reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

MT:13:24 ANOTHER PARABLE PUT HE FORTH UNTO THEM, SAYING, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED UNTO A MAN WHICH SOWED GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD. 25. BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT, AND WENT HIS WAY. 26. BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO. 27. SO THE SERVANTS OF THE HOUSEHOLDER CAME AND SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, DIDST NOT THOU SOW GOOD SEED IN THY FIELD? FROM WHENCE THEN HATH IT TARES? 28. HE SAID UNTO THEM, AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS, THE SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, WILT THOU THEN THAT WE GO AND GATHER THEM UP? 29. BUT HE SAID, NAY; LEST WHILE YE GATHER UP THE TARES, YE ROOT UP ALSO THE WHEAT WITH THEM. 30. LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST; AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM; BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS WONDERFUL BECAUSE IT GIVES HOPE. WHAT IS HOPE? HOPE IS THE EXPECTING OF FUTURE GOOD. WHAT GIVES US HOPE? PROMISES, GOD HAS GIVEN UNTO US SOME WONDERFUL PROMISES. WE LOOK FORWARD TO ETERNAL LIFE, AN IMMORTAL BODY, AND A CITY WHOSE MAKER, AND BUILDER IS GOD. MT:13:24 ANOTHER PARABLE PUT HE FORTH UNTO THEM, SAYING, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED UNTO A MAN WHICH SOWED GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD: A PARABLE IS AN EARTHLY STORY, WITH A HEAVENLY MEANING. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WHERE GOD RULES, AND REIGNS. AND, WE, THE ELECT, ARE THE CITIZENS. HEAVEN IS A PLACE WERE THERE IS NO TEARS, FOR THERE IS NO SADNESS, NO PAIN, NO HOSPITALS FOR THERE IS NO SICKNESS OR INJURIED THERE, NO TROUBLES, SATAN IS NOT THERE TO TORMENT GOD’S CHILDREN, NO JAILS OR PRISONS, FOR THERE IS NO WICKED PEOPLE , NO GRAVEYARDS, FOR THERE IS NO DEATH. RV:21:4 AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSSED AWAY. HEAVEN IS A PLACE FILLED WITH LOVE, JOY, PEACE, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS. HEAVEN IS A PLACE OF BEAUTY, A CITY WHERE THE STREET IS PAVED WITH GOLD, AND IN HEAVEN THERE ARE MANY MANSIONS. THE APOSTLE JOHN SAW THE HEAVENLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, AND HE DESCRIBED THE CITY AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. RV:21:2 AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. IN THIS PRESENT WORLD, WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD, HAVE AN ADVERSARY, A TORMENTOR, AN ENEMY, CALLED SATAN THE DEVIL, AND HE HAS MULTITUDES OF CHILDREN. IN THIS WORLD WE SHALL HAVE TRIBULATIONS. JESUS SAID THESE WORDS JN:16:33 THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU, THAT IN ME YE MIGHT HAVE PEACE. IN THE WORLD YE SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION: BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER; I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD. THERE ARE MEN THAT PREACH ALL MEN ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, BUT THAT IS NOT SO; IN THIS PRESENT WORLD THERE ARE BOTH THE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. IN THIS PARABLE THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE KNOWN AS WHEAT, AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN ARE KNOWN AS TARES. MT:13:25 BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT, AND WENT HIS WAY. 26. BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO. WHEN WAS WHEAT MADE WHEAT, AND WHEN WERE TARES MADE TARES? IN CREATION. THE CHILDREN OF GOD PROCEED FROM GOD, AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN ARE FROM THE DEVIL. I BELIEVE THAT THE SOUL OF MAN WAS CREATED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. EPH:1:4 ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE; 5. HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL. WHEN GOD CREATED THE ELECT, HE CREATED US IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. WHEN WE HEAR THE GOSPEL PREACHED, WE BELIEVE THE GOSPEL, AND FAITH COMES INTO OUR HEARTS. ROM:10:17 SO THEN FAITH COMETH BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD. THE TARES, THE CHILDREN OF SATAN CANNOT BE SAVED FROM THE WRATH OF GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS LIFE TO THE SOUL. THE HOLY GHOST MUST BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. JN:14:16 AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; 17. EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM’; BUT YE KNOW HIM; FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU. WHY WERE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN CREATED? THEY WERE CREATED FOR THE VERY PURPOSE OF BEING TAKEN AND DESTROYED. 2PT:2:9 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS, AND TO RESERVE THE UNJUST UNTO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED: 2PT:2:12 BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS, MADE TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED, SPEAK EVIL OF THE THINGS THAT THEY UNDERSTAND NOT; AND SHALL UTTERLY PERISH IN THEIR OWN CORRUPTION. SATAN SOWED THE SEEDS THAT BECAME HIS CHILDREN, JN:8:44 YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER YE WILL DO. THE REASON THAT THEY ARE NOT GATHERED NOW IS BECAUSE THEY ARE SO CLOSE TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, IF THEY WERE GATHERED NOW SOME OF THE SAINTS WOULD BE ROOTED UP. MT:13:27 SO THE SERVANTS OF THE HOUSEHOLDER CAME AND SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, DIDST NOT THOU SOW GOOD SEED IN THY FIELD? FROM WHENCE THEN HATH IT TARES? 28. HE SAID UNTO THEM, AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS. THE SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, WILT THOU THEN THAT WE GO AND GATHER THEM UP? 29. BUT HE SAID, NAY; LEST WHILE YE GATHER UP THE TARES, YE ROOT UP ALSO THE WHEAT WITH THEM. FALSE PROPHETS WOULD HAVE YOU TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE WHEAT, CHILDREN OF GOD, THAT SHALL BE GATHERED FIRST; BEFORE THE TRIBULATION. BUT NOT SO, WHEN THE LORD JESUS RETURNS HE WILL SEND HIS ANGELS TO GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM FIRST THE TARES. MT:13:30 LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST: AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM: BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. THOSE GATHERED FIRST SHALL BE BURNED. LK:17:34 I TELL YOU, IN THAT NIGHT THERE SHALL BE TWO MEN IN ONE BED; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER SHALL BE LEFT. 35. TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING TOGETHER; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. 36. TWO MEN SHALL BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. AFTER THE TARES ARE GATHERED, THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. MT:13:36 THEN JESUS SENT THE MULTITUDE AWAY, AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE: AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, DECLARE UNTO US THE PARABLE OF THE TARES OF THE FIELD. 37. HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT SOWETH THE GOOD SEED IS THE SON OF MAN; 38. THE FIELD IS THE WORLD; THE GOOD SEED ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM; BUT THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE; 39. THE ENEMY THAT SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL; THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE WORLD; AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS. 40. AS THEREFORE THE TARES ARE GATHERED AND BURNED IN THE FIRE; SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD. 41. THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL GATHER OUT OF HIS KNGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, AND THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY; 42. AND SHALL CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE; THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. 43. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. THE WHEAT , AND THE TARES ARE BECOMING FULL GROWN. THE WHEAT IS BECOMING DAY BY DAY MORE LIKE CHRIST. AND, THE TARES ARE BECOMING DAY BY DAY MORE LIKE SATAN. WHEN YOU SEE THE SAINTS OF GOD ASSEMBLING IN THE CHURCHES, AND HEAR THEM PRAYING, AND HEAR THEM SINGING HYMNS, YOU KNOW THEY ARE BECOMING MATURE CHRISTIANS. THEY ARE GIVING A TESTIMONY THEY ARE CHILDREN OF GOD. WHEN YOU HEAR THE CHILDREN OF SATAN BLASPHEME, AND CURSE, AND SAY ALL MANNER OF EVIL; YOU KNOW THAT THEY ARE GIVING A TESTIMONY THAT THEY ARE THE DEVIL’S CHILDREN. MT:13:30 LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST; AND I IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM: BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU SAINTS, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE DAY THAT JESUS RETURNS, SHALL NOT COME EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION. 2THES:2:1 NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM, 2. THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND, OR BE TROUBLED, NEITHER BY SPIRIT, NOR BY WORD, NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND. 3. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION; 4. WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED; SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHEWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. 5. REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS? 6. AND NOW YE KNOW WHAT WITHHOLDETH THAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN HIS TIME. 7. FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK: ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH WILL LET UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY. (THE LORD JESUS SHALL KILL THE ANTICHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS, WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, AND WITH THE SPIRIT FROM HIS MOUTH) 2THES:2:8. AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 9. EVEN HIM, WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS. 10. AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH. BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. . 11. AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE. 12. THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. THE ANTICHRIST IS BOTH A MAN, AND A SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM IS ALL READY WITH US. EVERY MAN THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN BOTH GOD THE FATHER, AND JESUS HIS SON, IS ANTICHRIST. 1JN:2:22 WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? HE IS ANTICHRIST, THAT DENIETH THE FATHER AND THE SON. WHO SHALL RISE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION? THOSE THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS OF JESUS, AND THAT HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST. RV:20:4 AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 5. BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. THE ANTICHRIST SHALL REIGN AND MAKE WAR UPON THE SAINTS FORTY TWO MONTHS, RV:13:4 AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON WHICH GAVE POWER UNTO THE BEAST: AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, SAYING, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? 5. AND THERE WAS GIVEN HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS. THEREFORE SAINTS OF GOD IF YOU WILL MARK THE DAY THAT THE ANTICHRIST BEGINS TO REIGN, AND COUNT FORTY TWO MONTHS FROM THAT DATE, YOU SHOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO THE DAY THAT THE LORD RETURNS. 1THES:5:1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU. 2. FOR YOUSELVES KNOW PERFECTLY THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD SO COMETH AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 3. FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY: THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD; AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE. 4. BUT YE, BRETHREN, ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF. WHY WOULD THE ANTICHRIST PLACE A NUMBER IN THE RIGHT HAND OR THE FOREHEAD OF HIS CHILDREN? HE WILL PLACE A NUMBER UPON THE PEOPLE SO SATAN’S CHILDREN COULD BE IDENTIFIED FROM THE ELECT. RV:13:16 AND HE CAUSED ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND, OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS; 17. AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK, OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. HUNGER IS A GREAT MOTIVATION FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. IF ANY ONE TAKES THE MARK OF THE BEAST; THEY SHALL BURN IN HELL FOR EVER. RV:14:9 AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP; THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND, 10. THE SAME SHALL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT WITHOUT MIXTURE INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION, AND HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB: 11. AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER: AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOSOEVER RECEIVETH THE MARK OF HIS NAME. WHY WOULD THE FALSE PROPHETS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THE ELECT OF GOD WILL BE RAPTURED BEFORE THE ANTICHRIST MAKES HIS APPEARANCE? BECAUSE IT IS THE FALSE PROPHETS THAT SHALL LEAD THE PEOPLE TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST.