April 29, 2012

Tares: April 25, 2012

TODAYS WORD FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 25, 2012.

TARES

DEFINITION:

A weed; undesirable plant.

SCRIPTURE:

Another parable He put forth to them saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares (weeds) also appeared.” Matthew 13:24-26.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Jesus explained this parable giving us six principles to understand His message.

First, He tells us that the sower of the good seed is the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ.

Secondly, the field is the world. While here on earth Jesus sowed the good seed in person but before He ascended into heaven, He commissioned His church, you and I, to proclaim the gospel to every person in every nation. Today the world is our mission field.

Thirdly, the good seed in this parable is not the gospel but the children of the kingdom. Jesus began to sow (scatter) the good seed (the children of God) first in Jerusalem, then in Judea and Samaria; and he continues to scatter His children into all parts of the world. The good seed, His children, as they are sown are to share their faith with the part of the world in which they have been scattered.

When we are born into this world we have no choice as to what part of the world that would be. God has put you, as a believer, into the part of the world you live in for a reason. Wherever you live, you as a believer, are a “good seed,” a child of God, and His ambassador.

Fourth, the tares are “the sons of the wicked one,” Satan. Jesus said to the unsaved religious leaders of His day, “You are of your father the devil.” Where Jesus sends His children, you and I, Satan also sends his partners in sin.

Fifthly, the enemy that sowed the tares is the devil.

And finally, the harvest is at the end of the age, when we all witness the second coming of Christ. He will then send His angels to reap the harvest and separate the wheat from the tares. He will rapture the “wheat,” the children of the kingdom, and burn the “tares,” the children of Satan. The children of the Devil will be cast into “the furnace of fire,” while the children of God “will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father.” Revelation 20:15

In summary, there are both good and bad people in this world. God sows the righteous and Satan sows the wicked. Men are not to judge who the wheat and tares are because a day of harvest and judgment is coming when God will be the judge. God alone has the wisdom and authority to judge.

LEARNING:

This week we are memorizing the eighth of the Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20:15.

You shall not steal.

PRAYER:

Thank You for saving me from my sins and making me a child of God and one of the good seeds among the tares of this world. Help me to be Your witness in the part of the world that You have placed me. May my life shine out with Your love and may my words declare the good news of the Gospel.

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