The importance of “togetherness”
1. Today we want to look at the idea of “togetherness.”
2. Our first passage comes from Mt. 13:29, one of Jesus’ parables.
3. This is the parable of the “tares” (tares were a degenerate type of wheat).
4. Mt. 13:24-26 – READ
5. When the good and the bad wheat first started to grow, both looked alike.
6. As time passed, it would be easy to see that someone had sown good wheat in with the bad.
7. The farmer was asked if the servants should go out and “gather up” the bad wheat (verse 28).
8. The landowner said this was not to be done because this would also destroy the good wheat (verse 29).
9. The farmer said both were to be allowed to grow together – verse 30 – READ
10. Some have thought this parable is talking about the church.
11. This explanation, which is wrong, has led some to conclude that the church should overlook issues.
12. Church discipline should never be done because Jesus said the “good and the bad” are to remain together.
13. Jesus specifically identified the field as the “world” instead of the church.
14. Verse 38 – READ
15. The word “together” reminds us that if we want to be like good wheat, we are not going to by ourselves.
16. We are going to have some “tares” in our lives.
17. We are going to be with some people that irritate and annoy us.
18. We will be with some people who will try to exert a very negative influence on us.
19. Our tares may be at school, in the workplace, in our neighborhood, or maybe in our own family.
20. 2 Pet. 2:7 says Lot was a “righteous man and the ungodly “vexed his soul.”
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THE WORDS THAT ARE TRANSLATED “TOGETHER” REMIND US THAT THE SAVED AND THE UNSAVED ARE GOING TO BE JOINED TOGETHER IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS ON THE EARTH.
1) Our next passage comes from 1 Thess. 4:17.
2) Verse 17 is verse we want to read – READ
3) This chapter does not say anything about the fate of the unsaved.
4) 2 Thess. 1:7-9 – READ
5) We want to be “together” with the right people as we go through life.
a) In Mt 18:20 Jesus spoke of “two or three” coming “together” in His name.
6) If God is “together” with His people when they are solving a problem, what about at other times?
7) In institution the Lord’s Supper Jesus said He would observe the Supper with His people.
8) He does that now; the Lord’s Supper will not be observed in eternity.
9) Jesus said in Mt. 23:37 that He would have gathered the Hebrews “together” as a hen gathers its young.
10) Many are invited to come together, but they decline.
11) Think of all those who are like the five foolish virgins Jesus once described.
12) Young ladies left for a while and they wanted to be “together” with the other women.
13) They wanted to be part of the group.
14) Togetherness is an important word in the Christian vocabulary.
a) We can be together with fellow Christians now and in eternity,
b) Or we can be together with others now and with all the unsaved in the hereafter.
c) Jesus said that “bad wheat” is going to be gathered together and burned (Mt. 13:29).
