Are You Serious?

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Is the Lord's invitation to the marriage feast of His Son serious? In today's Gospel lesson, you have heard how our Lord Christ compares the kingdom of God to a king who gives a marriage feast for His Son, to which He invites guests. However, the invited guests disdain the King's invitation, stay away, and even deal scornfully with His servants, who were merely sent to call the invited to the feast.

What is this kingdom? The kingdom of heaven is not an earthly kingdom. There are no governors, no presidents, no Congress, no elections.

Why Are You Here?

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for His Son. The kingdom is not the feast; the kingdom is the king. For where the king is, there also the kingdom. And so, this king gives a wedding feast, and he sends out servants to invite the guests. The invited guests say no. The king still has a feast to give, so he sends out another round of personally delivered invitations, and this time the invited guests go off to their fields and their businesses, and some shame and kill the messengers. Enraged at their insolence, the king sent his troops and they destroyed the wicked invitees and their city.

Those invited were thus deemed not worthy, so the king instructed his messengers to go out into the roads and gather anyone they found, the good and the bad. In this way, the hall of the wedding banquet was filled with guests.

But then the king came into the hall and saw a man there not in suitable attire. How did you get in here dressed like that? But the man was speechless before the king. So the king commanded his servants, and they threw the man out, into hell. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”