There’s only one tiny catch…those outcasts had better wear the right clothes to the party! And all of society’s outcasts are invited and welcome to the party. So the king kills off all the original guests and opens up the party for everyone who wouldn’t otherwise be invited – the outcasts of society. All the guests decline the invitation and resent that they were invited in the first place. In today’s parable Jesus tells us about a king who throws a wedding banquet for his son.
To be honest, I’ve always thought it was kind of a personality flaw on my part but when I read today’s Gospel message I realized that Jesus wants me to notice how you are dressed and treat you accordingly. I'd like to begin today’s message by telling you that every Sunday I get a good long look at each one of you and I judge you based on your appearance. A lot gets lost when sermons are read rather than heard, which is why I will make it explicit that the first half of this sermon is scarcasm!.
Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.” “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad so the wedding hall was filled with guests. Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready come to the wedding banquet.’ But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
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