The Parable Of The Wedding Feast.

“I wanted to tell you a story…” The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the feast- but they refused to come. So he sent more servants, saying, “Tell those who were invited: Look! I have prepared My dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!”

But they paid no attention and went off-one to his field, another to his business. Others seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his armies, destroyed  hose murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants,  “The wedding is ready, but those I invited were not worthy. Go to the street corners and invite anyone you find.” So the servants went out and gathered everyone they could find-both good and bad.

And the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man who was not wearing wedding clothes. He said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without wedding garments?” The man was speechless. Then the king said to his servants, “Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”For many are called-but few are chosen. (This story is found in Matthew 22:1-14 and echoed in Luke 14:16-24.)

“Let Me explain what this story means…” The Kingdom is a feast-and the Father has prepared it.But not everyone who’s invited chooses to come. And not everyone who shows up is truly ready. The invitation goes out to all-rich and poor, busy and broken. But you must come on My terms. You can’t wear your own righteousness. You need the garments I provide-My grace, My covering, My salvation.

If you reject the invitation, you miss the feast. If you enter without repentance, you won’t stay. This is the Kingdom. It is free-but it is not careless. “My parables matter because they reveal the Kingdom.”

I didn’t speak these stories on My own. In John 12:49-50, I said: “For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I  Should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.” The Father gave Me this story to warn you-and to invite you.

And in Matthew 24:35, I said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” The feast is still prepared. The door is still open. But you must come ready.