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Hello, Christchurch.
My name is Karp.
I am on the AV and CC Kids teams.
Today's reading is from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 14, verses 7 through 24, as printed in your liturgy.
When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable.
When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor.
For a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.
If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, give this person your seat.
Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.
But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you,
friend, move up to a better place.
Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.
For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Then Jesus said to his host, when you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors.
If you do, they may invite you back, and so you will be repaid.
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed.
Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus,
blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.
Jesus replied,
A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.
At the time of the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited,
Come, for everything is now ready.
But they all, like, began to make excuses.
The first said,
I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it.
Please excuse me.
Another said,
I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out.
Please excuse me.
Still another said,
I just got married, so I can't come.
The servant came back and reported this to his master.
Then the owner of the house became angry,
and ordered a servant,
Go out, quickly, into the streets and alleys of the town,
and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.
Sir, the servant said,
What you ordered has been done,
but there is still room.
Then the master told his servant,
Go out into the roads and country lanes
and compel them to come in,
so that my house will be full.
I tell you,
not one of those who were invited
will get a taste of my banquet.
This is the gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Good morning, Christ Church.
It's March Madness,
and there's basketball on today,
so we've got to just get through this,
because Duke and Baylor are playing at 1140.
So, we are jumping back into the gospel of Luke,
and we're here in Luke 14,
Jesus' amazing parable of the great banquet,
the great feast.
And we didn't print verse 1,
which tells us where this is taking place.
It's taking place at a Sabbath feast,
and it's taking place in the home of a Pharisee
who was a teacher and a leader of Israel.
And at that table,
and with these other guests,
and around this feast,
Jesus tells some simple stories
that on the surface also seem to be
just about your common, ordinary, everyday feasts,
and hosts, and guests,
and invitations,
and last-minute cancellations,
and lame excuses,
and unlikely invitations to guests
who end up seeming completely unworthy to be there.
And one of the things we need to know
as we get into this
is that Jews in the first century,
they shared a biblical vision,
they shared a biblical conviction
about a coming feast in the future.
You've kind of already heard about this.
We've sung about this today.
This messianic banquet,
this banquet of the Messiah
that would come in the fullness of time.
And that's what Jesus is referring to there
in verse 14
when he talks about this feast
that's coming at the resurrection of the righteous.
And that lights off the table guests
in verse 15 to say,
yes, blessed is the one
who will feast
and eat at the feast
in the kingdom of God.
So Jewish people in the first centuries,
they read their Bibles,
they shared this belief and this hope
in a future when God would put the world to rights,
and he would do away with all sin
and suffering and death.
And he would make all things in his creation new.
And when he did that,
God would spread a table
and he would invite everyone to the feast,
not just Jews,
but Gentiles as well.
That part of the story
tends to be forgotten quite a lot.
But if you want to pull out your pew Bibles,
I encourage you to turn
in your pew Bibles
to page 573.
Page 573,
you'll find this classic text
from the prophet Isaiah.
Page 573,
Isaiah chapter 25,
starting in verse 6.
It speaks of this feast
and the prophet says this,
or God through his prophet says this,
On this mountain,
the Lord Almighty will prepare
a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine,
the best of meats,
and the finest of wines.
Now in Hebrew poetry,
that sounds kind of like this,
a feast of filet
and a banquet of cabernet.
Filet mignon,
cabernet sauvignon.
It's beautiful poetry.
And it goes on,
it says,
on this mountain
he will destroy the shroud
that unfolds all peoples.
He will swallow up death forever.
The sovereign Lord
will wipe away
all the tears
from all the faces
and he will remove
his people's disgrace
from all the earth.
And down in verse 9,
it says,
let us rejoice
and be glad
in this great salvation.
And Jesus,
in Luke chapter 13,
right before the text
we just heard,
he says this in Luke 13,
he says,
Abraham,
Isaac,
and Jacob,
and all the prophets
and people
coming from the east
and the west
and the north
and the south,
they will all take
their places
at the feast
in the kingdom of God.
So there's this kingdom feast
where all hunger
and tears
and shame
are going to be gone.
And this table guest
in verse 15,
he's pretty certain.
You know,
he says,
blessed are those
who eat at the feast
of the kingdom of God.
He's pretty certain
about his future.
He's super confident
that he
and all the people
around this table
with Jesus
are going to be
at that ultimate feast
in the kingdom of God.
And Jesus says,
okay,
well,
since you brought it up,
let's talk about that.
You know,
let's talk about
who's going to be
at this ultimate feast,
this ultimate party
and table
of salvation
in the kingdom of God.
And so Jesus tells
this story
about a host
who gives a banquet
with some unexpected twists
and surprising turns.
And what Jesus is telling us,
I think,
is this,
that we need to rearrange
our priorities
around this feast,
that we need to invite
unlikely guests
to the feast,
and that we need to take
the lowest place
at the feast.
Okay,
three things.
I'm going in reverse order
of Jesus,
but that may not be wise,
but here we go.
Arrange your priorities
around the feast,
invite unlikely guests
to the feast,
and take the lowest place
at the feast.
First of all,
arrange your priorities
around the feast.
Verse 16,
Jesus replied,
he said,
a certain man was preparing
a great banquet
and invited many guests.
So who's the host
in Jesus' story?
The host is God.
And why does he invite
so many guests?
Well,
it says in verse 23,
this host,
he says,
I want my house
to be full.
He's a wealthy
and a generous host,
and he has a good
and a gracious heart,
and he wants to include
as many people
as he can possibly
squeeze in.
He likes having
a crowded
and a noisy
and a full house.
And so it says
in verse 17,
at the time of the banquet
he sent his servant
to tell those
who had been invited,
come,
for everything
is now ready.
There's this interesting
double invitation.
The first invitation is,
hey,
we're having a party
next Saturday night,
so get ready.
And everybody says,
yeah,
great,
we will be there.
And then the second invitation
goes out on the day of,
and it says,
hey,
the party is ready,
the fattened calf
has been barbecued,
and it's going to be served
at 6 p.m.,
and your good
and gracious host
is waiting for you
to come.
So this first invitation
is about the great feast,
the great banquet
that's coming,
and the second invitation
is about the great feast
that's here,
it's arrived,
it's ready.
And what Jesus is saying
is that God's feast,
it's no longer out there
in the future.
God's feast is right here,
right now.
Jesus is surely talking
about himself
and his own arrival
on the scene,
that God's son
has stepped out of eternity
and into time.
God's Messiah
has come from heaven
to earth,
and that means
that God's messianic banquet
is no longer coming
in the future.
He says,
come for all is now ready.
And God invites
a bunch of people.
He's seeking to gather in
as many people
as are willing,
but they don't come.
They refuse to show up.
And this is the totally tragic
and disastrous turn
of events in this story.
Not only do these invited guests
miss out on this amazing feast,
but even worse,
this good and gracious host
is rudely insulted
and humiliated, right?
And who are these guests?
Who are the guests
that don't show up?
Well, it says in verse 18,
but they all alike
begin to make excuses.
The first said,
I have just bought a field
and I must go and see it.
Please excuse me.
Another said,
I just bought five yoke of oxen.
I'm on my way to try them out.
Please excuse me.
Still another said,
I just got married,
so I just can't come.
Each person in Jesus' story
is a successful achiever, right?
They all have enough money
to at least buy property.
The other has enough money
to drive a tin ox-powered vehicle.
Very fancy.
At least one of them,
one of these strivers
is established enough
to attract a spouse
and to become newly married.
All of them are affluent enough
and comfortable enough
to think to themselves
what they do not say out loud,
which is,
you know,
I'm not really sure
I need the host
and I need his feast.
And just to be clear,
like none of these people
are anti-host
and anti-feast, right?
They're all glad
that the host is there.
They appreciate what he does
for their community.
They receive his invitation.
They indicate every intention
of being present at his party.
And they seem positively disposed
to come to the feast.
Just like this guy in verse 15
who says,
blessed are all who eat bread
at the feast in the kingdom of God.
They hope to be there.
They desire to be there.
But Jesus says,
none of them are found at the feast.
Many who seem interested
just simply won't be there.
Why is that?
What Jesus says,
verse 18,
they all began to make excuses.
And anyone in the ancient Near East
that's hearing these excuses
would know that these excuses
are lame and they are ludicrous.
Right?
What are the priorities
that are higher than the host
and higher than the feast?
Well, this first guy,
he bought a field.
And of course,
there's nothing wrong
with buying property.
But why does he need
to go see this property
if he's already bought it?
And why does he need
to go right now
at dinnertime,
at night,
in the dark?
Right?
He's allowed a small piece
of this world
to get into his soul
and to capture his attention
and divide his heart
and to become more important to him
than the host and the feast.
And this field,
it may be a valuable field,
but it's just a field
and it's causing him
to miss out on the greatest feast
of his life.
Same with the second guy.
There's nothing wrong
with buying oxen
and going out
and getting the things
that you need
to do your work.
There's nothing wrong
with work,
but he basically says
to the host,
these beasts of burden,
my work,
all the things that I hope
to accomplish in my life,
all of them are more important
to me than my relationship
with you.
And the third guy,
the third guy's newly married
and of course marriage
is one of God's greatest gifts.
Amen?
That was a little weak.
But this third guy,
you know,
why can't he bring his wife
to the feast?
What's up with this guy?
At least the first guy
and the second guy say,
please excuse me,
but the third guy,
he doesn't ask to be excused,
he just says,
I can't come,
no apologies.
These are to allow your host
to go through
all the expense
and all the preparations
and yet to leave him hanging
with no one to partake of the food
is to cause him
to be rudely snubbed
and humiliated
and ignored
and insulted.
And what is Jesus
trying to communicate
with us
about these lame excuses?
Jesus is saying,
you know,
it's one thing to say
that we believe in God,
but it's another thing
to act on it.
Right?
It doesn't matter so much
what we say about God,
it matters what we do
in our relationship
with God.
All three of these people,
they believe in the host,
they desire to be at the feast,
they accept the invitation,
but in the day-to-day life,
how do they
and how do we
rank this feast
in our actual life,
our actual priorities,
our actual commitments?
Does Christ
and his gospel invitation
to the messianic feast
claim first place
in our lives?
Have we placed everything else,
our fields,
our possessions,
our houses,
our oxen,
our work,
our bank accounts,
our spouses,
and our kids,
and our family life,
have we placed all these things
in a subordinate position?
Does the kingdom of God
take precedence
over everything else,
and have we given it
our exclusive loyalty,
and our wholehearted devotion,
or are we allowing
good things
but lesser things?
Good things
but temporary things
to cause us
to miss out
on the greatest
and most important thing
that could possibly
happen to us,
this feast that has come
and is coming
in Jesus Christ.
You see,
they were all guilty
of accepting God's invitation
conditionally,
the condition being
that the feast
should fit in with
and suit their convenience.
They were honored
to be invited,
they had,
and had nothing else
intervened,
they would have been present
as long as it involved
no sacrifice
on their part.
All would have been well.
They would appear
when it suited them,
if nothing else was present,
and if they felt like it,
but other things
were pressing,
and other things
did intervene
and they didn't feel like it
and more immediate
interests busied them.
And they found
that feast
to be inconvenient
because they placed
their convenience
before everything else.
And the people
who made these excuses,
they imagined
that future opportunities
would come
and that all would be well,
but what does Jesus say
in verse 21?
In verse 24,
the servant came back
and reported this
to his master
and then the owner
of the house became angry.
In verse 24,
I tell you,
not one of those
who are invited
will get a taste
of my banquet.
And I so wish
I could soften
those words for you,
but I don't presume
to do that.
Jesus is saying,
you've got to arrange
your priorities,
you've got to arrange
your entire life
around this feast.
That's point number one.
Point number two,
not only arrange
your priorities
around the feast,
but you've got to
invite unlikely guests
to the feast.
Invite unlikely guests
to the feast.
Just before Jesus
tells this story,
what does he say
to his host
in verse 12?
He says this,
Jesus said to his host,
when you give a lunch
and a dinner,
do not invite your friends
or your brothers
and sisters,
your relatives
or your rich neighbors.
If you do,
they may invite you back
and so you will be repaid.
But when you give a banquet,
invite the poor,
the crippled,
the lame,
the blind,
and you will be blessed.
Although they cannot repay you,
you will be repaid
at the resurrection
of the righteous.
What's the difference
between these groups?
We see friends
and siblings
and family members
and rich neighbors,
they all have their lives
put together, right?
Their lives are so put together
they have the capacity
maybe to invite you back.
They have the ability
to pay you back.
These people can add value
to your network.
They can open doors for you.
It's this supportive alliance
of people
that can sort of do
quid pro quo.
Like,
if you do something nice for me,
I'll do something nice for you.
And Jesus raises the question.
He says,
but what if we live
for something higher
and something greater
than right now payback
with other people?
What if we made sacrifices
for a future reward?
In the resurrection
of the righteous?
And by the way,
Jesus is not telling you
to stop inviting your family
over to dinner.
Okay,
I've got a birthday party
later today
at my sister's house.
That is okay
with Jesus.
He's not giving you,
you know,
a carte blanche,
like,
just stop inviting
the people in your family
you don't like
over to dinner.
He's saying,
in addition to
inviting people
who can pay you back,
what if,
like God,
you begin to invite people
who cannot pay you back?
And you see,
who's on God's
can't pay me back list?
Well,
we get it in Jesus' story
in verse 21
where he says this.
He says,
the owner of the house
became angry.
He ordered his servant,
go out quickly
to the streets
and alleys of the town
and bring in who?
The poor,
the crippled,
the blind,
and the lame.
These are people
who are clearly needy.
They are unfit
for this feast,
right?
The poor are unwashed.
The crippled
are hobbling in
on their crutches.
The blind
are being led in
by others.
The lame can't walk in.
They've got to be carried in
by other people.
And of course,
to connect this back
with the people
making excuses,
blind people
can't even see a field
even if they wanted
to buy it.
They can't buy it.
Crippled people,
they can't test oxen.
They don't have
that ability.
Lame people
typically don't get married.
Poor people
can't afford
any of these things.
None of these people
are people
who are invited
to feasts.
Yet God is inviting them
to his feast.
Now,
if I were God
and,
you know,
the people
that I had made
in my image
and I invited
to my party
rejected me
and they
snubbed me
and humiliated me
and ignored me
and insulted me,
I don't really think
I'd be inviting
more people
to my party.
I would just say
that's it.
Party's over.
But Jesus says
God is so good
and so gracious.
God is so patient
and so kind
and he so wants
his house
to be full
that he seemingly
will include
just about anyone.
Jesus is saying
that no one
is too low status
or needy for God.
God.
No one is too
dirty
or wretched
or miserable
for God.
No one is too broken
or outcast
for God.
He's saying
the feast of God
is going to be
full of people
who have nothing
to offer God.
God's feast of grace
is not given
to people
who are fitting
and who are
worthy recipients.
No,
God's feast of grace
is given precisely
to those who are
without worth.
They're completely
absent and empty
of worth
and his grace
is just this
incongruous gift.
It makes absolutely
no sense.
God gives his grace
to people
who can never
even think
to repay him.
And what does Jesus
want us to see
about ourselves?
Jesus wants us
to see that spiritually
and morally
we are the unwashed poor.
that spiritually
and morally
we are the disabled.
That we are
the unfit people
at the bottom
of the pile
and that we are
the unworthy people
at the end of the line
and that we do not
deserve to be
at God's feast.
But God
in all of his grace
he goes out
into the city streets
and he goes out
into the country roads.
He goes to the rural poor
and the urban poor.
He goes to everybody
to gather us
into his feast.
And one of the ways
that you know
you are an unlikely guest
is that you need
to be compelled
to come into the feast.
Right?
Jesus says
in verse 22
what does he say?
Sir,
the servant said
what you ordered
has been done
but there is still room
and then the master
of the house
told his servant
go out to the roads
and country lanes
and compel them
persuade them
to come in
so that my house
will be full.
Why do they need
to be persuaded
because they're surprised
that they're even
invited at all?
Right?
They know that
they're undeserving.
They know that
they don't belong here.
There must be
some mistake.
Like why are you
including desperate
beggars in your feast?
You know we can't
pay back this host.
You know we're not
fit for this feast.
We're unwashed.
We smell bad.
We're in rags
and tatters.
We don't have
decent robes.
This gracious
invitation
cannot possibly
be real.
What have I ever
done for the host?
Don't you see
the state that I'm in?
These people
have to be compelled
and someone
needs to tell them
you know
you don't have
to do anything.
You're just welcomed
and you're wanted
just as you are.
You see this feast
of grace,
this feast of salvation
in the kingdom
of God.
It's totally free
and it's completely
prepared for you.
Come now
for everything
is ready.
You don't need
to do anything.
You don't need
to contribute
anything.
It's not a potluck
where you bring a dish
and add to the meal.
It's not a restaurant
where you pick up
a part of the tab
and you pay
your share.
You just receive it
without giving
anything for it.
And this is the
first acid test
that you know
and you've come
to know how poor
and how disabled
and how unworthy
you are
and how good
and how gracious
and how generous
God is.
Do you have
a sense of shock,
a sense of astonishment
that God's grace
toward you
is so radical
it's almost hard
to believe it?
Do you need
someone to compel
you to come in
because you think
it's just too good
to be true?
Do you need someone
to just gently
smile at you
and take you
by the arm
and say come in
you're included
you belong.
The host of the feast
himself says that
you are wanted
and you are welcomed
in his house
and at his table.
That's the first
acid test
that you know
what grace is.
And the second
acid test
is the second test
that you've experienced
the grace of God
and that is
it has to do
with who you invite
into your life
and to your table.
Right?
Just as the master
of the feast
wants to fill
his house
and his table
Jesus also wants
us to invite
people into our lives
and around our tables.
And he says
when we are looking
for people to invite
we're not scanning
for people
who have their lives
put together.
We're not looking
for people
that we deem
to be fitting
and worthy candidates
who can offer us
something in return
people who can pay us back
people who can improve
our lives
because that is simply
not what God
has done for us.
Rather
we're to graciously
and generously
invite
the most unlikely guests
who cannot pay us
in the same way
that God
invited us
by his incongruent grace
by his uncalculating
generosity
that we could never
repay.
So Jesus is telling us
look around you
at the actually poor
and the spiritually poor
look around you
at the actually disabled
and the morally disabled
and ask yourself
what is keeping me
from inviting them
into my life
and around my table
and bringing them
into the feast of Christ
here in our community.
Jesus says
the one who invites people
into your life
and to your table
like this
will be rewarded
not by the recipients
themselves
but by God himself
at the resurrection
of the righteous.
So Jesus says
you've got to
arrange your priorities
around the feast
you've got to invite
unlikely guests
to the feast
and last thing
we got basketball
so I'm wrapping up.
You've got to take
the lowest place
at the feast.
Take the lowest place
at the feast.
You know
Lord's Supper
or holy communion
that we're about
to receive
it's given to us
by Jesus
as a foretaste
of this coming feast
in the kingdom of God
this messianic banquet
this feast
to end all feasts
where all of our hunger
and our sadness
and our tears
and our shame
will be gone.
But how are we
to approach
the Lord's Supper?
How are we to come
to holy communion?
Well Jesus indicates
that it's a feast
for the humble
and it's a feast
for the lowly.
And what does Jesus say
about the people
sitting around the table?
He says in verse 8
if you'll turn back
to verse 8
he says
when someone invites you
to a wedding feast
do not take the place
of honor
for a person
more distinguished
than you
may have been invited
so if the host
who invited
both of you
will come
and say to you
give this person
your seat
then humiliated
you will have to take
the least important place
but when you are invited
take the lowest place
so that when your host
comes
he will say to you
friend
move up to a better place
then you'll be honored
in the presence
of all the other guests
for all those
who exalt themselves
will be humbled
and those who humble
themselves
will be exalted.
By now
hopefully we can see
that while Jesus
is giving us
solid counsel
on how to behave
at dinner parties
right
he's talking about
something way more
than just social etiquette
and table manners
isn't he
what is he talking about
he's talking about
how we relate
to God as our host
and how we position
and posture ourselves
as the guests
at his feast
and Jesus talks
when he talks
he says
this is a price
a pricey feast
it's a
it's a precious
wedding feast
and hopefully
you can see
that this feast
that God is inviting us to
it's not one of those
scratch meals
where you say
come over
we'll just see
whatever's in the fridge
and in the cupboard
and we'll whip
something together
no
it's been prepared
over a long period
of time
it's been prepared
at great cost
before the foundation
of the world
the Father
and the Son
and the Holy Spirit
took counsel together
about this feast
the one God
and three persons
agreed
that they wanted
you
to come and be
at this feast
of grace
and this feast
of salvation
the value of which
is measured by
how much it costs
God to put on
and what does it cost
God for this feast
well it costs
God the Father
his most precious
and dearly beloved
and only Son
and it costs
Jesus all the glories
of heaven
it costs him
humiliation
absolute misery
and humiliation
on his cross
bearing in his broken
body the sins
of the whole world
dying in our place
taking on all
the condemnation
and shame
and wrath
and punishment
that we deserved
so that you could
be at this feast
Jesus was cast out
see
that all the outcasts
could come in
Jesus became
poor
and he became
crippled
and he became
blind
and he became
lame
so that you could
be brought in
to the feast
and not only
has God prepared
a feast
for us
at exorbitant
cost to himself
but all that
you need
and all that
you could possibly
want
is provided
at this feast
right
he has a means
to transform us
from being
absolutely unfit
and unworthy
outcasts
to coming in
in a state
of being
his precious
and his
treasured
friends
right
for all
the unwashed
poor
he's got
a wonderful
bath
in which
he will
baptize you
and make
you clean
by the blood
of Christ
and for all
those disabled
in their rags
and their tatters
he covers
our nakedness
and he gives
us a robe
the robe
of his very
righteousness
because you see
Jesus didn't
live
when he lived
his life
he wasn't
living
for fields
and for oxen
and for marriage
what was he
living for
he was living
exclusively
and holy
for the kingdom
of God
and when we
come naked
to him
when we come
in rags
and tatters
and unclean
he puts
that robe
of his perfect
righteousness
around us
and says
you're ready
now for the
feast
you see
Jesus
he became
a poor
and unworthy
outcast
on his cross
so that he
could cleanse
us and clothe
us in his
own worthiness
and so when
we come
to the Lord's
supper
when we come
to holy
communion
this is for us
a mini feast
it's a feast
that's a signpost
to that kingdom
that's already
come
and that
is yet to
come
in the future
the messianic age
that's already
begun
and that will
one day be
consummated
when Jesus
returns
and Jesus
says that the
best way
to approach
this feast
is to
humble
yourself
it's to
say you
know what
I'm going
to take
the lowest
place
I'm going
to take
the least
important
position
because I
know
that I'm
not even
worthy
to be at
the table
I know
that I'm
completely
unqualified
I'm just
a desperate
beggar
all I bring
to this feast
is my
hunger
all I bring
is my
thirst
the only
way I'm
here is
because Jesus
has cleansed
me
and he's
clothed
me
to be
here
so friends
if this is
the attitude
and the
posture
that we
take
we can
hear the
host of
this feast
say to
us
Jesus
words
in verse
10
if you
look at
verse
10
it says
friend
move up
to a
better
place
you see
if we
come
humbly
to this
feast
we
hopefully
can
hear
the
master
of the
feast
saying
to us
my
precious
friend
my
treasured
friend
what are
you doing
way down
there
come
move up
to a
better
place
come
sit
right
here
next
to
me
it's
the
affirmation
it's
the
honor
that
all of
our
hearts
so
desperately
and
deeply
desire
and
this
encourages
us
I
think
that
those
who
humble
themselves
at
this
feast
will
ultimately
be
exalted
by
God
and the
feast
to
come
so
friends
I want
to
reassure
you
that
the
God
of
all
grace
he's
here
and
he
himself
is
inviting
you
to
his
feast
the
feast
of
the
Messiah
the
feast
of
grace
the
feast
of
salvation
and
what
he's
saying
to us
right
now
is
come
for
everything
has been
prepared
for you
come
for
everything
is now
ready
and I
want
my
house
to be
full
in the
name of
the
Father
Son
and Holy
Spirit
Amen