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The Wedding Banquet Part 2
Two things we should remember
First
The great value of home is that it is a place into which a man may come in order to go out again refreshed for life.
If it is a place which renders him unfit for life then it is failing in its function and he is misusing it.
We have a responsibility to the world as well as to our homes; our homes should not shut us off from the claims of God and of others but should strengthen us better to discharge them.
Second
The New Testament insists that the Christian must be given to hospitality (Romans 12: 13; I Peter 4: 9).
Homes are given to us not for our own selfish happiness but that we may share our happiness with others, and specially with those who may not be so fortunate as ourselves
The Insidious Excuses
One thing more—all the reasons the guests gave for not accepting the invitation were in themselves good reasons.
It is right that a man should attend to his business, that he should be interested in what is new, that he should set the claims of home very high.
One of the great dangers of life is that good things can come between us and Christ.
If the tempting things always looked bad we would seldom fall. The most insidious temptation of all is to let the good interfere with the best.
We will be safe from that danger if we put first and foremost the claim of Jesus Christ.
Those who would not come
The story begins with a certain king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son, and sent servants to those who had been invited to tell them that the feast was now ready and that they should come.
But they refused to come. Their refusal was a great insult, of course. It was dishonoring to the son, the king, and even to the servants who carried the king’s message.
They also mistreated the messengers and killed some of them. The king sent an army to destroy the murderers and burn their city (vv. 1–7). After that he invited others.
In other words, they would not come because they actually despised the king and were hostile to him.
It was not that they could not come. Rather, they would not. The reason for their refusal is not spelled out, but it is suggested in the way the servants were treated.
Those who would come
Half the parable (Matt. 22:1–7) is about those who despised the king and would not come to the banquet.
But there is a second half (vv. 8–14), which tells of those who did come.
The king instructed, “Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find” (v. 9).
In Luke that is elaborated to show how those persons were drawn from the lower ranks of life.
“Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.… Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled” (Luke 14:21, 23).