2015-11-01: Luke-The Investigative Gospel – The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Sermon Audio: The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 14:7-11
Duration: 20:55
Size: 10.4 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Luke 14:1-6

They believed that they were pretty good people and that they were doing a good job following the rules that would make them citizens of the kingdom of God.

I. The Prelude to the Parable

So, when Jesus went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor.

II. The Protocol in the Parable

Jesus’ parable is about a wedding feast, and he teaches people not to go and take the seat of honor, because a more distinguished person may have been invited to the wedding.

Do not claim your own honor or take the best seat in the house.

III. The Point of the Parable

If I hold on to this it helps prevent me from putting myself at the canter, and instead allows me to put God and other people at the center.

Jesus’ point is that people who exalt themselves – who think that they are good enough to stand before God based on their own merits – the Final Judgment will be a total humiliation.

Only those who come to God in humility, bowing before him, and who therefore put their complete faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ and repent of their sins, will discover that they are assigned seats at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.

“Why should I let you into my heaven?”