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Weed or Wheat?

April 12th, 2006
MATT 13:24-30
1.) KINGDOM:

  • KING
  • LAW OF THE LAND
  • SUBJECTS
  • ENEMIES

MAN = JESUS

2.) Wheat = Christians
Weeds = Christians
Enemies = Satan
Harvesters = Angels
Harvest time = judgement day
Barn = Heaven

3. Q: What most enemies try to do to us?
A: Ruin you, oppose your work, bad propaganda, destroy you.

4. Q: Are most people aware daily that Satan is planning to ruin them?

5. The Weeds and the Wheat look identical. (Bearded darnel) until harvest when their fruit is revealed.
Q: So spiritually what distinguishes the weeds from the wheat?
A: Fruit

6. Q: What Bad fruit does God not want us to bear?
A: Selfishness , sexual immorality, racism, drunkenness.

7. Q: What good fruit?
A: Other Christians, helping the poor, prayer, repentance.

8. V30
Q: What do you learn from this verse?
A: Judgement day will right all the wrongs, OJ will be punished / acquitted, Hitler will be punished.

Now let see how close we were
Matt 13:36-43
Q: Are you a weed or Wheat?
Q: Do you want to change?

God has set it up so we can be transformed from weed to wheat.