As I was reflecting on the today's passage, I was wondering why then Jesus called church as a body of Christ? Can His body contain with ones that belong to the Evil? According to Jesus' parable, do the weeds represent unbelievers who are destined to be separated eternally from God?
I don't know if I was analyzing too much from the content, but for what purpose God allowed the weeds to be grown in the same field as the wheat?
Can the weeds convert to the wheat and vice verse?
Are the weeds placed by the evil to interrupt the wheat from growing in faith and doing God's work?
I guess I was full of questions and rebellious attitude toward the interpretation of the parable because my ideal or unrealistic hope and dream that even the people who are in the church are truly believers. Perhaps they are facing some issues with sins and need to be corrected, but not to be thrown into the Fire at the end because they are counterfeit Christians. Of course the thought came into me because I was thinking about the people in our church as well as some of my family members and friends who go to church yet I do doubt their sincerity and genuineness when it comes to faith.
I guess, as Stott mentioned, it is God who will ultimately separate the wheat from the weeds at the end of time. But what do we do as the people surely belong to God with this regard? The author certainly told us not to do the work that belongs to God nor pass judgement on those who profess to be true believers.
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t is so easy for us to judge others...isn't it? even when there are so many verses in the bible that allude to the danger of this. This passage is a good wake up call to check yourself first...i don't want to be a weed... :(
i so want to be wheat :)
thanks, kwijung, for an honest and insightful post.
within our own ODM group are wheat and tares (weeds). God's Word is always proved right.
one thing that occurred to me was verse 29 (in matthew 13) where Jesus responds to His servants' suggestion that they pull out the weeds themselves.
"No", He answered, "because while you are pulling out the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them".
this suggests that there is some kind of danger of identifying and uprooting the "weeds" (the unbelievers) until the wheat (the true believers) are fully mature in their faith.
Jesus states in verse 30: "let both grow together until the harvest".
in other words, both unbelievers and believers must "grow" and be completely "rooted" in what they believe--heresy and half-truths for the first group; "the" absolute truth of Christ for the second.
the roots of each plant will grow very deep over time. when they are at last pulled out, there will be no mistake as to who belongs to which group.
Verse 25 (in Matthew 13) 'while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away...' really striked me.
-WHILE EVERYONE WAS SLEEPING- it reminds again that the devil is so scheming and crafty. We as a church need to guard ourselves and be alert.
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