The Agape Letters
January 21, 2005 Where will you sit?
The banquet is prepared, the guest arrive; by INVITATION ONLY.
The guest are placed in respective order of honor.
Seated 1st are those who support and serve.
Seated next are relatives and family.
The Final entrance and seating belongs to the Guest of Honor.
All previously seated guest rise and respectfully stand!
After taking the Place of Honor, the HOST begins the ceremony with greetings and acknowledgements.
ONLY 1 person at this Banquet WILL receive the PLACE of HIGHEST HONOR!
There are MANY Guest who will entertain the thought that THEY should be seated at a Place of GREATER HONOR.
God's Order is NOT dependent on the guest!
Luke 14:
(7)When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable:
(8)"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.
(9)If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place."
Only by understanding God's Order of Power and Honor by revelation through Holy Spirit, do we see that the BRIDEGROOM, NOT the Bride is the Guest of Honor.
The Bride is presented to the BRIDEGROOM as a present!
It is the BRIDEGROOM for which the banquet has been prepared!!
Yes, we as Believers in Christ are invited to the ceremony and are seated at our respective places of importance by the HOST!
Jehovah, The Most High God is the HOST!!!
Jesus is the BRIDEGROOM; we are family, members of HIS Church!
It is Jesus whom God has CHOSEN to RECEIVE the HIGHEST HONOR!!
We will be seated according to HIS CHOOSING and not ours!
Mark 9:
(34)But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.
(35)Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
We BETTER read the INVITATION, God's WORD has our placement of service and seating assignments.
Abba Father, direct my ways!
Guide me in YOUR Choice of service!!
I will be YOUR servant NOW and FOREVER!!!