Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Mat 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
Mat 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Mat 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Mat 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
Mat 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Mat 22:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Mat 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Mat 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Mat 22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Mat 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Mat 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mat 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
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The kingdom of heaven.
This is the place we all should be aspiring to obtain. The kingdom of heaven is our end game, so to speak. The kingdom of heaven is the ultimate prize. The kingdom of heaven is EVERYTHING we should be living for right now!
The kingdom of heaven is the end heralding a new beginning.
The kingdom of heaven is the end of a story where you know there is truly a happily ever after in such a way we can scarcely allow ourselves to imagine it. We are taught to believe that happily ever after is merely a fairy tale, something that can NEVER be obtained, not ever. It's a fiction, a fantasy, an unreality, a simple story for children and fools. We hear it said that only fools believe in happy endings, and we hear it said that there are no happy endings. There are a lot of sayings out there but only ONE truth.
The truth is- there really is a happily ever after and it is found solely in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.
The truth is- many will be the ways that people are led astray and those ways make for a very broad road leading to everlasting death.
There is only ONE truth, but there are MANY lies.
There is a single narrow way, and a huge broad road.
Our Savior was telling the priests that the kingdom was lost to them because of their lack of love for the truth that can only be found in Him. The priests knew this and wanted to shut Him up, but Jesus would not be shut up. The priests knew that the people were hanging on His every word of truth and they dare not publically try to stop Jesus from speaking.
The above parable of our Savior talks of a king who has prepared a wedding feast for his son. He calls all those invited to come to the wedding but they refuse, they refuse to the point that they actually kill those servants calling them to come to the feast.
Imagine it for a moment- invited to a glorious wedding for a king's son- refusing to go after being invited, refusing to go and hurting those who would invite you. The insult, the horrible affront to the king. This isn't a wicked king, in fact in the parable we know that the king is the Heavenly Father and the Son is Jesus Christ our Lord. God's chosen people, the Israelites, refused to believe, refused to have anything to do with Jesus Christ. To this very day there are Jews, and they hold fast to the fallacy that Jesus was not God's Son. They've rejected the Son, spurned the Father and they are rejected by the Father and Son.
The servants in the parable are then told to go to others out in the street, those who weren't initially invited and bring them into the feast. These are the gentiles, these are those who believe in Jesus Christ and listen to Him. These are those who listen to the truth from the Father.
Then there is found one of those brought in that isn't wearing a wedding garment.
The wedding garment.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev_19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Clothed- in white raiment.
Buy of Christ- white raiment - to be clothed.
Arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
We must all have CHRIST'S righteousness if we wish to be in the kingdom of heaven.
Zec 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Our filthy garments must be taken from us, our sins must be taken from us and we must be clothed by our SAVIOR in the white robes of HIS righteousness.
The parable speaks of one at the feast without the wedding garments, without the raiment that is Christ's righteousness and that person was cast out. We cannot presume to enter into the kingdom of heaven of our own accord, we have no righteousness of our own. We MUST accept CHRIST'S righteousness as ours!
It's only through Christ that we have any hope for the happily ever after that is TRUTH, found solely in Him.
There are plenty of lies for people to believe in, millions and millions of them, but there is only one truth- JESUS CHRIST, our LORD and SAVIOR.
May we be accepted of Christ, may we be found in Christ, may we be among those called to the feast from the highways and may we don the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness so that we may be with Him forever.
This is truth.
Christ is our salvation, our hope, our lives!
Please, Lord Jesus, please let us come to Your wedding feast fully clothed in the wedding garment You and You alone can give to us. By YOUR grace! YOUR love! YOUR mercy forever! ALWAYS in YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, our LORD and SAVIOR!
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Mat 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
Mat 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Mat 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Mat 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
Mat 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Mat 22:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Mat 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Mat 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Mat 22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Mat 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Mat 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mat 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
*******
The kingdom of heaven.
This is the place we all should be aspiring to obtain. The kingdom of heaven is our end game, so to speak. The kingdom of heaven is the ultimate prize. The kingdom of heaven is EVERYTHING we should be living for right now!
The kingdom of heaven is the end heralding a new beginning.
The kingdom of heaven is the end of a story where you know there is truly a happily ever after in such a way we can scarcely allow ourselves to imagine it. We are taught to believe that happily ever after is merely a fairy tale, something that can NEVER be obtained, not ever. It's a fiction, a fantasy, an unreality, a simple story for children and fools. We hear it said that only fools believe in happy endings, and we hear it said that there are no happy endings. There are a lot of sayings out there but only ONE truth.
The truth is- there really is a happily ever after and it is found solely in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.
The truth is- many will be the ways that people are led astray and those ways make for a very broad road leading to everlasting death.
There is only ONE truth, but there are MANY lies.
There is a single narrow way, and a huge broad road.
Our Savior was telling the priests that the kingdom was lost to them because of their lack of love for the truth that can only be found in Him. The priests knew this and wanted to shut Him up, but Jesus would not be shut up. The priests knew that the people were hanging on His every word of truth and they dare not publically try to stop Jesus from speaking.
The above parable of our Savior talks of a king who has prepared a wedding feast for his son. He calls all those invited to come to the wedding but they refuse, they refuse to the point that they actually kill those servants calling them to come to the feast.
Imagine it for a moment- invited to a glorious wedding for a king's son- refusing to go after being invited, refusing to go and hurting those who would invite you. The insult, the horrible affront to the king. This isn't a wicked king, in fact in the parable we know that the king is the Heavenly Father and the Son is Jesus Christ our Lord. God's chosen people, the Israelites, refused to believe, refused to have anything to do with Jesus Christ. To this very day there are Jews, and they hold fast to the fallacy that Jesus was not God's Son. They've rejected the Son, spurned the Father and they are rejected by the Father and Son.
The servants in the parable are then told to go to others out in the street, those who weren't initially invited and bring them into the feast. These are the gentiles, these are those who believe in Jesus Christ and listen to Him. These are those who listen to the truth from the Father.
Then there is found one of those brought in that isn't wearing a wedding garment.
The wedding garment.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev_19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Clothed- in white raiment.
Buy of Christ- white raiment - to be clothed.
Arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
We must all have CHRIST'S righteousness if we wish to be in the kingdom of heaven.
Zec 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Our filthy garments must be taken from us, our sins must be taken from us and we must be clothed by our SAVIOR in the white robes of HIS righteousness.
The parable speaks of one at the feast without the wedding garments, without the raiment that is Christ's righteousness and that person was cast out. We cannot presume to enter into the kingdom of heaven of our own accord, we have no righteousness of our own. We MUST accept CHRIST'S righteousness as ours!
It's only through Christ that we have any hope for the happily ever after that is TRUTH, found solely in Him.
There are plenty of lies for people to believe in, millions and millions of them, but there is only one truth- JESUS CHRIST, our LORD and SAVIOR.
May we be accepted of Christ, may we be found in Christ, may we be among those called to the feast from the highways and may we don the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness so that we may be with Him forever.
This is truth.
Christ is our salvation, our hope, our lives!
Please, Lord Jesus, please let us come to Your wedding feast fully clothed in the wedding garment You and You alone can give to us. By YOUR grace! YOUR love! YOUR mercy forever! ALWAYS in YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, our LORD and SAVIOR!
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