Many are invited few are chosen! Matt.22:14
A. The Jews refused to come to the king’s wedding banquet. Matt.22:2-7
1. The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come,
but they refused to come. Matt. 22:2-3
2. Then he sent some more servants and said,
`Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner:
My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready.
Come to the wedding banquet.
But they paid no attention and went off-- one to his field, another to his business.
3. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. Matt. 22:4-6
4. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Matt.22:7
B. All are invited to come! Matt.22:8-14
1. Then he said to his servants: The wedding banquet is ready,
but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find,
both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. Matt.22:8-10
2. But when the king came in to see the guests,
he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
He said: Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?
The man was speechless. Matt.22:11-12
3. The king told the attendants: Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside,
into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 22:13
4. For many are invited, but few are chosen. Matt.22:14
C. It is the guests responsibility to wear wedding clothes!
1. 2 Tim. 2:20
As we learned last Sunday:
In a large house there are vessels not only of gold and silver,
but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble.
We are all invited to come to the spiritual wedding banquet each Sunday!
When we are here in the church, it is each one’s responsibility to strife
to become vessels of gold and silver! These are for noble purposes.
But we know many may become vessels of wood and clay!
2. Ro. 13:12-14
The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,
to the lusts.
a. It is you who is to cast off the works of darkness!
b. It is you who is to put on the armor of light!
c. It is you who have to walk becomingly, as in the day!
d. It is you who is to put on the Lord Jesus Christ!
e. It is you who is to make no provision for the flesh, to the lusts!
f. If you failed to do these, you are the one to be cast out into darkness!
Now that you are here, you have the chance to make it! Don’t miss it!
3. 1 Peter 5:5
Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older.
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another,
because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
a. I think you all know “older” means the more advanced in the Lord!
Such as obey your father and mother in the Lord. Eph.6:1
b. It is all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another!
May God bless you and keep you always! Preach this one on September 12, 2010.