AUGUST 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 30  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, Lord, Giver of all things good in my life, I can only give 

You praise for the change that Your Love has made in my life and 

I pray that because of Your Love that others will see the “change” 

and that Your Love will change them as well. Lord I know it was 

a small thing but I felt Your Grace so full with the opportunity 

You gave us with the McKenzie Acre boys and girls — Lord I pray

 for Your Love to be poured out on them and last night showed

 me that it will be through being obedient to Your command to

 “love one another” that we are indeed sharing You and Your Love

 with our world — Lord what a gift it is for “giving” and “forgiving” and 

to just see others through Your eyes, may I in the future let Your Love

 pour out of me into these kids and see that “change” that only Your Love

 can bring about in our lives.   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has placed this 3rd Parable at the end of 3 Parables on the

 “Authority of God” for a specific reason and it could be argued 

from the Book of Revelation that there is great significance in Jesus

 being the Lamb of God and in the End Time that all heaven will rejoice 

“…for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride 

has made herself ready…” (Revelation 19:6-9) 

Jesus has been Teaching about the problem of how “Israel” has 

treated “her God” ——— the prophet Isaiah after writing about 

the “Suffering Servant” in Isaiah 53 and continues in Isaiah 54 

writing about Israel: 

“For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts 

is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; 

He is called the God of the whole earth.” (Isaiah 54:5)  

Therefore all Israel understood Jesus Teaching about a “marriage”

 and soon they will see with their own eyes what John the Baptist had 

declared about Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1:29)

 and all the pieces will fit as during this Special Passover when 

God will “provide Himself the lamb” as Abraham promised Isaac

 on Mount Moriah before Israel became a nation. Jesus Teaching this

 3rd Parable about 

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

 {Phrase 2} “…a certain king…” who 

{Phrase 3} “…arranged a marriage…” fits into the traditions and the 

Holy Scriptures that Israel has been living with since Abraham arranged

 a marriage for his “Promised Son” Isaac and the fulfilling of God’s

 covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob pertaining to the nation

 of God’s chosen people, Israel. However, Israel had become so 

entrenched in her “traditions” and “doctrines of men” that they as a

 Holy Nation had been led away from the “command of God” which is

 the main problem Jesus introduces starting with 

{Phrase 4} “…for his son…” (which Jesus had already Taught

 about the chief cornerstone being “rejected by the builders”

 and had become the great “stumbling block” for God’s chosen nation)

 — Jesus never introduces a “problem” without immediately 

pointing to the solution which 

Jesus in His Divine Role as the Master Teacher,

 details the problem which illuminates the solution

 to the problem He details with 

{Phrase 5} “…[the certain king] sent out servants to call

 those who were invited to the wedding…”. 

Israel knows as a nation that God has been sending out His servants

 in the form of prophets, judges, kings, and even His enemies as

 servants to fulfill His covenant with the nation Israel whom God 

has called to be a “chosen peoples”. It is obvious that at this Passover

 that Jesus will fulfill His Divine Task of being the Passover Lamb and 

this is necessary because 

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

This is a problem with our spiritual journey that each pilgrim takes

 to find our God and the Land of Promise that He has prepared for us. 

If we do not reach our destination it is not because of a shortcoming

 of God but because we have not followed His Path for our life —

 God has prepared and God has provided 

but we have strayed from His Plan and are 

“not willing to come” even though we have been “invited”

 by the King Himself —

 how long will you “make excuses” not to attend this

 Marriage Feast and the Wedding of the King’s Son?