We live in a humanist with schools that teach that there is nothing more than this physical reality. They insist that you dear reader are just chemical reactions and when you die those chemical reactions stop and therefore you are no more. They want you to agree there is no eternal, no spiritual self, and certainly nothing eternal. Yet here we are discussing spiritual things and some of the most read posts on this website are about demons. So today I am going to take a look at the parable of the weeds that Jesus told to the disciples.
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.”’” Matthew 13:24-30 ESV
Two Seeds
The main take away here is that there are two types of seeds. Seeds that the farmer wants to grow and seeds that the farmer’s enemy wants to grow. At harvest time the plants are separated and the plants that the farm did not want are burned. The plants of harvest that the farmer did want are taken to his barn.
Parable Explained
This parable of the weeds is about the spiritual war that is ongoing around us right now. We being the plants are passive in this parable. We do nothing other than grow where we are planted. God and Satan are the actors. Thankfully the disciples ask Jesus to explain the parable and he does exactly that in the next few verses.
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. Matthew 13:36-39 ESV
What God Wants Us to Know
This explanation is haunting to me because it sets a perspective for this world and gives us the broad strokes for the end game. So we can break it down into facts Jesus wanted us to know and our humanist education wants to hide.
| Parable | Translation | Verse |
| Sower | Jesus | v37 |
| Field | World | v38 |
| Good Seed | Sons of the kingdom | v38 |
| Weeds | Sons of the evil one | v38 |
| Enemy | Devil | v39 |
| Harvest Time | End of the age | v39 |
| Harvesters | Angels | v39 |
Which Seed Are You?
Jesus in his explanation of the parable of weeds gives us the actors on this stage. He also tells us what the final act will be. Jesus is planting seeds to grow a harvest. You dear reader live on the planet where all of this is happening. That means you are a seed. But there are two kinds of seed. There is the seed that Jesus wants to grow and there is seed that was planted by his enemy. And this leads me to an uncomfortable question. Which seed are you? Were you planted by Christ to be gathered into his barn or where you planted by the devil to choke out the seed planted by Jesus. This question should not be a shock to us. The Bible is clear throughout that there are two types of people in this world.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 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. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Matthew 25:31-33 ESV
Good News
What happens to you dear reader when the Son of Man who planted the field for a harvest comes to collect? Did the enemy plant you? What if you are from the Devil intended to choke out the plans of God? Dear reader I have good news and hope for you. I have gospel good news that what the enemy intended for evil God in his glorious mercy and grace can turn to good.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. John 15:1 ESV
Jesus Transforms Seeds
Jesus is no ordinary farmer. He is God in the flesh. Jesus made himself part of the garden. And the father is the master gardener the vinedresser. Jesus came to earth that is corrupted with seed planted by the enemy and he provides a way for the weeds to be made part of the kingdom of heaven. If you were born into lawlessness and evil planted by Satan himself there is time for you. God makes all things right.
13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 16 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. Romans 11:13-16 ESV
Abide In Jesus
You can be removed from the evil seed you were planted by and grafted into Jesus who is a root that is holy. He will provide life giving nourishment to you an evil weed that transforms you into a branch that bears the kind of fruit that God desires.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 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. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. John 15:4-6 ESV
What Seed Will You Be?
Now is your time dear reader. What Satan intended for evil Jesus redeems and restores. You have a moment of grace and mercy to turn to Jesus. He transforms weeds, you and me, into a new branch. A branch that bears life. Or you can continue on a path of destruction choking out life all around you and destined for the fire.
