Knowing the difference between Tares & Wheat
- (primary) Matthew 13:24–43 — Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43
- (secondary) Isaiah 19:13–14
- (secondary) Matthew 5:45
- (secondary) Isaiah 29:8–13 — Isaiah 29:8, 13
- (secondary) Revelation 3:2
- (secondary) Hosea 6:2
- (secondary) Galatians 3:16–29 — Galatians 3:16, 29
- (secondary) Genesis 41:49
- (secondary) Isaiah 10:22
- (secondary) Deuteronomy 30:15–16
- (secondary) Proverbs 4:2
- (secondary) Mark 4:13
- (secondary) Luke 8:11
- (secondary) Proverbs 3:1–18 — Proverbs 3:1, 18
- (secondary) Matthew 7:16
- (secondary) Matthew 23:23
- (secondary) Matthew 3:7–8
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Summary
“Knowing the Difference Between Tares & Wheat” develops an extended interpretation of Yeshua's parable in Matthew 13. The speaker's central question is how two groups that outwardly appear alike can ultimately be distinguished. His answer is that the difference becomes visible through seed and fruit: the underlying spiritual instruction produces observable conduct. Knowing the difference between … The sermon moves through Isaiah, Hosea, Galatians, Deuteronomy, Proverbs, Mark, Luke, and Matthew to construct that argument. Particularly important is Luke 8:11, “the seed is the word of God,” which he combines with passages about God's instruction and commandments. From those texts he argues that the genuine seed produces obedience, whereas religious appearance without obedience characterizes the tare. Knowing the difference between … He ultimately returns directly to Matthew 13:37–39, where Yeshua's explanation identifies the sower of good seed as the Son of Man, the good seed as children of the Kingdom, the tares as children of the wicked one, the enemy as the devil, and the harvest as the end of the age. That return to Yeshua's own explanation confirms Matthew 13 as the sermon’s controlling text.
Core doctrine
Matthew 13:24 - 30, 36 - 43 - The speaker steaches that the wheat and tares represent two spiritually different groups that can exist together and appear religiously similar until their "fruit" reveals the nature of their "seed." He connects Yahshua's explanation that the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the tares the children of the wicked one with Luke's statement that "The seed is the word of God," and then argues that genuine wheat is identified by obedience to God's instruction rather than by religious experience, emotion, or tradition. His further identification of this obedience specifically with torah, the seventh-day Sabbath, Holy Days, dietary practices and an end-time Israelite remnant is the speaker's theological application of these passages, not an explicit definition contained in Matthew 13 itself.
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