepared a feast. If a king prepared a feast you know it was special. Not just that, but it was for his son, for his wedding. Especially if he had his servants go out and invite everyone. The thing is though, these people he invited did not come. Why not? This was a free meal. This was a free celebration. This was a wedding. Weddings back then lasted a week and they were a party.

the king is quite surprised that no one wants to come. Would I have gone? Am I too busy to come to the kings party? Do I have things going on in my life that if Jesus ask me to walk away from them for a week to enjoy him, would I leave it all because his party is way more important? To take that a step further... Are there times in my life I walk away from the party and purposefully do what I want to do? Dang!! That is out of bounds isn't it. Why do i do that crap? Because I think what I need to do is way more important. Moments with Jesus are a privilege. To take that a step further, anytime I choose to disassociate myself with him is costly.

Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.' But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. - one of things that is fascinated about the lord is his patience with these people, with us, with me. Here we have people blatantly telling the King tat they just don't care about this celebration. They are so wrapped up in their own personal agenda that the party isn't important. The even start killing the kings servants. Be very careful Christopher that you don't put things, success, and the job in front of Jesus when he requests my company.

-The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen." (Matthew 22:1-14 ESV)

- so the king request the company of those who were never invited to the celebration in the first place. The king had his servants go out into the roads. They found tons of people. The bible says they were both good and bad. - so we have these people at the feast. All of sudden the king, the feast planner, the one who started the whole thing, comes across a man at the feast who has no wedding garment. The king is completely shocked at how he could have gotten inside the celebration without it. What the heck is the importance of this? I appears to be a pretty big deal. The man accepted the invitation, but he did not conform to the standard. Could it be that even though he chose to come, this guy should have conformed and he didn't. Maybe in the invitation that was sent out their was all the details. What to bring, where to go, what time, even who you should be at the party. it looks like this guy disregarded all of that. He wasn't prepared and he certainly didn't come with a wedding garment.

- is there anything in my life that I am doing that would require the king to take a quick look at me and say " your not listening?" better yet, is there anything that I'm not doing that he has asked of me?The invitation is mine to except. But it is my duty to follow through is up to me.

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