Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times Here is a brief excerpt from pages 74 and 75:
“The first lesson to understand from the parable of the wheat and the tares is that it is not about the individual Christian life. That will be hard for many contemporary believers to process, since they can only think of salvation in terms of their next need, crisis, or concern. But Jesus has larger issues in mind in this parable, and only in their light can we understand our times and know what we must do.
“Jesus declares the focus of this parable in His opening words: ‘The kingdom of heaven…’ This is a parable about a reality larger than all our lives, a reality which Jesus brought near and introduced into the flow of history. It is an all-encompassing, all-transforming reality, and it provides the framework within which to understand history and everything in it.
“That reality is the Kingdom of heaven, or the Kingdom of God, which Jesus now administers from the right hand of the Father. History is the staging-ground for the unfolding of His eternal reign of justice and righteousness, which He is increasing and will increase without end, right on into eternity.”
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