6. I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and ned cattle have been butchered and rything is ready. Come to th wedding banquet!

7. the invitation Rejected

8. “Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and therefore it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to him.”

9. the invitation Rejected the Punishment of rejecters

10. “Citizens of hell long to die, but cannot. Beg for water, but receive none. They pass into a dawn-less night.”

11. “One minute after you slip behind the parted curtain, you will be either enjoying a personal welcome from Christ or catching your first glimpse of gloom as you have never known it. Either way, your future will be irrevocably fixed and eternally unchangeable.”

12. the invitation Rejected the Punishment of rejecters the invitation extended to New Guests

13. “…but, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles…”

14. “Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.”

15. the invitation Rejected the Punishment of rejecters the invitation extended to New Guests the wedding crasher Expelled

16. “I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness,

17. …as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”

18. “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

19. the invitation Rejected the Punishment of rejecters the invitation extended to New Guests the wedding crasher Expelled the invitation Accepted

20. The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

21. The King has Invited you to the Wedding Feast of His Son…

22. How have you Responded to the invitation?