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This seed becomes the kingdom of God which slept, slumbered, but rises up
to propagate intentional acts of faith to cultivate selected fruit to harvest from
with those same traits of character. Our Lord chose to compare the way His
Word works to a seed. There is a germination process of the Word of God in
our life that takes time and can’t be avoided. God has given us a job to plant
the seed of truth of the word. None are able to cause that seed to grow, it is
only God Who gives the growth. This is our experience as the nature of the
seed is to grow...to grow in the love of God. We don’t study the word of God
with the thought that, O’ I know this, or I have read or heard about this many
times before. We seek the growth into the full corn in the ear as we still study
and reason further that we not miss any precious life sustaining and fruit
nurturing ingredients. This so that we do not randomly sow scripture in our
hearts out of ignorance. God is love, Jesus is called the Word because he
declares God in every utterance. He is that essential wisdom that is thought.
And it is thought that gives conception to every operation. There is nothing
we are more sure of than that we think, yet nothing we are more in the dark
about than how we think; who can declare the creation of thought. This is
why we cannot fathom the eternal mind but we so adore the depth, the
height, the unreachableness of its omniscience. The Word is the Being that
never began. He is the essence and substance of the distinct Person of God.
And we are his seed. There are many desert places where reason and truth
may settle when blown by “the Wind”. May our righteousness be that infusion
which makes fertile the land. When we grasp and comprehend the revelation
of His love in His Word with the help of the Holy Spirit, that is the seed which
indeed sows the fulfillment of God’s promises, God’s purposes as we scatter
the word that gathers. We expect to harvest an orchard of generous love
when our love makes another feel loved.
Now the depth of our utterances must find deep root in the truth. Not only to
bring forth blades, but trees. Those who are now his seed are being
strengthened in him as they suffer such incomprehensible grief of seeing
other seed dampening off because of the soil-borne fungi. This seed was not
deep enough in the word. It was subject to becoming a natural offspring of
the world. These have not the full understanding of the most protuberant
affliction to ever come upon the world...sin. Sin is the most serious thing man
will ever deal with. Sin is a spiritual virus that invades the whole being. It's a
deadly disease that infects every part of the human: our body, our mind, our
emotions, our relationships, our motives...absolutely everything. We don't
have the strength on our own to overcome its power. Sin is inherited, it is
blood borne, it is contagious. What makes it so? Whosoever rejects the
healthiness of truth suffers from the worse form of cancer - apostate cancer.
It can only be diagnosed with the word of God. It is the cause of all trouble,
the root of all sorrow. All have this terminal disease. How is it that sin is both
transgression and disease?
Romans 8:2
We, every one of us, needs a cleaning and the blood of Christ is the great
cleansing cure. With this truth we come to reason why the enmity and “the
seed” are the cure. We who are that unique and privileged seed among the
nations, determined and chosen, are the blessed seed due to our proximity
to Christ, being born again by the word, by the water, through the blood of
Christ. The storyline of scripture reveals how the historical figures in the bible
bear witness to the coming Christ by faith. In scripture, all things are directed
towards him, and so only as we are made perfect by faith in him, do God’s
people find their blessing, as children of Abraham, as the seed of the woman.
There’s a reason the last day seed is that peculiar people. It has the spirit of
Christ, a spirit of full consecration to the Lord, and separateness from the
world and its selfish aims. It is peculiar in its adherence to the Word of the
Lord as its only law, the basis of all truth, of all reason. It is peculiar in that it
rejects worldly wisdom when it conflicts with the divine revelation of God. It
is peculiar in that it is in the world, but not of the world. It is peculiar in that it
has a decided faith and acts in harmony with its faith, and with zeal. It is
peculiar in that it is self-sacrificing and knows no will but the will of its Creator
God. It is peculiar in that it knows the truth and is able to give a reason for
the hope within, while others merely speculate and wonder and doubt. It is
peculiar because it avoids strife and contentions, except where principles are
involved; and even when contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to
the saints, this seed has been entrusted with the great work of blessing all
the families of the earth, and bringing them to the knowledge of the Lord, and
into harmony, if they will, with the new covenant sealed by the precious blood
of Jesus Christ. It is peculiar because it is determined to overcome.
Jesus is the seed. Jesus is the Word. The first prophecy pointing to the last
things declares that we are his seed...we are his word. His seed had to be
planted in us before conception could take place giving us our born again
nature. And God controls the law of seedtime and the harvest. God holds
special regards for His last day people. This seed has special characteristics
that will show as did that tender plant that is “the seed”.
Isaiah 53:2; 11:1
Romans 9:27-29
The “seed” reflects back to the “remnant”. The seed resembles the original.
When we reason with God’s prophecy, we should give ourselves fully to the
work of finding our lost brothers and sisters, as our Father does. He is
gathering. We should also love the seed of the woman, be patient with them,
and humble ourselves, so we can walk the path of faith tandemly. We
resemble and imitate Christ in life and inherit his characteristics. When we
have these characteristics, we are called the “seed of God”, “the children of
God. We are endowed with the very life of Christ.
I Corinthians 6:17
We must be Word minded, meditating on it to be continually planting seed
from scripture. It is a simple but profound truth that we are to do. If we are
God’s Word, we have a distinct part to play...
Romans 10:14, 17
No one can experience the new birth unless they have read in the Word of
God who He is or if they be of those who are convinced of His existence as
Supreme enough to lead them to their chief end and the glorifying of Him.
The God of nature imprinted common natural notions upon the contemplative
hearts of those who knew not the Word, but that they had a sense of Deity
and the regard and reason to know that this Deity made distinguishment
between them and lesser creatures. By this way they knew the invisible
things of God as He was not the object of their sense, but these things were
sensible as a work of creation. They could not come by natural light to the
knowledge of the three Persons in the Godhead, but they did come to at least
so much knowledge as was sufficient to keep them from idolatry. This was
that truth which they held in their understanding. The plant grows by
receiving that which God has provided to sustain its life, whether visible or
invisible but that it is available and the part they must play in its reception is
the determined faith. That part is to believe what God’s Word declares, and
is acted upon, then the Father places His imperishable seed within the
person and they become a child of God. As the seed builds up energy it
enlarges and breaks through the ground to compliment God’s generosity and
grace in giving the water of the Holy Spirit and the Light of the Son and the
miracle of life. It is the seed’s confession of being raised from the dead.
I Peter 1:23
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