The Banquet of The Kingdom

Friday, November 8, 2024

Today, wedding receptions are out of control. The average wedding reception is said to be around $25,000. So, when people plan a wedding reception, they have to count the cost of everything and everyone. They stop thinking about relatives and friends as people and start thinking of them as plates of chicken or roast beef. Back in the ancient biblical Jewish wedding, everyone was invited- relatives, neighbors, friends, the whole village, even people passing through-everybody. Thus we read of Messiah with all of His disciples invited to a wedding in Cana. When Messiah speaks of salvation, He compares it to a wedding in which the man throwing it says to go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in. Notice there's not one mention of glazed chicken or roast beef. Instead, there's a spirit of abundance. There's no cost- it's free. If you're born again, you're not of the world's wedding, you're of Messiah's wedding celebration. Live with a heart of God's abundance and generosity, for His wedding is free and overflowing. Live your life the same way.

From Message #409 - Birkat Khatanim