Milford chronicle., 1904-10-07
ypOpHETIc PARABOLIc.
# christendOm by Our Lord
Is'h Himself.
-, PARALLELS Of Our Lord.

venue .be thirteenth OF Na''ne" "S
D u. 49,, consecutive parallels OF
: ". sssss sstting forth in their spirit
b L0I9! !s,.,ce 60, the full and COM
~ lonsn history of ChTlstenaom' a
lied sr = The the number of divine full
s''n : ',lr co,npleteness. The first
IS ~. u The Son of Man n,-Jesus
SDEa Pia1a 'aping . the good seed and these
-,'s,r5 I WIZ, four classes of hearers,
Sl l'.t uPJb The wayside, and the fowls
ti'' - Gather up the seed; these
siis a. symbol of Satan, or the
l.E.d 'E one, as we are specially
-. 'cAsr .1Sg the Lord Himself. Verse
kat NJ + his we'll to remember this
sl - - fowls figure again in the
abe of the mustard seed.
| mi s,.ond the stony ground hear
-" '' Mo are without root, or sta
i. A l;tr va and give up when trials
sne.
..a;t ia. is choked with the cares
Co. IN ffe and the deceitfulness of
On . - -, and Is unfruitful. But these
.1.sses 's of hearers are mere Profes-
y, ,r, converted people, but never
nrn Of God.
naun Eorrtb. The good ground hear
,,al.ai ,rasii i which produce fruit; an hun
,.cE yorE i.sd Of sixty or thirty fold. The
' ~ ~ Is the Word of God, which is
war ,.,fsct but because of human will
r rness and depravitv. only small
.,onortion produces fruit for God.
h will be noticed that this parable
a moi a likeness of the Kingdom of
haven, which was not vet formed,
IL mi # was the seed that was to pro-
ipce the Kingdom likeness.
In the second parable we have
"a NE kingdom of heaven likened
INTO a man sowing good seed in
I'd field, but while men slept his
snemv came and sowed tares
amongst the wheat and went away.
An enemy sowed the tares, and both
are left to grow together, by orders
Of the Master, until the harvest,
because in roofing up the tares the
wheat might be pulled up also.
Both are allowed to grow together
lrv until the harvest, and then the tares
''A are first to be bound together into
bundles to be burned and the wheat
y TO be gathered into the granary.
In expounding this parable, The
Lord says the field is the world,
the good seed the children of the
Kingdom, the tares the children of
the evil one, the enemy who sowed
them, the devil, the harvest the
end Of the age, and the harvesters
I'd the angels. The damage was
done by Sltan while the men, ap-
pointed to watch, fell asleep. The
men that slept were the professed
servants of the Lord but they were
careless, slothful servants and the
enemy, who never sleeps, took ad-
vantage of the opportunity and
AMI sOwed the tares. Now they cannot
be rooted up until the end of the
" age As an excuse for their care
hSsness and slothfulness in allow
D ing the enemy to SOW the tares,
these servants have chosen to teach
that the field is the church.
while the Lord Himself is so care
iul to guard this very point by de-
caring "the field to be the world. "
The Church of Cod in scripture is
declared to be an hoIv thing, no
kaven or corruption in it and hence
no tares in it. 1t is the body of
Christ, cleansed by the blood. If
lis now found to be otherwise. it
Bnot according to God; therefore
IN
The Third Parable we have
the Kingdom of heaven 1ikened
unto a mustard seed, the smallest of
all seeds, producing a tender herba-
Ceous plant; but changing its ma
lure as it grows, it turns to be a
great hard woody tree in the world, Z
IN the branches of which the fowls .
o. the air rOOst. This sets forth in :
uamistakable terms the declension 1
U the church. It changes its char
acter from spiritual body anima-
sa by the Spirit of God, ruled,
governed, taught and led thereby /
"a great worldly power, a grsat
uee IN the earth, in the branches
VI which the fowls lodge. Instead A
o. The Holy Spirit, who is the life
slo light and love and power of
'le true church of God, we have
usns conception of the church,
Uganlzed, ruled, ordered and
eOTked by man power and accord
~ 10 man made rules and regula-
uOus' Herein is faith in the pres
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