The Grand Banquet

Reader: Anne Miller Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey, John Hudson & Bek Hudson Today Pastor Jonathan looks at the parable of The Grand Banquet. Jesus turns the social norms of the first century ancient world upside down when he says that we shouldn't invite people to our social events because they can return the favour to us. Instead, we should invite those who can never repay the favour. God's kingdom is exactly like this. God has invited us to the everlasting party that will be in heaven, but there is absolutely no possible way we could repay him. We are the the poor, maimed, blind and lame in this parable because we are spiritually poor, maimed by the power of sin, blinded from seeing the truth and lame because we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven on our own. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.