What a joy to be here in the Lord's family. This is my favorite day of the whole week. I'm just so glad that you're here and some of you are visiting with us and we're glad that you're here. We pray that you will truly sense the presence of Jesus Christ. that you will feel his touch from the touch of the people around you. We're so glad you're here. And we want to mention that there is expositors classes tonight at four and evening service at five. And one thing real quick, there's a great ministry called Faith Comes by Hearing, and we're going to send you a link this week so that you can donate money to send audio Bible sticks to military around the world. OK, so please be looking for that in your email box. If you're not on the church's email list and you want to be, please just email churchatlivinghope.net churchatlivinghope.net and it'll get to our secretary. If you don't have a Bible, there should be one in the seat in front of you. Please open your Bible to Matthew 22. We're continuing in our series in the book of Matthew entitled Kingdom Come. This morning we're looking at a message entitled God's Banquet. I saw a really interesting documentary recently about cocoa bean farmers. These farmers are the biggest supplier in the world to Hershey chocolate. and among others. They have an amazing process in which they harvest and dry the cocoa beans. We here in the U.S. are very grateful for cocoa beans, aren't we? According to Bloomberg statistics, nearly 250 million Hershey bars were sold in 2013 alone. The chocolate bar is highly mass-produced, sold in over 70 countries. Chocolate production starts with harvesting cocoa in a forest. So the cocoa bean, it's native to South and Central America, and cocoa trees are currently grown on commercial harvest fields in Malaysia, Brazil, Ecuador, and the Ivory Coast. In the documentary that I saw, cocoa farmers made so much money harvesting and selling cocoa beans, but they had never tasted chocolate. And it was an amazing thing to see the reaction of the films as the films director went to the farmers and those farmers tasted chocolate for the first time. Their eyes lit up. They said, it's so sweet. Have you ever had cocoa powder without any sugar? It's very bitter. Another farmer said, can I keep this? And they basically gave them an equivalent of a lifetime supply of chocolate. Today in the passage of Matthew 22, we read a similar situation. We find that God makes a great feast for people. And they're so near God's good food in his banquet hall, but they never taste it. They never get the good food. The parable that Jesus tells in our passage in Matthew 22 is about a feast that is hosted by the greatest host, the king who represents God. And God makes the best feasts, doesn't he? Why doesn't everyone come to God's banquet? We're going to find out today. Would you stand as we read Matthew 22, verses 1 through 14. Matthew 22, beginning with verse 1. And again, Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the feast, to the wedding feast. But they would not come again. He sent other servants saying, tell those who are invited. See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. But they paid no attention. and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully and killed them. The king was angry and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, the wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find. And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there was a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless. And then the king said to the attendants, bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. You may be seated. This morning, we all need the mercy of God's goodness and his gospel. We all need to be invited to God's banquet. And how do we get to go to God's banquet. And we're going to see this morning that we respond to God's call, that's number one. We are filled with God's feast, that's number two. And number three, we rest in God's covering. And so I want us to consider what is happening in this context in Matthew 22. This is Holy Week. This is Tuesday. We're not sure what happens on Wednesday. Nothing is recorded. But Thursday we know that they celebrate the Last Supper. They go to pray at night and they fall asleep except for Jesus. Jesus, of course, is arrested. So this is Tuesday and Jesus is in the temple and he's speaking to the chief priests. He's speaking to people who know the Bible, right? He's speaking to people who should be tender to the word of God. Now there are people who are tender, but they're kind of the ones who don't know the Bible that well. They're the sinners. There's the prostitutes, and even little children are coming to Jesus. And those who have been rejected are coming to Jesus, and they're listening, and they're being healed, and they're being touched, and they're being taught. And remember in chapter 21, this is all happening at the same day. Jesus is rudely interrupted while he's carrying on this ministry. And he's asked, where are your papers? I want to see your credentials. And of course, Jesus' credentials are not on paper. They're the people around him who are being changed and transformed. And we find that beginning in chapter 21, there are these judgment parables, and then a flat out sermon of judgment against the leaders of Israel. This is the third of the three judgment parables. Last week, we looked at the two sons, and those who are accepted into the kingdom are not those that work hard to get into it, but those who rest. Those prostitutes enter in ahead of the Pharisees and the leaders, because those people, the chief priests, are cast away. And then the tenants, and Jesus confronts the leaders with the parable of the wicked tenants, essentially predicting his death and his resurrection, referring to himself as the chief cornerstone. So Jesus is not a victim of circumstances here. He is almighty God and he is carrying out that which was planned from the foundation of the world. Aren't you glad when life is chaotic that our great God is in control? And what we're going to see today in this third judgment parable is that the most unlikely people get to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Now that's an interesting thing. It says that he told a parable and he began to talk about, in verse one and two, the kingdom of heaven. And he compares it to a great king who throws a wedding feast. What is the kingdom of heaven? I like what John MacArthur says. He calls it God's dominion of redemption. God's in control. And we've all been marked with a curse. We've all been, as it were, judged already because of our sin. And God demonstrates Himself to be gracious He rules. He reigns. It is his kingdom. It is his glory and honor. And he decides with that power and with that glory to go ahead and substitute his son for the human race, for you, so that you can be redeemed. Who comes to this great redemption? Who is it that is saved in the end? Today we find out in this great parable. And though it is a judgment parable, whenever you read of judgment in the Bible before judgment day, it is mercy. It's a warning. There's a cliff ahead. Be ready. Don't go over the cliff. So even though it's a judgment parable, it's really a mercy parable. It's saying, if you don't heed the wisdom of this truth, you will most definitely perish. And there are some very striking images of outer darkness in this parable. So we need to heed what is being said this morning and take it to heart. And so let us consider, first of all, a call, a call for the kingdom. I remember when I was a child, I would be playing out in the backyard. We did all kinds of things in the backyard. One time, I dug a hole. My dad had, he was at work, my mom was home. I went into the garage, I grabbed a shovel. Don't ask me why I did this, but I dug a five-foot hole in our backyard. Needless to say, my parents were not as impressed as my friends. But we would play in the backyard and we had a swing set. We would swing, we would do all kinds of things. And often, you know, around 5.30 or so when dad came home, I'd hear, supper time, time to come in. And I responded. I responded to that call. God is giving us a call to the marriage supper of the lamb, to the inauguration of the kingdom. Who will come and celebrate my son's redemption? Who will come and honor my son? Because my son's getting married, right? He's a great king. Now, it says here that This kingdom of heaven is compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. Now a wedding feast is different than what we have here in the Chicago area. Back in the day of Jesus, it wasn't just a evening affair or a morning affair, just a couple of hours, several hours. In fact, wedding feasts would take place over days for the common people, maybe even a whole week. But for a king, It would be several weeks and maybe even a whole month. Now, to be invited to a wedding was a very great honor because it meant that you were going to be put up and you were going to be dined. So it was a great expense. People saved up for these things for years. And you would be invited and it was a great honor. You would say, I was invited to this wedding. You might even brag and boast to your friends. But imagine to be invited to the feast for the great king. Very few people would be invited to something like this. And yet here it says that the kingdom of heaven is like a great king who has a wedding feast for his dear son getting married. And he sends out these invitations. He sends his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again, he sent other servants saying, tell those who are invited, see, I have prepared my dinner and my oxen and my fat calves having been slaughtered and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. And they what? They paid no attention and they went off one to his farm and another to his business. Go to the ones who are invited. Go to the already invited ones. They've already been invited. This isn't the first time they've heard. They're very aware of the sound of the king's voice through his servants. Now, of course, this isn't a literal story. This is a parable. What God is getting at is that God has spoken in various ways, in many different means through the prophets to the people, and he has called, God has called, but the people, specifically the leaders, were not listening. Can I ask you a question this morning? Can you hear God speaking to you in your life? Is God talking to you? You know, we can even have such a cacophony of noise even by becoming intelligent, Christianized heathens. We can know so much of the Bible and not hear the voice of God. It's not whether we know or hear, it's whether we respond to the call of God. And some of us here have been saved. Can I ask you, are you listening to God or are you at a place in your life, child of God, where your life is just too busy? And God is calling you, but you're like those in verse five. You're not lost. You're not, you're, you know, you're not saying I can't, I can't come, but you've kind of backslidden to when you were so busy in the world. It says they paid no attention and went off one to his farm and other to his business. Now I'm making an application here to Christians, even though this is really directed to unbelievers, but I want to make an application here to Christians. Are you so busy that you're becoming conformed to the world? What does the Bible say? Be not conformed to the world, but be what? Transformed by what? Renewing of your mind. Get in the book, get in the Word, get with God. And don't just get in the book, but listen to what the Holy Spirit is telling you. We heard a testimony this morning of a man who prayed but didn't pray. And finally he heard. And then he prayed. And God answered. The only way we can prove the good and acceptable and pleasing and perfect will of God is by listening. Slowing down. Stop being so busy. Learn to say no to the wrong things. My wife always tells me, when we say yes to something, we're really saying no to something else. Say no to things that aren't the best. Say no to things that aren't going to necessarily advance the kingdom. You may have to work less overtime. You may have to say no to certain hobbies. You may be somewhat of a new believer and have to say no to certain bad influences in your life, or maybe you've been saved for a while, but this friend or this family member is slowly pulling you back to the world. And in order for you to hear the call of the kingdom, you're going to have to say no to certain relationships. It might be a neighbor. Satan has all kinds of ways of distracting us. But do whatever it takes to say no to the distractions and no to the unhealthy people in your life. You may need to say no to social media altogether. You might have to clear out your phone numbers on your phone. I don't know where you're at in your life. I don't think that God has called us to be isolationists. Let me be clear about that. We're to be friends with sinners like Jesus was. But are you strong enough? to help those sinners be friends with Jesus as well? Or are those people influencing you so that you're becoming a friend of the world? I don't know where you're at in your life, but go all in. Do whatever it takes so that you can slow down and hear the voice of God. Eliminate distractions. Unplug the computer. Turn off your phone. Make sure that you have places of refuge built into your life. Get up a little bit earlier and listen to the voice of God. Lay down on the floor in your bedroom, and you don't even have to pray out loud, but just be still and know that He is God. Please, at the kitchen table, have a meal with your family without distraction. Turn your phones off when you eat. Turn your phones off for various periods of the day. Don't answer the phone. It's okay. We are not slaves to our phones. We are not slaves to the media. We are servants of the Most High God. Free yourself so that you can hear something from God. He wants to talk to you. Listen to God. And while you're saying no to the unhealthy things in your life, say yes to God. Say yes. No matter what he says, God has a banquet for you. God has a feast. Some of the people that God is using in our congregation, I will tell you, they are tired, but they're not tired in a worldly way. They're blessed with the sleep of the Lord. And I know some of these men and women, sometimes they're ministering to you for hours and hours. They have full-time jobs. They're doing Bible studies. They're doing all kinds of things and they're tired, but they will not be distracted from the mission that God has given them to go to his banquet and feast and to bring others so that they can feast. They are listening to God's call. Listen, we can do far more than we think we can for the kingdom of God. We've got all kinds of excuses when it comes to coming to God's banquet. Well, I've got this to go and I've got this to do. In Luke, this same parable is given. And the only difference between these two parables in Luke and in Matthew is that in Luke, they have all kinds of excuses that they give. What kind of excuses do you have for not expanding the kingdom of God, not bringing the banquet hall and making it full, bringing people to the banquet hall? Can I just give a little testimony? Friday night, I realized that we had a Spanish Bible study at one of the believers' homes. And I was so busy. I had been up almost all night for two nights this week. I'm working on my counseling certification, and it's just taking so much time. But I was just tired. I didn't have any strength left. And it was 7 o'clock. It was time for Bible study. I realized my little Google calendar went off and I was like, oh, it's time for Bible study. So I went over to Carla Garcia's house. Carla was reached by this church. Thinking that you and several others were with me, but we knocked on the door at Westline Apartments and met Carla. Carla came to know the Lord. Carla was baptized. Carla joined Iglesia Esperanza. She was one of the first few believers that we had. And Carla's life has been so radically changed in the last two years. We started that Bible study and I sensed, in my weakness, I sensed the electrifying power of God. I don't want to say it was an experience, but I knew something was going to happen. And I walked in there, and it was total chaos. Carla was somewhere in Chicago getting someone else. And it was very clear that Satan was trying to put all kinds of distractions at the Bible study. Slowly, people began to come in. By about 7.30, we started, and the place was packed. And half of the people there were unbelievers. Carla's family. And so we started, and I was going to start from 1 Thessalonians. I said, nope, this is an Ephesians chapter 2 night. So we went to talk about how we're dead in our trespasses and sins, and that we need the touch of God. We need to be made alive. We need to be transformed. We can't do it ourselves. And I began to ask the people to give their testimonies. And there were just tears coming down the faces of everybody in the room as people began to speak of how God had transformed their life. And we spoke, and we spoke, and we sang, and we spoke more of Ephesians 2 and Romans 3. And people had to go home around 830. But all the unbelievers stayed. And I stayed there till midnight. I stayed there hour after hour. These were people who were hungry and God had called them. Listen, I didn't have any energy for that, but you don't need your own energy. God provides all of the fixings. I don't have to cook the meal. God cooks it. Don't you want God to do the work? Listen, I can't save anybody. I just come weak and half out of my mind sometimes. And that's the best time because that's when God works. And that's when God gets all the glory. Can I ask you, are you listening to God? Are you listening? Are you responding to what he's asking you to do? Do you even know what he wants you to do? Do you have any idea what he wants you to do? Maybe you need to slow down and listen to the voice of God. Say yes to him. No matter what it is, you say, God, I will do whatever you want me to do. And you listen. And then you obey. You listen to the Spirit. And as you obey, you'll get more direction. The Spirit will show you from the Bible what you should do, what you should say, who you should talk to. Oh, those beautiful verses in Proverbs 3. Turn there. Proverbs 3, verses 5 and following. Trust in who? Trust in your circumstances and hope everything works out okay. Trust in the Lord with a little bit of your heart. You're biting your fingernails and trust in the Lord. No, trust in the Lord with all your heart and what? Do not lean to your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will straighten out your crooked paths. Be not wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. I want to be refreshed at God's banquet hall. Don't you? You better listen to God. You better listen to Him because your life depends on it. Your life depends on it. I want you to see verses 6 through 10. There were those who were not just ignoring God, but it says in Matthew 22, Matthew 22, verses 6 and following, while the rest seized his servants. So God has this great feast. And he's sending servants to gather the people for his banquet. They've been invited. And instead of listening to the mailman, so to speak, listening to the servants, they treated the servants shamefully and killed them. And the king was what? He was angry. He was wrathful. He was going to mete out godly justice. And he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Again, this is a judgment parable. What is he referring to? He's referring to the fact that in the Old Testament, God sent prophets even all the way up to John the Baptist and the leaders of Israel were happy However, the prophets died sometimes they died like John the Baptist from an evil king But sometimes the leaders themselves would put the prophets to death and treat them shamefully if you don't know about that read Jeremiah read lamentations and And so he's talking about them. He's giving them a warning. Look at verse eight. Then he said to his servants, the wedding feast is ready. But those invited were not worthy. Listen. Imagine the son of God. Preaching. You've never heard a perfect sermon from this pulpit ever. Jesus always preached a perfect sermon. He, I have never known any one of your hearts in any great depth. Every time Jesus spoke, he knew his audience because he created them. He weaved them together in their mother's womb. Imagine such a preacher, you know, a healer. You know, we go through MRIs and CAT scans and all kinds of other acronyms. And, uh, and we're still not well at the end of the day, we all die. 10 out of 10 people die. But Jesus had a hundred percent success rate in his healing ministry. Hundred percent. If he were to go to St. Alexis down the street in Hoffman Estates, he would shut down their business. But they didn't hear him. They didn't listen. And what happened? They perished. They were destroyed. He calls them murderers. And so it is that they, in just a few days, would conspire to murder the Son of God. And so it was, even after that, the judgment would come to Israel. The judgment would come in 70 AD when the Roman general Titus conquered Jerusalem in that year, and he killed 1,100,000 Jews. And their bodies were thrown over the wall and slaughtered countless thousands more in Palestine. In the War of the Jews, the Jewish historian Josephus speaks of this. And what a slaughter it was. And let me just say that if you don't listen to God, It could result. In your destruction. If you're here without Christ, come to him. But let me say this, if you're a believer in Christ and you don't listen to God. You could become shipwrecked. There could be some serious, serious consequences. We need to listen to God, but look at what it says. It says that he called both good and bad. Look at this back in Matthew 22. He says in verse 8, he said to his servants, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited are not worthy. Go, therefore, to the main roads. In Luke's parable, it says, go to the highways and byways in the crevices of the countryside. But here, this parable is now in the city. He's given the same parable, but in a different context. He's saying, go to all the roads in Jerusalem and say, Invite to the wedding feast as many as you find. And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. Do you know there's people both good and bad, relatively speaking? Obviously, we're all sinners, we're all condemned. But there are people who are both from good backgrounds, good families, and bad backgrounds. And do you know that God can humble the most self-righteous person, and He can heal the most broken person? Can God do that? You might have a friend or a family member who's so self-righteous, you're saying, God cannot save them. I think it is harder to save a self-righteous person than it is to save a broken person. But God needs to save us not only from our bad deeds, but especially from our good deeds. We're going to see that in just a moment, even more clearly with the idea of the wedding garment. But listen, God wants to save people, both good and bad. We know that it's all of God. No one seeks after God. I wasn't looking for God. God wasn't lost. I was lost and God found me and you were lost and God found you. And yes, we decide for Christ, but it's really that we have been decided upon. We love him because He first loved us. And so we can sing that hymn, "'Tis not that I did choose thee, for Lord, that could not be. This heart would still refuse thee, hadst thou not chosen me." Respond to God's call. Secondly, be filled with God's feast. Take in the scrumptious food. Look at what it says in verse 4. See, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered and everything is ready. God's made a meal. Look at verse 8. The wedding feast is ready. Verse 9. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to this wedding feast as many as you would find. And it says in verse 10 that the wedding hall was filled with guests. Listen, the feast that God has is satisfying. We try to fill ourselves with so much emptiness, so much vanity. We go and spend our time at so many things that are worthless and that don't fill us. I want to encourage you to go after God's meal, eat it, taste it, taste everything. Often we try to find escape from emotional issues that we have or behavioral issues and somebody treats us badly and we treat them badly and we want an escape. We might escape to something like substance. You say, well, nobody here has a drinking problem. I don't know that. You might have a problem with alcohol here this morning. You might be secretly taking some pills that you shouldn't be. And I'm telling you, that's just emptiness. When all goes wrong, you're not going to God's feast, you're not even listening to Him. You're filling your face with the world, with violence and voyeurism. And what I'm saying is, Stop trying to get filled with the world. You can eat and eat and eat and you'll never be filled. Eat at God's feast. The things that God gives you will satisfy your soul, that you will be so satisfied you will be transformed. There is no pleasure, no true lasting and meaningful pleasure outside of God and His feast. It's not a sin to seek pleasure. In fact, we're to delight ourselves in the Lord, and He will give us the desires of our heart. And every good and perfect gift is from where? From above, and it proceeds from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. And look at the guests. He invites all kinds of people. The already invited didn't want to come, and so He says, go into the main roads. Can I ask you, are you believing God for new guests to the dinner that God has? Are you inviting people? I heard of one family that their children were playing so much with other children in the neighborhood that they started a Bible club in their neighborhood. I think that is a way to invite people to the feast. What are you doing to invite your friends and your neighbors? I love the verses in Isaiah which says Isaiah 55 ho everyone that thirsts come to the waters and he that has no money come and what buy and eat Yes, come buy wine and milk without money and without price But look very briefly back at Matthew 22 and verse 11 we find out that we can't just come into the wedding feast on our own. We have to be invited. And the way that we find out that we're invited, we hear the call, we listen to it, but we're also given a wedding garment. It's very interesting, this part of the parable. Look at verse 11 of Matthew 22. But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there was a man who had what? No wedding garment. And he said to him, friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless. He was speechless. Now, he could have said, I didn't have one because I didn't have a chance to go home and get it. Or or maybe I didn't have one because I don't own one. But why doesn't he say neither of these things? I'll tell you one possibility is if you look at this. You'll find out that the original guests the well-to-do, the ones who had everything, they turned down the invitation of the king. So they were told, the servants were told to go where? Go to places where people probably don't even have a wedding garment. Go there. And so it was very likely, it's a possibility here, that the king provided the wedding garments Because none of the good people wanted to come. None of the rich people wanted to come. And so he must have, perhaps, provided a wedding garment for each of those poor souls that had come to the feast. You see, God is making this feast at his expense. And so let's look at that third point. We must come in and rest in God's covering. We cannot use our own covering. If we come and try to pay for our own wedding garment, as it were, we'll have to pay with our life. Either we pay or Jesus pays for the garment. So I want you to notice here, he says in verse that this man was speechless. And the king, verse 13, said to the attendants, bind him hand and foot and cast him where? Into outer darkness. He cannot stay in the feast. And in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called but few are chosen." Few are chosen. What does that mean? Many are invited, but few actually listened to the king and came in and were granted a wedding garment. Here was this man who had come in. He must have not come in through the front door. He must have come in another way because he did not have a wedding garment on. And so he comes. And perhaps he wasn't even aware that he needed a wedding garment. Regardless, this is speaking to a much greater truth, isn't it? That wedding garment is picturing what Jesus has done to bring us into the banquet hall of God. To be ready. God has made the feast ready, but for us to be ready, we must have the wedding garment. I love how this is pictured in Revelation 19, which was read, and I'm almost done, but just look at this with me just for one moment. Revelation 19, we read in heaven, in verse six, that there's the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters. And we hear singing and praise hallelujah for the Lord, our God, the almighty reigns. They're singing of God's kingdom of his reign. Let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready. It was granted to her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. It was granted to her to clothe herself. What does that mean? That's the idea that God has granted that garment. Picturing. justification and regeneration. There's something inward that occurs in us when we come to know Jesus Christ. There's a transformation. But then it says that the robes are the righteous deeds of the saints. So there is that radical transformation that results in transformed living. Now, listen to the truth of this parable. This is about God's kingdom. We do not enter in with our own righteousness, do we? We enter in with a wedding garment that has been provided for us, as it says in second Corinthians five, that Jesus Christ became sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made or clothed in the righteousness of God. Amen, which is in him. Are you dressed in heaven's robes? Are you ready? You know how you can know that you're saved? I assume that most of us here have the assurance that we are saved. But one of the ways that we can know is that we have this desire for righteousness, for holiness. We like eating at God's table. We enjoy whatever God puts on. We love it. We love to be with him. And this is something spectacular. We're invited. We hear the call. We feast. We're robed in that special garment of of God. Oh, he's clothed us in his righteousness. And I wonder. If we're merely like those chocolate farmers, and we're like, oh, look at this cocoa. Nothing good, it doesn't even taste good, it's bitter. And you can have the word of God, you can have the beauty of the hymns and the worship, but all of it is bitter without Jesus. So come to God's banquet hall. Taste of it. Taste of the sweetness of his food. Taste of the savoriness of his food. Listen. This isn't about food. This is about souls. Look at God transform your life and then you transform the lives of other and see the kingdom expand. Don't be like those who are thrown out into outer darkness. And maybe this is just here for here for one person here today. But you don't perhaps have a wedding garment on. The Bible says very clearly that if you are in God's community at the feast, but you're not You're not clothed in that wedding garment. What happens? You're cast out of the feast. Now you can play along with us here and act like you know the Lord and like you're walking with Him, but God knows whether or not you know Him. And we're not coming to church to impress each other. And you might not even be aware that you don't have a wedding garment on, but let me ask you to look at yourself. Do you have a walk with God? Is your life changed? Do you hate sin? Are you being transformed into the image of Jesus? I want to ask you, do you have a wedding garment on? Let me tell you, if you don't, come to Jesus today. It's free. The garment is free. The food is free. The salvation is all free. He's made it all. Come, come and dine at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Let's stand together. Oh Father, thank You for Your covering. In Jesus we are accepted. In Your holiness, in Your purity, You could reject us, but You have decided to clothe us with the righteousness of Jesus. And You have changed and transformed us. I pray for anyone here that may be lost, that they might come to You, I pray for anyone of my brothers and sisters here who have become distracted and discouraged, that today would be the beginning of a revival for them and that you would bear fruit for the kingdom through every one of us, that many would be not only called, but many would come and show that they have been chosen. We ask in Jesus name. Amen.