SERMON - The Great Banquet: Salvation Through Shame and Suffering

This sermon on Luke 14 explores Christ's parable of the great banquet, showing how God accomplishes salvation through suffering, rejection, and apparent failure. Jesus overturns expectations: the self-righteous refuse the feast while the poor and Gentiles are brought in, fulfilling God's plan through conflict and shame. Believers are called to take up their crosses, receive Christ's righteousness, and trust that God transforms weakness and failure into eternal life.