WHAT ARE YOU WEARING TO THE WEDDING?
If there is anything that will deceive you, it will be your own heart. The hardest person to be honest with is yourself. The person you will lie to the most is yourself. Pride is at the root of self deception.
It is My kingdom that is coming and in My kingdom no pride or self righteousness will enter the doors. At the wedding feast no one noticed the man without a wedding garment, except me.
When you come from a world where everyone is afraid to offend, lying becomes a must, because the truth will offend. Because of the fear of offense, you begin to accept everyone as they are, and never question anything. Bad Behavior and manners are left unchecked, even child molesters are allowed to roam among children, for fear of profiling.
James 1:22 (AMP)
But be doers of the Word obey the message, and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth.
Political correctness becomes the accepted standard, dulling the senses and letting everybody in and all garments become acceptable at the wedding. This all changes when The Rock of Offense enters the room.
In your present world of darkness, a luke warm shepherd, will never speak the truth for fear of offending. When I was in the world, I became known as the Rock of Offense, because I am truth and truth always offends, even before it sets free.
False teachers have propagated the the lie that everyone can come to Me just as they are. I made it very clear, if you are proud, don't come to me, because I will reject you. If you think you are ok and a good person I will spot you in a second and have you escorted out.
If I reign in you, you will offend by your very presence. You will offend the proud with humility, you will offend the miser with giving, you will offend the bitter with your forgiveness and your freedom will definitely offend the legalist. The religious will always be offended when you break traditions. Take note, If you don't offend someone then I am not reigning in you.
I do not refer to offenses caused by your flesh, for those offenses, you will be severely judged as a stumbling block. I only speak those offended by My love and humility and holiness reigning inside you.
It was easy for Me to spot the wedding crasher because he wore extremely bright colors so everyone would be sure to see him. The wedding garment is not easy to spot because it is dull for the lack of color. Those who wear it just blend in with the crowd. The fact is, during the whole feast, you will never desire to be noticed, except by Me. All eyes will be on Me and My eyes upon you.
The wedding garment and the garment of humility are one and the same. I took threads of humility and threads of righteousness and wove them together for your wedding garment. It is the same garment I put on when I came to earth to save you. This is the clothing of the kingdom. It is impossible to have My righteousness without My humility.
I threw the man out because he had false humility and he was self righteous. Don't even try to come to the feast dressed in anything other than a genuine kingdom approved wedding garment. This is one place you dare not stand out in the crowd.
Be very honest with yourself, are you counting on anything you have done, as a pass into my wedding feast? Don't lie to yourself. Your eternity depends on it. If you are, Repent quickly and ask me for a wedding garment. I am the only one that can get you in. In the kingdom It's not what you know, but who you know that counts, and the who is me!
It is not My will to throw anyone out, but I will.
James 1:22-25 (KJV)
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. [23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. [25] But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein , he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
1 Peter 5:5 (AMP)
Likewise, you who are younger and of lesser rank, be subject to the elders (the ministers and spiritual guides of the church)--giving them due respect and yielding to their counsel. Clothe (apron) yourselves, all of you, with humility as the garb of a servant, so that its covering cannot possibly be stripped from you, with freedom from pride and arrogance toward one another. For God sets Himself against the proud (the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful, the presumptuous, the boastful)--and He opposes, frustrates, and defeats them, but gives grace (favor, blessing) to the humble.
James 1:22 (AMP)
But be doers of the Word obey the message, and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth.
Psalm 12:3-4 (KJV)
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: [4] Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Psalm 119:21 (AMP)
You rebuke the proud and arrogant, the accursed ones, who err and wander from Your commandments.
Psalm 101:5 (AMP)
Whoso privily slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off from me; he who has a haughty look and a proud and arrogant heart I cannot and I will not tolerate.
Psalm 138:6 (AMP)
For though the Lord is high, yet has He respect to the lowly bringing them into fellowship with Him; but the proud and haughty He knows and recognizes only at a distance.
Proverbs 15:25 (KJV)
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
John 13:4-5,12-17 (KJV)
He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. [5] After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. [12] So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? [13] Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. [14] If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. [15] For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. [16] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. [17] If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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