SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/6/2023 8:02 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The
Intruder Expelled”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
22:11-14
Message of the verses: “11 "But when
the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not
dressed in wedding clothes, 12 and he
said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the
man was speechless. 13 “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and
foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.’”
In this part of Jesus’ parable I can see that the
king was gracious in asking the man not dressed in wedding clothes how did you
come in here without wedding clothes?’ The king could have just thrown him out
without even talking to him. The king
even called him friend, but this man had no answer to give to the king as he
was speechless. He could not even give
the king an excuse as to why he was there without wedding clothes. It is therefore obvious that he could have
come in wedding clothes had he been willing.
MacArthur
writes “Until that point the man had been utterly presumptuous, thinking he
could come to the king’s feast on his own terms, in any clothes he wanted. He was proud and self-willed, thoughtless of
the others, and worst of all, insulting to the king. Arrogantly defying royal protocol, he was
determined to ‘be himself.’
The
result of his being arrogant the king did what he must do “Then the king said
to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer
darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’” I think the binding of hand and feet was like
putting on handcuffs with also restraints on his feet so that he would not
cause any trouble by returning to the wedding feast again. The man was permanently expelled from the presence
of the king and of the king’s people into outer darkness. This man will have great regreat and remorse,
and, with everyone else in that place, he would experience perpetual weeping
and gnashing of teeth. But though he had
a great opportunity, he had never had, and did not now have, the godly sorrow
that leads to repentance and salvation. “For the sorrow that is according to the
will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to
salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death” (2 Cor. 7:10).
8/6/2023 8:23 AM
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