The enemy of our spiritual destiny - Audio

Though we cannot be defeated unless we give in, we all have enemies that seek to disrupt our spiritual destiny. The parable of the wheat and the tares illustrates this principle. The bible says the man sowed good seed, but while he slept, his enemy sowed bad seed. The tare looks like the wheat that the farmer wanted. It is not possible to tell the difference between the two until it was too late to do anything about it. It is not until they began to produce fruit that it is possible to tell the difference. The question is ask: did you not plant good seed? Where did the tare come from. Good seed had been sowed, but the bad seed was introduced by an enemy. In our spiritual journey we never escape the attempts of the enemy to disrupt what God had planted in our life. Good seed will produce good things, but the enemy does not want good things. The enemy cannot disrupt the good seed. He can only introduce bad seed to the field. He did it while they slept. The purpose of the enemy of my soul is to discourage and disrupt. He is trying to interrupt our sense of purpose and the good work that God has planted. The devil is limited in what he can do, so his next best option is to frustrate us to the point that we forget who we are: A child of God. It is the enemy's desire is to wear us down. He knows that he cannot defeat the blood or undo Calvary, so he tries his best to disrupt our life and distract us from doing what God wants for us. In our parable, they could not weed out the tares without damaging the wheat. Jesus is telling us that even though we live with the result of bad seed, it will not keep us from going to heaven. We can live right next door to hell, and still go to heaven. If we let God take care of it, in the end, God will take care of it.

Bro. Hughes takes three points from this parable. First the tares cannot stop the wheat. The good seed that God puts in our life cannot be choked out by the bad. Secondly we can do good and still have to have bad things come into our life. You can live as clean as we can live and not escape the work of the enemy in our life. Bad things happening in our life do not indicate that we are not living right. Third Evil is found among the good, but can never be mistaken for the good. No matter what happens in this life, in the end God will separate the wheat from the tare and God knows the difference.

This simple story illustrates to us how difficult it is to tell the good from the bad, but God know the difference and will sort it out in the end.
Man will be judged not by a single act, deed or stage in his life, but by what his nature is. Are we a wheat or a tare? A single failure does not condemn us to the fire.

The enemy of our spiritual destiny is the attempts by the enemy to distract, frustrate and wear us down.