Nimes 16 – 4 – 22.
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. Matthew 13:24-26.
The creation of evil (I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah 45:7) is the manifestation of God’s fairness to provide freedom of choice and liberty to his angels and to the man made in his image, after his likeness.
The creation and functioning of the angels, including man is not meant to be robotic –unthinking, but that they can freely act by love in a willful submission to God. Angels can think to act (Luke 1:19), and man likewise was given the ability to think for himself in order act: neither of them were created or made with a programmed and captivated thoughts, will and emotions, but with the liberty and right to choose: to serve God, or not to serve: God, to obey God, or to do otherwise. But to choose not to serve or obey God indicate wrong and bad choice with consequence against the purpose of him – God who has created all things for his pleasure.
This was the case of Satan in heaven when he chose to disobey, rebel and to exalt himself against the throne of God and him that sits on it to occasion his expulsion and abasement down to the earth. Note: there is Only One who is good, that is God, whose goodness will not overrule his righteous – impartial justice: to them that are good, they will find him as the good and unchangeable God: to the pure, he will show himself pure: to the rebel creatures, angels or man, they will find him as the God of equal justice who rewards evil to relocate them into parch – flaming land and dry places where there is no water – hell for eternity. Psalms 68:6. Jude 1:6.
God charges his angels with folly (Job 4:18): thus, by the deception of his beauty and other qualities, he was deceived in his heart to covet in rebellion, the throne of God: thus, Satan made folly of himself to become the enemy of God, – the first sinner: he that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:8-9.
Firstly, you understand that there is God’s seed which is the word of God sown to bring forth the life of sanctification, holiness godliness in all those who have the seed planted in a good and honest heart in their lives. Luke 8:11. Secondly, there was other seed planted by the wicked one – Satan who is the god over the world, but has subtlety- nicely infiltrates the church to mix God’s holy seed with unholy seed with the intents and purposes of sabotaging the church. The children of God don’t sabotage the church or God’s name; instead, they shine as light with strength of the Lord from Zion to the world. The church is intended to be the assemblies of the saints in light, consisting of people who are called, saved and separated from the world, that no man should join himself with them (Acts 5:13) if he is not saved and included to be added by the Lord to his body (Acts 2:47): but the children of the wicked one- Satan, walk in and sit comfortably in the church to corrupt the believers, if possible, to bring them back into spiritual bondage and darkness. 1 Cor.5:6-11.
Today, we see the church where the children of Satan are having their day, have their say, and their way until the time of harvest when the reapers will receive instruction to gather together, first the tares (the children of Satan in the church), and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into the master’s barn – the Lord knows them that are his, let them that call on the name of Christ depart from sin. Matthew 13:29-30. 2 Tim. 2:19. Note: though the angels are given the capacity and power to execute death sentence, just like King Herod was struck to his death by an angel of the Lord because he gave God not the glory (Acts 12:23): but Christ whose mission on earth is not destroy, but saves life, and for his patience with his children who are slow of heart, learning and understanding, is holding his angels back from any instant judgment, though the judgment will surely start from the house of God: the servants – angels 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. Matthew 13:28-29.
Christ says to the Jews and to the crowd of people before him, whosoever is of God will listen to obey the word of God; you hear them not, because you are not of God. John 8:47. From this text, there are three distinct features to look out for from the seeds – children of Satan in the church: (a) they cause division and rebel against the godly authority established in the church, the same manner that Satan caused division and rebelled against God’s authority in heaven: (b) they wrestle or twist the word of God to their destruction, just as Satan wrestled and twisted the word of God to destroy the first parents in the Garden of Eden: (c) they encourage disobedient because they habitually live in iniquity, even as Satan first sin in heaven, then he lied to, and encourage the first parents to disobey God.
As a child of God, you are expected to identify the different seed (s) of the enemy, otherwise, God’s vineyard and fruits in your life shall be defiled when you do not purge away the old lump that you might be clean and new. Is it not written, thou shall not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled? Deuteronomy 22:9. Are you not the vineyard of God (for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but beholds oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Isaiah 5:7), the tree of righteousness, the planting of God, that he might be glorified? Isaiah 61:3.
There is no half measure concerning your spiritual identity, loyalty, association and fellowship – and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Ephesians 5:11-13. Is either you a child of God through new birth and regeneration, or you are a child of Satan in the continuation to live in your dead works (not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works. Hebrews.6: 1 b) from the corruption that is in the world through lusts. 2 Peter 1:4.
Consider the description and declaration of Christ rebukes to the Jews (you are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44), referring to them as the children of Satan – like their Father the devil, whose lust – wishes and desire they are fulfilling. Why? Because of the seed that is in them – the nature of their lifestyle. The declaration tells that though they’re laying claims to God and Abraham as their Fathers, but their portrayal, actions and attitudes has no resemblance of divine nature (Romans 6:16): therefore, they are of Satan: but then, of what use is to have the form of godliness without the power thereof? From such, turn thyself away. 2 Tim. 3:5. Note: self- examination, by taking conscious record of your spiritual progress with God (Hosea 6:3), is a godly exercise in the mindfulness and discipline to self –subjection through the help and power of the indwelling spirit – if you, through the spirit, do mortify the works of the flesh, you shall live (but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.1 Cor.9:27. Romans 8:13); and of continuous self- purging from the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Cor. 7:1); and of keeping the heart with all diligent, for out of it are the issues of life. Prov. 4:23.
Are not the things that defiles the man comes from within him? These are the seeds of Satan which should be kept out of the heart to prevent the corruption of lifestyle, not allowing any of those things and many more to defile us from seeing God – blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Mark 7:21-23.
The enemy’s likes covert, to hide, which in other word, the bible describes as night, – secret evil deeds. And again, while men slept for the enemy to sow his evil seed shows the unguarded and unwatchful behaviors of men in the spirit, through which the enemy grab the chance to sow his seed – watch and pray, because your adversary, the devil, roams about, seeking whom to devour. But, why Satan did choose to enter the serpent to sow the seed of heresy and discord (for first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 1 Cor. 11:18-19) between Adam and God through Eve in the Garden? It is because the serpent has the ability to move around under the covering of the grass undetected, so be careful of those who go around sowing discord among the brethren, the Lord hates them – they are abomination before him. Prov. 6:16-19. Note: godliness is profitable in all things: there are godly doctrines of the crucified and resurrected Christ given to make us conformable unto his death (Philippians 3:10), and not to conform to the world: those should be strictly kept in our defense and earnest contention for the faith once delivered unto the saints, lest the heart be deceived and is taken away from the simplicity that in Christ Jesus unto vain jangling, to go off course from paths of truth, even as the enemy did triumphed to remove them from the Garden into the world. 1Timothy 1:5-7.
It is good to understand the specialty of the enemy’s work and his preferable hours or period of working under the covering of night and darkness (Luke 22:53): and this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. John 3: 19-21.
You must cast off the works of darkness, and put on the amour of light. Romans 13:12-14. You cannot claim to be a child of light but lives as one of the children of darkness. You cannot claim to be of them of the day, while you comport as the people of the night – have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he says, awake thou that sleeps (sinning), and arise from the dead (spiritual death – slave to sin), and Christ shall give you light – deliverance from sin. Ephesians 5:11-14.
If you once have true encounter and experience of the first spiritual shift when God delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son (Colossians 1:13), you cannot, but to walk and live like the children of light and of the day, and not of darkness and of night, otherwise, you are of them that rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths. What a loss to your soul? Job 24:13.
The kind of seed that was sown determines the kind and growth of the tree, and the latter determines the kind of fruit to expect. You can’t and won’t find any fruit worthy of repentance or the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ in any children of the wicked one. If any righteousness is found in them, it is an unprofitable righteousness. Isaiah 57:12. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistle, that they should live and increases in righteousness, godliness and in true holiness before God and before the on looking world? They cause nuisances in the church- they create matters to cause trouble in the land of peace, and they intentionally or purposely live and seek to make others to fall into sin. Matthew 13:41.
They are in the church, but not to hear the word of God, except to cause division contrary to the wholesome and undiluted word of God so as to fulfill the will, pleasure and works of Satan in the church – avoid them. Romans 16:17-18. They withstand the truth, and fight against the offence of the cross. What difference does is makes whether or not they are ordinary or common insincere worshippers of God or they the deceitful apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers sent by Satan into the church (Mt.13:39): no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2 Cor. 11:14-15.