The parable gives us the imagery of heaven being like a great banquet. Note the insincere excuses from some who were bidden to come.

At the heart of Israel's sins in this text, was pride. Pride is abhorrent to God, since it is a self-exalting sin.

God swore an oath to Abraham and to us, the heirs of promise, that Christ, the promised seed would come, and then God swore an oath in Psalm 110:4, which is the Psalm of the Priest-King, that the Lord Jesus would be a great high priest forever, but not after the order of Levi, but after the order of Melchizedek.

We believe incarnation theology. Jesus did not set aside His deity, but He did set aside His glory to take upon Himself flesh in the form of a servant. The God of glory set aside His glory. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

Do you know "the time," that it is high time for you to awake out of your spiritual slumber, for now is your salvation nearer than when you believed.

The Christ child was conceived in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit. This was the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15, and of the Promised Seed of the woman Who came into the world, and Who, as Man would crush the serpents' head.

This wonderful debt of love is given to each of us as children of Christ. If you are a recipient of the love of Christ, you are obligated to love as Christ loved. Don't let it be that when you ought to love that you don't love. Don't let the thought "I have no love to give" be in any of you!

Prayer is not a fleshly attempt to call upon the Lord, but it is a moving of God's Spirit within us to pray. This prayer teaches us to draw near to God as our Father in heaven. Thus we, as God's children ought to pray always!

The writer of Hebrews points Hebrew believers to Abraham who patiently endured in faith in God. He staggered not in his faith in God's promises, even in the midst of circumstances that might have tempted him to distrust God.