Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-03
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
For February 6-Matt. %: ia
BY DR.. MARION NH. HULL

| brought in great number, bad and
good, and the house was full.
Again those Jews must have
WINGED; for the idea of any others
| taking their place was bad enough,
but to think that the buns and the
toughs, the bootleggers and the
streetwalkers as we'll as those who
were more respectable, but still not
in their social set, should enjoy the
feast instead of the favored nation,
was very calling to them.
How prophetic was this parable.
For when the invitation was first
extended it was to Jews only; but
| when they refused the, servants OF
| Christ went out into the highways
| and hedges and constrained as many
as they met to come in. 1t included
Cornelius. the Roman officer and the
| humbleSt members of his household
| it took in the Philippian jailer, and
| the poor demoniac girl who had been
a. fortune-teller. and it. took in Lydia,
| the rich woman merchant. Bad and
! good-none too bad but what 1t
could reach them, none too good but
that they needed 1T.
Finally, so the story continues, the
king came and found fellow who
had gotten in without a wedding
| garment. Now there was no excuse
for him, for the king had provided
| the garmentS--gueStS brought In
| like these had been could not have
| been expected to have party clothes.
This fellow though had refused that;
and had insisted on coming in and
enjoying the feast IN his own way.
The king was very kindly in his
| tone as he asked, Friend, how cam
| est thou in hither not having a we'd
ding garment" and he was speech
had not insisted on having his own
/ way. Notice that the king was not
wroth now as he had been before,
He was just hurt that one of the
guests was so discourteous; but he
couldn't allow him to remain. By
hand and foot, so that he couldn't
come back, and cast him outside,
where it was dark Many, are in
vited, but only those are allowed to
do it in the kings way, not theirs.
There's many a Christian who is
having no peace, is not enjoying the
| feast that God has prepared, because
he is not willing to give UP his
will and let God have His way.
That Robe
Since the king was providing the
robe, we know that it is the robe
of righteousness which Christ. the
righteous Judge, will provide for
them at that day. It's the robe that
can only be provided by death. In
! the Garden Of Eden our first par
! ents were provided one for their
nakedness, which they realized after
| they had sinned and 1t was provided
by the kindness and grace of the
God against whom they had rebelled
and it was by the substitutionary
and sacrificfal death of lamb. THAI
God has not changed He is still
the kindly God who loves us even
though we have rebelled against
Him, and who has made marvellous
provision for us by grace in and
through the death of His Son. BY
that death we have a robe of right
eousness that will fit US to enjoy
the feast, and without which we dare
not try to enter. It is through what
He has done, and not by anything
that we can do, that we can have
that wedding garment. For really II
is Jesus Christ Himself. Put we or
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make nc
provision for the flesh. etc"
BY the way, have you, accepted
of the kings son? Have you put or
the robe? Is there anyone you would
like to have invited and be there
with you? Have you heard, as SER
want, the kings orders-and are yoJ
constraining them to come in?