AUGUST 28 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS    

JQ#27

  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  

(Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, You Lord are the Faithful One, for each day, regardless of 

where I am or what ever-changing circumstance I may find myself in, You 

are always there, the Good Shepherd, and I can hear Your gentle voice 

beckoning me to the fold and once again my Faith belays my fears 

as Your Light dispels the darkness. Lord Jesus, Praise You 

for Your Great Sacrifice as the Lamb of God, 

giving Your Holy Divine Self for this lost sheep, O the Mystery of God!

 Lord let me hear nothing but Your Voice and know that green pastures, 

still waters, and Salvation have been secured by the One

 who needed no one but Sacrificed Himself  “Once-For-All”!!!       

AMEN

 THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is Teaching this 3rd parable about what the kingdom of heaven

 is “like” while sitting in the temple of God in the City of David with just 

a few days left before He will be Sacrificed as the Lamb of God on 

the Passover!  With only days left in His earthly ministry there will not 

be a “jot or tittle” that will not bear Divine meaning — with that 

“importance” of detail in mind, there must be some significance that 

this 3rd parable is about a “wedding”?!?! If one looks at both 

“tradition” and “logic” there are several very important points that

 make “marriage” VERY relative for this 3rd parable. First let’s look 

at the words and the order Jesus presented them in this parable:

 {Phrase 1} “The kingdom of heaven is like” … 

{Phrase 2} “a certain king” … 

{Phrase 3} “arranged a marriage” … 

{Phrase 4} “for his son” … 

{Phrase 5} “sent out servants to call those who were

 invited to the wedding” … 

{Phrase 6} “[the invited] were not willing to come” … 

{Phrase 7} “again, [the certain king]” … 

{Phrase 8} “sent out other servants” …

 {Phrase 9} “tell the invited” … 

{Phrase 10} “I [the certain king] have prepared” …

 {Phrase 11} “my dinner” …

 {Phrase 12} “my oxen” …

 {Phrase 13} “and [the] fatted cattle are killed” …

 {Phrase 14} “all things are ready” …

 {Phrase 15} “Come to the wedding”. (Matthew 22:2-4)   

These 15 Phrases are “loaded” with meaning and when put them

 together with the circumstance and the “Teacher”, then these 15 Phrases

 take on both “Divine” and “eternal” meaning for all who will “listen” … 

as it is said three times in the final book in the Holy Scriptures,

 The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

 

“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says…” 

(Revelation 2:29; 3:13; 3:22).  

To stop and sit at the feet of Jesus and to hang on His every 

Word is the Way to heaven, the Truth of God, and Eternal Life — 

it is the way to wisdom — it is how we will “know God” for 

Jesus has been Teaching with every step, every word, every miracle,

 that if we know the Son, then we will know the Father! 

The Old Testament teaches about the Almighty God and the prophets

 who foretold of God’s Anointed, the Chosen One, the Messiah 

and the New Testament teaches that 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…”

 that those that “Repent” and “believe on Him” will be “Forgiven”

 and that they “shall not perish but have everlasting life”!!!

 Jesus, the “Only Begotten Son” of “the Certain King”

 has been Teaching that God still cares and that

 

God Almighty is “Abba Father” who is still standing 

with open arms calling out to His Creation — 

“COME” — “LISTEN” — “FOLLOW JESUS”, 

for God is calling, Jesus is calling, and the Spirit is calling

 in a “still, small voice”, to all who will “hear” and accept 

the “Wedding Supper” Invitation, “Come … all is prepared!!!”  

“Don’t you think it is time to start choosing 

what you are going to wear to the wedding?!?!?!?”

AUGUST 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 27  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#27

  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”

(Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, O Precious Jesus, how sweet the Name!!! 

Jesus, as I awake to a new morning, I am immediately made aware

 of Your Presence, the Name rolls out of my heart and off my lips,

 unspoken, but yet it is loud enough that it carries all the way 

to the One that gave His Perfect Life for my wretched soul 

and I am made aware instantly that as soon as I spoke His Name

 that His Mercies were renewed fresh for me to start another day, 

not alone, not afraid, not weak, but ready to walk in His Footsteps

 on the Paths of Righteousness for His Name’s Sake —

 my heart says “Rejoice!” and I say again,

 “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus”!        

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has introduced this third parable establishing that the Lesson

 is about “a certain king” who all Israel recognized as God Almighty 

and fits into the rhetoric John and Jesus has been preaching all along —

 “the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. 

There was no doubt in anyone’s mind in all of Israel that God Almighty

 is the “certain king” and that “heaven” is His Kingdom! 

From the Genesis account of the Fall of Man the Israelites were

 familiar with the introduction of the Messiah and the promise of

 “deliverance” from the Tempter (Satan) as God pronounced the 

curse on Satan and Eve as God said to Satan, 

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman,

 and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head,

 and you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15) 

All Israelite girls would wonder if their pregnancy would be a son 

and if a son, would that son be the Messiah?  

The Psalms contains many Messianic Psalms which King David

 had written, many of which were written in the City of David 

in which Jesus is now Teaching this parable of the 

“certain king” 

that was going to 

“arrange a marriage for his son” 

so many in Jerusalem were aware of this passage:

 

“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? 

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take 

counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed…

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh…[and declares]…I have 

set My King on My holy hill in Zion…The LORD said, You are 

My Son, today I have begotten You…I will give You the nations

 for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession

…Be instructed, you judges of the earth…

Kiss the Son 

lest you perish in the way of His wrath…

Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.” 

(Psalm 2) 

Now Jesus has fulfilled all the prophecy of the coming Messiah 

and is about to fulfill Isaiah’s “Suffering Servant” prophecy 

found in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament) and yet

 just days before His death Jesus is Teaching this parable of “a certain king”

 [God in heaven] who is going to arrange a “marriage” for His Son 

— the contemporaries of Jesus were listening to “men” who said Jesus

 was not the Messiah even though Jesus had fulfilled enough 

Messianic prophecies that it was already astronomically impossible

 for anyone but Jesus to be the Messiah and yet the 

“rulers” would not yield to the obvious

 

Truth of God 

that His Only Begotten Son 

had been born of flesh 

and has accomplished everything required of the Messiah 

and this “Son of God” 

was Jesus of Nazareth

 

who was sitting in the temple Teaching this important parable — 

everyone was caught up in the “Son of God” issue like all who 

read these passages and fail to ask the question,

 “Who was going to be the bride?” 

This is a good question for everyone to consider: 

 “If God Almighty indeed arranged a marriage for His Son 

then there will be offspring of that union, for if God arranged 

the marriage, won’t He bless the Union with children?” 

And there still is the question of 

who is the “bride”?