SEPTEMBER 02 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

SEPTEMBER 02  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, consume me, guide my every thought, may all that I do 

be done to glorify You and praise Your Name, the Matchless Name of Jesus.

 You Lord are the Great Teacher, in You is all Truth and Wisdom. 

Through You the Love of the Father is manifest, His Grace and Mercy

 given to a lost and dying world by His Only Begotten Son, for it is

 through Faith in God’s Son Jesus that we may have fellowship 

with the Most High God. Jesus, You are the Way, and every knee 

shall bow and every tongue will confess You. Lord, the world also 

will proclaim Your Glory as will the Heavens and every living thing 

under Heaven and in Heaven will worship the King!

 Praise be to Him who comes to set men free!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus introduced in His 3rd Parable a list of 15 Phrases that makes

 us look at our daily lives and all the things that we accept in the 

way of the “traditions of men” and typical family values that do not 

require us to “figure-it-out” but these are the things we do day-in

 and day-out. Jesus is demonstrating that we can know God by

 looking at our daily lives, God has established the institution of

 family and has proven that He will provide everything we need if 

we will simply accept His “Invitation” to the marriage. The previous 

4 Phrases - {Phrase 6-9} gave us great insight into how we typically

 respond to His “Invitation” and the next 6 Phrases demonstrate

 the great effort God has extended to us — 

{Phrase 10} “…[the certain king] prepared…” and beyond preparing

 everything needed for the “Wedding Supper” God has prepared 

in detail above and beyond anything we could prepare for ourselves 

as Jesus gives details of the “preparation” as He lists 

{Phrase 11} “…my dinner…” and 

{Phrase 12} “…my oxen…”

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

then He sums it all up with 

{Phrase 14} “…all things are ready…” 

When you look at these 5 Phrases together we see that God has provided

 not only for our physical needs with a “dinner” for food for our bodies

 but also the spiritual needs of our souls God provides the 

“oxen” and “the fatted cattle are killed” 

thereby providing sacrifices for our spiritual needs for the remission of sin ———

 Friends, God has done everything necessary 

for our Eternal Joy and Salvation  

but we must do our part and 

{Phrase 15} “…Come to the wedding…” !!! 

All preparations are made on God’s Part, all that’s left is for us to

 honor the King by wearing the “proper wedding garment” —

—— Jesus has Taught that if we will “Accept” God’s Invitation

 that we will be clothed in His Righteousness which is just 

another thing God Provides for all who Repent and Believe 

that Jesus is God’s Son!!!!    

Indeed, what is man that God would love us so much and sacrifice so 

much of Himself to insure our inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven? 

The hardest thing for us to do is to admit to ourselves that we 

are not kings and queens 

— we are your average run-of-the-mill sinners —

 the really GOOD NEWS is

 that it is not because of our “merit” that we are invited to the “Wedding” —

 IT IS BY THE GRACE OF GOD WHO FORGIVES!!!

SEPTEMBER 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

SEPTEMBER 01  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, the world without You is a sad thing — my life without You is

 worthless and has no meaning — Lord I can see much clearer now

 how differently my day goes when I am letting You live through me

 than when I try to go through the world on my own strength 

and understanding — Lord it is becoming a “no brainer” for me and 

yesterday when I in my arrogance thought I would “go to war” with

 the worldly forces that I knew were going to attack, all I ended up 

with was “war”, but when I yielded my arrogance to Your Humility 

and let Your Peace enter into my dealings with the world and its 

war then the battlefield became a walk in the park and 

“Your Joy and Peace” returned to my daily walk and I knew You 

had returned my steps back to Your Path of Righteousness — 

Lord Jesus, all I can do is Praise and Thank You and pray that 

each encounter with the world will more quickly be resolved from

 “war with the world” into “peace with God”!!! 

 

{{The Holy Spirit says to my soul—}}  

“The world is passing away, and the lust of it; 

but he who does the will of God abides forever.” 

(1 John 2:17) 

      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is indeed “Masterful” in using circumstance to “Teach” and 

once Jesus begins a Lesson we must “hang on every word” for 

Jesus never used words or circumstances lightly and there never

 was a Teacher like Jesus and there never will be another Teacher

 that can Teach any truth greater than the 

“Truth of God” 

that Jesus literally Taught not only with His Words, 

but with His Perfect Life, and never will anyone ever 

match the Death, Burial, and Resurrection that Jesus used to

 “Teach God’s Truth” to a lost and dying world. 

Jesus had just put together a sequence of 4 phrases that has a 

huge message if the phrases had to stand alone by themselves as 

a separate Lesson as Jesus taught in the 3rd Parable ——— 

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

{Phrase 7} [BUT] “…[the certain king] AGAIN…”

 {Phrase 8} “…sent out other servants…” [TO] 

{Phrase 9} “…tell the invited…”

 which these 4 phrases by themselves reveal 

God’s Merciful Character. 

The Holy Scriptures are full of example after example of God 

making provisions for His people and the people rejecting God 

(and His “abundant life”) 

[BUT GOD] after each “rejection” provides yet another

 opportunity for His people to 

“relent of their rejection” of God and REPENT 

— at which point God Proves He is Forgiving and Faithful 

as His Character of Mercy surfaces AGAIN and AGAIN! 

One can look at each Phrase and see the Truth of God such as 

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

reveals to us that God has done His part for

 He has “invited” us to “Come” 

but we judge ourselves because we the “invited”

 pronounce our own sentence: 

we know we are “invited” 

[BUT] 

we are “not willing to come” !?! 

God has done His part in extending His “invitation” and we do not

 listen to God and choose to live our lives independent of God

 

— How can we hope to be protected from the storms of life 

if we refuse to get under the umbrella provided for us by God 

to keep the world from raining down on us??? 

In {Phrase 7} “…again…” we cannot miss the fact God never 

gives up on us (we only give up on God) then 

{Phrase 8} + {Phrase 9} “…[the certain king after being rejected] 

sent out other servants [to] tell the invited…”

 What is interesting here looking at this sequence of phrases is that 

not only did God try “again” but He also sends out 

“other servants to tell the invited…[to COME]” 

and we will see by looking at the rest of the phrases that there is 

the same “invitation [from God] to come” but it is presented in a

 slightly different way ——— God is trying everything so that He can

 say when we stand face-to-face with God at the final judgement

 that we will hear God say in His 

“still small voice” 

“I invited you AGAIN and AGAIN 

but IT WAS YOU YOURSELF 

THAT AGAIN and AGAIN REJECTED 

My Invitation to “COME” 

as many times as I gave it — 

so you leave Me no choice — 

if you don’t want Me in your life

 then I will let you spend your eternity without Me,

 if you don’t want to live My Way 

then it will now and forever be ‘your way’

Enjoy your afterlife without Me 

for I will not bother you any more!” 

(Personally I find living without God for even part of my day is “hell”,

 I could not imagine what an eternity without Him would be like ?!?!?!?!?!) 

God is AGAIN inviting you 

to a wedding feast and celebration, 

what better thing do you have to do — 

go get a wedding garment 

and “come” to the feast while the invitation 

is still being extended by the KING!!!