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Some Titles of Scripture.
#1.
Wheat.
p. 60
"The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that
hath My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to
the wheat? Saith the Lord" (Jer. xxiii. 28).
If in days when "dreams" were sometimes divinely chosen as a vehicle of inspiration,
such language could be used by Jeremiah, how much more should we resolutely set aside
all such self-evolved teaching. A glance at the context of Jer. xxiii. 28 is sadly
illuminating. The Lord had said: "Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy unto you." Why?
(1)
"They make you vain" (Jer. xxiii. 16).
(2)
"They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord"
(Jer. xxiii. 16).
(3)
"They use their tongues, and say, HE saith" (Jer. xxiii. 31).
(4)
"They cause My people to err by their lies, and by their lightness" (Jer. xxiii. 32).
(5)
"I sent them not, nor commanded them saith the Lord" (Jer. xxiii. 32).
Here in "the chaff", by contrast, we may discern the nature and character of "the
wheat". May we exercise this spiritual discernment in a day of lies and lightness, of
dreams that make men vain, of tongues--while protesting that what is uttered is the Word
of God--that speak a vision of man's own heart.