For many are invited, but few are chosen.

Matthew 22：1-14

Here comes out the parable of the Wedding Banquet.

The King ask his servant to ask for some people to attend the wedding banquet. The people were invited by the King, not ordinary people.

It was a joyful wedding banquet. The heaven is like a wedding banquet. People has not authority to attend the wedding banquet, they can not come until they were invited.

But they refused to come when they got the invitation. But the second time, they were invited by the servant of King again. Some said they had to go to his field, another went to his business. The rest sized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

It was very similar to the last parable of the Tenants in Matthew 21:33-41

Luke 14:15-24

They all alike began to make excuses, the first said, I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Some people said I just got an oxen, still some other people said I just got married. People were easily to be restrict to what he had. Five yoke of oxen means the tools of my business. My life became better now. I want to improve my life even better.

When we evangelized people outside, they were working for the five yoke of oxen. Some people said they just married, they were restricted by the family.

We called many people but they refused.

Taking care of my business, family is important. But the priority is wrong. What we need to think about is that what we put in our first place. The challenge is that if you love and follow Lord first.

In Matthew 6, you got to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Luke14: 25~27

The cost of being a disciple, in the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. Yes, the true disciples will have to forsaken something.

The tragedy is that people always said I have to looked at my wife, but how high the divorce rate in the world. It is not you get close to your wife and everything will be all right.

It is so tough to get along with other people, even we try to live with our parents.

 

Matthew 10:34-36

A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. The peace is not the true peace, Jesus came to break the surface peace.

 

How to get better relationship between husband and wife. We need to imitate Christ. We need to love the word of God and love him first, and the better relationship will be set well.

But people who got everything and live in the illusion. But when they come to the end with insipidness. Many people try to change wives. The secret answer of life is let our Lord become the Lord of our life. Rather than we but ourselves on the throne.

 

When God tried to give people blessings and kept sending his servants again, but people had such a big sin to kill the servants of God. The biggest sin was that people knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him.

Isaiah 55:1

God’s invitation did not ask you for any conditions. It was freely give. Many people live like this.

“Why spend money on what is not bread, and our labor on what does not satisfy? ”

Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For God’s thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

So the most important thing was that when God called you, follow what he said, put down what you have, put down the temporarily things, and you will get the eternal life.

Matthew 22:8-10

God send his servant to invited more people, they were weak, poor and sinners in other peoples eye. God’s history will not cease even though people did not answer his calling. So the wedding banquet were filled with guest.

 

Matthew 22:11-12

The clothe is what? In Revelation it was the behavior. Noah went to the new life and he keep washing his cloth in his wine. In Book of James, if you are truly faith, you will have the behavior. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

 

For many are invited, but few are chosen.