♪ In the sweet and sorrowing mountains
♪ ♪ There to bear the pure and pious ♪ ♪ In the bread we'll
do our part ♪ ♪ Help with all our pain and strife ♪ He did, I don't fully understand,
but he believed in the Spirit of God in his soul. So it's very,
very important to know the Spirit of God in your life. He
spoke of that in Pyrrha in Acts chapter 13. And this is the water. Of the seven parables which our
Lord spoke in this thirteenth chapter, this is the one that
the disciples wanted Him to explain to them. He spoke seven parables,
but yet this is the one. that they said, look at verse
thirty six in this chapter. After he sent the multitudes
away and went into the house, his disciples said unto him,
Lord, declare unto us the parable of the sobering, of the tares
and the wheat, tares of the field. Explain this one to them. They
knew, I believe, they knew that this was, had something to do
with the end times. And so they were interested,
as we are. Most people are. But the fact
of the matter is, it really only bodes well for wheat. It behooves
all of us to find out whether or not we're wheat or tares.
All right? So this is the subject that he's
dealing with. There's five things that we find
in this parable. Very simply, the sower, the seed,
and the field. And then we're going to look
at wheat, and we'll look at the tares, and then we'll look at
the growth of both of those, and then the harvest. Are you
with me? OK. All right. The sower, his
seed, and the field. Look at the parable, verse 24.
Says the king he said the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field. Now who is this sower
who is this man. I look over at verse thirty seven
he tells us he answered and said unto his disciples he that soweth
the good seed is the son of man. It's Christ himself he is the
sower he's the husbandman or in other words he owns everything.
God gave him all things. Romans 14 says he earned this
right, lived, died, and rose again that he might be Lord both
of the dead and the living. And God hath made him heir of
all things. He owns the field. It's his field,
the world. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and the inhabitants thereof. Psalm
24. Belongs to him. He earned the
right. And he is the sower of the seed. Now it's called the kingdom of
heaven though. He says the kingdom of heaven. He's talking about
this thing of salvation. The kingdom of heaven because
it's a spiritual kingdom. Our Lord said my kingdom is not
of this world. It's not of this world. He said
if it were, my servants would fight. If it were, my servants,
my apostles, my prophets of old, my evangelists, my pastors, my
teachers would take up all of the social issues. They would
take up all of the political causes. They themselves would
be running for office so that a good and honest man could be
elected. But it's not of this world. So we're not to be taken
up with the things of this world. That's what he said. That doesn't
just mean materialism, that means All of the things that the world
is concerned about, we're not. We're just passing through, just
passing through. We're looking for another world.
So he says it's a kingdom of heaven. It's not of this world. But his subjects now, all of
the king, and he is the king, Christ is king. His subjects
are taken from this world. And such is the parable here.
They are born, they grow up in this world like wheat. We're
going to see that in a moment. All right. Christ is the sower
which sowed good seed in his field. As I said, it's his field. All things belong to him. He's
the one that sows all things. He's the one that does all things. Known unto the Lord are all his
work. Known unto God are all his work
from the beginning. He worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will." God, Christ, the one and the same.
They have purposed all things. They've preordained all things,
predestined all things. That's the God of the Bible.
That's why he's God. All right? He sows all things. All right, it says good seed.
What's that? Well, if you said the word, some
of you didn't mouth that. Peter said the word of God is
the incorruptible seed by which we're born again. But that's
not what he's talking about right here. He's talking about his
people, because Isaiah 53, 10 says this, he shall see his seed. Talking about Christ after the
travail of his soul after he went through what he did after
he the corn of wheat that fell into the ground and died that
it might bring forth what fruit. He shall see his seed. He's the
corn of his seed. He's the word which was planted
to bring forth his seed his people and Psalm twenty two thirty says
a seed that shall serve him. a sea. That's talking about God's
people. A good sea. Now, they're not
that way naturally. Not that way naturally. They're
good. Let me tell you why. I'll give
you a few reasons why. Because they're a choice sea. They're His choice. They're good
because they're His. That's what makes them good.
Look so many times at dogs, haven't you? A dog is a dog. The world's
full of dogs. Too many dogs. They euthanize
dogs every day, don't they? By the thousands. Well, I've
got a dog. And I happen to think he's a
good dog. Why is he a good dog to me? He's my dog. He acts like a dog most of the
time, Ron. He acts like a dog most of the
time. He does things that dogs do. But he's my dog. And he is good in the sense that
he obeys me. He's my dog. He knows it. I know
it. He follows me. I call him, he
comes. He serves me as much as he can. He serves me. He's a good dog. Though he's just a dog. He's
a good dog because he's my dog. That's what makes God people
good. Good for anything. Because they're here. Choice.
Good seed. Good seed. Because they're here.
And Peter wrote, he says, we're a chosen generation. A royal
priesthood. A holy nation. A peculiar people. Not in ourselves, are we? but
in him in Christ. So good seed in that sense and
we'll see in a minute how that this seed comes from the incorruptible
seed. All right. He's the sower. The world is the field. His people
are sown in it. All right. There are wheat and
the tares in our parable, in the Lord's parable. Wheat and
tare. We're going to look at the wheat first. Wheat. All right. Why are they called wheat? I've
already told you, because it's a choice grain. Wheat is a, what
you would call a choice grain, fine grain, choice grain. You know that wheat, let me just
give you a little fact here, wheat is the most important grain
on earth. Absolutely, because it's the
most widely used grain on earth. 600 million tons of wheat were
consumed last year. 600 million tons of wheat. Europe,
over in Europe, the European countries, the average consumer,
50% of their wages go toward some kind of
wheat item. You know how the Italians and
all of that like their bread and so forth. They couldn't eat
without it. That's why. Everything in their
life is centered around bread which comes from wheat. That's
an interesting fact, isn't it? That's no mere coincidence. God's
people are called wheat. Their choice grain in this earth
the elect of God God's people are called these things listen
to this in the scripture God's calls his people the excellence
of the earth. That's what he called the people
the excellence of the earth and we know you know Christ is
it talks about his excellency well in him God's people are
Excellent. They're called the precious.
Do you know that? Scripture calls His people precious.
Precious to Him. Well, who's precious? Christ
is precious. Well, in Him. God's people are
precious. They're called the honorable
of the earth. They're called salt. Salt of the earth. The preserving influence, the
savory influence that believers, God's people have upon this earth.
What would the world be like without believers? They're called
the scripture says of whom the world is not worthy. The Lord
led the apostle to write Hebrews 11, which extols God's people,
doesn't it? And I concur, I agree, don't
you? The world's not worthy of these
people. Don't you? Don't think about yourself. Don't
think about yourself, all right? Nobody in here should or could
apply that to themselves. But can't you say that about
God's people? They're choice people. Salt of
the earth. Of whom the world is not worthy.
I think of many whom the world is not worthy. And quite often
God removes them. As in Isaiah 57, the righteous
perish and the world doesn't consider him. He takes the choice
ones early. That's right. As if to say, well,
that's what Isaiah 57, that good men are spared from the evil
days to come and win them. That's God's choice of people.
Honestly, that's the way it is with ones I've known, some of
the greatest, dearest saints on earth. Raymond Gearhart, isn't
it? And on and on I could mention
these whom the Lord took early on. My, my, Linda Stonicker. Choice people, choice, of whom
the world is not worthy. Good grain, good grain of the
Lord's making, yeah, but good grain nonetheless. And why is
that? Because they are a product of
a rare and choice seed called the Word of God, the incorruptible
Word. That's how they got to be like
they are. God planted this incorruptible seed in them and brought forth
a new creature created in the image of Jesus Christ, holy,
like Christ in the image of Christ. They bear his image, a product
of a rare and choice seed. You look at, you've sown some
wheat, haven't you, Henry? Winter wheat, I'm sure, the cover
crops. Fine seed, real fine, choice
seed. It's profitable. It's called
good seed. Wheat is profitable. As I told
you, so many people use it. Dan, I pity you for your intolerance
of gluten. Is that what it is? Is that wheat?
I'm sorry, man. You see how this parable doesn't,
no parable can work perfectly. Dan can't live without bread.
You've got something else to substitute, don't you? wheat is profitable grain, and
God's people are profitable to this earth. Old Potiphar. Remember
old Potiphar? There was a man in his jailhouse
first that he greatly profited from, named Joseph. And he ended
up, his whole house profited from Joseph being there. That's
the way it is with God's people. Old Laban had a son-in-law, and
Laban got rich. Jacob was his name, his son-in-law.
The only reason that Sodom lasted as long as it did, and that's
why Lot was there. And you know the Scripture says
that. In Gened it says, unless the Lord had left us a remnant,
we'd have been in Sodom and Gomorrah a long time ago. The Lord burnt
this earth up long time ago. It wasn't for his people, except
for believers were here. Wheat, so they're, as I said,
wheat, they're compared to wheat because of choice and profitable
grain that comes from rare and fine choice seed and the Word
of God, the Word of God. Wheat takes time to ripen up. It's not a fast-growing crop. It takes time to ripen. First
comes like a root. Well, it does. It gets, it takes
root. And then a little sprout, a little
sprout, tender sprout. And then it grows up until it's
mature. And then when it's really ripe,
wheat begins to bear fruit. But corn, when the Lord said
a corn of wheat, a seed is corn. You think of corn as just being
that yellow stuff? Well, any seed in a pod is corn. All right? And so the corn of
wheat, when wheat grows up, you've seen these pods. It looks like
a little miniature stalk of corn, doesn't it? With all these ears,
these seed pods in it. And when it gets full of fruit,
what does it do? So it is with God's people. They ripen to maturity, completeness
in Christ. They become humble, humility,
meekness, loneliness of spirit, which in God's sight is a great
thing. And wheat. Have any of you been out west
and seen some of these wheat fields? amber waves of grain. You all have. Have you ever seen
anything like it? Right before harvest, these fields
of wheat, you go out there, you know, it's as far as the eye
can see. I mean literally as far as the eye can see, this
wheat. And if you're standing back from
it, it looks like the ocean, golden ocean. When wheat gets
ripe, it turns into the sun, a golden color like the sun. And it's made up of zillions
of stalks, all together, all alike, all shining like the sun,
shining like the sun. The wind blows and it all blows
together, just amber waves of grain. Right before the harvest. Beautiful sight. Beautiful sight.
Then it's harvest. Cut down. Wheat's got to die
before it rises. It's got to die. Cut down. That's the end of that wheat.
Oh, no. Oh, no. That's just the beginning.
Because, see, it doth not yet appear what that wheat shall
be. It's going to be made into something
glorious. Bread for the soul. Bread for
the soul. For the mastership. All right,
let's look at the tares. He said, The kingdom of heaven
is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field, and while
men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the weak and
went his way. Sung by the enemy. And our Lord
told us over there, this is Satan. He means Satan did this while
the Lord slept. Well, now you know good and well,
Scripture says, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber
nor sleep. God doesn't sleep. Nor did this take him by surprise.
He didn't know, as if Satan, he didn't know Satan was coming.
That's ridiculous. As you see, no parable can fully
tell. Field is the world, the good
seed of the children of the kingdom. You see that? That's the good
seed. The tares are the children of the wicked one. It is the
false notion of most people everywhere that all men and women are the
children of God. That's just not so, is it? Our
Lord is who we, who must reveal the truth to us, isn't it? He's
the one that reveals the truth. He is the truth. And he reveals
what he said here and he said in other places that there are
some who are not God's children. He looked at some men and said
you're of your father the devil. Children of the wicked one. That's
what he said. How plain can he be? Why don't
men and women see that? He's hidden from them. He blinded
their eyes. He blinded their eyes. clear as the nose on your
face in it." He said, some of you have bigger noses than others,
ought to be real clear. Children of the wicked one. They're
also called throughout the Scriptures, here's, I'm quoting what they're
called, children of darkness. He said, you're children of light.
Children of wrath. What'd he say? Ephesians 2. Children
of the devil. They're called haters of God. Swine? Remember our Lord called
some swine? How different is the Jesus Christ
of Scripture and what He said about people and things than
people think? Dogs? He called some dogs, didn't
He? Well, they're called tares here.
Tares. Now tare, back then, tare was
any kind of weed found in a wheat field. That's what a tare is,
a weed, a useless weed in a wheat field. And there's one in particular,
and I looked it up, a couple of places gave this same tare. It's called the bearded
darnel. Now get your attention at me,
a bearded Darnell. Now I thought as long as Darnell
doesn't grow a beard, he's fine. But that's what this is called,
a bearded Darnell. It's a tear. It's a poisonous
grass. Back then it was a poisonous
grass, a weed, a bad weed is what it was, a tear. The thing about this tare, this
bearded darn ale, I'm sorry, that's what it's called. The
thing about it is, at first, it is indistinguishable from
wheat. It looks just like wheat. It
looks just like wheat. I saw a picture of it in my big
dictionary. It looks just like wheat. There's some grasses like
ryegrass, Brother Henry, that looks a lot like wheat, doesn't
it? Seed and so forth looks like wheat. But you can't make bread
out of it. Well, you can to ryegrass. But
these other tares, like this bearded tarnell, are poisonous. They're no good. They're noxious
wheat. But they look like wheat. What is all this about? This
is about what we've been looking at lately and I don't know why,
well I do know why, this is what our Lord's been dealing with. Those who seem to be believers
but are not. Now our Lord said there must
be heresies among us, among you, there must be. And these false
believers. Paul said false brethren crept
in unaware. At first they appeared to be
like everybody else. And they're only recognized in
time. Only time will tell. Only time will tell. But they're unprofitable. Of no use to anyone, certainly
not our Lord. of any use. The scripture says
they're fit for the burning. Now this is what God says of
the world and this is what God's going to do with the world. When
he talks about the world, he's talking about unbelievers. He's
talking about people who don't care a thing about God, unbelievers. People who rarely give God a
thought until they get sick or until they get ready to die or
until they need something. And God says they're unprofitable,
pit for the burning, not like God's people. And that's what
he's going to do with it. The world and they that are therein
shall be burned up. But look at verse 27 and 28.
Servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, this
thou so good seed in thy field, from which then hath it tarried.
He said an enemy had done this and the servant said unto him
wilt thou then that we go and gather them up. Let's get rid
of these tears. Let's root them up. Take them out of here and everything
will be fine. And why doesn't the Lord remove
tears? Why does he allow heresies to
be in the midst of his people? Always has been. sons of Korah,
remember, right there in the middle of children of Israel. Why? Now, let me quote the rest of
that to you, what our Lord said. He said, There must be heresies
among us, that they which are approved might be made manifest. When a truly apostate person
is exposed. By that I mean a person who turns
out to be an unbeliever. When they are finally exposed,
what does it do to you? This has happened several times
in our midst. What does it do to you? What
does it cause in you? Does it make you more wary? Does
it make you more careful? After the years go by, John,
it should make us less and less impressed with what we see and
what we hear. No confidence in the flesh, right? Every man at his best state,
at his best state, is altogether vanity. In the image of Christ,
he's not vanity. And it should make us appreciate
and more highly esteem those who have proved themselves faithful. Are you with me? Are you listening
to me? Let me give you an illustration. There was a man in our midst,
and I don't have to call his name. Nearly everybody here knows
who I'm talking about after I tell the story. other planet called California. And that's another planet, all
right. Well, he came amongst us, and
he's very pious talking, very, very pious talking. That's all he was, talk. We should know right away that
a fool is known by a multitude of words. We should immediately
suspect someone who does a lot of talking. Right? Pious talking. He was very eloquent
in prayer, this man. Thankfully, I never called on
him to do so in public. I was just wary of him from the
very outset. Wanted him to prove himself first. And he did. He proved himself
to be what he was, eventually. Very helpful. He was an evil man. evil man, big talker, fancy talker,
yet all the while, and all that while, here's the point I'm trying
to make, all that while, some of our long-time quiet men, like a Joe Parks or Henry Sword,
Charles Robb, said nothing, just remained the same, faithful,
true, not big talkers. He's gone. They're here tonight. Well, yes, they are. All three of them. One in spirit,
the others in body. There must be heresies among
them. Yet they which are approved. And I didn't call everybody's
name. It was too many to call. They have remained faithful.
That's what he says about his people. They that are with him
are called, chosen, and faithful. He's gone. I mean, he's gone. My pastor looked him right in
the eye one day and said, You missed Christ. He fooled everybody for a while,
and some people, all the for all the while, but now he hasn't
fooled anybody. Well, our Lord said, don't root
them up, lest you root up the wheat also.
There might be some wheat entangled with it. And that happens. Bless people's
heart. They're taking with people and
don't understand. Don't see everything. It's just so. And you go to try
to pull up tares and you might offend a wheat. Pull a wheat
with a tare. I knew a, you met him, a young
preacher, a so-called Made his acquaintance years ago
and he knew the doctrine. Seemed to rejoice at least in
the doctrine. Had me preach for him a few times
down in North Carolina. Pastor of a small, very small
congregation. And so he started weeding out
tares, trying. Weeding out sinners is what he
was doing. I told you about him every time
we got with him and his wife for dinner or whatever it seemed
like all he wanted to talk about was discipline wasn't it? That's
all he wanted to bring up to me. Hypothetical situation. What if one of your members did
it? What if, what if, what if, what if, what if? After a while
Sam, I told him, We'll cross that bridge when it comes to
it. Let's not talk about it. Let's talk about something profitable. I only started rebuking him for
that. Well, anyway, to make a long
story short, he weeded out, literally weeded out everybody in that
congregation but himself and his wife. I'm not kidding you. They were gone. He weeded up,
rooted up his whole so-called church. He had to close the door
and he moved Missouri. Don't do that, the Lord said.
Don't try to pull up tares. You don't know who all the tares
are, you know. You really don't. He knows. The Lord knows. Well, look at
this, and I've got to hurry. They both grow up together. He
said, verse 30, Let both grow together until the harvest. They
both grow up together, and there are ways in which they are known,
make themselves known. Tares—we've been considering
this a lot lately—tares ripen themselves for destruction. That's
what they do. They prove themselves fit for the burning because they
begin to slight God's mercy. They'd observe lying vanities,
forsake their own mercy they begin to disregard the conscience
which is God's law written on the heart begin to disregard
that not listen to. They that being reproved often
reproved the word of God reproved. God's people reproved them. The. Preaching reproved it does that
the word of God is probable for doctrine for proof for correction. Be it often reproved, yet hardened
their net, shall be suddenly cut off. Scripture talks about lusts conceived
into acts, finally bring forth death, begin to justify themselves. Like Adam, remember right before
Adam was kicked out of the garden, what did he do? He blamed everybody
but himself. Ultimately, he blamed God. But wheat, wheat ripens into
fruit fit for the master's table. Wheat, as I said, is gradual.
No, it's gradual. It's not like stony ground here. Remember that? It had no root
in it. It sprung up. No, no, no. It takes root first.
Root, John pointed out to me, out of dry ground, just like
This world is a dry ground in it, but here pops up a root,
a sprout, God's people, here and there. Root, sprout, stalk,
and a full ear. That's what our Lord said in
Mark 4. And what does it take to bring that about? What causes
that growth? First, the seed is planted, the
Word of God. Life, quick, gives life, incorruptible
life. Must have what? Water. Rain. That's what the Lord said
there in Isaiah 55. As the water comes from the heavens
and brings forth fruit. Sun. Can't live without the sun.
It will not grow without the sun. That sun is what causes
that to grow. You notice all plants? Where
do they reach? What are they reaching for? There's that mysterious thing
called photosynthesis. Green blood running through their
leaves. That comes from the sun. I'm
not sure scientists still know what that is. We live and move and have our
being in the sun of righteousness. That's how we live. It's often smitten by the wind,
isn't it? A crop of wheat is often blasted by the wind, isn't
it, Brother Hick? Often blasted, like that corn we saw. Sometimes
it's laid low on the ground. Is it going to stay there? It'll rise again. God's people
go through, ah, they're smitten, afflicted, pestilence, and so
forth. And in it, full of fruit, as
we said, it hangs its head low, turns into gold like the color
of the sun, and then harvest. Now let's look at the harvest
briefly, OK? The harvest. Our Lord said, and you can turn
to, well, look at verse 30. The Lord said, Let them 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. Gather the wheat into my
barn. Verse 38, it says, The field is the world,
the good seed of the children of God. And it says in verse
forty two of verse forty one, the son of man shall send forth
his angels and gather out of his kingdom all things that offend
and them which do iniquity, cast them into a furnace of fire.
There should be wailing and gnashing of teeth. See, our Lord spoke
of judgment and God's wrath and destruction of all things more
than anyone. You rarely hear that mentioned today, do you?
I can't remember the last time I've heard The so-called preacher
even bring it up. Can you? But verse 42 says there should
be, as you'll cast them in the furnace of fire, verse 43, and
then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun. There it is.
In the kingdom of their father. Who have ears to hear, let him
hear. Turn with me real quickly to
1 Thessalonians 4. Several scriptures that deal
with this harvest time, this coming of the Lord, and 1 Thessalonians
4 is one that some of you know well, and he's told us to comfort
one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4 says in verses 14 and following,
if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them
also, That is, Christ was that corn of wheat and he died, but
yet he rose to bring forth fruit, life. Them also which sleep,
or have died in him, will God bring with him. They're coming
with him. That's a glorious thought, isn't
it? When Christ returns, all his people are coming back with
him. That's what he said in the name.
They're coming back with him. Why? He said he'd never leave
them. Didn't he? I'll never leave you.
Where are you going, Lord? Back to the earth to get the
rest of our brethren. We're coming too. Read on. Now this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord. He said this when we get to Matthew
24. We'll see. That we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, that is when He
comes, we haven't died, we shall not prevent or go before them
which are asleep. For the Lord himself," that is
the resurrection of the bodies, "'for the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
lo, he comes with clouds descending.'" Lo, he comes. That's what the
archangel is going to say. "'With the trump of God, the
dead in Christ shall rise first.'" What a scene this is going to
be. And those that have gone before,
they're united with their bodies, and I can't explain it. Nobody
can explain that. But that's what it says. Read
on. And we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the air, in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air. We pointed out before how the
Lord's not going to set foot on this earth again, like men
say. He's going to sit on a throne over in Israel. Oh, His feet
have been washed. He's not going to set foot on
this dirty earth again. He's going to burn it down. He says we're going to meet Him
in the air. It's not going to be a secret rapture. I don't
know where they get that. Well, I do, too. They twist Matthew
24 in believing that's some kind of secret rapture. Two in the
field, one taking, you know, that's already happened. This, it says, every eye, when
he comes, every eye shall behold him, like the lightning that
strikes from the east to the west. They shall look on him
whom they have pierced, the scripture says. That's what it says. No
secret rapture. This is a great voice of the
archangel and a trump secret? I don't know. Everybody, the graves opening
up, bodies united. Secret? That tells you the ignorance
of people. So shall we ever be with the
Lord, so comfort one another with these words. And quickly,
I had four or five passages, but we don't have time. But I
told you before, 1 Corinthians 15 is the last one. And we talked
about this talking about the harvest of wheat right before
the harvest. It ripens and yet it does not
really appear what it shall be but here and it shall be changed. You would never think that a
beautiful loaf of bread as such came from a little bit Those
little B C's. They don't resemble one another.
Not in the least. One's so much more glorious than
the other. So much more grand in glory. And a sweet savor. Well, that's
what this change is. Verse 52 of 1 Corinthians 15
says, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump
or the trumpet shall sound. See, here it is again. In a moment,
the twinkling of an eye. How quickly is that? The trumpet
shall sound. Verse 51, I've left that out.
I'll show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. We shall
all be changed. Changed. It does not yet appear. In a moment, the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trump, the trumpet shall sound. And the dead shall be raised
incorruptible and we shall be changed. So you wait for your
change to come. Talking about whittling that
old hound dog. Remember that? Predestination is the Lord conforming
his people to the image of Christ, whittling off everything that
doesn't look like Christ, taking away the draw. Willing off everything
it doesn't look like him. Brother Kelly came up afterward
and said, I sure have a lot of whittling that needs to be done. That's right. And when it's all
over, in a moment, between Cleveland and I, you're going to look just
like Jesus Christ. Just like him. Can you wait for that? Can't
wait. But we got to. He says this corruptible
must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality
of flesh and blood and inherit the kingdom. As the earth, those
that are earthy bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear
the image of the heavenly. And when this corruptible shall
put on incorruption, when we put, when we walk into glory,
change into preachers like Christ. And this mortal shall have put
on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass
the same that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. There's no more tears, and I
was going to have you read with me Revelation 21, no more tears,
no more sorrow, nothing there that shall defile it, that God
shall be our God and we'll be his people This is a grand and glorious
subject. The harvest. The harvest. The former harvest and the latter
harvest. Scripture talks about it. Now,
this latter harvest is Christ's second coming. As we say all the amens, say
even so come quickly, Lord Jesus. We await our change. A little
happens. Okay, stand with me. Our Lord and our God, we thank
You so much for Your Word. It does comfort us. We should
comfort one another with these words. We believe that this is
Your Word, Your incorruptible seed. We ask, Lord, that You'd
cause it to be planted in our hearts. and bring forth fruit
unto thy glory. We await our change. Cause each
of us to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith. Weep of thy
making. And Lord, deliver us from unbelief
and deliver us from evil men. Keep us as the apple of your
eye, the sheep of your pasture. It's in Christ's name we've met
here tonight. Amen.