2024-07-21PM Testimony Kamden Hodge

The speaker shares their testimony of being saved by God and reflects on a parable from the Bible about a wedding feast. They emphasize that everyone has been invited to be saved and have eternal life, but not everyone accepts the invitation or is ready for it. They believe in living a sinless life and encourage others to make themselves ready for the wedding. Thank the Lord for what He has done for me, just to share my testimony. Judson gets up and shares a very simple testimony. And it's really, the back story of it is more complex than what he really just said. But he gets up and he says, I thank God for saving me. And that's enough. And I want to say, I thank God for saving me. I was in a place of sin. Yes, I was raised in church, but I had my own sin. I was a sinner and I needed to be saved just as anyone that's never been to church before. And I'm thankful that the Lord saved me. And just in service this morning, I was looking for a certain passage of Scripture, as I am right now. And I was thinking about a parable that Jesus spoke. And in chapter 22 of Matthew, it says, And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said, The kingdom of heaven is likened to a certain king which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come. 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. And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies and destroyed these murderers and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? And he was 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 I just woke up this morning, and my dad hit the nail on the head when he mentioned something very similar to this. My dad in Sunday school was teaching this morning and spoke on waking up with God on your mind. And that's exactly how I woke up this morning. I woke up with the Lord on my mind. And really, it was like just a broken record playing over and over again in my heart and in my mind this morning. And continuing now that the Lord, I feel like there's just an invitation that the Lord has invited me to. He's invited me. He's given me an invitation. Just last week, I believe it was, my mom handed out invitations to each and every one of you all with your names on it for Casey's birthday party. And I was thinking about the invitation that the Lord has given me and the invitation that this man, this father, sent out. He sent out people to give invitations for anyone to come to the marriage of his son. And that we all have that invitation. We've all been invited to be saved. We've all been invited to heaven. We've all been invited to have eternal life. It is a gift. It is an invitation to go unto the Lord. But sadly, although many are called, few are chosen, sadly, not everyone accepts the invitation. And some that do accept the invitation find themselves in a place where they're not really ready. They might have been saved before, but then at some point in their lives, they find that they don't have the garment on like they should. And they don't have that robe of white. And they don't have that new coat on that we're singing about and testifying about this morning. And Brother Ronnie already mentioned it again tonight. There are many that have been saved and have accepted that invitation and have come to this great celebration of eternal life. But yet, they find themselves where they are not ready. They are not ready for this wedding. There are many deaths at this wedding or at least one here. There is one that just is not ready. One that just is not clean. One that is just not wearing the garment like they should for this wedding. But let me tell you that each and every one has been invited and they have been invited to wear a new garment. And they have been invited so that they can wear and keep that garment on and never take it off. It is meant that we stay saved when we are saved. Yes, it is possible to let go of your salvation. But it is also possible to be saved and to stay saved. I believe in perfection. I believe in living above failure and living a sinless life. I believe that we can all be ready for that wedding. I believe it and I pray that each and every one here would make themselves ready for the wedding of the bridegroom. Each and every one has been invited and I pray if you are not ready that you would make yourselves ready and put on that new coat tonight. Amen. Put it on. Yes, amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Somebody else tonight will testify.