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woman is invited. All things are now ready. The feast has been
prepared at great expense. You may spurn the grace, and the gift of
God; but you must bear in mind that it cost God a good deal before
He could provide this feast. When He gave Christ He gave the richest
jewel that heaven had. And now He sends out the invitation. He
commands His servants to go into the highways, and hedges, and
lanes, and compel them to come in, that His house may be full. Who
will come? You say you are not fit to come? If the President invited
you to the White House, and the invitation said you were to come
just as you were; and if the sentinel at the gate stopped you
because you did not wear a dress suit, what would you do? Would you
not show him the document signed in the name of the President? Then
he would stand aside and let you pass. So, my friend, if you can
prove to me that you are a sinner, I can prove to you that you are
invited to this Gospel feast--to this marriage supper of the Lamb.

Let me ring out another bell in this Gospel chime--

"COME, INHERIT THE KINGDOM!"

"Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye
blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world." A kingdom!--think of that! Think of a poor
man in this world, struggling with poverty and want, invited to
become possessor of a kingdom! It is no fiction; it is described as
"an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time." We are called to be kings and priests: that is a high
calling. Surely no one who hears me intends to miss that kingdom!
Christ said, "_Seek ye first_ the Kingdom of God." Those who inherit
it shall go no more out.

Yet another bell--

"COME UP HITHER!"

In the Revelation we find that the two witnesses were called up to
heaven when their testimony was ended. So if we are faithful in the
service of our King, we shall by and by hear a voice saying, "Come
up hither!" There is going to be a separation one day. The man who
has been persecuting his godly wife will some day find her missing.
That drunkard who beats his children because they have been taught
the way into the Kingdom of God, will miss them some day. They will
be taken up out of the darkness, and away from the persecution, up
into the presence of God. When the voice of G