The King Will Receive Honor from the Most Unlikely Subjects…
Read Matthew 22:1-14
In Jewish culture, two invitations were expected when banquets were given.
The first asked the guests to attend; the second announced that all was ready.
In this story the king invited his guests three times, and each time they rejected his invitation.
God wants us to join Him at His banquet, which will last for eternity.
That’s why He sends us invitations again and again.
Have you accepted His invitation?
It was customary for wedding guests to be given a garment to wear to the banquet.
It was unthinkable to refuse to wear these clothes.
That would insult the host, who could only assume that the guest was arrogant and thought he didn’t need a garment, or that he did not want to take part in the wedding celebration.
The garment is a picture of the “garment of righteousness” needed to enter God’s Kingdom—the total acceptance in God’s eyes that Christ gives every believer.
Christ has provided this garment for everyone, but each person must choose to put it on in order to enter the King’s banquet (eternal life).
There is an open invitation, but we must be ready.
God has extended this invitation to you , and the question is, have you fully accepted God’s invitation to enter into His kingdom, or are you still wearing your unholy garments?
SELAH (let us pause and calmly think about these things)
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Thursday, September 12, 2024
Anchor Devotional
BRIDE IN COMMUNION
“Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”
— Matthew 22:4
The Living God desired to reveal Himself to a spiritually empty world through the children of Abraham.
A foreshadowing of God’s redemption plan to unite them with their Messiah Bridegroom was evident in the specific traditions for Jewish marriage planning.
First, the lover agreed to the bride price the father required for giving up his daughter.
The young man proposed by offering a cup of wine to the one he desired saying,
“This cup I offer to you.”
If the woman drank from it, the two made plans to marry.
A marital contract was agreed on.
Gifts were given. A banquet followed.
The price our heavenly Father gave for us, His bride, was the life of His Son.
Our marital contract is the New Covenant that brought salvation through His shed blood.
Our “wedding gift” is the Holy Spirit.
We wait with anticipation for the magnificent banquet to come.
All who have confessed their sin and their need of salvation will sit with Jesus at His table in heaven one day.
The bride and the Bridegroom will partake together in the first supper of eternal days!
INSIGHT
Our regular partaking of the Lord’s Supper is a small picture of our invitation to the wedding supper of the Lamb (see Revelation 19:9).
[From Haven Today Ministries]
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Come join the Wedding Feast of the Lord!
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