Dearly loved ones, my prayer for you this week is that you experience the peace of God, which is beyond comprehension.   We missed those who could not be with us last week.  We decided to delay the planned communion service until this Sunday when hopefully everyone will be back.  Pray for Pris and Kimi as they are both sick.  Her sister did get to come home from the hospital.

We’ll continue our study with the next parable that Matthew records in chapter 22, verses 2-14.   It’s not clear whether this is part of the same discussion at the temple that we studied last week, but it does follow the same themes.

In this story, a king prepares a wedding feast, but the invited guests refuse to come.  Some of them even beat and kill the messengers.  In response, the king burns their city, and fills his hall with anyone he can drag in.  There’s a similar parable in Luke 14, but it is given at a different time and place.  Some of the same themes are present, but the stories have significant differences, so we will stick to this one.

The ending always puzzled me.  What is the significance of the man who is discovered among the guests without proper attire for the occasion?  He is thrown out, and Jesus uses references associated with Hell to describe his fate. I was not surprised to learn that there are competing interpretations of this passage.  I won’t promise to answer all the questions, but I will promise to lay out some truth that can be found here.

Come join us!

Love y’all,

Larry