Colossians 2:9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

John 14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 5:5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

1 Timothy 3:16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

I have divided these scriptures into two sections because the religious leaders in those days did not believe that God would ever reveal Himself as a man. They had no understanding of the Trinity. It was their belief that God could speak to the prophets and perhaps even rest upon a man as spirit, but to live inside a man as half human and half God was impossible. They could not reconcile their belief with what they saw when Jesus entered the world as fully man and fully God.

Colossians 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

How could God live inside man in harmony?

Jesus showed us that love for the Father reigned in His being and did not allow His humanity to corrupt His holiness. He was perfect first in love and then in performance. Love ruled.

Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Our connection between our humanity and His holiness is the faith we placed in Christ.

Matthew 22:1-14 English Standard Version

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

1 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ 5 But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ 10 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Confusion can happen when the unbelieving read parables. They do not have the Holy Spirit to explain to them the will of the Father.

There will be those that hear the invitation and try to enter by their own understanding. It is their understanding to become a witness to the marriage, not a part of the wedding. They could not come dressed to be part of the wedding because they were not chosen and have no wedding attire, robes of righteousness.

These robes of righteousness are given to all that are betrothed to the Son, not because they are worthy, but because they are betrothed to the Son as chosen by the Father. We are dressed after the manner of a daughter who has nothing to offer but herself. The Father dresses his “daughters” in these robes. Men have a difficult time in identifying themselves as a bride which is classically seen as a woman’s role.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Our earthly identity is stripped of us once we enter the family of God. None of us are what we were before we accepted Jesus by faith. We struggle with that because we still live in the world and we are still flesh and struggle with our very humanity.

Jesus, born of woman, fully man and fully God, did not allow His humanity to infect His Holiness.