Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”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.Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
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… you also uproot the wheat with them let both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers first gather together the tares and buy them into bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn Everyone say, gardening is bad. All right, which one is it? In the first parable, gardening is the difference... between a fruitful life and one that has no life. God, get rid of the thorns in my heart. And literally the next story, not the next book, not the next page, the next story. He says, an enemy did this, and he says, shall I take him out? Nah, leave him. We have to understand the difference between the tears in our life and the thorns in our life. Because apparently, according to Jesus, we have to treat them very differently. We have to be ruthless with the thorns. But the tares apparently are no big deal. Let them grow. In fact, he said, I don't want you to rip up the tares because you could even uproot the wheat with them. …
… Let them both grow together until the harvest. And at harvest time, I will say to the harvesters, First collect the weeds and bind them in bundles to be burned. Gather the wheat into my barn. He put another parable before them, saying, The rule and reign of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field, a mustard seed, which on the one hand is the smallest of all the seeds, but on the other hand, when it has grown, it is greater than all the garden plants and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. He told them another parable. The rule and reign of heaven is like leaven, like yeast, that a woman took and hid in ten gallons of wheat flour until it was all leavened. All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables, and he said nothing to them without a parable. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet. …
… Let them grow together until harvest. Then at the harvest time, I will say to the harvesters, First collect the weeds and tie them into bundles for burning. but gathered the wheat into my barn. He proposed another parable to them. The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full grown, it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches. He spoke to them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables. To fulfill what had been said to the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables. I will announce what has laid hidden from the foundation of the world. Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, explain to us the parables of the weeds in the field. He said in reply, he who sows good seed is the son of man. The field is the world, and the good seed the children of the kingdom. …
… What an honor. I'll be sharing today from the parable of the seed in Matthew chapter 13, verses 24 through 30. Now, this is not the parable that's normally called the parable of the seeds. The parable of the seeds we hear more about is actually the parable of the soils. Because Jesus taught these parables, he would go out and he would give a teaching. On one level it would sound simple, but you reflect on it and you pray about it, and it It really helps you to see what the kingdom of God is like, and it helps you to see what you're like. One of those parables that has helped me so much through the year… He talks about a seed that was sown in four different places. One was sown on rocky soil, so because the soil was too rocky, the bird came and snatched it up. That seed got snatched, so it didn't do what it was supposed to do. Then there was one seed that was sown in a place where it was scorched by the sun, which represents the trials of life. Since it didn't have a root or a foundation, the sun was too strong for it, and it got cooked up before it could come forth. I said it got cooked up before it could come forth. Some promises God speaks to you… The sun, the affliction, the heat of trial, it tests that seed before it has had the chance to develop, and you don't pass the test. …
… you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. And at the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, first, gather together the tares, bind them in bundles to burn them. Gather the wheat into my barn. And then the disciples came to him because they had questions, just like you have questions. Hearing that, they were like, okay, great, awesome. I'm going to need you to explain. And I, for one, am so grateful for their honesty because just what Jesus was hoping for. He told the parables to tease out faith, and some went their way and were like, oh, that's a stupid story, or okay, well, that's great, but what am I supposed to do about that? But what he wanted them to do was to dig deeper. What he wanted them to do was to use faith and to ask and to press in, and that's exactly what he got. In between, he uses some Old Testament prophecies that talk about how there was a hardness of heart of the nation of Israel, how even hearing him, even getting what they wanted. They rejected it. And so they were fulfilling prophecy by not understanding what he was talking about. He came to his own. His own received him not, right? And then look at verse 36. Here's some good news. Jesus sent the multitude away, and he went into the house. Which house is this? The house of Peter. Why did Jesus go in Peter's house? We're told specifically Peter …
… For in gathering the weeds, you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest. And at harvest time, I will tell the reapers, collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned. But gather the wheat into my barn. This is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. For obvious reasons, today's passage from the good book is known as the parable of the wheat and the weeds. In this story, a farmer plants a field with wheat. An enemy then shows up and plants other seeds in the same field. Servants eventually notice the rogue plants, the weeds, and report them to the field's owner. Finally, the servants and the farmer discuss what to do about this mixture of different plants, weeds and wheat. Now, typically, after we read one of Christ's parables together in worship, we approach the story with a series of questions. Why did Jesus say this? How would first century folk react to that part of the story and so forth? …
… wait until the harvest. Matthew 13, verse 30, allow both to grow together until the harvest. In other words, you don't have the discernment, you don't have the knowledge to begin to act as if you know the true condition of every heart. The harvest will reveal that. In the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers, first, gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up, but gather the wheat into My barn. The wheat and the tares will be distinguished at the end at the harvest. And the harvest is over and again repeated in that chapter as the end of the age, the end of the age, the end of the age. Our Lord said it three times. Wait till the end of the age. God, using His holy angels, will bring about the accurate distinction between the fake and the real. Those that are the false will be burned up, and those that are the true will be barned up in the kingdom. …