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The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43)
Dave Sunman, 27 September 2015
Part of the The Parables of Jesus series, Sunday Morning service
It is our harvest celebration today. It is a time to acknowledge all that God has provided for us and to recognise those who don’t have as much. We have so much reason for thankfulness and celebration. We will be giving an opportunity to support our harvest offerings with food for the Foodbank and Herts Young Homeless and with money for the BMS project, My Father’s House.
The image of harvest is also used in the Bible as a picture of the end of the age (e.g. Joel 3:12-13). In today’s parable we consider how our world has good and evil right alongside each other until God comes in judgment to separate them.
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Matthew 13:24–30 (Listen)
24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 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?’ 28 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?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 30 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.”’”
(ESV)
Matthew 13:36–43 (Listen)
36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” 37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, 42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
(ESV)