Wheat And The Tares

WHEAT AND THE TARES JUL. 25, 99

TEXT: MT. 13:24 - 30..... 36 - 43

INTRO:

IF YOU WAS WITH US A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, I HAD PREACHED A MESSAGE OUT OF MARK 4 ON THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. IT IS AT THIS SAME POINT IN THE SCRIPTURE HERE IN MATTHEW 13. JESUS IS SITTING IN THE SHIP SPEAKING TO THE MULTITUDES THESE DIF-FERENT PARABLES.

IN THE PRE-TEXT JESUS SPOKE OF THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER - HOW THAT THE SOWER HAD WENT FORTH TO SOW HIS SEED. SOME WENT BY THE WAY SIDE, SOME AMONGST THE STONY GROUND, SOME FELL AMONG THORNS, BUT THERE WAS SOME THAT FELL ON THE GOOD GROUND AND THOSE SEEDS THAT FELL ON THE GOOD GROUND ARE THOSE WHICH PRODUCE FRUIT UNTO SALVATION.

NOW AS WE COME TO V. 24 OF CH. 13 WE FIND THE LORD JESUS TEACHING ON THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES.

READ 24 - 30

NOW AS WE GET INTO THE MESSAGE, I WANT YOU TO PICTURE INTO YOUR MIND, A MAN AS HE PREPARES TO PLANT HIS SEEDS.

THIS MAN, OBSERVES THE GROUND, LOOKING FOR THE MOST FERTILE PLACE FOR HIS SEED TO GROW. HE TAKES HIS PLOW AND BREAKS UP THE GROUND UNTIL IT IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE THE SEEDS HE HAS TO PLANT. THE GROUND IS THEN FERTILIZED AND WATERED AND TENDED TO AS HE WAITS FOR THE SEEDS TO SPROUT. NOT LONG AFTER, WITH SUNSHINE AND RAIN HIS CROPS BEGIN TO GROW, BUT RIGHT ALONG WITH HIS CROPS COMES THE WEEDS. NOW HE DID NOT PLANT WEEDS, BUT THEY ARE THERE.

AND THIS IS HOW IT IS HERE IN OUR PARABLE. THE SOWER HAS PLANTED HIS SEEDS, BUT WHEN THE BLADE CAME FORTH ALONG WITH IT CAME THE TARES.

NOW BEFORE WE GET INTO THE MESSAGE, LET ME GIVE YOU SOME THINGS OF OUR TEXT SO I DO NOT LOSE YOU.

NOTICE.....

A. SOWER - JESUS CHRIST V.24

AND LET ME JUST SAY, HIS MINISTRY IS STILL THE SAME TODAY, SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE PRECIOUS WORD OF GOD INTO THE HEARTS OF MANKIND. HOWEVER, JESUS CHRIST HAS COMMISSIONED YOU AND I PREACHERS FOR THIS TASK TODAY, HE HAS PROMISED POWER FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE HAS TOLD US TO OCCUPY TILL I COME, HE IS GOING TO ASK US TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT, AND YET THERE ARE SO MANY SO CALLED PREACHERS TODAY WHO HAVE NO DESIRE TO SOUL-WIN, THEY HAVE NO DESIRE TO GET REALLY INVOLVED INTO THE MINISTRY, THERE IS NO DESIRE TO PREACH, THERE IS NO FIRE IN THEIR BONES AND ALL THE WHILE THE WORLD IS DYING AND GOING TO HELL. SO NOT ONLY IS JESUS CHRIST IS THE SOWER OF THE SEED.

B. SEED V.24

IN THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, THE SEED REPRESENTED THE PRECIOUS WORD OF GOD, BUT HERE IN OUR TEXT TODAY, THE GOOD SEED REPRESENTS THAT INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD WITH AN OPEN HEART AND NOW HE HAS BEEN BORN AGAIN.

C. ENEMY OF THE SEED - SATAN V. 25

AND LET ME SAY THIS MORNING, JUST HOW MUCH OF AN ENEMY THE DEVIL IS TODAY. THE BIBLE SAYS HE APPEARS AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. HE IS KNOWN TO US AS THE GREAT DECEIVER AND IT IS SATAN’S DESIRE THIS MORNING TO DECIEVE YOU WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN SAVED, INTO THINKING THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A...

A. MEMBER OF TRINITY - HELL IS FULL OF BAPTIST’S

JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN...

B. BAPTIZED - WHEN YOU STAND BEFORE GOD, HE IS NOT LOOKING

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WASHED IN THE BAPTISRY

HE IS LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WASHED

IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.

IF YOU ARE HERE TODAY, YOUR SINS HAVE NEVER BEEN WASHED AWAY - YOU ARE LOST, DOOMED AND DAMNED FOR ETERNITY.

AND IF SATAN CAN, HE WILL DECEIVE YOU RIGHT INTO HELL.

SO AS WE GET INTO THE MESSAGE TODAY, EXAMINE YOURSELF AS THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID THERE IN 2 COR. 13:5 AND SEE WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE IN THE FAITH.

NOTICE WITH ME FIRST OF ALL THE

I. RECOGNITION OF THE TARES V. 26

" THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO...."

UP OUT FROM NO WHERE COMES THE TARES, THESE TARES WERE NOT PLANTED BY THE SAVIOR, MY FRIEND, THEY WERE PLANTED BY THE DEVIL.

YOU AND I LIVE IN A DAY AND TIME WHEN EVERY ONE YOU COME ACROSS CLAIMS TO BE A CHRISTIAN. PEOPLE HAVE MORE RELIGION TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE, YET WITH ALL THIS, THEY HAVE NEVER MET THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

LET ME GIVE YOU A ...

A. DESCRIPTION OF THE TARE V. 25

THE WORD FOR TARE HERE IN V. 25 IS THE GREEK WORD ZIZANION

IT SPEAKS OF A WEED CALLED THE DARNEL. IT IS A WEED THAT LOOKS LIKE THE REAL THING, IT HAS SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE REAL THING, BUT IT IS NOT THE REAL THING.