WHEAT AND TARE (3 OF 7)
by Joey Rodgers
Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:37-43
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Wheat and Tare (3 of 7)
Series: The Red Letters
Joey Rodgers
Matthew 13:24-30, 37-43
Everybody but Sam had signed up for the new company pension plan that required 100% employee cooperation - otherwise the plan was off. His boss and fellow employees begged and pleaded, but he wouldn't budge. Finally, the company president called Sam in - gave him a copy of the plan and told him to sign it or he was fired. Immediately Sam signed the papers. Afterwards, the president asked Sam, ''Why didn't you do this the 1st time?'' Sam replied, ''Well sir, no one explained it quite so clearly until now.''
We're in a series of lessons on some of the most prolific teachings Jesus shared using parables. A parable is a story w/ a point - an earthly lesson w/ a spiritual punchline - stories that once explained can bring remarkable clarity.
Last Sunday we looked at a parable that described the work of Christ - the Parable of the Sower. In this teaching, the sower (Jesus), indiscriminately casts seed (Gospel) into the soil of the heart, where it landed on unique surfaces. In each case, nothing was wrong w/ the seed, yet differing factors prevented the seed from surviving/thriving. Whether the soil was trampled, rocky, or thorny, the seed couldn't germinate to fruitfulness; but for the seed that landed in fertile soil, it was able to germinate and produce fruit. Jesus' point was only that which has fruit has life.
Juxtaposed to the Parable of the Sower is the Parable of the Wheat and Tare. Whereas the Parable of the Sower is about the work of Christ in the hearts of men, the Parable of the Wheat and Tare is a parable about the work of Satan.
He shared another parable w/ them, saying, ''The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared too. The servants of the master of the house ...
Series: The Red Letters
Joey Rodgers
Matthew 13:24-30, 37-43
Everybody but Sam had signed up for the new company pension plan that required 100% employee cooperation - otherwise the plan was off. His boss and fellow employees begged and pleaded, but he wouldn't budge. Finally, the company president called Sam in - gave him a copy of the plan and told him to sign it or he was fired. Immediately Sam signed the papers. Afterwards, the president asked Sam, ''Why didn't you do this the 1st time?'' Sam replied, ''Well sir, no one explained it quite so clearly until now.''
We're in a series of lessons on some of the most prolific teachings Jesus shared using parables. A parable is a story w/ a point - an earthly lesson w/ a spiritual punchline - stories that once explained can bring remarkable clarity.
Last Sunday we looked at a parable that described the work of Christ - the Parable of the Sower. In this teaching, the sower (Jesus), indiscriminately casts seed (Gospel) into the soil of the heart, where it landed on unique surfaces. In each case, nothing was wrong w/ the seed, yet differing factors prevented the seed from surviving/thriving. Whether the soil was trampled, rocky, or thorny, the seed couldn't germinate to fruitfulness; but for the seed that landed in fertile soil, it was able to germinate and produce fruit. Jesus' point was only that which has fruit has life.
Juxtaposed to the Parable of the Sower is the Parable of the Wheat and Tare. Whereas the Parable of the Sower is about the work of Christ in the hearts of men, the Parable of the Wheat and Tare is a parable about the work of Satan.
He shared another parable w/ them, saying, ''The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared too. The servants of the master of the house ...
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