tares

Mt 13:24-30 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 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.

As I search the Internet, I visit many Christian sites. Some do very little teaching of the Gospel. Many of these seem to think they are called to knock other ministries and most of what they write does just that. Some of what they write is not documented proof. Just what someone said they said! If they knew exactly what was said they would have had to be in the meeting themselves. If they know and were in the meeting; why were they there? Did they go to be part of it or just to knock what was said or done?

Some are wrong in what they teach, but is it our place to tell everyone else they are wrong? Maybe we should go to the person ourselves and try to reason with them? If they won't listen just let God handle it. There will always be tares, wheat, sheep and goats in the church. In my personal opinion, a ministry of belittling another ministry is not much of a ministry. Personally, I have stopped going to these sites and stopped reading these kind of posts. I also would not attend a church that did not teach Jesus Christ as The Way, The Truth and The Life. I go to the house of God to worship Him and hear the truth that will deliver and set free. I don't want to be entertained or pacified.

In our anxiety to correct wrongs and doing that before all is a good way to cause young Christians to get disillusioned and give up. We can get into fussing, auguring and fighting among ourselves. We uproot the good along with the bad. Jesus said, “Don't do this”. Why don't we just teach and preach the Gospel and let the Lord give the increase?

Here is what Paul said about the different kind of preaching. Phil 1:15-18 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Maybe this should be our attitude toward those who preach and teach Jesus Christ different to us?

I wonder if God said to one today something like this, what would these say about the one who did it? Would they believe it was of God?
Ezek 4:9-15 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
I suppose the question is how do we know what God has spoken to another of His servants? Many of today would have thought Ezekiel was not of God!

1 John 2:9-11 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
I wonder, is it love to put down another ministry before all? As I was growing up, if my brother did something wrong and I tried to get him for it, my daddy got me also! If I just told him and let him handle it; it was OK. I believe that would be good advice for us all.

Isa 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
If we desire the Lord to answer our prayers, we should stop pointing our finger at others. Let's get the beam out of our own eye before we try to get a speck out of the eye of another.

I can't speak for everyone else. But for myself, I desire to minister what God has given me and not try to build on the ministry of another or try to belittle the ministry of another. We will all stand before God Almighty one day and He will take care of separating the tares from the wheat. That is not my job, or anyone else's, it's His.

Lord God, help us to do what You command us to do and not try to handle what You have called another to do. May the Holy Spirit guide and direct us in all we do. We ask In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.