Blessed Are Those Who Are Invited To The Marriage Feast
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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9 And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Betrothed
Betrothed
Jewish Custom.
Jewish Custom.
The Jewish betrothal is most similar to our modern term “engagement” however there are some stark differences.
First, most families started the betrothal while there children were at a very young age. Remember at this time arranged marriages were the norm.
This allowed the boys parents to pay whatever dowry was agreed upon.
12 Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
Secondly, the betrothal, though the first step, still committed the two to be married as married.
Notice that they were even considered husband and wife.
23 “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Therefore, the betrothal was the first step in the marriage process.
The Bible describes these very customs but in the spiritual sense in the…
Christian Betrothal.
Christian Betrothal.
This betrothal between Christ and his creation was made long ago.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
This betrothal was not only made a long time ago but the “dowry” was very steep.
28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Summary
Summary
The God whom you and I are here to serve this morning, from the very beginning, desired to have the closet relationship anyone can have with another which is marriage.
God took the first step in betrothing us by paying the dowry.
That brings us to the second step, betrothal “part 2” if you will the…
Interval Marital Stage
Interval Marital Stage
Jewish Custom.
Jewish Custom.
As I just said this is the “second part” of the betrothal, typically titled “Interval Stage,” concerning marriages amongst God’s faithful during the N.T. era.
A short time before the “wedding day” the couple prepared for their new lives by getting their home ready and the bride prepared a special wedding garment for her groom that symbolized her committeemen to her husband.
This was a time of commitment to each other and was characterized by promise, purity, and preparation.
We see this with Joseph and Mary though, we find Joseph getting a surprise.
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
As our Creator’s creation, betrothed to God, I’m thankful for the…
Christian Interval Stage.
Christian Interval Stage.
Christ having paid the dowry with his blood allowed you and I to opportunity to enter the “interval marital stage” with our groom.
We have not yet become wed and consummated the marriage with our God.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
However, this doesn’t mean we aren’t married as we pointed out before.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
This “interval marital stage” we are in right now is a time in our marriage of great promise, purity, and preparation.
During this interval time we are to meditate with excitement and anticipation for the promised wedding feast (Rev 19:9).
148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.
During this interval time we are to stay pure as a betrothed virgin.
3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
During this interval time we are to be continually preparing ourselves for the wedding day.
13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Summary
Summary
The God whom you and I are here to serve this morning, has not only betrothed us to himself but is patiently waiting for us to keep our mind on the goal the wedding feast.
Which bring us to the last step in the marriage custom which is the…
Consummation Marital Stage
Consummation Marital Stage
Jewish Custom.
Jewish Custom.
This was the “wedding day.”
This day the bride would get ready with her family and friends as would the groom.
The groom, dressed in his best attire, would head to his betrothed bride with his friends singing and typically bearing torches.
Once at the brides, father’s home, he would receive his bride and take her back to his home with everyone accompanying them singing and rejoicing.
The groom takes his bride in to the house to consummated the marriage making the grooms house now the two’s home.
They then celebrate a minimum of a week with family and friends and sometimes two weeks.
Pertaining to our spiritual marriage to God also read in scripture concerning the…
Christian Consummation Stage.
Christian Consummation Stage.
The brides groom, Christ Jesus, will come in all his glory with his angels to get his bride.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
All those who had faith in the promise, remained pure, and prepared for this day shall be brought to their groom.
17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
The celebration that goes on when we are in heaven with our God won’t be for a week or even two weeks but for eternity.
46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Summary
Summary
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Conclusion
Conclusion
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.