FORWARD FELEX

Rebellion is the resistance or defiance of the authority. Rebellions stimulates God's anger because by rebelling we try to deny that God did not create us. We tend to be as equal with God when we don't humble ourselves and do what God requests of us. God created us in His own likeness. He gave us freedom to choose to serve Him or go our own way. Something unpleasant is that we usually choose to do things our way. A good example is Saul. How he chose to sacrifice disregarding the promice of God. If we choose to go our way, do we intend to say that God is a lier? To me, yes. He even tells us that He will never leave us alone. We need to examine and return to God because we can't manage things on our own. (Lamentations 3:40-44)

The excuses we give or "They gave" to Jesus don't seem (to be) relevant to the urgence of His call. To me, the excuses give way for satan to do his (evil) works. The answer should be "Yes" and "Now" if we are called upon.

The parable includes compelling the lame, the blind, the people who seem to be worthless, to come and party at the Great Banquet. The invited guests cannot come to the banquet, since they make excuses. They will be rejected since they refused the call. The poor, the lame, crippled and blind received mercy. They are sought of to come and feast with the host. The End Time event the Great Banquet points out is that at the day of judgement, those who will be ready (free of excuses) will enter the kingdom of God.

The original guests represent those who are selected to do God's work but cannot, since they have other obligations. The later invited guests represent the sinners, who make it count strongly when they are called upon. Compelling them to come means to entice them perhaps with something seen to come. This calls us to accept the call and do the work of God for us to enjoy the banquet.

I am not sure on how Jesus will judge me for I am not yet sure of my talents. however, I believe that by keeping praying hard, Jesus will open my mind to enable my awareness of my talents and enter the kingdom of God.

The fruit of our labour belongs to God who enables us. God allows us to take the fruits and give tenth to those who do His work. We seem to be independent since we decide what to do with what we harvest at our convenience. We are driven by the talents God gave to us in whatever we do. That's why we even take different positions in spreading the Word of God. A self-made person accounts what he getsw to himself. A seward accounts what he gets as belonging to the master.

I think the talents represent the knowledge one gets from God. I would build a church where people would pay tithes whence to pay back the talents. I am not sure of the spiritual gifts I possess, I have abilities to convince people and drive them to what I am saying. I don't have much Bible knowledge for I didn't study Religious Education at secondary level. I am a teacher (Primery school teacher). I think this belongs to God in a sense that I teach Religious Education to pupils. I integrate what I learn from the church with the curriculum.

The guests are: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and who we take to be last but are consistently holding fast to the word of God. Those who rejected the teachings of the Bible and enjoyed the fleeting pleasures of the world will be thrown out of the feast. This is because the feast will be for those invited and legible to be present there and then.

Jesus characterizes the entrance to the kingdom as narrow because what it takes to pass through the gate into the kingdom is what most can't comply to. Many people will not be able to enter into the kingdom because they don't comply to regulations for entering the kingdom of God. Most people delay entering because they don't have full Biblical teaching, they are not patient, they don't know the goodness in the kingdom, and because they compromise what is Godly with the fleeting pleasure of the earth.

It could be a curse for the words said in Prayer are mostly not fulfilled. For example, when we ask to be forgiven of our sins as we forgive and we don't, it becomes a curse upon us, for we lie to God. I think this shouldn't be a question. it should be a statement that "forgiving in order to be forgiven is a kind of righteousness by works". Because we sin several times in several ways, if people sin against us, we have what we can use as payment for our sins we commit if we forgive them.

Jesus is teaching us to forgive from our hearts. I think Jesus is serious. Things which Jesus insists on are mostly expressed in parables. Forgiveness is a learnt grace on one hand, that we learn to forgive. On the other hand, it is a foundational principle of the kingdom of God since Jesus teaches us to forgive, and since what Jesus teaches is from the kingdom.