Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Church of the Tares

Is the Church of Jesus today the,"First Church of the Tares"? Are we so full of Tares and not wheat that anything is acceptable under the right circumstances? Are you confused by what I am saying? Let me explain.
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.

Matthew 13:24-30

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares  
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 2930 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares 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 bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

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