Oct 15, 2026 · 14 min · 7 segments
This is Vicar's Herter's sermon at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI for Pentecost 20. We'd love to have you join us at Resurrection for a Sunday Divine Service sometime at 9am. As always…
that his parables are filled with examples that persist and are still impactful even some 2,000 years later.
If you were in church this last Sunday, you probably heard the gospel for the day where we had Jesus talking about a landowner who rented some of his land out to some tenant farmers.
And when he demanded that they give him the fruit that he is owed, they beat his servants and killed his only son.
And that whole parable was a damning condemnation of those Jewish leaders who were standing there listening to him proclaim this message to them.
And it's the same group of people that, for today, are hearing this message, our Savior describing the kingdom of God as a wedding banquet.
Now, as we consider what this wedding banquet is, we have to think differently.
Man, what an experience this must have been for those people to be invited to a king's wedding banquet, the day of celebration.
It lays out in our text how the king had clearly set aside a place in his own palace where he was going to have all of these people come in and celebrate his son's day.
They had taken from their own wealth so that they could provide food for the guests that were going to be coming.
And he even does the painstaking work of going out and inviting his guest list of people, the people he wanted to be there.
He sent servants out, and what kind of response does he receive? At best, apathy.
At worst, murder.
I mean, just listen to some of these excuses that his guests come up with.
One man said, I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to your son's wedding because I've got a bunch of farm work that needs to be taken care of.
I can't possibly get away from that.
Another man says, my job needs me more than you need me to be present at your son's wedding banquet.
What kind of excuses are those? You've got an invitation from the king to come to his son's wedding banquet.
You know it's going to be more than just a good party.
It's going to be something that will be talked about for generations.
And yet, you allow other things to stand in the way of going to the king's banquet.
It's hard for us to imagine.
that his parables are filled with examples that persist and are still impactful even some 2,000 years later.
If you were in church this last Sunday, you probably heard the gospel for the day where we had Jesus talking about a landowner who rented some of his land out to some tenant farmers.
And when he demanded that they give him the fruit that he is owed, they beat his servants and killed his only son.
And that whole parable was a damning condemnation of those Jewish leaders who were standing there listening to him proclaim this message to them.
And it's the same group of people that, for today, are hearing this message, our Savior describing the kingdom of God as a wedding banquet.
Now, as we consider what this wedding banquet is, we have to think differently.
Man, what an experience this must have been for those people to be invited to a king's wedding banquet, the day of celebration.
It lays out in our text how the king had clearly set aside a place in his own palace where he was going to have all of these people come in and celebrate his son's day.
They had taken from their own wealth so that they could provide food for the guests that were going to be coming.
And he even does the painstaking work of going out and inviting his guest list of people, the people he wanted to be there.
He sent servants out, and what kind of response does he receive? At best, apathy.
At worst, murder.
I mean, just listen to some of these excuses that his guests come up with.
One man said, I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to your son's wedding because I've got a bunch of farm work that needs to be taken care of.
I can't possibly get away from that.
Another man says, my job needs me more than you need me to be present at your son's wedding banquet.
What kind of excuses are those? You've got an invitation from the king to come to his son's wedding banquet.
You know it's going to be more than just a good party.
It's going to be something that will be talked about for generations.
And yet, you allow other things to stand in the way of going to the king's banquet.
It's hard for us to imagine.
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