Quote for Today
joseph parker
“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. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels”
Matthew 13:36-39
“From that exposition we learn–1. That all good men are placed on the earth by the Son of man (“the good seed are the children of the kingdom”). Good men come from the good Man: there is no germ of goodness, no hint or promise of good harvest that may not be traced directly to Jesus Christ. This fact is of great value as illustrative of His Divinity. Nothing bad comes from Him: all good springs from His undefiled, His essentially holy soul. 2. They are so placed as not to be beyond evil association. They stand side by side with “the children of the wicked one.” Proximity does not involve identity. Good men and bad men grow, so to speak, on the same earth, yet there is a difference of nature which cannot be mistaken. Time can never make the tares wheat, nor can time ever make the wheat tares. Time moulds the blossom into fruit, but time can never bring figs out of thistles. The difference between good men and bad men is not a difference of position, a difference of circumstance, or a difference of opportunities, but a difference of nature.”
– Joseph Parker
“Little children, let no man deceive you:
he that doeth righteousness is righteous,
even as he is righteous”
1 John 3:7
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