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Many are Called, but Few are Chosen





               H    ow awful it would be to receive a summons to the wedding feast of a great king’s son,
                    only to be singled out upon arrival for not being appropriately dressed. To have the

               attention of all upon you in such a situation would be embarrassing beyond measure.
               However, to then be seized as a trespasser, bound hand and foot, and cast out of this elect

               gathering would be devastating. It would truly be a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.
                     This is a situation that we would all like to avoid. However, if I am correct, it will be

               the fate of a large portion of the church. The following passage gives us an indication of the
               fate that awaits many.



                       Matthew 22:1-14

                       And Yahshua answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, "The kingdom
                       of heaven may be compared to a king, who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he

                       sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they
                       were unwilling to come.  Again he sent out other slaves saying, 'Tell those who have

                       been  invited,  "Behold,  I  have  prepared  my  dinner;  my  oxen  and  my  fattened
                       livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast."' But

                       they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his
                       business, and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. But the

                       king was enraged and sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and set their
                       city on fire. Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were

                       invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find
                       there, invite to the wedding feast.' And those slaves went out into the streets, and

                       gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled
                       with dinner guests. But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw

                       there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you
                       come in here without wedding clothes?' And he was speechless. Then the king said

                       to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; in
                       that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few

                       are chosen."
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