The Invitation | Pr Janaronson Nagarajah

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your day. If you have a Bible, turn to chapter

fourteen, Thank Lujah. Today. The topic will be the invitation of Yaoti.

To give you a context from verses one to six. So it was

a subath day, which is basically a holy day where the law of God

says that nobody is supposed to work. So yes, so Lisia mill.

And it was also in a context where the scribes and the pharisee sees often

would like to test Jesus. So yes, said, she's ten years.

So they're looking for opportunity to track Jesus and catch Jesus to say something wrong

or do something wrong like she is. Well. You could say that there

are many reasons to it. One of it is probably they were jealous about

Jesus' authority with Hamman to Jesus the Champagne. No reason could be without Jesus,

like you're incarnacing year. So with every opportunity available, they would like

to pinpoint that Jesus actually did something wrong two years. But we know the

Bible says that Jesus was tested tempted at every point. But yet he was

found to be without sin because you know how so this is a context where

someone had a drop sea. So certainly what is a drop seas? So

Hona, So basically it is a condition where you're soft tissue is accumulating water.

So depending on the part of your body it is your hand, then

it will expand do it? Just isn't a sea pound past straight down something?

And so were the sweet So if it's at the lake, then it's

at the lake. So basically it's a it's an abnormal condition in the body.

Do it just even in certainly down on your ego, who are you

pushing on the jeeping? So when in the first one he says, now

it happened as he went into the house of one of the rulers of the

Pharisees to eat bread on the saba, that they watched him closely. Do

you think they wanted to watch him closely to hear from him. No,

they watched him closely, wanting to test him whether he will say anything wrong

or do anything wrong. Siren. So in the chal thousand years to thee

too, I love Jesus. And Jesus entered into the house knowing that he

would be tested, But yet he never shied away from such confrontation. You

had was to and behold there was a certain man before him who had drop

sea. And Jesus answer ring spoke to the lawyers and pharisee saying, is

it lawful to heal on the saba? Tim you free faster her Fali so

and she, But they kept silent, and he took him and healed him

and let him go. I believe that Jesus healed yesterday, he can heal

today, and he can heal tomorrow. How many of your belief it was

something yes? Easy? So this coming Rev Tour. If anyone who is

not feeling well that you know of, they are sick the condition, bring

them in live. We want to believe for the power of God to touch

their physical condition and heal them you. So it was five. Then he

answered them saying, which of you having a donkey or an ox that had

fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the sub day?

Know what happened to you? Who are your newly postla songliner. So

back then the ox and the donkey doesn't represent their pet, so the it

represents their working tool. Where the animals will carry their lord. Basically it

is they're working tools like so in other words, Jesus saying that if your

animals fall into the pit on the Sabbah, will you rescue your animal or

will you just leave your animal there? Wuet Hammond, So, honey juta

other words, if the animal that gives you or help you in your livelihood

is in danger on the saba, will you leave it or will you go

rescue it? So why did you so nice as serious? Harman man?

And they could not answer him regarding these things, not Hammond to put onto

it. That's amazing. When they ask Jesus question, they expect Jesus to

answer, But when Jesus asked them questions, they kept silent chees bounces him

more. This is what some critics will do. You know, they will

ask you a question. When you ask them by question, they silent bounces

him. So obviously the Pharisees and Seduced and the scribes, they are not

interested to answer Jesus because they knew the answer within them. So a big

meal down sing she's saying eating Because if they were to tell Jesus, yes,

we should go and rescue the oxen, that will mean that they contradict

what they're trying to tell Jesus. Don't heal on the sabah hacken chain fun

two years to funders. So sometimes when people are silent, there are a

high percentage of chance that they could be agreeing with you. Your bounces her

mots to the sofa. So he told a parable to those who were invited

when he noted how they chose the best places, saying to them. So

he's still there sitting on the table, having what they call it, eating

bread and all. Then he's going to tell them a parable. So it

tuns height the sound. So how much take a b when you are invited

by anyone to a wedding face, do not sit down in the best place.

Less one more honorable than you be invited by him. So it's wear

some compar paid hatching line. Why is because this pharisees. You have to

understand how they operate. They like society to esteem them highly. Don't in

with Hama the search in Bahaman? Can They want society to think that only

they are holy Hamma valie sience, only they are righteous tama is only they

are worthy right. So in verse seventy says he noted how they chose the

best places, so that three how to wait right then in verse nine,

and he who invited you and him come and say to you, give place

to this man. And then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.

But when you are invited, go sit down in the lowest place,

so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you,

friend, go up higher. Then you have glory in the presence of those

who sit at the table with you. Na, okay, say way bad

you shoo quickly the tweet a weigh s chilo. Wait wait wait some sound

and mentioned you gang tiler. So they choose the best places for themselves because

of pride. They choose the best place for themselves because they wanted attention to

ely. They choose the best place for themselves because they wanted self glory.

Like young Harmond, What did Jesus says in verse eleven, For whoever exhorts

himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. This

is so that in fans out the pigeon way pay, it's to pay the

pison way out, all right. So Jesus is encouraging us to take the

lowly place. So your suicide school Oman woman just a champa, that she's

always to be humbled Champagne. Humility. Someone says, it's not thinking of

yourself less, but it's too I can't remember the quote. Say help him,

Lord, help him. Humility is not about thinking less of your self,

but to think of yourself less. That's why you're here. Brother.

You can finish the code today, can be hearn jose So Jesus was teaching

about humility. So yes, chimpay in what job says is then he also

said to him who invited him. That means he spoke to the ruler right

of the Pharisees who invited him. He says, when you give a dinner

or a supperb do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relative nor

rich neighbors, lest they also in white you back and you be repaid.

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the name, the

lame, the blind, and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you,

for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just thirtay years.

So you're teaching hammarinsu holdful to the links kompar need you all about that pincho

on the time the Si need you your fuller in time and meals, So

about daniout eaten food hot about that? So here Jin is saying that when

you he told the ruler, obviously they are probably quite loaded. They say

that, Okay, if you have a fist, don't invite these people who

can easily repay you. When you have a fist, remember the poor,

remember those who are outcast, because you haven't understand that. The Pharisees,

they are religious teachers. So in the town so faris food to yao,

that's a pinch. So they're expected in a sense to also treat society outcasts,

treat those who may not be well off than them, and give them

a dignity by inviting them to have meals together. In the terms in junger

around tamanou so inse fifteen. Now, when one of those who sat at

the table with him hurt these things, he said to him, blessed is

he who shall eat braid in the Kingdom of God, eating two years,

it's thunder your fuller. Blessed is he who shall eat braid in the Kingdom

of God. It's thunder your fuller. So upon hearing this, Jesus then

spoke a parable, So down, timon, Tim, take a few words

back. Jesus was invited for a fast, so just a year super and

in the face he thought about humility Champagne. In the face he talked about

remembering the poor in and as a pinch, someone step up and say,

blessed is he who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God. It's fun

your fuller. So from verse sixteen onwards, Jesus gave a parable about the

Kingdom of God. Luti hi, so yes should you? He said to

him. A certain man gave a great supper and invited many you so yes

you even by wow, that's why Christians are We like to go Mecca,

fellow sheep, and all that go and Mecca. And you know ast to

apparent you go to homes your macca yourselves fan after homes your macca fan right,

yeah, following very closely, Okay, a great supper invited many verse

seventeen. And send his servant at supper time to say to those who are

invited, come, for all things are now read chin young young she bailer.

But they all, with one accord, began to make excuses. The

first sake to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I

must go and see it. I asked you to have me excused, So

twist to my lord quite deepchy, she can't continue towards. And another said,

I have bought five years of oxen and I'm going to test her.

I asked you to have me excuse you your ego, so my lord.

Still another say I've married a wife, and therefore I cannot come you ego

sochi. So so the servant came and reported these things to his master.

Then the master of the house, being angry sick to the servant, grew

out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here

the poor and the main, and the lame and the blind. So so

you don't know you aparance. Quite that's a pinch, and cheered with the

line. And the servants said, Master, it is done as you commanded,

and there is still room, no food console. Then the master said

to the servant, go out into the highways and hages and compel them to

come in that my house may be feeled. For I say to you that

none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper. So it'sing,

and I told Chinger and Mayo eager. They so when I was reading this

parable, the question I asked myself was why was the master angry? What

I years? You want a sun she So to understand what the master was

angry, you have to understand the custom or the culture back then. So

back then, whenever a fees was prepared, the person who was being invited

will have to arre SVP to say that I'm coming, thanks your nice so

timon your life. Then the fees organizer will prepare the banquet, because think

about it, it's illogical to prepare a fees and then last minute go and

invite people to come line all right, So the three individuals who say they

cannot make it, they would have confirmed to say that they're coming already.

So change in so haman. When the time of supper is already prepared,

the master then send the seven out, did you singer sushi? And the

three individuals all last minute gave their reason of why they cannot come soon,

So alwayshammedun't go lie. Perhaps we do were in the Master's shoe before usual

woman signat to run the on festivity. We wanted to cook for our friends

romans say they were becoming last minute they didn't so Hamman. Perhaps perhaps you

have organized a movie out in before the change umpire, can't you were there

right at the cinema even color showtime at eight o'clock. You were there early

to buy the ticket. Danny, you can't see party only cha is out

out your mino soil the pr at seventy you text your WhatsApp group where are

you are? Honey? Seven forty one say, oh I got last minute

group discussion. I cannot come now fifty oh my uh my pet fish need

me, I cannot come. Perhaps you have helped a friend to plan for

a birthday party before your way the n W eventun you got the mascot ready?

Did you pay? Howler? The bear was ready to pop up?

I say that in yellow in some pay holler. Then one by one suddenly

said they cannot come. No eagle harm go lie. Honestly, how would

you felt the many with guns? Is there anger and she is their disappointment.

That was what this master was feeling. So it's just a water touran

so you cannot blame the master for being angry. So she quite because costs

has been incurred. Also it may not. It's you. It's not cheap

to organize a banquet. Actually either the poor animal they were cooked for nothing,

I said, I said paid. Everything has been prepared chamber. So

one of these three excuses the indie video gave. One say I bought a

piece of ground and must go see it. Not one say I bought five

yogo of oxen, testing it and say I'm married a wife, therefore I

cannot come. So you must understand that the date of the suburb was already

decided nine eighteen eating eating. How So when the servant comes up to them,

Hey, the supper is ready come, they are expected to come because

in the first invitation they say yes, I will come fighting. So the

question is, couldn't they do some early planning change into how to pay?

Couldn't they postpone the visitation to the new piece of ground as though the ground

will you know, have legs and walk away after the suburbs the five york

of oxen? Does that mean that the ox will also run away? And

the next day they couldn't test the yolk on them? Timon your taman maintain

a no to the one who is married to the wife, Do you mean

next day when you go back, your wife is not there. She put

me without understand Sometimes when you read the scripture, how at times ridiculous the

excuse can be. So so hold on, can't down? I see the

don't want to und me because you look at how the Master respond The Master

didn't postpone the banquet, or poor you, I understand, let me postpone

the banquet. You can learn much cheese? Are you inkling? Or?

Because we must understand that there is a time and a place for the above

commitments. So it could be worked, it could be family. There's a

time and place for it, but not when it conflicts with the commitment made

first to the Master. And I mean biotic make make eating your things,

eg searching following me so far still in the Master's shoe, feeling the Master.

That's the cancer. So there's a time for everything, So fan thing.

It was a time to feaes with the Master, but they chose to

miss it that hamentation like you, excuses can cause us a time to miss

our timing with God when it comes to salvation and breakthrough. Woman and she

she listens, okay, women the too for high woman the tuts Chapter three

words one out to everything. There is a season, a time for every

purpose under heaven. Fans think she tanged things as well. One two,

where exactly siastics is after the Book of Proverbs. So in verse two it

says, it's a time to be born and a time to die, a

time to plant and a time to pluck what is planted. Tight on your

battles, tides on your s a time to kill and a time to heal.

A time to break down and a time to build up. A time

to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time

to dance. Time to cast away stones and the time to get stones.

A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to

gain and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to

throw away, a time to fear and sorry, a time to tear and

a time to sow, a time to keep silence and the time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war

and a time of peace. Samuels who tell your power is your high power

er loyalsos from sylos see I, so there is a time for everything,

So I answer you didn't she so obviously in this context it was a time

to come to the face down. So just you know, just a woman

maker, and come and sit at the Master's table to enjoy the celebration.

Just eat hunting the suitan, come and honor the master. Un Come because

the Master have invited you by grace in way in in the earning, and

she youting me. So questions ought to be asked of why did they behave

in the way they behave towards them? Hi, you say you're coming last

minute? You give excuse and you don't want to come. It's only your

life. Very bluntly, I'll tell you this. They don't value the Master.

Okay, Company to mail can have no y D because if they were

to value the Master, they will not give flimsy excuses like this in a

record Hammon, who have a boy? Who or the eager? Next time

your friends don't turn up one time, two times? Okay? You give

chance. If regularly they are like that, you got to re evaluate your

friendship with your friends. So you say it's sooner, it's doesn't like that

doesn't look good. She fasten and does to the honey. And ought to

be asked whether do they really value you as a person, just just have

a cyphl kant, because if there's no value, there's no friendship to be

picking. I'm not knocking down my friends. I'm not knocking down your friends.

I'm just telling you this is the fact of life at need innocent,

and I pray that we will not be that kind of friend where we say

we will turn, but we didn't as new the boys chance. I want

people in extras to be honoring to one another. Well, I shall wear

the eger and those pieces to wrong, because when you honor one another,

you are also honoring God pieced on? Is that too long? Serten?

So why did they behave such fin and one? They don't value the Master,

they don't honor the Master, they have no commitment towards the Master.

So whish someone I said, okay, Chanson just saying we have a putto

wrong. Put No. When you readpairables like this, often it's easy to

say that this parable is ment for my neighbor. The moment I told the

okay to the pieces, what the lynch desparable must be for someone else?

The beat it's okay, beer, and surely it's not for me. When

you feel that the parable is surely not for you. Chances are it's what

you like you She is a current bid. You tell your front this parable

is for me, okay, because it reminds me and I a man of

my own words. So not teasing waters. It's just so so the major.

It's a man of my own commitments to do what I'm supposed to do.

Ways she so life. We too sometimes have feiled in our commitments.

You test, yes, do you Omans? It's always a surpy you know.

I always believe that God uses the church to hold all earth accountable for

our own faith. That's why when your homes leader call you, your campus

rip called you, they want you to participate in this community of life.

So you're done to the targeting. Chinese only mean because we value you,

we want you to grow in our faith. Down Za turns up. So

I think honoring one another is very important. So soundthing peace. We say

that we honor God, we have to translate that into how we honor the

leaders around us, how we honor each other, how we honor the House

of God. Sermon to pish up our cancers, piece to piece to piece.

I haven't run ministry for very long except for thirteen years. I will.

Honestly, it's not very long. But I've seen enough of two different

extreme because okay, and put on the extreme of people who really honored the

church and honor one another, an extreme of people who dishonor the church and

dishonor one another. Just she just in last year and uh what do they

call that? Last year? It's the Sunday home And you remember we went

to the Sharlam Convention Center. Tongue praise a lot from Nelai. We had

three buses I think, or two, I can't remember. Three. We

had three buses faring our students to Sham downs is our heart is like the

Master's women and singer and sena young The Master wants his banquet to be filled

man whenever there's opportunity, we also want our buses to be filled. Say

tm me, so you you're telling the son So they're still campus students,

So you sas last minute, say can we come? No? Who are

you? Tama johann links a woman. The heart of the bust is if

you want to come, although we have confirmed everything, because you want to

come, no matter how inconvenient, inconvenience us, we will make a way

for you. To come down. You will see to Umpire create like minor

this this students they have a track record of saying they want to come,

then they don't come because the chason tamon juice your ega change missus soil like

out to your Domeo life. So we believe in giving people second chances because

it sound sing ron does the Lord also give a second chance, isn't it?

So we make arrangements for them to come, said Umpire right hammand that

Sunday, five something in the morning, no dyeing, she daughters a whole

texted one of our leaders. Oh so sorry, we couldn't come. We

just came back from Ko. No had you go? Don't? Had you

comes from Ko? Her life? How would you feel like all the way

make an adjustment, just like uh and all and people tell you now they

cannot come. There was someone it so just m links to the balming.

I'll tell you how I felt answer through her being angry. It's not a

scene, you know the sheep. How you react out of anger, determine

whether it is not. Because so I feel my pastoral heart is clicking.

And I honestly tell this individual, I say that you need to polish your

attitude, So how would you the title don't ever take the Church of God

for granted? And I say, if you continue to do this, you

can never be successful in life. Down, isn't I don't know? Tell

these two people Chicken and so and my leaders will know me well enough that

when I say thing, I will think hundred times before I say it.

And I wanted to be sure that God wants me to say it so that

wards is changing. So the what are you? So? Obviously this particularly

individual was offended with what I have to share, so it's done another amount

of funder But I'm saying this in the most polite manner that I honestly don't

care because okay, have the funding to rule her, because I've done my

part. It's up to the individual. Where the individual will received that correction

and learning or the time you can't rule her? She had one. When

I read this parable again, I began to realize the danger when we re

checked God's invitation so long or that woman and the yo tea. These three

individuals never made it to this banquet take a saner and it also brought a

realizing to me. Why is it that they are at times we give more

honor to our studies. We give more honor to our work, but we

don't give enough honor to God through his church. And that's the right too

long. So something for you to reflect on as wh you finds, something

for me to reflect on who she finds. So we know that the invitation

by the Master was by grace, Yauching, So they didn't work enough.

They didn't in a sense they have to earn the Master's invitation. Tamachi and

Yauching. You know, sometimes you don't have to earn your friends approval for

you to join them. Those only and it offered to you that it's given,

it's by grace. So concern is sol somebody yus in the those lights.

You earned it. And the supperb basically is a prophetic picture of what

is to come. Take a one fan je fastness in the later part of

the gospel, before Jesus was eventually betrayed by Judas and enter into death,

enter into that face where he was betrayed, He was questioned, he was

portured and crucified. He had he initiated the Last Supper with his disciples,

right, So he's so have you obey my assertion? Had you can handle

hawd you can had a man to your ego. One fantasy. So married

twenty six was twenty nine, it says, But I say to you,

I will not drink of this fruit of the wine from now on until that

day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom. That might

have, but I heard the putt I fool the gordy tony man hursting the

na So the a banquet awaiting the disciples. Woman. If you're a Christian

today, there is a banquet awaiting for you. If you're not a Christian

today, that invitation to that banquet is also available for you. This is

an Indian You're gonna push you to the hana yauchi? What is this Banqueta?

In Revelation nineteen, verse six to ninety says, and I heard,

as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of

many waters, and as the sound of mighty thundering, saying alle lujah for

the Lord God omnipotent rings. Let us be glad and rejoice and give him

glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has

made herself ready. Let's pause there. The lamb represents Jesus. Why because

ge is the Lamb of God that have took on our sacrifice and crucified for

our sin. And who is the who is his wife? Which is the

church the bride. So it's that saying, hallelujah, English Womanicine sing for

you pay the answers to the years. So sing and to her it was

granted to be a rape in fine linen, clean and bright, for the

fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me,

right, blessed adults who are called to the marriage subburb of the lamb.

And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God.

By who, So singer eating San Fan Beijing Foy answer, and you're fuller.

You do a sentence to the So it's a beautiful picture that in future

this supper is going to take place. Song lighters, so are you tonguing

those who know the Lamb will be invited and saying, and it's our prayer

that all of us should be invited and should be there. So it's just

om mak omens. In other words, as Christians, we must stay committed

to the invitation less we disqualify ourselves from this supper, So it's normal.

Since it's it's so pay youching the woman, so pay. The three individuals

disqualified themselves from the banquet, so it's a sunker and Taman city. There

is a difference between professing yourself to be a Christian and staying true to what

you believe in. So it turns the three individuals say, I know the

master let me in, but the mast says, really gave a command.

None of these men who were invited shall taste my supper sala so yo.

So we have to understand that as Christians, we must continue to live alive

that is worthy, as I think theres have mentioned worthy to walk in accordance

to our calling. So mag things and the eager in she igho not just

how you talk as a Christian, but how you walk as a Christian.

So we put something so you needed singing and the towns only do hurt like

you think so, and we must understand that the mast symbolizes God, who

is gracious and generous towards his people. Certainly it's you woman the remainders.

God is a loving god slighter, but we still need to make that decision

whether we want to love him or not because eyed. We still need to

make that decision whether we want to honor him or not. We still need

to make a decision whether we would submit our life and yield to his lordship.

To Peter three nine says, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise

as sound come slightness. But it's long suffering towards us, not willing that

any should perish, but all should come to repentance some way. Turn.

It's a quar only so as the Master loves a full house. God also

desired that his banquet be full with people, so one married. And the

way to this banquet is true repentance by repenting of our sin, acknowlinging Jesus

as our Lord and savior. So rugo. You can also look at this

parable as a parable that represented how the Jews rejected Jesus and how God has

turned it as an opportunity to show to the Jews that salvation belongs to everyone

as long as they confess Jesus is Christ, whether you are Jew or you're

a non Jew. So yes, tyrannized like she ran, and see you

tyrants as to soil. So when you go back, you can read Acts

Chapter ten and Act chapter eleven, how Cornelius, being a non Jew,

was saved into the Kingdom of godlergot it's a very powerful story. How back

then the Jews thought that Jesus only died for the Jews, and that they

didn't believe Jesus died for the Jews but for those who believe in Jesus.

They thought that salvation only belongs to the Jews. Sold I say the sounding

years for years, so that you tyrant. And eventually, when Cornelius,

believe in the Lord, was baptized with the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

he spoke in tongues. Then the Jews realized that, wow, God has

also poured out his spirit on the non Jews, so it turns sounds in

see, so you turn't contenus, you fat it also united to earn Tarmond,

go back, you can reach Romans eleven, how we were like a

wild olllive being crafted into that branch of olive tree. True, it's only

it's okay. The kalan ran to type the woman the scene is sing young

Romans eleven, We're gonna read very quickly Versus seventeen. And if some of

the branches were broken off, meaning this is referring to the jusia, and

you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and

with them became a particle of the root and the fatness of the olive tree.

Do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember

that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Royal

chickens sha jes. Don't the faith need to book her sown? The quacko

quacko downsdown towards you will say that branches were broken off thirty that I might

be grafted in well said, because of unbelief they were broken off, and

you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear timon in pussing

shall in seeing so some people don't enter into the Kingdom of God because of

unbelief pussin twenty one. For if God did not spare the natural branches,

he may not spare you either. Let's remember that God is also just just

God. There is also a judgment in God. I see united people.

Icy need therefore consider the goodness and severity of God on those who fell severity,

but towards you goodness catch this if you continue in His goodness, otherwise

you will be cut off connswer had You can read Romans eleven again. It's

about how the Jews rejected Jesus and how we the Gentiles, are crafted in

into the same tree, the same root, try and rule her. And

we shouldn't both that the Jews are rejected, therefore we are accepted. In

engay U Tarrant Quark is also very fat as he will judge the Jews.

He will also judge panasanism, Panu Tyrani suitism panelment. You're listening to a

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