WHEAT AND TARES

The Wheat

Christ has promised to save people from all over the world.

Matthew 16:18 “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 28:19-20, Revelation 7:9-10)

People are born again by the Word of God.

See 1 Corinthians 3:5-7 and 1 Peter 1:23-25...

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

We are His workmanship. God chooses and predestines us. Christ seeks us. God calls us. The Spirit convicts us. The Father draws us. God causes us to be born again. God grants us repentance. God gives us faith. Christ redeems and forgives us. Christ justifies us. He adopts us. Christ sanctifies us. Christ intercedes for us. The Father, Son, and Spirit keep us. He will glorify us. He will finish His work in us. He will never cast us out.

Christ’s people will be known by their good fruit and changed lives.

John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:8 “By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”

Matthew 7:20 “Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.”

The Tares

The word used for tares or weeds, is a variety of darnel weed that closely resembles wheat and is almost impossible to distinguish from it until the wheat ripens and bears grain.

The children of Satan are not always easy to identify for a while.

See 2 Corinthians 11:13-15...

Matthew 7:13 ““Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.”

See Matthew 7:21-23...

The children of Satan will be revealed by their lack of good fruit.

1 John 3:10 “By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.”

John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (Ephesians 2:1-3)

The Harvest

The Day of Judgment will reveal the true believers and the lost.

Matthew 25:31–32 ““When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”

Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.””

The lost will be cast into hell for all eternity.

See 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9...

Revelation 20:15 “And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

The saved will rejoice in the Lord’s presence forever.

John 14:1–3 ““Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”