Conclusion of Invitations to a Meal -Whom WIll God Invite?

"Go out quickly to the main streets and the alleys of the city,m and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.:  After the slave does so, there is still room.  The master then tells his slave:  "Go out to the roads and the lands and compel the  to come in, so that my house may be filled.  For I say to you, none of those men who were invited will taste my evening meal." - LUKE 14:21-24.

What Jesus has just related well illustrates how Jehovah God had Jesus  Christ extend an invitation to individuals to be in line for the Kingdom of the heavens. The Jews, especially the religious leaders, were the first to be invited. In the main, they rejected the invitation throughout Jesus' ministry.  But the invitation would not stop them. Jesus clearly in suggesting that in the future a second invitation would be extended to lowly ones of the Jewish nation and to proselytes. Thereafter, there would be a third  and final invitation to people whom the Jews viewed as unsuitable before God.

Yes, what Jesus is saying truly confirms the words of one of his fellow guests who said:  "Happy is the one who dines in the Kingdom of God." 

Next time: Discipleship-How Serious?

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