Parable of the Great Banquet - Jesus and the Awkward Dinner Party

Luke 14:15-24 (NIV)

The

Group: People that were expected to be invited to the party
•

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,

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,

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The

Group: People that

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have been invited to the party but

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.
• The poor, crippled, lame and blind - the most

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in their society.

Instead of calling them parties, let’s call them

.

The

Group: People we are

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to invite into our community.

The

Group: People we

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invite into our community.

How do we do expand our communities as Jesus commanded?

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   : Who are the people “at-risk” around us?
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   for these at-risk groups
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   others into our communities.
   • If our whole community looks like us, we are missing out on the
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   God could create.

The Spiritual Banquet

those who

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to God’s invitation are welcome to the party.

What did the religious crowd get wrong?

1. They all had
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   why they couldn’t meet God at his celebration.
2. We cannot use our
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   as
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   .
3. Our
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   with God and
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   in his kingdom must come first.

What did everybody else get right?

• They valued God enough to

his invitation over

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.

Parable 1 Do good.

others. No one should be left out of our communities.
Parable 2 …but

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comes first.

Love God. Love people.