Sunday, April 30, 2006

Wheat & Tares in the Church

Date: 4/30/06
Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Title: Wheat & Tares in the Church

• The Book of Matthew


• During the first three centuries of the Christian era, Matthew's Gospel was the most admired and quoted of the New Testament's portraits of Jesus


• This Gospel is the one most rooted in the Old Testament


• It is the one most concerned with issues that were important to the Jewish people

• Because God gave us free will, evil was potentially out there


• We have the choice to do good or evil

• Parable


• It is an earthly story suited to a situation compared to a Heavenly situation

• Everything belongs to God


• Jesus used verses 36-43 of our text to explain the parable so that we would have clarity.


• The man sowed good seed. Good seed has to be cultivated.


• Sleep means being preoccupied with other things. The enemy can slip in.

• You couldn't tell the difference between the wheat and the tare during the early stage of development.


• True wheat will produce a head of grain that will be a blessing.


• Tare doesn't bear fruit.

• We all have seasons...


• We should produce something to help the kingdom of God

NOTES: I am wheat because God made me wheat. I only know one wheat. If you are wheat, then you know that you are wheat.

My Personal Notes:
I should be producing some fruit if I am TRUE WHEAT.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to be true wheat. When I am making a mistake, please direct me in the right way so that I can produce fruit for Your Kingdom.

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
24: Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26: But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27: So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28: He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29: But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30: Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
36: Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37: He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38: The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39: The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40: As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41: The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42: And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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