As we celebrate a recent wedding in this congregation, I want to ask you what the phrase in the Parable of the Talents "Enter into the joy of your lord" (in Matthew 25:21, 23) means to your future? I want to explain how this phrase deals with our election and the preciousness of our selection by God to be part of the bride of Jesus Christ at His return, when we will enter into a great and joyous Wedding Feast with Him --- a holy union with Him!