Don’t shoot the messenger (The Marriage feast of the King’s Son Matthew 22:1-14)

Don’t shoot the messenger (The Marriage feast of the King’s Son Matthew 22:1-14)
We have all heard the old saying, “Don’t shoot the messenger!” This saying is used when individuals are angered and take it out on the person delivering the message instead of the one who sent the message. The messenger had nothing to do with the content of what is being delivered, they simply are carrying a message sent by someone with higher authority. In our parable this week, we see that the King sends out his servants with a message of invitation to subjects in his kingdom only to have the recipients reject the invitation and take it out on the messenger. Verse 6 says that they treated them spitefully and even killed the messengers. Sadly, this type of behavior of “shooting the King’s messenger” continues today. I would say there has never been a time in America where the recipients of God’s message have treated the messengers more spitefully than current day.
America was founded on Christian principles and ideas but in recent years popular culture and progressive liberal agendas have made delivering a message from the King (God) highly unpopular. Today it is not just enough to simply ignore the message of God in America, you must speak harshly of and demean the messenger sent from God. I Peter 4:4 warns us that this would occur and says that the world thinks it is strange that we don’t want to partake in their sinful activities and that they will speak evil of us for not partaking with them. Today if you speak against the sin of this world, you are immediately spoken harshly of and labeled as an intolerant, bigot, who is full of hate and anger. This attack occurs simply because they are delivering the message of salvation and repentance to a lost and dying world. Their anger towards the Creator’s Message (Gospel) ultimately gets directed towards the messenger or one delivering of it. We still live in a great nation, and we have great freedom, but you would have to be completely blind to notice that this country is come less and less tolerant of God’s message and His messengers