AUGUST 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27-01 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

AUGUST 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#27-01  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<  JQ#27  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  (Matthew 22:12)

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Jesus, You are worthy, You are the Holy One, You Lord and only You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. What is man that God the One True Creator with Infinite Wisdom and Knowledge would create a universe of this magnitude and then create man to be in dominion over the creation?! Why did God create only man in His image and  endow man with the greatest of all gifts — Freewill!! God then in His Infinite Wisdom allowed for our shortcomings and God provides for our Salvation through the sacrifice of Himself --- the Creator giving Himself for the created!!! O Jesus, what a great sacrifice  You made for a world that has so horribly abused our gifts and brought such shame to ourselves, praise You O Lord, my God, my Savior. I pray for anointing daily from Your Holy Spirit that my sin against Thee will be no more!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

AUGUST 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#27-01  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<  JQ#27  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  (Matthew 22:12)       Jesus was confronted as to His “authority” by the chief priests, religious leaders and the elders and Jesus responded by Teaching them that only God has “authority” then Jesus Taught them in three consecutive parables about authority. The first parable was about a man asking two sons to go work in a vineyard, the second parable was about a landowner that built a vineyard and leased it to vinedressers who refused to give the landowner his rightful “fruits” and the vinedressers not only refused but they killed, beat, and stoned the landowners servants. When the landowner sent his son to the vinedressers they killed the son as well. The second parable was prophetic of the purpose of Jesus being in Jerusalem on this passover and it was also God’s judgement on the chief priests and religious rulers that refused to accept that Jesus was the Messiah as Jesus pronounced “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.” (Matthew 21:43) The chief priests and the Pharisees which Jesus had been in confrontation with throughout His earthly ministry “perceived that He was speaking of them” and instead of repenting they “sought to lay hands on Him”.  (Matthew 21:45-46) Jesus continued teaching them by parables as He gave them the 3rd parable “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son…” (Matthew 22:1-2) Jesus has now used parables that include a man who sent his sons into his vineyard to work and asked the Question “Which of the two sons did the will of the father”, the next parable was a landowner that built a vineyard and leased it to vinedressers who did not meet the obligations of the “lease” and actually killed the landowners son, and now Jesus presents the third parable that ties all three together and adds additional impact to the authority question of where does authority come from, heaven or men? In the third parable Jesus starts out “the kingdom of heaven” which clearly is where True Authority comes from and then Jesus says that heaven is like a “certain king” and then presents the king “arranged a marriage for his son” which brings in the traditions of Abraham and Isaac and then the start of the nation of Israel through the twelve sons of Jacob. Surely all the chief priests and religious leaders that spent all their time studying the Holy Scriptures had to see that Jesus is painting a picture of God arranging the marriage of His Only Begotten Son, the Messiah!!! The parable continued as the “certain king” [God] went out his servants [God’s prophets] to call those that were invited to the wedding [Israel], and they were not willing to come.”  It seems hard to believe that the religious rulers could not see that the work Jesus was doing could only be done as Nicodemus had said upon observing the miracles Jesus was doing among the people, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with Him.” (John 3:2) Even with seeing the works of Jesus and knowing that He was sent from God they were blinded to The Truth of God that Jesus is God’s Only Begotten Son and the “Chosen One”, the Messiah. Our generation has all the Holy Scripture and a “cloud of witnesses” that Jesus is the Son of God but we are blinded by our selfish desires and we too are “not willing to come [to the wedding feast” — when will we ever learn?