Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast, and we are working on

this parable in Matthew 22 about this wedding banquet where this king invites everybody

to the banquet, and a bunch of people don't really want to come when the time comes to

go to the banquet, and then he sends messengers to be like, no, seriously, come, it's going

to be really good.

And they're like, hmm, how about we kill your messenger, and he's really mad about that

understandably.

And so it goes and he burns their cities and he comes back and tells the service, like,

just go get whoever from street corners or whatever, like, we're going to have a party,

this is happening.

And they're like, okay, and they go get people good and bad, and they bring them in, and

then instead of it being over and just being this nice story where poor people and social

outsiders get to go to the fancy meal that was meant for the fancy people, and said there's

weird little addendum at the end where somebody is in there who shouldn't be in there, or

somebody didn't really want to be a part of the thing after all, maybe there's one of

the food.

I don't know, and he gets thrown out of the party.

So that's the part that we're unpacking right now, Matthew 22, one through 14, is what

we're working on.

I'm going to Jeff play a little bit of music, and then we'll get cracking on it again.

I suppose another way to read this challenging little tidbit at the end of this already challenging

parable would be to say that it's like the parable of the sower.

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