MY FRIENDS, “MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”

Oct. 13, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”

“Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.” And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good.

So the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’

And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness……For MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.” Matt. 22:9-14 (ESV)

Such an insignificant matter, why would the King be so adamant about one’s attire, maybe they Just didn’t have the funds to buy what was required. My friends one day God would have heard our last excuse.

In addition, His faithful knows, the garment of righteousness is free. so the saddest words those who are clothe improperly will ever here is “I KNOW YOU NOT” Isaiah 61:10 (NKJV) tells us “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God;

For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels” My friends, God loves us more then we can ever imagine, so He pleads.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9 (ESV) He has made every effort humanly and Godly when He died on the cross, to provide us with the proper attire of His righteousness, My friends remember.

“What we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him” 1 John 3:2 (NKJV) fully clothe in the attire of His righteousness. And one Day He will be able to say about His faithful children.

These are the one’s “who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Rev. 7:14 (NIV) and they loved me enough to keep my commandments. “The man who came to the feast without a wedding garment represents the condition of many in our world today.

They profess to be Christians, and lay claim to the blessings and privileges of the gospel; yet they feel no need of a transformation of character. They have never felt true repentance for sin. They do not realize their need of Christ or exercise faith in Him.

They have not overcome their hereditary or cultivated tendencies to wrongdoing. Yet they think that they are good enough in themselves, and they rest upon their own merits instead of trusting in Christ. Hearers of the word, they come to the banquet, but they have not put on the robe of Christ’s righteousness.

The heavenly principles that distinguish those who are one with Christ from those who are one with the world have become almost indistinguishable. The professed followers of Christ are no longer a separate and peculiar people. The line of demarcation is indistinct.

The people are subordinating themselves to the world, to its practices, its customs, its selfishness.” (E. G. White Christ objects Lessons “Without a Wedding Garment”) My friends time and grace is running out, Probation will be over soon.

Revelation 21:6-7 (NKJV) John tells us  God will say one day “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.”

My friends, The call has gone out will you continue to allow the god of this world to be your tailor and fit you into his attire. MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN to wear the robe of Christ righteousness and one day soon, you will not have time to change.

Consistent with this, our God will “come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays AWAKE AND REMAINS CLOTHED [IN THE RIGHT ATIRE,] so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.” Rev 16:15 (ESV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY