Did You Ever Wonder Why?

🎯 Scripture Target Lock:

Matthew 13:30 (KJV)

“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.”

🎨 Illustration: Wheat and Weeds in the Same Field

Imagine a battlefield where both friend and foe have fallen—uniforms stained the same color. To the untrained eye, you can’t always tell the difference. But in the Lord’s eyes, He knows His own.

Just like wheat and tares grow side by side in the same soil, the righteous and the wicked often share the same cities, workplaces, and even family trees. When war, terror, or disaster strikes, it doesn't always separate by faith or unbelief in that moment—but God's eternal judgment does. This life is temporary ground. The final sorting is Heaven’s work.

💥 Explanation: When the Cross Doesn’t Mean Exemption, But Identification

Being a Christian doesn’t exempt us from suffering—it identifies us with Christ in it.

“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him…” – 2 Timothy 2:12

Just as Christ was crucified between two criminals, so His followers are sometimes taken side by side with the lost—but the outcome is eternally different.

• The world sees bodies.

• Heaven sees destinies.

When a Christian dies in a blast, a war, or a senseless act of evil, they are absent from the body, but present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). When the enemy takes their life, they’re not defeated—they’re promoted. But when the enemies of the cross perish, they face the Judge without the Advocate.

The truth is this: God allows the wheat and the weeds to grow side by side, but He never loses track of which is which. No matter how chaotic the harvest field looks, the Reaper knows.

💬 In Summary:

Why are Christians killed next to unbelievers? Because we live in a fallen world, where evil rains on the just and the unjust (Matthew 5:45). But our death is not our end. It's our entrance into glory.

• The cross doesn’t mean you won’t die.

• It means you’ll never die alone—and you’ll never die in vain.

  
  

Let this be a comfort for the saints and a call for the lost. When a believer dies, the enemy may think he’s won—but Heaven counts it a crown.

Pastor Terry ⛪🕊️🪖

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