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Who gives this woman away?
And if anyone gathered here today know of any reason why these two should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony
Speak now or forever. Hold your peace
Let's pray.
Dear Lord, we thank you so much for the opportunity to be gathered here in your house, Lord God,
to celebrate this exciting day in the lives of Micaiah and Isabella.
Lord, we pray that you would bless this union for many, many years to come.
And Lord, thank you for the opportunity that we have to share it with them.
And may everything that is said and done here today honor and glorify you.
And in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, amen.
All right, please be seated and we will read the scripture.
I'm going to be reading from Matthew chapter 22.
The Bible reads,
Now, of course, Jesus Christ taught in parables quite frequently, and no parable is ever going
to fit the reality of what it expresses perfectly, right?
Every parable is, of course, an imperfect analogy of something.
And here we have this analogy about going to heaven, being saved.
coming to a wedding, right? We're all invited to this great wedding and of
course the guest of honor at this wedding is the Lord Jesus Christ and it's a
good analogy because if you think about it when you go to a wedding it's a party,
it's exciting, it's fun and you're really there to celebrate someone else, right?
Because you're there to celebrate the bride and groom and in this case the
wedding is for the king's son representing Jesus Christ who is the son of
But in this particular parable, the people who were invited to the wedding, they didn't want to come, right?
And of course, this picture is the fact that although Jesus Christ came to this world to save sinners
and he died on the cross for our sins and was buried and rose again,
not everyone is willing to accept him as their savior.
Not everyone wants to come to this wedding as it were.
And so as we continue to read through this,
the next verse says in verse number four,
again, he sent forth other servants saying,
tell them which are bidden.
Behold, I have prepared my dinner,
my oxen and my fatlings are killed
and all things are ready.
Come unto the marriage.
but they made light of it and went their ways one to his farm another to his merchandise.
So we can see here that in this idea of everything being ready
the animals have been killed the food's prepared the broom's decorated everything's ready to go.
This is also a picture of the fact that when it comes to our salvation God has already done
everything. He's already prepared everything except it wasn't oxen and fatlings that were killed
but it was of course Jesus Christ himself who died on the cross for our sins and so
everything's ready for us to go to heaven, right?
Because most people out there in this world,
they think that in order to be saved,
we have to somehow do good works or fix our life up,
keep God's commandments, repent of all our sins,
turn over a new leaf or what have you.
But we don't work our way to heaven. We don't earn our way to heaven because everything's already ready.
Jesus already paid for everything. Salvation is a free gift.
All we have to do is just show up. We just have to say yes to that invitation.
And the Bible says here that many of the people that were invited, they made light of it.
They made fun of it, basically. It was a joke to them.
And of course, today, many people, when they hear the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
they laugh at it and make light of it.
The Bible says the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto
us which are saved it is the power of God.
So if you're sitting here today saying, oh man, why did I come to this wedding to hear
this kind of message, you are one of the fools that is not taking heed to the message that
God has given in the Word of God.
To us which are saved is the power of God.
It's only foolish if you're somebody who's going to perish.
So I hope that you'll heed very carefully what we're seeing in the scripture right now as we look at the Word of God about the marriage supper for Jesus Christ.
And so it says that, you know, people made light of it, they went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise.
Of course life has a lot of things to keep us busy that have nothing to do with God or the Bible or Jesus, right?
You know, the farm, the merchandise, just kind of living our lives, eating and drinking and going about our business.
But some day, of course, we're going to face God and we want to make sure that we have Jesus Christ as our Savior.
And so we don't want to face God because God is going to be one day pouring out his wrath on the unsaved.
And that's what we see in the next verse.
It says, but when the king heard thereof, he was wroth.
Right?
Wroth is the adjective of the noun wrath.
And so it says, when the king heard thereof, he was wroth.
and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city, right?
Because many of the people who were invited, they made light of it, they mocked it,
and then it said in verse 6, the remnant took a servant and treated them spitefully and slew them.
Of course, we know that in the Bible, various preachers were imprisoned, beaten and even killed
for preaching the word of God. And of course, this angered the Lord.
And so it says that he sent forth his armies, destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.
Now, most specifically, this is referring to what happened in Jerusalem in 70 AD, okay?
Because remember, Jesus Christ was born in the land of Israel and the Bible says he came
unto his own and his own received him not, right?
Because the people that should have been the most receptive to the Lord Jesus Christ as
their Savior would have been the Jews because they should have seen him as the Messiah that
and so when Jesus Christ came on the scene
and they rejected him,
that's pictured in this parable
by the people who were originally invited to the wedding,
not showing up,
and then of course the king being angry
at the way they treated his servants
and it killed the martyrs and so forth,
that he sent and destroyed their city and burned it up,
and that's exactly what happened in 70 AD
because the Jews rejected the Lord Jesus Christ,
Jerusalem was destroyed,
And, of course, it was just a total wasteland and uninhabited for a very long time.
No Jews lived there for many, many centuries.
But then it says...
In verse eight, then saith he to his servants,
the wedding's ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
The people who were invited were not worthy.
And of course, when the apostle Paul's preaching in the book of Acts,
you know, he talks about how the Jews had judged themselves unworthy of eternal life.
By rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ,
they had showed themselves to be unworthy of the free gift of salvation.
And so he says everything's ready, but they which were bitten were not worthy.
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
And so the idea here is that the Jews rejected the Lord Jesus Christ,
but then the invitation goes out to the whole world to just invite every single person.
to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, to go to heaven, to get eternal life to be saved.
And so he says, go therefore into the highways and as many as you shall find bid to the marriage.
So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as many as they found,
and I want you to not miss this next phrase, both bad and good.
So they went out and they're just inviting everybody to the marriage both bad and good and the wedding was furnished with guests
So you see this invitation to go to heaven when you die to be saved to be a Christian
To have all of your sins forgiven to possess eternal life. This is not an invitation. That's only for good people
Right. It's for everybody
Right the Bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and Jesus said him that coming to me
I will in no wise cast out and so everybody's invited and look if salvation were only for good people
We'd all be in trouble because then none of us would be going anyway because the Bible says there's none that do with good
No, not one for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God
And so they go out and just invite everybody to the wedding, right?
Bad, good, they're just going down the street, just grabbing people.
It'd be like today if all of Micaiah and Isabella's family and friends just didn't show up
and we just kind of got here and we were just kind of looking around and just nobody was here.
And then we just went outside and just started grabbing random people and saying,
hey, we need some groomsmen, we need some bridesmaids, whatever.
You know, let's throw a tie on you, throw a jacket on you, whatever.
And we just put people in the wedding and then we just say, hey,
we need some people in the audience and we just started just grabbing,
I don't know, just random homeless people, just whoever we can find.
You know, and getting people to come and say, hey, there's free food,
you're going to get some cake, you're going to get some punch, whatever.
It's going to be great.
You know, that's basically what is happening in the story here.
It's a parable about the fact
that everybody's invited to be saved.
You don't have to be anyone special.
You don't even have to be a good person
because we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
But then there's also a warning here about the fact that some people might think that they have heeded the wedding invitation.
They might think that they have shown up at the right event, but they haven't.
Because listen to what the Bible says next.
It says, then when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment.
Okay, so he they've just gathered everybody they could good bad doesn't matter everybody's welcome
But apparently there's a certain dress code though, you know, everybody's invited everybody can come
But you're supposed to have a wedding garment on you're not supposed to show up without that
And so he says to this guy friend
How came it's now in hither not having a wedding garment. He's like, how did you even get in here?
since you're not wearing the wedding garb.
Who even lets you in looking the way that you look?
And he was speechless.
The guy's just has no hands.
He's like, I don't, you know, he's speechless.
Then said the king to the servants,
bind him hand and foot and take him away
and cast him into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
And so the idea here is, and if you study the rest of the Bible, this is a motif that
comes up over and over again, this idea of the wedding garment or having the right garment
on.
And here's how this works.
The Bible teaches that when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, your
garment, as it were, is cleansed.
who you are and obviously all of us have soiled our garment in one way or another because
we've all sinned.
And so the Bible says in the book of Revelation repeatedly that the people who are with Jesus Christ in heaven,
it says that they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, right?
And everybody is given a white garment in heaven representing the righteousness of saints,
but it's a robe that's washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, that's washed in the blood of the Lamb.
It's not about being bad or good, whether or not you get into heaven, right?
That's not what it is, because otherwise we'd all be doomed.
But rather, it is whether you have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, you know,
whether or not you believed on Jesus Christ, because if you've believed on Jesus Christ
and you've gotten your robes washed, as it were, if you've been saved,
you are saved eternally, you are saved forever.
the Bible says, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand." And so once you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are issued that
wedding garment, you are in the wedding, you are at the feast, you are good to go, you say, I don't
know, I'm kind of a bad person, I'll join the club. But...
You can be clean. You can be saved simply by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and again when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
he gives eternal life and
Jesus said him that come into me. I will in no wise cast out this guy who's being cast out
He was never in the right garment. He had never done what he was supposed to do to be saved
Okay, because Jesus one day when people are being cast out is gonna say to them depart for me. I never knew you
And he's not going to say, I used to know you.
He's going to say, I never knew you, OK?
And so it says here that the guy who comes in
doesn't have the wedding garment.
He is bound hand and foot and cast out
into outer darkness, which is, of course, a picture of the fact
that those who are not saved will be punished eternally
in hell.
You say, what in the world does this have to do with a wedding?
Well, obviously, it's a wedding parable and we're at a wedding.
And I figured out a long time ago that the two people that are listening to me the least
while I'm preaching the wedding sermon are the bride and the groom.
So therefore, I pretty much just preach to everybody else.
Because of the fact that you know their mind is many times on other things because this is their big day and
So back to you guys if you Micaiah and you Isabella have Freeland deliberately chosen each other's partners for life
Would you please join hands?
Micaiah, will you have this woman to be your wedded wife?
Will you love her, honor and keeper,
in sicknesses and health, in poverty as in wealth,
and forsaking all others, keep the only unto her
so long as you both shall live?
Do you so promise?
I do.
Isabella, will you have this man to be your wedded husband?
Will you love him, honor and keep him,
in sicknesses and health, in poverty as in wealth,
and forsaking all others, keep the only unto him
so long as you both shall live?
Do you so promise?
Micaiah, would you repeat after me the following words, please?
I, Micaiah, take thee, Isabella, to be my wedded wife,
to have and to hold, from this day forward,
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
till death do us part.
Isabella, would you repeat after me the following words, please?
Take thee, Micaiah, to be my wedded husband,
to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better for worse, for richer for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love, cherish, and obey, till death do us part.
May I have the rings, please?
Makaiya, go ahead and put that on the ring finger
of Isabella's left hand.
All right, Isabella, go ahead and put that on the ring finger
of Makaiya's left hand.
And now by the power vested in me by the state of Arizona and in the presence of our friends, family, church loved ones, and Jesus Christ himself, I now pronounce you, man and wife, you may kiss the bride.
what God has joined together,
letting our man put asunder.
And it is my privilege to be the very first
to introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Makaya Furbey.
guys got this I'm so happy for you it's a new chapter and you're gonna figure it
out together the Holy Spirit's with you it's just such a great day marriage such
a blessing and praise the Lord you guys found each other and we're happy for you
oh no ditto congratulations he covered everything
So, it's definitely the first wedding I've ever been here.
What's this for?
Just live.
Oh, we're live?
Oh!
So for the, yeah, absolutely.
Makaya and Isabella.
Super excited for you guys.
And I love you too.
You guys are going to be an amazing couple.
Excited for your future as a family.
As just raising your kids to be in the Lord.
You know, whenever you guys need me, I'll always be here for you, and I just can't wait to see you soon here in the back as a married couple.
So congratulations, you two.
Makai is a great guy, and I don't really know his wife that much, but I hope their marriage goes great. They're pretty cool.
I don't have a lot other to say than, but thank you,
Micaiah, for inviting me and Isabella.
Congratulations to you both.
God bless you both and your awesome friends.
Thank you.
Yeah, congratulations.
You know, I just want to say to the happy couple,
God bless you both, and I hope you guys
live a happy, healthy life.
And God bless you both, and have a happy wedding.
Congratulations.
Hey, Makaya Isabella.
Congratulations. We're praying for your success.
Wish you have a happy honeymoon.
I wish I could give you more advice, but I'm a young couple just like you guys, so congratulations. God bless.
Congratulations, Isabella and Makaya. We're very happy for you. We wish you God's blessing in this new journey in your lives.
And yeah, we're enjoying. God bless.
Miss Gigi, you got a blessing?
Excuse my frog voice, but congratulations you guys have a very very happy marriage
All right, congratulations, Makai and Isabella.
I just want to say, you know, enjoy your life.
God will bless you greatly if you love him and serve him.
And, you know, yeah, I look forward to great things to come.
Hey, God bless you guys.
Be fruitful and multiply. Have fun on your vacation.
Amen.
Congratulations many many years ahead of you and keeping God in the center you're
It's a really big day for you guys.
We're very excited.
Yeah, just keep doing the main thing.
Keep soul winning the main thing.
That's where I met you, Micaiah.
That's where I met your new wife.
So you got your whole life ahead of you.
I mean, yeah.
Congratulations, Isabella and Micaiah. We're both really happy for you as you start a whole new journey and you won't believe it, but you actually learn to love each other even more than you do right now.
Congratulations.
You trained for me.
You have to take your own life.
I was going to do something about it,
and I'm going to get that right again.
I'm going to get my life.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Oh, I got a takeout.
Oh, you got a call.
All right.
Everybody, uh, Intel, they had, uh,
they said, uh,
uh, there's, uh,
Because they need to be able to construct whatever is wrong with all the workers in the bottom of the line.
And, well, now, Intel's out of money right now.
It's put part of the top of home.
I think it's about a dollar.
It's about a hundred percent.
I think it's about five dollars.
I don't know.
I'm going to figure it out for a year and make it a week out.
It's a short, it's a two, so I'm going to have an 11 grand
cash, I'm going to have a capital tax, you know, like 10.
You know, I got a good one, it's a fair one.
Yeah, it's a good one.
It's a good one.
So, Jesus is the only one who can move me to the path of success.
I'm going to give him a badge of his busy life.
And they all might be scared to do that.
And I swear to them, that's pretty much what I'm going to say.
I was going to put two hooks in the stuff.
You know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I don't know if you're sure about this.
I just do whatever you want.
I don't know if you're sure about this.
I just do whatever you want.
I don't know if you're sure about this.
I just do whatever you want.
I don't know if you're sure about this.
I just do whatever you want.
I don't know if you're sure about this.
I just do whatever you want.
There are some people out there.
It's a whole wide area.
They're all over the country.
They have millions there.
They're all over the country.
They have millions.
It's not, like, an off-limit thing.
It's a potential off-limit thing.
It's a potential off-limit.
Eu quero desejar a vocês muitas felicidades e eu amo vocês.
Eu sei que vocês estão começando uma vida totalmente nova.
E eu sei que Deus vai abençoar vocês porque vocês são servos fiéis.
Vocês amam ao Senhor e nós estamos aqui para vocês.
Agora você pode falar em inglês?
Eu quero falar em português, Timo.
Macai, Isabela, nós amamos muito vocês, estamos muito felizes pelo casamento de vocês.
Que Deus abençoe muito vocês aí na Lua de Mel e toda essa vida nova que está começando.
We're praying that God will bless you all the way.
Through all your lives all the decisions that you're going to
Have to make you have to take
You can count on us for for any situation you always be here for you
We're happy
Bounded blessings
Congratulations, we love you, thanks for being good friends, and yeah, that's pretty much
it.
I don't know
Congratulations, Isabella. I love you so much. I'm happy for you.
one, two, three. Hey Isabella, I wish you, up here? Oh, wow, I'm about ready to shove it
in my mouth. Isabella, I wish you the best, and many, many, many years of happiness and
fruitfulness, and God bless you two, and I'll be praying for you guys every day.
Congratulations, Isabella Micaiah.
Congratulations, we love you.
We're very happy for Micaiah and Isabella and we know that they're in a great church.
in here and with the Lord's guidance and keeping the Lord first above all things, seeking
first the Kingdom of Heaven and all those righteous. We know God is faithfully one we're not and
that the Lord will bring them to an expected end and our prayer for them of course is that
they would be fruitful and multiply and that they would keep the Lord first in all their
doings. And it's just been a blessing to be here today. It was a beautiful wedding.
Congratulations, guys.
blesses your union and look forward to serving with you have a wonderful day
guys enjoy your day
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I thought it was an interview or something.
Alright, attention!
I need everybody who's family and bridesmaids to come over to the front.
It's for a whole group photo in the front.
Congratulations!
I just wanted to say congratulations and I hope you guys have a wonderful life forward and it's been great being friends all this time that we have and I hope you guys have a great time.
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Congratulations to Devella, I'm so happy.
being there with me. I really appreciate it. And I'm just so happy for you that
you've got someone like a great man. I hope you guys will have a happy marriage.
Thank you so much. Congratulations!
All right, everyone, we're going to do the cake ceremony in about, like, couple minutes.
So if you can join us over near the table where the cakes are, that'd be great.
Yeah, I just want to say that the the homemade cheese dip and the homemade salsa was kind of the highlight of the wedding for me
It was really good
Thank you.
All right, now everybody else can have cake as well. Everybody's free to attack
I'm very proud of Makaya. I see him the five years have been coming to this church. I see him go from
little teenager to
Happy, proud husband, and very proud of them,
and I hope the Lord continues to bless them
for the rest of their lives, amen.
Well, I guess.
Congratulations to you both I woke up this morning. I was super super excited for the both of you
I think that you have an exciting life ahead of you
And I just say that you just always and I mean this with every fiber of my being like always just put God first
In every decision that you make no matter how small
and try to just
In hard times, just pray for God to give you the strength to make the right decision and do the right thing by each other and by God, and I believe you will find it.
So congratulations again on the confession.
Congratulations.
Love you.
Should she make friends?
Sure.
That's for the top ten.
Really happy for you.
I was actually looking for her.
Yeah, yeah.
What, someone?
Don't listen to Pastor Joe Jones.
Are we treating right?
I told you, we were old.
We were old.
Now we can be valid.
I'm trying to.
Live, live, live.
Okay.
Well, congratulations, Micaiah and Isabella.
I wish the best.
I pray for the best for your marriage and success.
I pray you guys can keep serving the Lord.
One word of wisdom, spend time with your wife,
make her feel special, at least for Micaiah and then Isabella,
make your husband feel special.
There we go.
It's the best I got.
Enjoy your cake.
Exactly.
No, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.
Like the president, like, hey, can you get married?
Yeah.
Can you study for a little bit?
You know, for our marriage, you know, we have a couple times now.
And we've got to thrown it out there last night.
I don't know what I'm going to do when we're scooping out of church,
you know.
But it's all because we're already here.
We're already ahead of us.
We're like a source of maturity, of christianity.
I did so much the wrong, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's a good, because that's the example that you look to, like it's always an out, like your mom and dad did it, so, yeah.
I just want to say, dude, congrats, and I hope you guys take the same energy from today into your marriage and till death.
Congrats again.
Congratulations, Makaya and Isabel on the wedding.
It was a great wedding, great food, great cake.
And we heard that you moved out to Maricopa,
so we have to get together and go have fun,
or go soloing, or whatever you wanna do.
Have a great time, God bless.
Well, congratulations, and it was a great wedding.
I wish you all the best and blessings in your marriage.
So, that's you, Mark. Thank you.
Attention, attention, please.
If everyone can give me your attention for a few seconds,
just want to ask you if you can please sign the guestbook if you haven't.
Please sign the guest book up by the book shelf in the front near pastor's office before you go. That would be a big blessing to the couple carry on
Congratulations, Micaiah, Isabella, we love you, God bless you, I want my cake now.
Kill the live stream
Thank you everybody for watching
And thank you for her family because she's probably the majority of the viewers that are coming up
But yeah, thank you everybody for watching. This is like the first 6k live stream
So I think it went pretty well
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