BE THE WHEAT (NOT THE DARNEL) - Doc Lynch Ministries

DOC LYNCH·WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025

Matthew 13:30 (AMP) – “Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary.”

He is only going to take the WHEAT. The DARNEL goes to the flames.

What’s the difference?

It’s a parable of Jesus. He is speaking about BELIEVERS and the DEMONIC.

One is REAL. One is FAKE.

One is GRAIN. One is a WEED.

In a wheat field there is darnel mixed in. They look so similar that the darnel is called FAKE WHEAT.

Agriculturally it is classified as Lolium temulentum, typically known as darnel, poison darnel or cockle.

It’s kind of an infection which becomes a parasite on the wheat.

If you eat the darnel it will poison a person with a feeling of drunkenness and then it kills them.

See where Jesus is going with this?

It ain’t about wheat and poison imitations.

It’s about believers and poison imitations.

Sometimes we can look into the great harvest field of the BELIEVERDOME and we can’t tell the difference in the players.

We might even all look the same. We can be in the same “uniform”.

Some would be exceptionally great people of God. The others would cut your throat for a nickel.

How does this occur?

Here is the Doc Lynch Commentary.

Check out the context of the passage:

Matthew 13:24-25 (AMP) – 24 “Another parable He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling wheat) among the wheat, and went on his way.”

Key words? “While he was sleeping.” In our slumber (laziness, carelessness, preoccupation with stuff we shouldn’t be) the ENEMY walked in and sowed into our lives flat out evil distractions and interruptions. He will find a way to screw with your “wheat field” (family, church, neighborhood, peace of mind). Even our life in our snow globe “kingdom of heaven” will get put into disarray if we do not learn how to live in it right. The sowing of discord and then on his merry way to the next victims. We must learn to identify wheat from darnel. Good from evil. Sometimes it looks very similar to the naked eye. You have to see it and deal with it in the Spirit, NOT the FLESH. YOU MUST LEARN this to be successful in your Christian life.

Matthew 13:26 (AMP) – “So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also.”

This has been the case right from the beginning. Even in Eden, the Serpent was right there with the innocence of Adam and Eve. The Serpent typifies darnel. It was so beautiful Eve couldn’t resist, and her infection was passed to Adam…and down to us…and on…and on…and on…

Matthew 13:27 (AMP) – And the servants of the owner came to him and said, “Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have darnel shoots in it?”

Great question. Because it belongs there. Earth. The ground. It is the realm of the Prince and Power of the Air. Satan was cast down long before Adam was put here. He owns this real estate. As he infected the Garden he will infect your surroundings.

If YOU allow it.

See…just because it’s all around us, we don’t have to succumb to it. WE have something Adam and Eve didn’t. We have JESUS! Although this doesn’t mean we are not responsible.

Read on:

God bless them. They wanted to fight. They wanted to go into the field and destroy all the darnel so the wheat could live harmoniously with each other. In a perfect world, in a time far, far in the past, it was certainly God’s plan for us to be like that. But man chose to allow the darnel to take root, and the human race has paid for that bad decision since.

No…we must learn to live with evil in the world, but we must also learn how to not allow it to affect us in our lives. We must learn to deal with it spiritually, not carnally. Supernaturally, not naturally.

Some believers, maybe far too many, cannot learn to step out of the flesh. They react to the evil weeds pushing their button the way evil wants them to. They lash out with the tongue and they say stupid foul things which accomplish nothing but giving the devil a foothold to point the finger and say, “See…this person is not what he says he is. He is a fake. He is no different than any other weed.” They lash out with violence and tantrums. They think they will be heard better, or that they will convince others to hear them better. No, it just makes them look foolish because the “darnel” will ALWAYS be there to say, “SEE! Look. What a joke!”

Jesus taught us how to handle it.

Matthew 13:29 (AMP) – “But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up the [true] wheat along with it.”

When you fight the darnel in the flesh you will cause collateral damage and harm the wheat as well. How? Because your testimony of being a believer is all you have. You must act according to your testimony. You must leave your former way of dealing with trouble. No more tongue and fists. Now by the power of the Spirit.

Look…here it is plain and simple. If you are going to claim to be a believer then you must act like one, and when you don’t you make Jesus and the Church a laughing stock in front of the Enemy. Wheat and darnel look so similar that often the only way to show who you really are is to act completely opposite how the darnel would. For me personally, on the outside I might be expected to act like my appearance might dictate (tattooed, long hair, etc.). But I must confound that and surprise people (which I love doing, incidentally) and continuously show them that the outside doesn’t matter, and while the darnel and the wheat might look alike, inside I am 100% sold out to Jesus! People would not know that if I was to act and react like they might expect me too.

Listen. There is going to come a time and proper place when evil will be vanquished.

Jesus continues:

Until then resist evil in the Spirit not in the flesh. Our weapon is love. Jesus is going to fix this world very soon. Until then we are His ambassadors for winning as many people to Him as we can.

No one is going to want Jesus if He is improperly introduced. People need a difference. People crave a difference. You need to be that difference.

Trust Him not yourself. There is no amount of screaming and cussing, fighting and fussing, that is going to advance the cause. Only Him shining through you will accomplish that.

Be Him because YOU ARE Changed!

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Turn it over. Be a Warrior. Fight in the Spirit.

Need ammo?

Here. Every time I write or speak Scripture it is a Sword and Bullets in the gut of Satan and his forces.

Memorize this and remind yourself every time you’re tempted to fight in your puny flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:4 (AMP) – “For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.”

Talk to Jesus right now. Mention that Doc sent you. He knows me and He will love you too.

For you today from my heart to yours…ALL peace, love, joy, comfort, purity and most of all…PRESENCE!

Keepin’ it REVIVED,

~~Pastor Doc Lynch~~