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1 | Who is the man in this verse? | Matt 22:11 | rbt56 | 29135 | ||
Doesn't this contradict the guarantee of salvation? How did this man end up at the party in the first place, especially if this is a reference to heaven? | ||||||
2 | Who is the man in this verse? | Matt 22:11 | kalos | 29191 | ||
Matthew 22:11 "*a wedding garment.* All without exception were invited to the banquet, so this man is not to be viewed as a common party-crasher. In fact, all the guests were rounded up hastily from 'the highways' and therefore none could be expected to come with proper attire. That means the wedding garments were supplied by the king himself. So this man's lack of a proper garment indicates he had purposely rejected the king's own gracious provision. His affront to the king was actually a greater insult than those who refused to come at all, because he committed his impertinence in the very presence of the king. "The imagery seems to represent those who identify with the kingdom externally, profess to be Christians, belong to the church in a visible sense -- yet spurn the garment of righteousness Christ offers by seeking to establish a righteousness of their own. Ashamed to admit their own spiritual poverty, they refuse the better garment the King graciously offers -- and thus they are guilty of a horrible sin against His goodness" (MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997)" |
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3 | Who is the man in this verse? | Matt 22:11 | rbt56 | 29262 | ||
Thank you all for your wonderful inputs. Now I ask for your prayers as I wrestle at this stage in my life, if I am in fact saved ... or what have I been thinking since 1972? | ||||||
4 | Who is the man in this verse? | Matt 22:11 | Reformer Joe | 29271 | ||
Of course, I don't know you personally, but that is a very important question to ask. First of all, are you trusting in your own garments of unrighteousness, or are you clothed of those of Christ? Salvation cannot be earned, because we are absolutely incapable in our sinful natures to fulfill the law of God to the extent that God requires from the motives that God requires. Only Christ did that, and by way of his sinless life and his death on the Cross, he offers an "echange of clothes," if you will, to all those who will trust in His works to get them to the feast (Heaven). We are Christians in the Biblical sense (the only sense that matters) by God's grace alone through faith alone in the work and person of Christ alone. That is clearly revealed in Scripture, and those trying to attain salvation by mere outward participation in those activities of the church will be seen for what they are by the King. Our works and our participation in the visible church and its rituals is not the root of our membership of the body of Christ. It is the outward expression and manifestation of the inward change that has been wrought in us by God and comes to us through faith in Christ (John 3:21). I do not know where you stand on these issues,but rest assured that if you are trusting in Christ's sinlessness and His death in your place to gain you admittance into Heaven, then you will be welcomed. If you are trusting in yourself in any way, or your membership in any denomination or church, as the reason you will be in Heaven, then you will be standing before Jesus telling you that he never knew you. I myself have the blessed hope of glory because of what Christ has done for me. God continues to work in and through me (Philippians 2:13), so that I hate the sin that I continue to do, and grow in knowledge and in righteousness, and bear fruit that is in keeping with the new nature God has given me. All of those things are evidence that the spiritual truths I find in Scripture regarding God's people apply to me personally, and all of this is due to the mercy and grace of God. Hope you find in examining yourself that God has truly made you into a new creation. If not, cast off the garments of your own unrighteousness and put on those that are offered via trust in Christ's person and accomplishments (his sinless life, death, and resurrection for the sake of all those who believe). --Joe! |
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