The Parable Of The Wedding Feast: A Marriage Invite For You

So I went to the word, here are two places where the garments of the wedding are talked about one from Revelation, “Revelation 19:7-8

Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.” It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”

That’s surprising because we would expect it to say “the fine linen is the righteousness of Christ, but instead it says the righteous acts of the saints. Jesus is always messing with out perfect picture of what our theology is. So be it.

But then jump to the old testament, Isaiah 61:10, “I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”

So you’ve got people who were invited, and they came. That must be Christians. All are invited, non Christians refuse to come, Christians have come. But for some reason, this person, and indeed it says many, will not be properly clothed when Christ returns, maybe they fell asleep, like the parable we looked at two weeks ago, the 10 virgins, the 5 who were unwise, didn’t store up oil, and they weren’t able to enter in.

And the same thing happens here, these people without wedding garments, it says will be thrown out into darkness, where it says there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. That is of course talking about, hell, outer darkness.

So in conclusion today, we want to make sure we’re ready, with our proper attire, which is Jesus Christ, and the righteous acts of the saints, which show evidence of who we are in Christ.