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Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn't want to come."
Matthew 22:1-3 CSB
Jesus has been talking with the religious elite, who at the time, while under Roman rule, were also the politically powerful. 
They didn't like Jesus, didn't believe he was who he said he was, and Jesus continues with these stories to encourage them to think, to change their minds. There was room for them to change.
Here Jesus is offering an invitation;
Come to the wedding banquet, I want you here, you're invited.
"But they didn't want to come".
The king invites you to the celebration he is having for his son's wedding and you don't want to go. It's clear that this is a snub, a rejection of the King and all he stands for. 
Yet the King keeps inviting.
v4
"Again, he sent out other servants and said, 'Tell those who are invited: See, I've prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'"
Our God is invitational, wants everyone there, wants to wrap us all in, include.
You're invited.
By the King. 
Some days we need that reminder that our God wants us.
#wordsofJesus 
#redletterBible 
#invited
#included 
#accepted
#youareBeloved

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