Transcript Matthew 9: 1-20 - Plymstock Chapel

Matthew 22: 1-11
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Matthew 22: 1-8
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: ‘The
kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding
banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who
had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but
they refused to come.
‘Then he sent some more servants and said, “Tell those
who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner:
my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and
everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”
‘But they paid no attention and went off – one to his
field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants,
ill-treated them and killed them. The king was enraged.
He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and
burned their city.
Matthew 22: 8-14
‘Then he said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is
ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go
to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone
you find.” So the servants went out into the streets and
gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as
the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
‘But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed
a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He
asked, “How did you get in here without wedding clothes,
friend?” The man was speechless.
‘Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and
foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
‘For many are invited, but few are chosen.’
The Great Banquet
Matthew 22: 1-14
A king
A wedding
Servants are killed
Two calls to the invited
Invited guests turn violent
Invited guests are destroyed
Wider invitation to ‘anyone’
Luke 14: 15-24
A certain man
A banquet
Servant is not killed
One call to the invited
Invited guests simply refuse to
join
Invited guests are passed by
The ‘poor, crippled, blind and
lame’ are brought in.
Structure of the Parable
1. The Invitation
2 The First Invitation Refused
3. The First Invitation Ignored/Opposed
4. The Second Invitation
5. The Wrong Clothes
Student Email
Adrian
I'm so sorry about being such a fool. This afternoon,
after the end my International Taxation lecture, I
had a sandwich and hurried to the Exeter FC at
15:00. However, instead of the Co-operative
Conference, I received a warm welcome from
people attending a Devon City Council Meeting.
And by that time, I finally found out that I got there
a MONTH earlier! I guess I'd better to retake a
primary education and learn 12 months and dates. I
do apologize for missing the tutorial today.
Matthew 13: 41-42
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and
they will weed out of his kingdom everything
that causes sin and all who do evil. They will
throw them into the blazing furnace, where
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
What do the clothes represent?
Galatians 3:27
Baptism
Colossians 3:14
Love
Revelation 19:7-8
Righteous deeds
Revelation 7:9-14
Faith
“We cannot be like the
person who was asked the
way to Dublin and who
replied, ‘If I wanted to go to
Dublin, then I would not
start here.’ Wherever we
are, in whatever confusions
or messes we find
ourselves, this is the
starting point of the
journey home. It is no good
telling people that they
should not be divorced or
remarried or living with a
partner or gay. We begin
where they are now.”