Is there a sane man who will go out to cesspool, cover himself with filth, then go immediately to be seated as a royal guest at a royal banquet?  Don’t men go through all pains to clean themselves in the best of possible ways?  Don’t they make every effort, lest even a hair be out of place?

The royalty of men is not to be compared to the royalty of the living God.  Many men think they will be seated at the royal banquet of God; the wedding banquet at which no sin will sit.

“Come and let us reason together, says the lord.”  There is a promised dressing for the most earnest of men.  For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  But how shall a man dress himself today?

There is a Royal Proclamation to be made in this place.  How shall a man proclaim what he is not willing to hear?  And if he has not allowed himself to be dressed for royal proclamation in this place, how shall he expect to be dressed in the royal garment of the Royal Banquet?

Preparation is now.  Preparation does not begin at culmination.  They are two distinctly different times and places.  Is there more that can be said?