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I was telling Marcia while ago I remember where I was at 7 p.m. 27 years ago, I was sitting in our kitchen table.

I was eating a shrimp.

We're we're going to study something else.

Now, y'all know I like prophecy.

I just can't help it.

And this past Sunday, of course we was in The Book of Revelation and tonight I want to and I've entitled this message living in the last days and we're going to look at one of Jesus's Parables of how good and evil.

Will co-exist in the last days.

So if you have your Bibles tonight, turn with me.

If you would to Matthew chapter 13, And we're going to look at a few versus here and what I like about a lot of his as he tells the parable and he's going to use the agricultural analogy here about a solar and Seed.

But then, after he tells the parable, if you, if you can go and read maybe three or four or five versus later, he explains the parable.

So that's what we're going to look at tonight.

We're going to look at this pair but we're going to look at his explanation of it and then we're going to talk about what it means to us in our day.

So one of the issues that has been debated for centuries, Is the direction of our world?

In other words are things getting better or are things getting worse or they getting better.

So that we ourselves or whoever's on Earth.

When the Lord is going to come back, we're going to usher in the Kingdom because we have formulated this Utopia on Earth where everything is so good.

Then finally God can come back.

Or is it going to be so bad that it's going to be a cataclysmic event.

Well we know what pants are too.

That is because we read and studied some in the Book of Revelation, but the answer you'll get of whether the world is getting better or worse, could depend on when you asking if you would have told somebody at the beginning of the 20th century, people would have laughed.

If you said, what things are getting worse, they would have laughed at you all the technological and economic developments occurring in the world.

At that point, there was an overwhelming sense that we're moving in the right direction and things are going well.

But then by the middle of the century, you had two world wars you had a couple of economic disasters.

You had the Great Depression, you had Global problems, you had nuclear arms coming on the scene and so few would speak of that as well.

The world is getting better and so when you look at this, let's just say our own Nation today.

Despite all the scientific advances, all the medical advances.

Do you think that our nation is getting better?

No, it's not getting better.

How many all we have to do is watch the news and and you can see that.

So most people recognize apart from some intervention, this world is on a slide, going down word.

We read about that and and Romans chapter 1.

Now some people will say well preacher.

You must be a pessimist.

Well I'm not a pessimist because And this is why.

Because I recognize that this world is not my home.

This is not where I'm going to live for eternity.

This world.

Matter fact, the Bible says this world is passing away without all the Telluride, things are getting worse and worse.

I'm optimistic about the future because I know who holds the future and it's God himself.

He's in control of the future.

In the Bible has been given to us so that we can know how to live in a world.

That's full of Decay.

The world is winding down, is spiraling out of control.

So Christ will tell us how we are to live and he tells stories that he instructs the disciples for living in this decaying world.

So many people about when Jesus came the first time that he was going to set up his kingdom on Earth and all this Utopia that the Old Testament kind of expressed Was coming to fruition when the Lord came the first time.

But the Bible says, he came into his own and his own did.

What did not receive in? His own family rejected him and so the kingdom was set aside Christ went to the cross and died.

He arose again, he ascended to heaven and now there's a.

Of time when our King our Lord is absent from this Earth.

That's the day that we live in, in.

Jesus told a parable to his disciples about how good and evil will co-exist during this period of time.

And this is what this power Parable is about.

So let's read it.

Matthew Chapter 13 and we're going to read verses 24 through 30.

He says, another Parable he put forth of them saying the Kingdom of Heaven Is Like a Man Who Sold 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 grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tears also appeared.

So the Servants of the owner came and said to him, sir, did you not so good seed in your field?

How then does it have tears?

No tears was sweet.

That look like real quick but it was useless and you had to be an expert to be able to see it.

The tell the difference.

So they asked him said, we didn't you sow good seed and look at verse 28, he said that are an enemy has done this.

The servant said to him, do you want us to go and gather them up talking about the terror?

But he said no less.

While you gather up the tears, you also uproot the wheat with them.

And look what he says in verse 34.

Both grow together until the Harvest, and at the time of the Harvest, I will say to the Reapers first gather together, the tares bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.

Now, he uses a agricultural analogy about a man sowing seed in his suite came up, but it had tears among the wheat and then his disciples that will will.

I pay what?

We'll just go, pull a.

I said no, leave it alone because you'll pull some of the good weed up to And I lose my crop.

If you do that, let's just wait till Harvest and then those who will reap, I'll just tell them the throw the tears away, and we're going to burn them, and we'll keep the good.

We will, what in the world does that mean spiritually speaking?

Because he's not talking about a field a week here, he's not talkin about that at all.

You say, well, what is he talkin about?

Well, let's go to verse 36, and we're going to see what he was talkin about vs 36 through 43.

He's going to explain Then Jesus in the mall to do the way and went to the hospice and his disciples came to him saying, explain to us the parable of the tears of the field.

He answered and said to them, he who sows The Good Seed is the son of man.

Who's the son of man?

Jesus.

All right, so the one who sews, The Good Seed is the son of man.

Now look at verse 38, the field is the world.

Okay so we got Jesus soul in good seed all around the world by the field here for a farmer's field.

We're talkin about the world, all right?

The good seed that was sung by the son of man or the sons of the Kingdom, who would that be?

That would be us Christians sons of the Kingdom Sons and Daughters of the Kingdom.

So Jesus has song Christians in this world, but the tears are the sons of the wicked one.

Who would be the wicked one?

That would be Satan.

What?

Who would be?

The Sons of Satan.

Anyone who's not safe.

This is talking about say, people in the world and unsaved people.

What did Jesus tell?

The Pharisees says you are of your father, the devil You either a child of God or your child of Satan?

That's just, I mean, that's just the way it is.