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Alright guys welcome back. Thanks for joining us today. I'm your host, Zach. We're gonna be talking about

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the parables. Here we go, but first before we get into that, let me introduce you to my co-hosts.

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I'm very excited to have the wonderful Zoe on. Oh! Wait, ready, ready, ready, ready? No! Oh, oh!

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Hey we're so excited to jump into the parables. If you didn't know we've actually done a parable series

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previously and that's up on our channel you can look it up. But we're gonna be running through four

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new ones. And so hey if you want to get a little ahead of the curve you can flip to Luke 14

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your bottle right now. We're gonna be introducing what are parables. How do we read them? And then we're

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gonna go into the parable of the great banquet. I'm excited. Yummy! And hey if you don't know

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episode. Come on. Hey we're gonna get into this parable I said in the intro we're gonna get into

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this parable the great banquet. But beforehand I feel like it's really helpful to understand parables.

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So I'd love to hear your guys' words. What is a parable? A parable is something that Jesus did

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used. It's something Jesus did quite a lot. And it's basically like a story where he uses a story

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to give a point. But sometimes they feel a bit like metaphors or similarities and you can't

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have to dig through what it means. But Jesus spoken them a lot. That was an awful explanation

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but that was what I'm giving right now. Okay over to Zoe. Yeah yeah yeah yeah that was so good.

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I googled it because I wanted to know. Obviously didn't google it. But shall I say what

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Google says? Yeah yeah yeah. Google says that a parable is a simple story used to illustrate a

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moral or spiritual lesson as told by Jesus in the gospels. And I would also add that oftentimes a

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lot of people didn't understand the message that Jesus was actually trying to convey through

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his parables. And like we see in some of the parables his disciples then asking him, wait Jesus

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what do you actually mean when you just said that parable? And he's like okay well I guess I'll tell

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you clearly and plainly that this is what I was talking about. So yeah like there's no pressure

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to fully understand everything is what I'm saying. That's actually a good point. Even the disciples

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didn't know and they were right there with him. Right yeah and it's like it's meant to draw you in.

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It's meant to make you ask more questions. That's what Jesus really wants. I often think I've

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found in my own life like Jesus doesn't necessarily just want me to get all the answers and be done

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but he wants to take me on a journey and that's what a relationship is right. He wants to keep talking

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about these things with me wrestling them through and figuring them out over lifetime. Which I think

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is actually like way more cool than kind of just getting it down though. You know what I mean?

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And actually I was thinking I was wondering like do we use parables today or is that just an

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ancient thing? And then I thought about I thought about this last night literally as I was falling

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asleep. The boy who cried wolf right? You guys know this story yeah like he says oh like oh there's

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a wolf. There's no wolf. He said oh there's a wolf. There's no wolf and then when the wolf

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actually comes right and he gets cooked because everyone's like he's not being serious. Right yeah

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so that story is a story about a boy and a wolf but it's not actually about that right like it

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has deeper meaning it tells us something more like you were saying. So I thought that was kind of

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interesting but then the other interesting thing is you always need to with a parable like

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understand some sort of background. So I'll give you an example if you grew up somewhere where wolves

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didn't exist you might not understand the boy who cried wolf right? You might not understand the

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danger and the silliness of saying that there's a wolf when there's not. That's true. So you need

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to understand some background and we'll see with the parables over these next four episodes but also

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today that like there's things we need to understand in the context of the story that help us to get

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the moral or spiritual value from it. You feel that? Wow that's a ball and it's true man you're welcome.

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You have to name that. Thanks. Hey you can get... Hey give her a fist bump.

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There you go. Why are we so upset? Is your hair looks great today? Let's continue.

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Maybe down here in the corner. I thought that was fine. Yeah let's continue. Should we get into

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the Bible verse? Okay is he do you want to read? Okay you look very scared. I just am not the best

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reading out loud but I'll do my best. I know you aren't but I feel like you got this.

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She's listen listen I didn't mean that. Oh no. You know this mother is cute to you. I agree with it.

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Oh I get another fist bump again on that one. No. You know what? I can't read it. What I meant by that

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was... How much can I read for you sir? So what I meant by that was you've told me that before.

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I didn't I wasn't trying to confirm. You're not agreeing with it. It's okay because it's not true.

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You are a great reader. You are a great reader. This is my content and this just aren't very good

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so I just can't see very much so that's more of it but if I can do it how much more read for you? That

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was such a real moment. Yeah. Oh boy okay you're going to read verse. I know you are was crazy. You're

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going to read verse 12 to 24 in chapter 14. All of it. Yeah yeah so Luke 14 verse 12 to 24 and you

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what do you read again? I can't remember. And I be. And then Jesus said to his host when you give

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a luncheon or dinner do not invite your friends your brothers or sisters your relatives or your

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rich neighbors if you do they may invite you back and so you will be repaid but when you give a

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banquet invite the poor the crippled the lame the blind and you will be blessed although they cannot

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repay you you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. When one of those at the table

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with him heard this he said to Jesus blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of

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God. Page 10. Remuting post in time. Jesus replied a certain man was preparing a great banquet

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and invited many guests at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been

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invited come for everything is now ready but they all alike began to make excuses. The first said

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I have just bought a field and I must go and see it please excuse me another said I have just bought

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five yoke of oxen and I'm on my way to try them out please excuse me still another said I have

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just got married so I can't come. The servant came back and reported this to his master then the owner

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of the house became angry and ordered his servant go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the

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town and bring in the poor the crippled the blind and the lame sir the servant said what do you

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ordered has been done but there is still room then the master told his servant go out to the roads

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and country lanes and compel them to come in so that my house will be full I tell you not one of those

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who were invited will get a taste of my banquet. All right what a Bible passage well I think this

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parable is kind of interesting because Jesus offers us a little bit of teaching beforehand

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which sets up what he's trying to communicate so I wonder if we just go through verse 12 to 14 first

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break down this teaching what's the importance of it how can we bring it into our daily lives today

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and then we can go through the story bring some context all that stuff does that's how good to you guys

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yeah great okay cool okay so why do you think Jesus says this he says when you give a dinner or

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banquet in my translation the ESV don't invite your friends or your brothers but invite those who

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I guess can't repay you so those who like it almost seems to infer to me like those who you wouldn't

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normally invite why is he making this point why is that important well I think it just shows like

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the radical generosity and love that comes with who Jesus is and his character and I think as well

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and sometimes we're cool to do things that might be outside of our comfort zone like I think

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being like others centered is like you're not gonna put yourself first and of course it's natural

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to want to invite your friends somewhere but if you're thinking about others outside of your

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circle then actually inviting them in as the most loving thing you can do and so I think it's

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like a bit of a a challenge here and a challenge to us today to kind of extend our invitations

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beyond just our friends and extend our love and extend our generosity and our hospitality and

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like the fruits of the spirit our kindness everything to everyone that we encounter and especially

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those who are anything in this list the Paul the cripple the lame the blind

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and yeah the the people that that need to be shown love and that might not have encountered it

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actually I don't mean to imply that they haven't encountered love before but I mean to make

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sure that you show love to everybody yeah the marginalized yeah the marginalized that's what I'm

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trying to say not that they haven't don't know what love it is yeah yeah yeah I think it's um

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it's an interesting thing because I don't think it's wrong to ever like invite friends

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but I think this is talking about like only inviting those people and it's also speaking about those

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who could repay you which is interesting I was like are you being friends of people only because

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they can give you something in return and I think that's what he's challenging like you may have

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seen that these people are inviting people from a position of pride or yeah well exclusion or

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because they're they're going to get something from it and Jesus is saying no we need to invite those

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even we don't get anything in return from them and that's how we should love as if we're getting

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nothing in return because that's not what relationship with Jesus is like um and so for me that's

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how I read that I think I think it's interesting as well because this sets up the parameters with

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within which um Jesus tells this story so it also tells us right like where he tells a

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a parable of a great banquet but he tells it whilst at a banquet right like he's at a dinner party

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which I think is super interesting interesting because um sometimes like I I forget this about

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Jesus but when I read the Gospels I think like Jesus had some really like hot takes yeah like

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he said some things that literally got him killed right this yeah yeah like at some point Jesus

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was actually highly controversial with those who were taking advantage of others which I think

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really shows his heart um and so it's interesting thinking like it actually says he said this to

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the man who had invited him to the dinner party yeah which is kind of interesting she's like

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actually confronting this guy about his own decisions of who he's invited yeah and and also I read

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that at the time what usually happened was you would invite people to dinner at your house

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who are like of similar status to you so that you could both receive more honor in the process

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so I'm gonna invite someone who is um to put it in today's words as cool as popular as wealthy

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as um connected as I am to come to dinner we can rub shoulders a bit we can talk about the people

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we know we can agree on all these things that we agree on and then we can go our separate ways and

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we'll both be better off for but Jesus says no no no let's not just do that because think of all the

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people that that excludes let's actually invite those people that are normally excluded

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which I think is an interesting setup to then him talking about because because the the teaching

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then that he goes into after this is not just about um who you invited in a right

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it starts talking about like the kingdom of God yeah so should we start talking about that the

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rest of it yes do you get into the actual parable okay cool um okay so let's just start in verse 15

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so mine says when when one of those who were climbed at table with him heard these things he said

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to him blessed is everyone who eat bread in the kingdom of God so again just carrying on with that

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idea here he's the the guy who hosted the dinner party is presenting a theological idea which

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actually goes back to there's a number of verses in Isaiah it's um I've got here my notes is first

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in Isaiah chapter 25 verse six to nine is like the first idea that God's kingdom is and and heaven

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is like a great banquet so here he actually shifts from talking about the dinner table to talking

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about God's kingdom and so he makes a theological statement here and Jesus responds with this parable

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and he talks about a man who hosts a great banquet who do we think this man is is this a literal man

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or is this symbolic like the boy who cried wolf what do you guys think I think it's symbolic who do

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you think it's symbolic of God the Father is that what might make you say that well because in

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because in John wait is it in John in one of the gospels Jesus says to his disciples that

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the place that he's going to which he was talking about is sending to heaven is that he's going to

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his father's house and his and he's going to prepare room for the disciples and for us

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in his father's house and there's many rooms in this father's mansion so that's why to me whenever

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then when I read like a parable about a banquet or like about a house I just do associate it with

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God's father sees the one that's in like come on in yeah yeah and I think you're probably right I

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think that's that's kind of how I read it as well is Jesus here is talking about God the Father

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and God the Father invites us to this banquet remember if we look back at Isaiah 25 as I was just

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saying this great banquet is kind of like it's it's almost like another picture in heaven right

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and so it's saying he's saying that God's inviting us into this beautiful relationship with him

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in heaven but as we carry on some people say no awkward is if you want to read like just those few

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first first verses in the parable to us yes Jesus applied a certain man's a certain man's was

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preparing a great banquet and invited many guests at the time of the banquet he sent the servant

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tell those who he had sort of gone down the drain who had been invited come for everything is now ready

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but they all alike began to make excuses the first said I've just bought a field and must go and see

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it please excuse me another said I've bought five year oxen and I'm on my way to try them out please

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excuse me still another said I've just got married I can't come either I can't come one out of the

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sorry yeah okay so in the story right I'm gonna drop a little a little bit of my knowledge on this

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and then I want to hear where you guys have to say but based on my understanding and my reading the

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way that they used to set up these dinner parties was almost like they would first send out like an

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RSVP or like a save the day right yeah so that was the first invitation but then when everything had

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been prepared so picture like picture like a wedding right you would send out an RSVP

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or a save the day and then once like you would prepare actually prepared everything then you start

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to send out all the details right you've booked the tent you've booked the food the drinks you start

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to send everything out to everyone so that they know all of the details as well and then they show up

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after everything has been prepared it's kind of like that so someone is sent out in this case

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from the master and this servant goes out and says would you like to come to this dinner party

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and it's assumed in the story that they would have all said yeah yeah I'd love to come I'd love to

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come to your dinner party so servant goes back and he says master these are all the people that wanted

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to come master is great let's make preparations according to how many people we've expected to come

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and then when they go to tell everyone that everything's ready everyone starts saying no

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which is super this right yeah if you've said yes and then your last minute like actually I can't

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do that yeah yeah like we've already prepared the whole place yeah we got all the food ready

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we've ordered all the coloring you know what I mean the caterers just outside yeah you may

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float for you yeah I got to play right here yeah and they said nah I'm not coming which I think

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is kind of interesting it's really interesting I also think the excuses are actually hilarious I wrote

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bra on my notes I was like what do you mean I bought a field and I have to see it two sides of

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that what do you mean the second side who buys a field without viewing it first like it's just like

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both of it's just foolish and like even the ox like who buys an ox without testing that out like

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both of those like really foolish which is like I'm just like they're just random excuses right

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and then I think the third one is like I just got married and I think we often do that is like put

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family and friendships and relationships above Jesus but to be honest all three of these things

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is they're just excuses they just didn't want to come and I think again put in this in light of

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God and it's like actually God's giving this invitation to for us to come to his table and it's

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so easy to have excuses may that be that we bought a field bought a new game we want to play on it

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or we want to hang out of our boyfriends or whatever that may be like they just didn't actually want to

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come yeah like your excuses the bottom line of it you just didn't want it yeah and I think it's

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really interesting that this is so relatable that how often can we just think of it excuses to

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not go to church not read a Bible to not which I think this is actually a bit it's this isn't

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necessarily about like reading a Bible this is more about accepting God as a whole maybe that

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is true like how often do we see that it's because you want to do what we want to do instead of

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like coming to God but I literally wrote bra and I was like I can't remember my actual Bible that

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feels like I write fools instead that's why they are fools who buys a field and checks it out

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afterwards yeah so true you wouldn't buy you wouldn't buy something that's expensive and not

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go see it or test it right like that's just like that like that's so what if I invite you to my

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birthday party and you're like sorry bought a field well I just like what I do think as well as

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such a lack of urgency yeah and they knew the day there was a set date there was a set time they

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knew they said that they were going to go but then all of a sudden they're like oh actually I don't

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want it what do you mean you don't want it like you've already agreed to it and not only that but

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you've been invited like what you're saying earlier that's an honor to be invited to a banquet

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right it's well from how how are you framing it it's like a big connection opportunity it's like

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it's not only going to benefit you because you're sorry it's not only going to benefit your host

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because you're showing up and you're being kind and courteous but it's going to benefit you

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because you're eating such good food that's being prepared for you and you get like fellowship

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with all these people so it's like how are you turning your back on that just to go see something

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you've just bought on on a whim I don't know when they bought it but I just think it's so

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interesting here that they have such a lack of urgency because it's like you knew this was happening

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how could you forget about yeah I just don't really understand yeah yeah and like side message

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I don't even think this is necessarily the main point Jesus is making but your excuse is reveal

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your priorities yeah yeah right like yeah your excuse is reveal your priorities and and I think

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like especially excuses in the moment feel timely they always feel timely I I have to do this

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yeah it's time time right I I I need to check out this feel I must go and see it I must go and see

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I must go see these ox that that I've purchased it's timely right yeah I've married someone I need

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to go be with them yeah and it's like what I think is as soon as you say you're gonna do something

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well not today but tomorrow you never get around to doing it right like just to be real yeah and

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that happens with me like in my own life oh shoot like I do want to spend time in prayer but this

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but I've got a basketball game but my friends are asking me to hang out but I need to finish an

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essay for school and listen I'm not saying all those things are bad but I'm saying the moment that

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I say I'm gonna push God to tomorrow yeah I end up usually not getting around to it yeah that's

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so true yeah that's so true oh my god and these examples of their priorities is property work

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relationships like they're not necessarily like bad things yeah but they're your priority when they

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distract them from accepting God's invitation yeah and I do think this is also Jesus' response to

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verse 15 where he was like blessed the guy was saying bless as the one who will eat at the feast

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of the kingdom of God and Jesus is basically saying like you you admire the banquet um yeah are you

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ready to receive the invite and come or are you gonna make excuses like that's basically what he's

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saying and I guess like bigger picture what he's referring to is probably a lot of like the fact

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there he saw Pharisees and Jews that knew the like that Jesus had been prophesied and was

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cut the invitation had been said that he's gonna come yeah and now Jesus was there it's now the day

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he's here and he's going are you gonna accept the invitation to name him yeah they're not

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recognizing the importance yeah and then what it goes on to talk about is the marginalized or those

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aren't part of the Jews or the Gentiles yeah which you talk a lot about and lots of our like Bible

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studies which is like it's those that maybe didn't have the initial invitation because they weren't

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part of the Israelites or that the Jews the Jewish heritage and that's now Jesus actually hinting

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or less utterly hinting this is also going to be for them as well yeah but I think this is the

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real challenge to the Pharisees it being like you knew I was coming now the day is here are you

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gonna accept the invitation yeah I mean 100% yeah okay I just wanted to hit one more thing before

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we move on from these verses yeah because I was always super confused by I have married a wife

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and therefore I cannot come because I was kind of like if you got married it's kind of valid to

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actually go spend time with your wife but then I realized right when I read up on the fact that

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you would have a previous invitation to which you would ask VP and then you had the follow-up yeah

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I realized right if you had said yes to the first invitation you wouldn't book your wedding

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right before you had something that was already in the diary that you needed to go to it wouldn't

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make sense right yeah so like essentially what I think he's saying is actually this guy has

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basically said I've literally just married someone to spend time with them if you know what I mean

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and therefore I'm not gonna come because I'm spending time with this person who I've just married

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on a whim which is like re actually like the worst one of them all yeah just like oh damn you

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literally like did something just to get out of this and just to get get off of someone I

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pictured it literally more like relational when I was like actually relating to I'm porting but

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God is more important still is how I read that but you go crazy yeah I know I know that's what

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anyways I might be wrong but that's kind of what was hitting me about like the first and second

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invitation yeah because like personally if I've if someone invites me to a big banquet and I'm

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not going to put my wedding like on the same directly before like before yeah no it doesn't make

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sense because then you can't go yeah and surely if I plan my wedding in advance yeah bring lifey

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that's why I was just thinking yeah but also like if you like you would plant you would actually plan

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a wedding like way more in advance then a banquet so you would have known and been like no I'm

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gonna spend time with my wife yeah beforehand so it was like yeah it's a relationship on a whim

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which is interesting I've actually never like realized that about this yeah okay question as we move

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on okay say you were the host a master uh-huh how would you feel when everyone rejects the second

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invitation yes I have to say I think I think this actually happens so much nowadays I find like

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birthdays especially people go yeah yeah I'll be there be there on the day there's always at least

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like there's so many dropouts I host party I'm not going to explain it all but I hosted party like

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last May you guys are both there thanks I would say on the day 15 people dropped out and didn't even

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tell me but I know afterwards because I know who I invited okay how did that make you feel like how

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did you feel when when I was a bit like well one they didn't even tell me so I was like just tell me

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but it was it was it was exactly that I was like I gave you the invites to this right

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beautiful designed invite yeah like months before you knew what you spoke to be about it you

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were prepared like there was there's a table space booked for you yeah and so when they didn't come

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I was a bit like oh I thought you loved me more than that yeah and but is that some of them like

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is actually not that deep some of them did had stuff legit come up and also I feel like just a random

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party is a bit different than like a fill-on banquet but it does like it's really sad because I'm

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like I want to spend time with you I want to celebrate with you I want to have fun with you

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and so if you just don't turn up it's like oh that's a shame right I want to capture that word

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angry and can you hear that to how this master actually responds yeah yeah you feel me yeah

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he could well he could have been angry right he could have responded out of anger yeah

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but he does something else okay here we go I'm gonna read from verse 21 whoa so the servant came

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and reported these things to his master and the master of the house became angry but watch what he

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does and said to his servant go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the

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poor and crippled and blind and lame and then he goes step further and the servant said

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sir what you command it has been done and still there's room so he says go out to the highways

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and hedges and compel people to come in that my house may be filled I find it fastening highways

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and hedges interesting that's like what that means is like the outskirts of the city we roads and

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country lanes in this trans roads and country lane yeah what do you got like the

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marco translation I don't have highways in the UK yours is like the American one oh yours

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is the English one I didn't even clock that highways and hedges yeah but isn't that interesting

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so like instead of just being angry at everyone else yeah he says let me use what I've got

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and he'll be getting master like he's got all this food doesn't go to waste like he's put in all

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this preparation for who knows how long it's like well if this goes to waste and that is that's

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really annoying so it's actually he the the anger was probably just because he was clear and it

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was saying everyone gave excuses on here it was like all together we're like and so he's got a whole

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party fill of food and it's like that's rude but I'm like I don't waste it yeah okay let's shift our

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focus from who denies the invite to who are the people that that are given the secondary invite

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yeah who are these people yeah in both in the story but also like in real life yeah what do you

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think I guess they're the unexpected hmm they're the they're the people that nobody would think to

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invite to their banquet to their fancy high-end banquet and I think like what you were saying is

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is the Gentiles yeah it's the people that weren't included in the initial invitation the initial

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invitation um I'm thinking of like the mosaic law and just the covenant that God made with the

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Jewish people I've heard law is in like hello I read law you know like the mosaic law and I was like yeah

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law L A W okay tell me tell me explain for those who might not know

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hmm Gentiles Gentiles is anyone that is not a Jew okay good I don't think I knew of us a Jewish

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yeah right so we're all so we're all Gentiles right and so that that like term still applies today

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and so I mean he's at the Pharisees house having this banquet I can imagine this would have been

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a very out of pocket statement for Jesus to make do you like actually this invitation now extends

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beyond you guys it now extends beyond the initial chosen people extends to everybody else that

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wasn't chosen yeah one thing I do want to point out is that it says um go to the highways and

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hedges and roads and country lanes um and compel them to come in and I thought that was really

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interesting because it's like compel is like not persuade but kind of persuade is like encourage

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them to come in and this is talking about those on the outskirts so it's talking about the

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um crippled blind lame um but that is just talking about those that you wouldn't normally like

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associated with your day to day life in that culture um but it's saying compel them to come in

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which is basically like show them love like make them know that they are welcome to come in

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like it's a very active um yeah it's very active of being like you are loved you are welcome

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you can come even though you didn't have that initial invitation um and although you wouldn't

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normally be um the same level as you were speaking about earlier it's like no no you are welcome

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and you are loved and that's like the the root of it which I thought was really nice

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you're wanted you're one you're wanted

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I find it super super interesting how essentially like Jesus is saying the invitation is open to

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everyone yeah yeah it's it's already been open to those who were previously invited yeah

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to those of status and cultural or societal worth it's then also brought wider to anyone who's

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kind of um around and then it's like he just says basically like go outside of the city and invite

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anyone who you find yeah like anyone yeah which I think is really interesting because um

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well I get so many I get so many people who are not Christian asking like well

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if God is if God is so good how can there be hell and I think it's interesting how Jesus here

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he almost makes it seem as though those who don't want to be in relationship with him

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ultimately for life everlasting in heaven it's it's just their choice and it's simply our choice as

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well if we want to accept the invitation we can through Jesus and through the cross and through

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his resurrection but equally we can say no and it's not like right it's not that the master

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doesn't love the people that don't come to the banquet yeah actually he really loves the people

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who don't come to the banquet because he invited them yeah but notice they don't love him back

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and so they don't come to the banquet and the onus is not on the master right the fault is not

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on the master for them not eating well that night oh wow did you clock that I clocked

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I try not to say clock yet I thought thanks so maybe I shouldn't have said

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anyways and honestly like that's I don't want to open up a huge subject there because obviously

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there's so much on like heaven and hell that we could get into in another episode um and it doesn't

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really I don't think like the emphasis here is on what happens to those who don't come to the banquet

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but all of that to say how exciting is it that everyone's invited yeah and that gives us so much

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to do around like can we also invite others are we the servants I think we are right and that's

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like the mission it says at the end of Matthew go make disciples of all nations right I think that's

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like metaphorically bearing the invitation and saying to others like y'all guess what

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oh it's telling of the good news you can join me at this party oh yeah oh yeah invitation extended

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extended that's so cool actually I didn't even think about that it's like the the outpourings of

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when you're invited to something good especially with this master like it's so cool that he has

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so much space in his house he's like go literally to the furthest place that you physically can on your

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feet and get all of those people to come because there'll still be room for them that's a big old castle

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that's and like how generous that master is as well to want his house to be filled but like all

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these people that I'm assuming he hasn't met yet but obviously god knows all of us he loves all

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our thanks god but I just think it's so cool like that I'm sorry that I just think it's so cool that

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there's this invitation that is extended to everyone and that we can also extend the invitation to

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everyone because there's room in the father's house like there's actually room god will not be like

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there's no room for you as he because there's room for you as each I mean I know I do not you mean

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yeah I'm curious is he what is what's like your one takeaway for daily life as a Christian

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on this parable from this parable I think I think we should jump back to the beginning of what we

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read oh I think it's familiar so if we go back to the to the 12 to the 14 which is talking about

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inviting those that can't repay you and I think then because that's the context of Jesus telling

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the story so let's go back to what he's you know what he's answering and so he's speaking about

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like it's it's costly like if people can't repay you it's going to cost you something to invite them

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to to tell them about Jesus or to spend time with you whatever that may be and it does cost

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something and it's living with the eternal perspective like knowing that God sees it and he will get

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that like reward in heaven in the resurrection of all it's saying and it's like actually following

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the pattern of God's generosity should be are like should be our standard and it's actually we

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should live each day knowing that actually we need to live in the generosity God has and follow

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how I mean he died that's the cost he paid for us is how can we extend this invite to those in a

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way that would also cost us to follow Jesus generosity I don't know if that was super concise but

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that's what I was thinking about yeah no that's really good I think that's a great takeaway like

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Jesus wants us to be like him right and like the father yeah so let's let's reach out I think

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that's a great like a great great takeaway and it's so easy to apply like I think for everyone

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in every sphere whether whether you're like in work whether you're in school whether you're at

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like a sports game or practice or whether you're in like a music ensemble I don't know what it is

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that each of us does but for every person watching even for us three like there's going to be

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circles that we're in where there's people on the outside yeah and people that aren't really

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necessarily included in everything and you're right it costs us something to actually like be

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friends with them sometimes yeah it costs us something to love them but that's the truth from

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the love in it yeah in love that costly in it yeah I know I'm I'm kind of getting like really

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London now sure anyways okay I wanted to finish I wanted to finish off this episode by reading

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this Isaiah 25 verse 6 which is the earliest prophecy that links the kingdom of heaven to a great

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banquet and it says this I'm just gonna read verse 6 but if you read Isaiah 25 it's awesome it says

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on this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people for all people a feast of rich food

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a feast of well-aged wine of rich food full of marrow of aged wine well refined my mouth is

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watering I'm gassed that sounds unreal and that's what we have to look forward to so yeah invite all

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your friends but more importantly look out for those who might not be getting the invitation on

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the regular and I think that's a great thing to end on anything else to say yeah can you

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um any drop in emoji mmm I have a few in my head but I feel like a fist pump emoji would be like

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fist bump yeah I was thinking like steak emoji oh my gosh just fill it with all the foods possible

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yeah all the foods yes make it a hug emoji though why was I thinking of that no

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I was like bringing them you'll have to welcome him absolutely no okay okay we're gonna see so

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why don't we finish the episode there I want the comments section to look like a feast yeah

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I like that yeah I like that hey guys thanks so much for joining us I hope this really spoke to

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you and I hope that the Lord is with you this week and guys keep your eyes peeled for the next

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three parables I'm not gonna tell you what they are but you'll see them when they come out thanks

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so much for tuning in and we will see you next time at the way bye bye