Everyone loves a good story and a good storyteller.

But there is no storyteller like the Lord Jesus,

and there are no greater stories told than the ones Jesus shared.

In this study, spiritual stories, we consider the parables Jesus told and their

application to us. These are truly the greatest stories ever told, and the Lord has something

he wants to say to you through them. Let's join Scott Pauley now.

When people go to a wedding, tremendous preparation is made.

Now, certainly that is the case if you're the one getting married.

But if you've noticed, when people go to a wedding ceremony, as a general rule, people dress up.

They put on their finest.

They prepare themselves.

They're not in the ceremony, but they're attending something so wonderful that they want to be at their best.

Jesus told a story in Matthew chapter number 22 about a wedding that is being planned and a marriage feast that is being prepared and a group of people who were not prepared. I wonder, are you prepared

today? This is the parable commonly referred to as the wedding garment. Let's read just a little beginning in Matthew 22

verse number one. And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said,

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son and sent forth

his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come.

Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, tell them which are bidden.

Behold, I've prepared my dinner, my oxen, and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready.

Come into the marriage, but they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another

to his merchandise another to his

merchandise and the remnant took his servants and treated them spitefully

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