Many are Called...Few are Chosen: Garment of Righteousness
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- Dr. Pitre discusses the Parable of the Wedding Banquet. He connects the wedding garment to the garment of righteousness and explains what is required of those who are chosen and not just called.
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I have heard the parable explained thus: the invitation to the wedding feast is the Sacrament of Baptism and the wedding garment is Sanctifying Grace. The man had an invitation to the wedding feast but was not dressed in the wedding garment because he was not in the state of grace and, therefore could not enter the wedding feast, which is Heaven.
You just rid of me 7 years of EVERY DAY torture thinking what was that i have recieved.
Thank you Dr. Pitre for another great explanation! God bless you in your ministry in the the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour!
Thank you for consistently providing us with such clear and beautiful teachings.
God bless
Sorry, my comment may be off-topic because this is not about wedding garment. But as Catholic warriors, Paul admonished us to wear this garment (Ephesians 6: 13 - 17 New American Bible RE) :
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Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.
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So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate,
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and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.
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In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.
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And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Always so revealing. Thank you 😊
God bless you, dr. Pitre!
Thank you for posting this. You bring so much insight and knowledge to your audience. I loved the way you brought out the link with the wedding garment. It made so much sense
Glory to God in the Highest and peace to His people of good will.. Thank you Dr. Pitre.. God bless you more wisdom from God..
Strong Gospel for the weak ... .
No options but todo the will of the father!👆
Amen
Thank you for the explanation of the scriptures
Great explanation Dr Petri. Thank you
Thank you.
Thank you Dr. Pitre for explaining Scripture to us.
Thank you sir...
Well said can't be any clearer. Many think they are saved by faith alone will be in for an awful awakening.
To be fair, many Protestants will agree that a merely intellectual faith is not biblical. The faith and works debate is much more controversial than it needs to be, and most of it relies on misconceptions of the Catholic teaching.
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You're right. I grew up in a Protestant family and while I was taught that salvation is by grace through faith, it doesn't actually stop there. My parents and pastor always said that being a Christian doesn't stop at repentance, accepting Jesus as Lord and savior, and baptism. They taught me that everyday I should strive to be more like Christ, to grow deeper in my relationship with the Lord, to be filled with the Holy Spirit through spiritual disciplines, how important discipleship and serving in the ministry is.
I've started looking into Catholicism and Orthodoxy lately because I wanted to understand Christianity more and I don't want to limit myself in one denomination. I'm from the Philippines and I don't think Catholicism is practiced the way it's supposed to here, that's why I'm reluctant to convert and Orthodoxy is barely practiced here. Only a handful of Orthodox churches in the entire country and none in my area.
I'm surrounded by Catholics since we are an RCC-majority country yet none of them can help me in trying to understand Catholicism. I'm thankful for youtube channels like this.
That’s good. Basically the Catholic position is this: in order to go to heaven, you must be in a state of grace. Only the grace of God offered through faith can merit being put in this state of grace (Eph. 2:8-9). This is referred to as initial justification. Then, we can be further justified by doing good works, and so we increase in grace before God. Works are necessary to Christian thriving (Eph. 2:10 and countless other passages), but unless you have the gift of grace from God, works alone will not save you (the heresy of pelagianism).
God is past present and future. I AM (his name is past present and future) Everything God says is past present and future. Salvation is the same past(Jesus's death and resurrection) present (your works) future (judgement)
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That's what I have always believed. Eph 2:8-9 is actually the most memorized verse in our church. All teachings focus on justification and sanctification.
While I know and believe that Protestants don't have everything right, I wish some Catholics and the Orthodox would stop invalidating our faith. I've encountered so many of them who think that because we aren't Catholic or Orthodox, our faith is pathetic. There are others of course (like you :) ) who are gracious and helpful but some think our faith is fake and is worth nothing. It's also true the other way around with Protestants thinking Catholicism is of the devil, and it's all just saddening.
I pray we all just help each other grow in our faith with love and mercy instead of putting each other down. In the end, God is all that matters.
Here comes the Bride:
Proverbs 31:25-31
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. 26 When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness. 27 She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. 28 Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her: 29 “There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!” 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised. 31 Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.
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I was called then chosen to be a witness in the sprit of Elijah because of the bloodline of Abraham
Jesus came an visited me, the realist experience I've ever had, made regular consciousness seem like a shadow of what's to come he spoke to in a language I can't speak yet I understood him and he pointed out the window and vanished.
“Eternally bounced”
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I always hear about acts of charity " clothing the hungry or feeding the poor " , what are the poor meant to do , it's almost like the poor are there so we bestow acts of charity on them
He said bounced 😀
So he accepted Salvation but it requires more than faith to enter into heaven. It requires good works also.
Who saw the lighting and heard the thunder last night
So again the garment can be looked as someone souls being dirty for never confessing their sins to the priest and getting their sins absolved which the sins are told to the priest but ultimately absolved and forgiven by Jesus Christ through intercession
Eternal Security- imputed righteousness
Jeremiah 32:40 NASB
[40] I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me.
Philippians 1:6 NASB
[6] For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 64:6 NASB
[6] For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.
Romans 5:8-9 NASB
[8] But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [9] Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB
[21] He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Romans 3:21-28 NASB
[21] But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, [22] but it is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction, [23] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, [25] whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in God's merciful restraint He let the sins previously committed go unpunished; [26] for the demonstration, that is, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. [27] Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. [28] For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
---- Having Christ’s righteousness imputed to us does not mean we automatically do what is right-that will come through the process of sanctification. What it does mean is that we are positionally righteous; even though we still sin, we are forensically or legally righteous. God has credited the righteousness of Christ to our account, and He did this when He saved us. In grace, the holiness of Jesus Christ is ascribed to us. Christ “has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption” ----
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 NASB
[30] But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, [31] so that, just as it is written: "LET THE ONE WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD."
---- A wonderful illustration of Christ’s imputed righteousness is found in Jesus’ parable of the wedding banquet. Guests are invited to the king’s celebration from every street corner, and they are brought in, “the bad as well as the good” (Matthew 22:10). All the guests have something in common: they are each given a wedding garment. They are not to wear their street clothes in the banquet hall but are to be dressed in the garment of the king’s providing. They are covered in a gracious gift. In a similar way, we, as guests invited into God’s house, have been given the pure white robe of Christ’s righteousness. We receive this gift of God’s grace by faith. ---
Matthew 22:2-14 NASB
[2] "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who held a wedding feast for his son. [3] And he sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. [4] Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened cattle are all butchered and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!"' [5] But they paid no attention and went their separate ways, one to his own farm, another to his business, [6] and the rest seized his slaves and treated them abusively, and then killed them. [7] Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. [8] Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. [9] So go to the main roads, and invite whomever you find there to the wedding feast.' [10] Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. [11] "But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, [12] and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' And the man was speechless. [13] Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place.' [14] For many are called, but few are chosen."
This was Jesus’ way of teaching the inadequacy of self-righteousness. From the very beginning, God has provided a “covering” for our sin. To insist on covering ourselves is to be clad in “filthy rags”
Just as the king provided wedding garments for his guests, God provides salvation for mankind. Our wedding garment is the righteousness of Christ, and unless we have it, we will miss the wedding feast. When the religions of the world are stripped down to their basic tenets, we either find man working his way toward God, or we find the cross of Christ. The cross is the only way to salvation.
John 14:6 NASB
[6] Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
The Parable of the Wedding Feast is also a warning to us, to make sure we are relying on God’s provision of salvation, not on our own good works or religious service.
Dr. Pitre Yes that is true but we have to also remember that we are not just save by works but with faith as well and what is faith? Romans 10:17 Therefore faith is from hearing, and hearing is from the word of God
So people hear the gospel and might believe in Jesus Christ BUT don’t BELIEVE his words. Luke 6:46 Why do you say Lord Lord and not do what I say? If we can agree on something there are things he specifically says we have to do to obtain eternal life yes good works of charity is one of them but he also said John 6:52 If anyone eats from this bread he shall live for eternity and this bread is my flesh and is the life of the world. John 6:54 and Jesus said to them Amen amen I say to you UNLESS you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you do not have life in you. So Jesus is being very specific here the problem to this day is people leave the Catholic faith because they believe the other false prophets which are wolfs and come in sheep’s clothing with a different gospel and snatch the ones WHO ARE DOING the will of God. The Protestants are the apostasy that Paul speaks about there the brothers that have desserted the faith that we have to keep and follow which is keep Gods commandments which are sacraments that ONLY the Catholic Church has authority to provide to the people through the intercession of hands through the apostles and now that is the ordained priesthood people forget that Jesus didn’t come to abolish the law but to FULFILL and got rid of the Old covenant and made a New covenant. So the garments can be looked at as your works and your faith in Jesus words and doing what he commands not what a Man commands. So what other sacrament did he leave he left the sacrament of CONFESSION which again only the priests in the Catholic Church have authority by God to absolve the Protestants don’t believe in this why because their ignorant to the word they get manipulated and deceived by false teachers and false prophets because they don’t read the sacred scriptures properly and correctly that why God left his church so people can interpret and teach the traditions of the Apostles which were taught by Jesus Christ himself. John 20:21-23 21therefore he said to them again peace to you just as the Father has sent me now I send you.22when he had said this he breathed on to them and said receive the Holy Spirit23 Those whose sins you shall forgive are forgiven and those whose sins are retained shall be retained. So God left his will which was also the will of the father. So Jesus sent his disciples to ALL nations which means universally which Catholic means universal if translated to Greek because God is the King of the universe people here Catholic and say why Catholic Christian and not just Christian because people fall into the trap of the deceiver which is the father of lies people tend to forget that on Luke 22 as Jesus is seating at the table he is leaving a kingdom to the Peter the rock which he gave the keys to the kingdom of heaven in Matthews gospel and the rest of the apostles which God chose and NO ONE can come say different or change it Jesus told Peter the leader of the apostles which is the Papa of the apostles Luke 22:31 And the Lord said Simon! Simon! Behold, Satan has asked for you so that he may sift you like wheat. Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for YOU so that YOUR faith may NOT fail and so that YOU once converted YOU may confirm YOUR brothers. So here we see that Jesus chose ultimately a group of 12 men to build his church so and he build it on top of Peter the rock which is the foundation for 2000 years. The gates of hell haven’t prevailed against it just as Jesus said in Matthew16:18 and never will people who say we don’t need a church and CANT prove it with scripture with chapters and verses are liars and deceivers and Satan is using their ignorance to fool them and other people to keep them away from the true authentic faith that Jesus Christ left to his people!
The reason is we need secure a buy a ticket and a attorney to defend us
This disproves protestantism 100%.
So you have to work your way to heaven?
If you have saving faith you will desire this charity. If you can’t help a hungry person, were you even saved?
Calvinists aren't going to like this one!
Turn to Jesus Christ! Repent! Ask him to save you! He will baptise you with the Holy Ghost!
Saint Luke 5:32 KJV I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Saint Luke 13:3 KJV I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.