Jesus gave us the parable of the Wheat and the Tare – both allowed to grow side-by-side in churches. At “the end” the undesirable tares (“weeds [resembling wheat]“) will be gathered and burned up. The desired wheat will be harvested for good, to be stored in the farmers barn (in God’s Kingdom). See: Matthew 3:12, and Matthew 13:24-30.
12 His [a]winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”
– Matthew 3:12
Tares are not wheat.
Tares are:
the unrepentant (Matthew 3:12)
lightweight chafe (Matthew 3:12 footnote)
weeds resembling wheat (Matthew 13:25)
wannabee Christians – faking it – apostate – a world of illusion
weeds sowed by the enemy (Matthew 13:25)
The unrepentant tares
There are unrepentant “tares” all around us at church, and in churches all around the world. The lovely folk around you, your friends at church – some are tares. That is what Jesus Himself taught. They are the ones spoken of by Matthew, Luke, John, and Paul:
* ones who are not “of us”
1 John 2:19 “They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.
* so-called Christians, but not real… just wannabees
* apostate church leaders:
ravenous wolfs teaching their own earth-fabricated system of belief instead of staying faithful to the God-made system of justice — what God established, what He shares with us in the Bible (1 Timothy 1:3b-4).
– Source: Fight the good fight
* ones who say “Lord, Lord” but …”who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]” – Matthew 7:21-23
* the sons of this age [the non-believers], shrewd in “the ways of the secular world” – Luke 16:8-11
* ones who have “not been faithful in the use of earthly wealth” – Verses 10-11 of Luke 16:8-11
* “he who is dishonest in a very little thing” (“is also dishonest in much”) – Verses 10-11 of Luke 16:8-11
Have you considered the possibility that Jesus knows you as a tare?
Don’t be a tare,
running with the wheaties
thinking you are wheat
then hearing Jesus say
depart from Me…
then forever wanting…
forever without good…
forever with no second chance…
forever lost.
Oh scary thought.
FOR MORE:
The world of illusion of some churchgoers
The Chutzpah of Wannabee “Christians”
About being apostate, following “another gospel”
Salvation in Christ is beyond huge
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