The Servant Compelling People To The Great Supper Is The Holy Spirit

Kevin Williams.

Unlike in the Parable of the Wedding Feast Mt 22:1-14, where we see "servants" plural throughout, the "Servant" in the parable of the Great Supper Lk 14:15-24 is servant singular throughout. The servant in the Parable of the Great Supper is the Holy Spirit striving with man.

This is significant because in the Wedding Feast Mt 22:9 . "Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’" We, the believers are to invite people to the wedding.

However in Lk 14:23 "Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." It is the Holy Spirit that is compelling them to come in.

Websters Dictionary:
Compel= 1) to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
2) to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure

Invite:=1) a: to offer an incentive or inducement to : entice
b: to increase the likelihood of
2) a: to request the presence or participation of (i.e. invited us to dinner)
b: to request formally
c: to urge politely

This makes a big difference, because if we wrongly ascribe the compelling to the Christian, then it would make sense to rack up false conversions by pressuring people to pray a prayer, and use emotional music and make Jesus seem 'the cool option'.

But when we realize it is the Holy Spirit who is doing the compelling, then we are preach the Gospel God's way and to invite people to repent and believe the Gospel and let the Holy Spirit do the compelling and converting.

But notice also Mt 22:9 "and as many as you find, invite to the wedding". The call of the Gospel is to everyone and so we are to preach the Gospel to all. God "commands all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17:30.