Wheat represents the Christian believer, Tare is a type of grass that looks like wheat, but is nothing but a weed and will not produce a head like wheat, only at maturity can one tell the difference. An interesting note about wheat is that when the wheat grass begins to grow, if other grass or tares start to grow among the crop, nothing can be done about it until harvest or the good wheat will be destroyed as well.
The sad thing is that when a crop has become so full of tares then many times it will take up the water for growth and choke out the wheat so that, at harvest, the heads are very sparse or even dead, producing no grain at all.
Are we in danger of producing a group of church-goers that cannot bear fruit? A group that cannot reproduce the Kingdom of God, as they really have no understanding of it. Oh, they know what they see, but not what is the reality of the Spirit of God and the Christian life. How many young believers are shaped in their spiritual growth by such a group as this? There must be true growth in a Christian's life or there is only a dead plant taking up sustenance, with no capacity for producing life. We should all take a self-examination and see what is in our heart. If you are a believer, and have been living a life away from the Lord, repent(turn around) from that way of living and live for Christ who saved you. If you think you may be just living a "church-life", ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you, ask someone who you know is a Christian believer to tell you about salvation. There must be a recognition that you can never please God enough to be saved by your own works and are ultimately bound to die and be sent to a place reserved for the rebellious called Hell by the English language (those that choose to live a life of dis-obedience to the Lord, making a mockery of the death and resurrection of Christ). It does not have to be this way for you, we are still in the age of grace where sins of the truly repentant are forgiven. I pray you will repent if you have never done so, and live your life for Christ, then go and tell others what He has done for you.
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