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PREPARING OUR GARMENTS...

  Matthew 22: 8-14 “ Then He told His servants, ‘We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guest. The ones I invited weren’t up to it. Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet.’ The servants went out on the streets and rounded up everyone they laid eyes on, good and bad, regardless. And so the banquet was on—every place filled. 11-13  “When the king entered and looked over the scene, he spotted a man who wasn’t properly dressed. He said to him, ‘Friend, how dare you come in here looking like that!’ The man was speechless. Then the king told his servants, ‘Get him out of here—fast. Tie him up and ship him to hell. And make sure he doesn’t get back in.’ 14  “That’s what I mean when I say, ‘Many get invited; only a few make it.’” The first time I read this story I thought “aww but why did the King do that?! what if the man didn’t have money to buy new clothes or make nice clothes to come for the wedding,” until I looked at it closel