LIKE FATHER, LIKE SONS: WHEAT AND TARE Published by Sowing the Word of God May 3, 2018

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SONS: WHEAT AND TARE Published by Sowing the Word of God May 3, 2018 Matthew 13:24-30 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares? 28 He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Do you want us then to go and gather them up? 29 But he said, No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn. did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares? John 8:31-47 Then Yehoshua (Jesus) said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered Him, We are Abraham s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, You will be made free? 34 Yehoshua answered them, Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham s descendants, but you 1

seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. 38 I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Yehoshua said to them, If you were Abraham s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God. 42 Yehoshua said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God. You are of your father the devil Matthew 4:1-4 Then Yehoshua was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread. 4 But he answered, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. He was a murderer from the beginning Genesis 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. 2

He was a murderer from the beginning and the desires of your father you want to do. Genesis 4:8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Genesis 25:27 And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field Genesis 27:41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob. Luke 22:1-6 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover. 2 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill Him, for they feared the people. 3 Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude. John 16:2-3 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. 3 And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law (Torah), yet none of you keeps the law (Torah)? Why do you seek to kill Me? And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread. 3

You do the deeds of your father Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. Luke 22:66-71 As soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council, saying, 67 If You are the Messiah, tell us. But He said to them, If I tell you, you will by no means believe. 68 And if I also ask you, you will by no means answer Me or let Me go. 69 Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the power of God. 70 Then they all said, Are You then the Son of God? So He said to them, You say that I am. 71 And they said, What further testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Genesis 3:1-4 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die. 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do Matthew 15:1-9 4

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Yehoshua, saying, 2 Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 He answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother ; and, He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. 5 But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God 6 then he need not honor his father or mother. Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8 These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. Psalm 119:160 The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. there is no truth in him Psalm 119:142 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law (Torah) is truth. he is a liar and the father of it 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy 5

with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Psalm 119:29 Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law (Torah) graciously. Psalm 119:163 I hate and abhor lying, But I love Your law (Torah). These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me Psalm 119:150-151 They draw near who follow after wickedness; They are far from Your law (Torah). 151 You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth. Deuteronomy 30:9-14 For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, 10 when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law (Torah), when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 11 For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it? 14 But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. 6

Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law (Torah) is within my heart. If you were Abraham s children, you would do the works of Abraham Genesis 26:4-5 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws (Torot). If God were your Father, you would love Me John 14:15-24 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans (fatherless); I will come to you. 19 A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world? 23 Yehoshua answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father s who sent Me. He who is of God hears God s words Deuteronomy 18:17-19 7

And the Lord said to me: What they have spoken is good. 18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. Acts 3:19-23 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Yehoshua Messiah, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. John 1:1-2, 10-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God John 15:12-15 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one s life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 8

Luke 6:35-36 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. 1 Peter 1:22-25 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away, 25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. James 1:21-22 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. John 3:5-7 Yehoshua answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. John 6:63-64 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe. 9

as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. Revelation 19:13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Ephesians 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, just as Messiah also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word Romans 7:14 For we know that the law (Torah) is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Yehoshua stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Yehoshua was not yet glorified. I know that you are Abraham s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law (Torah), yet none of you keeps the law (Torah)? Why do you seek to kill Me? 10

Yehoshua said to them, If you were Abraham s children, you would do the works of Abraham. Genesis 26:4b-5 in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws (Torot). Abrahams descendants are born of the corruptible flesh seed. They believe themselves to be of God, but do the works of the flesh, and doctrine and tradition of men, because the truth and love of God s Word is not in their hearts and minds. Abrahams children are those born of God s Word, the incorruptible, Spiritual seed of promise, which lives and abides forever. They do the works of Abraham by the Spirit. Abraham obeyed God s voice and kept His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws (Torot). God s children, Abraham s seed, are those who have received the Messiah and the implanted Torah of truth in their hearts and minds. Like Abraham, they obey the truth of the entirety of God s Word through the Spirit of Messiah that is in them. Romans 8:5-9 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law (Torah) of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, he is not His. Galatians 3:29 And if you are Messiah s, then you are Abraham s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Like father, like sons. 11

love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one s life for his friends. love your enemies and you will be sons of the Most High. be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren or when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field Esau hated Jacob and Esau said in his heart I will kill my brother Jacob. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill Him The tares are in the field with the wheat. Matthew 13:36-43 Then Yehoshua sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! 1 John 3:4-15 12

Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother s righteous. 13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. The sons of the wicked one are in the world with the Sons of God. How will we be known as children of God? John 13:33-35 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you cannot come, so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. Like father, like sons. Wheat... He who is of God hears God s words and Tare. 13

you do not hear, because you are not of God. 14