Being “ALL IN” Battling the Muck and the Mire!

As we go through life we will have times when we have to deal with the muck and the mire of life just go through it or a round it. When things that are going on a round you that you don’t like you have to learn to deal with it, until the right time comes along.

Pastor Jerry has really been hitting on Being ALL IN for 2020 and that mean we press on and push through the difficult things in life so we can be who and do what God has called us to do.

Sometimes it is very hard and challenging, but it can and is usually very rewarding as we fulfill the call of the Lord in our lives.

We are going to look at the parable of the wheat and the tares!

The wheat is good!

The wheat is good!

The tare is bad!

But they have to coexist for a season and then they are to be separated from one another.

Matthew 13:24–30 ESV

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Matthew 13:24-30

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Tells the Parable of the Weeds / 13:24–30 / 80

He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.” N Jesus explained that the kingdom grows quietly and abundantly, yet evil still exists in the world.

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Tells the Parable of the Weeds / 13:24–30 / 80

After the plants have grown, the owner’s servants report the surprising appearance of the weeds. Jesus did not identify the servants in his explanation of this parable. The servants knew the master had sowed good seed.

So we ask ourselves where did these bad seed come from!

So let me ask you this are church goers christians and going to Heaven?

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Tells the Parable of the Weeds / 13:24–30 / 80

They may be people in the church who appear to be believers but who never truly believe.

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Tells the Parable of the Weeds / 13:24–30 / 80

To interpret the meaning more broadly—the kingdom of God is present and growing in a world full of sin and unbelief. God will not eliminate all opposition until the end of the age.

We will see in 2Peter that the church is warned about false teachers and prophets.

2 Peter 2:1–3 ESV

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

English Standard Version Chapter 2

2 But mfalse prophets also arose among the people, njust as there will be false teachers among you, who will osecretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master pwho bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth qwill be blasphemed. 3 And rin their greed they will exploit you swith false words. tTheir condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

English Standard Version Chapter 2

But mfalse prophets also arose among the people, njust as there will be false teachers among you, who will osecretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master pwho bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth qwill be blasphemed. 3 And rin their greed they will exploit you swith false words. tTheir condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Tells the Parable of the Weeds / 13:24–30 / 80

The enemy, Satan (13:39), is always working to obstruct the growth of God’s kingdom. The enemy caused a problem, but the weeds could not stop the growth of the wheat. The wheat just grew alongside the weeds. So the servants dutifully asked if they should go and pull up the weeds.

When you gather the bad you will always hurt the good too, so it is better allow them to grow up together and then they will be separated at the right time.

What is this saying the day of judgment is coming and the children of God will enter into Heaven and the children of the Satan will be consumed by the firry pit.

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This why it say the wheat will be stored in the barns and the weeds will be burned.

Revelation 14:14–16 ESV

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Jesus also shares about the mustard seed faith and how important it is to have faith that you are ALL IN on!

Why because it grows, and grows, and grows and grows!

The more we are ALL IN we will grow in our faith and have less and less doubt, stress, worry, anxiety and fear about what the future holds and what the Lord has plan for you.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Can I show you what a mustard seed looks like, would you like one!

Do you not think Jesus know the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning?

I want to close with this in mind, so I want you to listen to what this passage from Jeremiah says when you have faith and know what true faith is.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Jeremiah 29:12–14 ESV

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Here is what this passage is telling us!

When we are “ALL IN” and

You

When you call on Him and pray He will hear

When you seek Him with all your heart you will be found

He will restore you

He will bring you back from your pain, hurt, fear, anxiety your exile!

Listen we all live in a fallen world that is in real need of a Savior named Jesus who loves them and desires to help them, but the caveat they have to want Him!