Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1920-12-01

ADDITIONAL mAIEfkIAA<-Nl. osV-AS'
PRIMARY TOPIC-Jesus Stg About
Good Seed and Bad Seed.
JUNIOR ToPIc-The Story Of 10 Wheat
and the Tares.
INTERMEDIATES AND sENIe TOPIC
Wheat and Tares.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND Adult TOPIC
How the Kingdom Of Heaven irows.
The parallels of this choter set
forth In a graphic way the ondition
of affairs In the interval between
Christ's going away and HI coming
again.
|. The Parable OF the Weat and
Tares wv. 24-3O, Ct. 36-43).
1. The Sewers. ~ The Son of
Man ". 37). He is the One Mo sows
the good seed. The field In wlch they
are sown is the world. (2) Tie Devil
". 39). He is In peculir sense
Christ's enemy. He intensg hates
Him, and with relentless eergy Is
striving to defeat His purpos' In saw
ing men. While men slumberhe sows
tares among the wheat.
2. The growing crops. hey are
not easily distinguished while Towing.
but the effects produced whO eaten
are quite different. The Meat Is
wholesome, but the tares prouce III
ness. The chief danger In tie tares
lies In their resemblance to what. The
chief danger of the devil is that he
strives to initiate God.
8. The harvests. There ONES a
time when the fruitage Of the growing
crops shall be gathered. For he tares
there is a furnace of fire whee there
shall be walling and crashing # teeth.
The righteous shall be gathered into
the Lords garner and shall shhe forth
as the sun In the kingdom of the
Father.
II. The Parable Of the Mustard
Seed wv. 81, 32).
!. It's important beginning. 1t be;
gins as the least Of all seeds and grows
to be the greatest among herbs. The
parentage and humble circumstances
of the King greatly perplexed the peo-
pie. That twelve unlettered fshermen
should be selected as His royal ad
visers Is stillmore amazing. The proph
ct said concerning Him that Ht
should be despised, rejected, forsaken
2. It's vigorous growth. From very
small beginnings the influence Of ths
Christ has gone forth so that there Ii
no power or influence so great as tina
of Christianity.
8. It's lodging capacity. The bird'
which find lodgment In the tree do no
represent the children of men which
find safety and salvation In the church
Birds constitute no part Of the tree
The bird is something foreign to ant
independent of the tree. The branche
increase the growth of the tree, blu
birds are injurious and burdensome Il
1t. They are predatory-waiting t
pluck the tender buds or to prey upoI
the ripened fruit. The effect Of sucl
lodging is evil, blighting and spelling
to the tree.
III. The Parable Of the Leavene'
Meal ". 33).
l. The meal. Meal has a WHOLESOME
and nutritious effect. 1t was used II
one of the sweet-savor offerings, whicl
typified Christ (Lev. 2:1-3, r. W;
was food for the priests Uev. 6:15-17
r. W; Abraham had Sarah knea
a cake out of three measures of mea
for the angelic messengers Ger
1850; Solomon's royal table was Pre-
vided with meal Il Kings :22); Eliza
was fed upon cake made Of mea
(II Kings 4:41); Elisha used meal a
an antidote for the poison of death i
the pot (II Kings 4:3S-41).
2. The woman. The woman is nc
the head of the home, but it's admins
traitor. Her responsibility is to tax
the bread provided by the head. pre-
pare and distribute 1t to the children
In Scripture we find false doctrine b.
ing taught by woman (Rev. 2:20,
Dealing with doctrine is forbidden {
woman Il Tim. 2:12). In l Tim. ALB
II Tim. 2:17, IS; 4:3, A.. II Pet. 2:1-;
we find that apostasy will be- brougt
In through false teachings With
the ranks Of Gods people. TIL
meaning, then, Of the parable is tha
the true doctrine, the meal given fo
the nourishment of the children of tn
kingdom (II Pet 20; YTim. 20
would officially be corrupted by falls
doctrine. The chll&lren's food is CO.
rupted by the mother.
3. The leaven. In Scripture. leave
is invariably a type of evil. Let tn
following examples suffice as proof
~ All through the Old Testamer
heaven is continual and unvaryin
type Of evil Eek. 1918; Lev. 2:11
(2) Jesus himself makes leaven j.,
denote sin (Matt. 10 g, II; Mark s:15
ts) Paul uses leaven In its usual hibl
cal sense q Cor. 6:68; Gal. e:A %.