| 1 | The Church’s seed is nought but Christ Himself |
| | Sown into human hearts as life, thereby |
| | Growing as wheat, producing flour fine |
| | For bread both God and man to satisfy. |
| 2 | But Satan hath the false believers sown |
| | Among the saints as tares among the wheat, |
| | To bring confusion and to hinder growth |
| | That they may not fulfill God’s plan complete. |
| 3 | The Church’s life just as the herb must be, |
| | Grown out of Christ, who is the mustard seed; |
| | Hidden and transient, little on the earth, |
| | But good for food the hungry ones to feed. |
| 4 | But Satan came and made the little herb |
| | To change its nature and to change its form, |
| | That fully grown it did a tree become |
| | Where many evil ones may lodge and swarm. |
| 5 | Satan has also used the fallen “church” |
| | Evil and heathen practice to include, |
| | As leaven mingled with the meal of wheat, |
| | Thus to corrupt its purity as food. |
| 6 | But Christ as life would so transform the saints |
| | That they may be as pearl and precious stone, |
| | As the materials suitable to build |
| | Into His Church to make His Kingdom known. |
| 7 | Such an assembly grown in Christ as life, |
| | Transformed and built with Christ in them annealed, |
| | Is as the goodly pearl for preciousness |
| | And as the treasure hidden in the field. |
| 8 | Lord, separate us from the devil’s “tares,” |
| | Each one deliver from the monstrous “tree,” |
| | From all the “leaven” may Thou purify, |
| | That we may be as food to man and Thee. |
| 9 | Cause us to grow in life divine each day |
| | That we may be transformed and built by Thee |
| | Into a body to express Thyself, |
| | That Thou in us Thy Church and Kingdom see. |
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