The Weeding of the Garden

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Matthew 15:13

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

I. PLANTS THAT GOD has not planted.

1. Some have been planted by the minister's hand. Some conversions are of human, not Divine, origin.

2. Some were planted by their fathers and mothers. They have got a kind of family religion.

3. Many professors of religion are self-planted.

II. THEIR UPROOTING. It sometimes comes in this life.

III. THE WORK OF SELF-EXAMINATION. Am I a plant of God's planting?

1. If I am of the Lord's planting, there was a time when I had to be taken out of the place where I once grew.

2. If planted by God there will be sorrow that we were ever anything else.

3. We have learnt our utter helplessness.

4. We are all planted on one soil, and indeed on one rock.

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