Good Morning Friends,
“Jesus told a parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven
is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was sleeping,
his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat
sprouted and formed heads, the weeds also appeared. The owner’s servants came
to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did
the weeds come from?’ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him,
‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you
are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow
together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First
collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat
and bring it into my barn.’’” (Matthew 13:24-30)
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard
people say they would never be involved in a church because there are too many
hypocrites. You know what? THEY ARE RIGHT! Jesus acknowledges the truth that
not everyone in the church is right with God. Of course, we also know that even
when a person is right with God not everything about his or her life is the way
it should be. Not even Paul had “made it” yet, he was still pressing toward the
goal.
Have you ever wondered why God allows the
church to have hypocrites in it? He could do something about that! Jesus said
that God allows it because He cares too much about the wheat to do anything
about the weeds right now. He knows that if He dealt with the hypocrites it
would hurt some of His real children, too. He won’t do that!
The answer is to let the hypocrites stay in the
church. After all, perhaps eventually something will happen in their lives that
will open their hearts to the Lord. If not, God will deal with them at the end.
Are there hypocrites in the church? YES. What
do you do about them? Leave them to God, and do what you can to touch their
lives with His love and grace!
His, by Grace, Steve
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