Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Preaching Angle: Wheat and Weeds Grow Even in the Church

God’s good creation grows food for all living creatures. God made the Earth, God made all the plants, and God made all the humans and animals to eat the food. But as is typical of our adversary, where good grows, the enemy targets his evil efforts at God’s good work. This means that all the enemy has to do is look for where God is doing good things and attack that place or that people. This is especially true of the church.

Our Westminster forefathers wrote this about the mixture of wheat and weeds in the church. They said,

The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues…