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Scott Ryll
Matt.
22:1-14
Behold the Lamb of God!
Pentecost 21
 
*Prologue:  The Set Up*
On the surface today’s parable is hard to relate to.
It’s full of two kinds of hard sayings.
Hard sayings that chill us to the bone.
Hard sayings that overwhelm us with joy.
This is a parable about judgment.
The judgment of reluctant servants.
Today we will be judged by the Word of God.
Will we be found wanting?
Come, let’s compare ourselves to these reluctant servants and see how we compare.
*            Act One: Reluctant Ears.*
*            Scene 1:  Jerusalem in Jesus’ time:*
Tension.
Nothing but tension.
I am so tired of the tension.
I am so tired of this Jesus of Nazareth.
Every day He stands accusing us.
Everywhere He goes, the marketplace, the streets—even the temple.
He never stops accusing us.
He keeps telling us that we’re missing the point.
That our traditions are standing in the way.
He keeps telling us that He is the way.
He says that we are white washed tombs.
That our hearts are far from God.  I’m a Pharisee, all I do all long is give me heart to God!
            Outrageous!
You know what I heard Him say, just this morning.
With my own two ears.
He said that the kingdom of God was going to be given to the bums on the street.
The gentiles, the Romans.
That Israel was not worthy of His invitation.
Invitation to what?
What could He be inviting us to that the Prophets haven’t already invited us to?
Isn’t that just what our traditions preserve?
Who does He think He is?!?
*            Scene 2:  Rural Lutheran Church, Nebraska—modern day.*
I don’t like it.
I just don’t like the implications.
Pastor has been stuck on the “Go ye therefore into all the world” theme for too long now.
As if Pentecost wasn’t long enough and boring enough.
Does he have to drag it out this long?
Sunday after Sunday.
I’m tired of this topic.
Why’s it so important anyway?
Rural Church has always been open to the community.
We’ve never shut people out.
Our doors have always been open to whomever walks through them.
We’re open!
At first I thought he was just calling us to vigilance again.
Good thing too.
The greeters have been remise lately.
The youth program has seemed unimaginative.
That’s why we brought in a DCE.
On the other hand, stewardship is good.
We support two volunteer missionaries and one career missionary.
We send food to the local food bank.
What more does he want from us?  From me!
Why won’t he let this topic go?
We are doing everything we’ve always done.
Shoot, we’re doing it better since he’s come.
I just don’t get it!
*            Act Two:  Reluctant Attendance*
*            Scene 1:  The King’s wedding*
            I was just standing there.
I, like everyone in the room, had been pulled off the streets to go to the king’s wedding.
None of us had been invited.
We thought that we were too low for this event.
We, the common people.
Everyday people.
Why would He invite us to His Son’s wedding feast?
But there I was!  Joy of joy, to celebrate with the king, to see him face to face.
Too much for the likes of me.
I was overwhelmed.
The king entered and I went from joy to horror.
The king stopped right next to me.
He talked to the guy standing to my left.
He asked him how he got in there with just his street clothes?
His street clothes!
We were all in street clothes.
Like I said we just came from the street, what else would we be dressed in?
The guards bound him up and cast him down into the deepest darkest dungeon.
Into the dungeon on the king’s orders.
No hope of parole, in the deepest darkest dungeon for all of his days.
*Scene 2:  Judgment Day.*
He came back!
We knew He would.
He always said He would.
Now He’s here.
Just like it said.
Now we’re all lined up before Him.
Now He is walking from person to person.
Separating them.
Judging them.
How many times now have I heard them plead “Lord, Lord, but I knew you.”
And then how many times has He responded:
 “where were you when I was hungry?—well my church had its food closet.
“where were when I was naked?—but
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