Mat 13:25 “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
The wife and I attended a minister’s conference in Gadsden, Alabama about 1972. Some of my friends here will remember those great meetings back in that day. We stayed in a motel near the meeting place. I turned the TV on one Sunday. There was a preacher preaching the Word of God like a house afire. The Holy Ghost was moving on the man. More then once, I shouted praises to God since I felt such a great witness of the Holy Ghost of what he was preaching from the Word. I wanted to jump up and do the old timey Holy Ghost boogie. He was feeding my soul by bread cooked in heaven made from the “finest of wheat.” See Psa 81:16 The bread was delicious and it satisfied my soul, still hot, fresh out of the ovens of heaven. It was wonderful.
Then toward the end of his sermon in his closing remarks, he preached a few short minutes on the Trinity. I was flabbergasted. He caused the fire from heaven to fall while preaching on television for the whole world to see but ended up preaching the trinity. Had I not been firmly founded in the Word of God, I would have not only eaten the bread from the wheat but I would have also eaten the tares of error from the Word of God in regards to a false precept of God. They both grew together in thirty minutes of television time. While the wheat is nutritious, tares which look very similar to wheat are poisonous. Mingled together it was death to all who ate it.
Yes, fire fell. Only a wooden Indian could not have seen and the fire falling. Someone who would have been less sensitive to the operation of the Holy Ghost upon the Word could have easily been deceived after watching the thirty minutes of much wheat and a few tares. It opened my eyes, I suppose, for the first time to what is meant in
Rev 13:13,14 “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.” Indeed, I witnessed the fire that fell that day.
How easily it is for the enemy to come in while men sleep and to sow tares among the wheat, validated by such a powerful display from heaven which came down in my motel room from the thirty minute broadcast by a FALSE PROPHET. Many would have been deceived by the sight of the great miracle of calling fire down from heaven upon us all.
Once I witnessed a power display from the Word of God proving from scripture that tares of Once Saved Always Saved was the wheat bread from heaven. It was such a powerful display that no rational mind could refute the Word apart from many other scriptures which would have corrected this error. This error, as tares, has slipped in among the Apostolic ranks, while men slept. One of the largest Apostolic churches in America was pastored by a powerful One-God Apostolic Pastor who could also call fire down from heaven in sight of men. With an astonishing display of power and human reasoning from the Word of God, Bishop Brazier led his very large church to embrace those tares as the Word of God. Today, Bishop Brazier is deceased. His Son is the Pastor, the last that I heard. As far as I know that large Apostolic Church in Chicago still preaches Acts 2:38, One-God of plan of salvation but with a little once-saved-always-saved tares to go along with it. While the wheat of the Word gives life, the tares of carnal reasoning from the Word brings forth death. All while men slept.
I could name many such situations that have slipped in among us which persists to this day. Once there was a man by the name of Bishop G.B. Rowe of South Bend, Indiana, a powerfully anointed preacher who founded what was once known as the Greater Midway Tabernacle, now known as Apostolic Temple. It was then the largest Apostolic assembly in the United Pentecostal Church with many thousands of members. My late Pastor, G.A. Mangun was, as a boy, a part of that church. When Bishop G.B. Rowe was scheduled to speak at a UPC General Conference, the auditoriums could not hold the crowds that came to hear him preach. In time, tares slipped in. He bought into “The Adam Doctrine.” That doctrine caused his separation from the UPC. Tares did its damage even though it is not preached any more, as far as I know, yet, the very large church continues on, even after devastating affects of the tares that came in among them, while men slept.
Yes, I could name many more death dealing tares that have slipped in among us…such as the Marital Purity doctrine while caused a great deal of confusion. The Never Die doctrine of tares caused a great deal of damage. They preached that everyone who had the faith in God that they would never die in the flesh. Some one told me that they who were so strong and adamant, causing so much grief in the church by their tares of “Never Die’ are all now DEAD.
I suppose the worst and most deadly of all the tares, since they are so prolific, is the “End-Time Dispensationalism Doctrine since it is almost universally accepted as good bread from the finest of wheat. It’s a fairly new doctrine that has slipped in among us in the early 20th century fostered by the likes of John N. Darby, C.I. Scofield and a few others, now propagated in Fundamentalist and Pentecostal Bible colleges. You and I have heard them preach “end-time” tares until the house almost catches on fire. Watch ‘em. Preach end-time tares and thrown in a good deal of true wheat bread such as John 3:5 and Acts 2:38 together with Heb 12:14 and then watch the crowds. They will hungrily eat it all up leaving not a crumb of the wheat or….tares either.
Try to reason with the doctors of the Trinity, Once-Saved, End-time, or any other false and poisonous tares, for every scripture that would refute their error, they will have one or more to counter your scripture. Ever get into an honest discussion with a learned Trinitarian? You should do that at some point after preparing yourself in prayer, armed with the Word. You will hear them prove to their satisfaction the Trinity tares. Why, Trinity is easy to understand, according to them, look right here in Jon 14:16….
And I will pray… Here is one member of the Trinity. He is going to pray to
the Father he shall give you…. Here is another member of the Holy Trinity.
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever….here is the 3rd member of the Trinity.
Why, that sounds reasonable to anyone who has one eye and two brain cells. Proof enough, they will argue, right out of the written Word of God. That is only one of many proof text which prove to the sleeping crowd that these tares are the Word of God, true bread from heaven.
Tares of Trinity, nothing unlike the tares of Once-Saved, Adam Doctrine, Never-Die and End-Time Dispensational delusions are all tares sowed in among the wheat while MEN SLEPT. Jesus identified the one who did this to the wheat field.
“So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matt 13:37-30)
I would say to my friends here, whom I love, if there are any tares growing up in your heart and mind, I suggest that you pull them up out of your thoughts and affections of the heart now while you still have time to do so. If not, there will come a day that they will be separated from the wheat by the angels along with all who have willingly accepted them into themselves. Both the tares and those who cling to them will be separated by the angels at long last. The harvest of wheat along with those who have it IN their minds and hearts will be gathered as a great harvest in HIS BARN. Those who have willingly held on to the tares and have not separated themselves from it, will be gathered as bundles to be burned. Jesus warned us that an ENEMY HATH DONE THIS. Let us not be part and parcel with the ENEMY.
We must pray and sincerely seek the Lord that he might be merciful to us that we see what is a tare and what is wheat growing up in our minds and in our affections. If we truly seek the Lord, he will open up his Word to us that we might be able to see the poison of tares and with his help and grace we come to not only see it but to also reject it and root it up for ourselves before the angels (the workers) root it up together with ourselves and us out of the harvest.
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