A Seed for every Season
Proverbs
16: 15 In
the light of the Kings Presence is Life, and His favour is as the Cloud in the
Latter rain.
This Message tonight is
one that I brought to my people in
In pp. 225 Brother
Branham said, " I Corinthians 12 says, "By one Spirit." Spirit of
God, which is the Life-giver to the Word (the Seed), to vindicate
that Seed for that season. See?"
Again in pp. 226 he
spoke of the different moves of the Holy Spirit through the church ages and he
said, " it taken the Holy Spirit to make
that seed come to life " and purify the church by sanctification;
Then again he said in
pp. 227 "But by one Spirit we're all
baptized into one Body," and that
Body is a family, the family of God.
Again in pp. 229 he
reemphasized this thought and said in quoting God's Word, "I have chose to put My Name at the door of the house of My
worship, for My family will be gathered in there under the Blood; like
it was in Egypt, anything outside died. And in there, there's no leavened
bread! There's no denominational mixture in It anywhere, My house! My
children, borned of My genes!" Amen! Glory to God! "My genes
are in them! I put My Word in them. I will write them upon
the tables of their heart. That's My family, the family of the Body of
Jesus Christ; the family.
Then in pp. 231 -
233 He said, "And
if you was just baptized in water right, and then deny the Word, then you're
illegitimate; your birth wasn't correct. You claim that you believed Him
then, and you deny Him. How could I deny my family? When... How could I deny
Charles Branham being my father? A blood test on the door shows it.
Uh-huh. My action, and the vindication of God's Word in my life shows
whether I'm a child of God or not. Now, there's God's only place. See it?
The only place that God will receive your sacrifice (I don't care how sincere
you are) is in Christ.
Now what I would like
to draw from these statements is this.
#1 ) There
is a Seed for every season.
What do we mean,
"a seed for every season?" Well first we must ask ourselves what we
mean by the word seed. What is a seed? Webster says it is the "source, origin, or beginning of anything. A carrier of Life.
"There is a
Seed for every season" What is a seed? A Seed is a carrier of Life. And
it speaks of predestination, because everything that seed will ever manifest in
it's life cycle it already has in it. Every attribute, every characteristic,
every expression. That is why a seed is the purest form of predestination.
( Sara illustration)
Lee's comment to me on "the bride must come to a place where they
have no contrary thought from what was vindicated and revealed to us." We
won't go back to previous thought that were in error, but we immediately go to
God thoughts"
Luke 1: 19
- 20 And the angel answering said unto him, I am
Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and
to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able
to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou
Believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Mark 4: 14 The Sewer seweth the Word.
& Luke 8: 11 The Word of God is a seed. And notice as a seed it contains life.
John 1: 1
- 4, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
notice verse 5 darkness does not
comprehend it. ( katalambano = to take
eagerly, to seize upon and possess, to apprehend and comprehend. Here
we are talking about Life and it says, that darkness will not seize upon it,
they won't apprehend it.
John 6: 63
- 66 It
is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I
speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. Notice how that just after He informed them Eternal
Life is in His Word, they left.
Genesis 1:
11 (read) And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so Now
before the Seed was sowed and planted, the ground had be made ready. Genesis 1: 1 - 11, notice, Light first, Water next then life. Now in Scripture
we know that light represents the Word as we have already seen, and so does
water. 1 - 10 In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the
light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said,
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the
firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and
it was so. And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
1
Corinthians 15: 37 - 44 But some [man] will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they come? [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest
is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not
that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other [grain]: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every
seed his own body. All flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind
of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of
birds. [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory
of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another.
[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory. So
also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised
in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Notice
here that the scripture tells us the seed must be sewn and the form it
eventually takes is not what is sewn.
Matthew
13: 36 - 43 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and
went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us
the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that
soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed
are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked
[one]; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the
world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and
burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a
furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear,
let him hear.
Again we see a seed
being sewn at a specific season in which case this is marked out as being the
end of the world. So we must have a season. A sewing season and a reaping or
harvest season.
Ecclesiastes
3: 1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven:
So if everything has a
season, we must ask ourselves this question? What season are we in? What
is my season? Why am I here? What is my end?
1 Peter 1:
3 - 7 Blessed
[be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein
ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more
precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be
found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: now notice verse 5, the
WUEST translation says, "You who are constantly being kept guarded by the
power of God through Faith, for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in a
last season which is epochal and strategic in it's significance. "
again notice verse 6 & 7, the trials will
produce in you a crop that is in the image of the Life of the Original seed.
Hebrews 6:
4 - 8 For
it is impossible for those who have been once for enlightened, those who have
tasted of the Heavenly gift and have been made companions of the Holy Ghost
Himself being brought longside and made aware of His presence, by tasting the
goodness of God's Vindicated Word and have been exposed to the Powers of the
coming age, having fallen away and deviated from the truth, it is impossible
for them to ever come to a change of the mind again, seeing that they have
crucified themselves along with the Son of God, and have subjected Him to
public disgrace. Now catch carefully
what Paul says right after this... For the land that drinks in the rain
(doctrine) that often falls upon it and that produces a crop that is useful to
those who have sewn it ( And who did the sewing?, the Son of Man) it is
this land which produces the crop which receives the blessings from God. But
the land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless to the one who sewed
the land and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
Psalm 1: 1
- 3 Blessed
[is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight
[is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And
he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper. So we
see here that there is a fruit that is to be brought forth in it's season.
Matthew
21: 33 - 43 Hear another parable: There was a certain
householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a
winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants
to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen
took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again,
he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the
heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they
caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him]. When the lord
therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say
unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his]
vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their
seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone
which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is
the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you,
The
Psalm 145
: 15 - 16 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou
givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest
the desire of every living thing.
Galatians
6: 7 - 9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 John 8 -
9 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those
things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He
that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Do not loose that
which we have sewn for, you must abide in the doctrine to reap.
#2) God
sends His Spirit forth to quicken that Seed.
1 Peter
Psalm
119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken
thou me according to thy word. 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in
thy way. 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts:
quicken me in thy righteousness.:50 This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened
me. :88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony
of thy mouth.:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened
me.:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according
unto thy word.:149 Hear
my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy
judgment.:154 Plead
my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.:156 Great
[are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
according to thy lovingkindness.
Why? Psalm 80: 18 So we will not go back from thee: quicken us, and we will
call upon thy name.
He says here, so that we might walk in His word, and come
into manifestation of who we really are. Son's and daughters of God Himself. * The Gene
Seed of God will come to fruition and God's Word will not be sewn and then come
up empty in His predestinated Gene Seed because He is Here to bring all His
Word to pass. Phillipians 1: 6 and how
does he perform it?
Unrecognized
Presence
1
Corinthians 1: 4 - 10 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God
our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your
behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every
thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in] all knowledge; Even as
the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: So that ye come behind in no
gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm
you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ. God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his
Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no
divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.
Notice He will confirm
you by fertilizing the predestinated gene seed. This thought on seed is the
best and simplest explanation of predestination that I know, because a seed has
everything about it already predetermined in it. It's growth rate, it's
response to the light, it's full manifestation of it's attributes and
characteristics are already in it by predestination.
Deuteronomy
32: 1 -5 Give ear, O ye
heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the
small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I
will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. [He is]
the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of
truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he. They have corrupted
themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a
perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy
11: 14 (read)
Joel 2: 23
- 27 (read)
Hosea 6: 1
- 3
James 5: 7
- 9 (read) the season. The early
and latter rain is at the time of the Judge.
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And then
noticing this morning, Brother Jewel Rose, a very precious friend and brother
to all of us, how that he got up and read that Psalms. Look how that dovetailed
in, like he said, "I want to see what kind of a seed that's hanging on
you." Last night, the Spirit spoke and said, and about, "The latter
rain, former and latter rain, both being poured out in the last days." And
this morning, "The seed that's hanging on you." See, the Spirit
speaking, watch how It did through these ministers and so forth, this morning.
So therefore I'm taking this subject: "The Seed Shall Not Be Heir With The
Shuck." That's a very strange text, but, "The Seed Shall Not Be Heir
With The Shuck." And from taking, drawing my conclusions of this, or my
text, rather, from Galatians 4:27 and 3, Paul here of course is speaking of the
literal seed of Abraham's two sons.
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This age
started just after the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age
in which the true church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost,
we know that there must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The
believers sensed this in their spirits and began crying to God for a new
outpouring such as was in the first century. What seemed to be the answer came
as many began to speak in tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then
believed that this was indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It was not, for the
latter rain can come only after the former rain which is the spring or TEACHING
rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain.Next will come the harvest
rain or rapturing faith.
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Now,
watch. Now, remember the word "m-o-u-r-e-h, moureh," means
"teaching, the former rain." It says "the moureh rain, the
teaching rain," teaching rain went forth. Billy Graham has struck the
world. The Pentecostals struck the world, and the Word has struck the world.
Now, what's the matter now? She's now waiting for the latter rain. That's when
she produces her fruits. Oh, I hope you get it.
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Someone
asked me to repeat that Hebrew word again. In Joel the 2nd chapter (Joel 2:28) where
he's speaking of the coming of the former and latter rain, the word
"former" is the Hebrew word M-o-u-r-e-h, moureh, which means
"teaching." In other words, it'll be a teaching rain and a harvest
rain. Now, we've had the teaching rain, and we're ready now for the harvest
rain. You know the first rain is when you plant the seed. That starts your crop
growing. Then just before it matures, there comes another crop. That's what
they call the harvest rain. We know when it is--the spring rains, and then the
rains about June, it makes your crop.
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We've had
a revival. Joel said... We fuss so much about latter rain, had movements called
latter rain; latter rain, former rain, inner rain, outer rain. I was reading
the other day. Do you know what former rain means in the Hebrew word? I can't
call it right now; I never wrote it down; it skipped my mind. But "former
rain," the first rain, means "a rain of teaching." The second
rain is the Spirit that comes upon what's been taught and produces the crop
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Now, we
said in the last days Joel told us (the other part of the Scriptures. Listen
close now.) that there would be a former and latter rain in the same season.
How many Christians know that? Say, "Amen." Sure. What. Now, the
other day, to my surprise, when I looked... Former and latter rain would come
in the same season. Now, the word "former" in the Hebrew word (get
your Hebrew lexicon and find out), the Hebrew word for "former" means
"moureh." "Moureh" means "teaching." There will
come a teaching rain. What is it? Putting the seeds into the earth. What's had.
What's gone on? Well, we find out that there's been a teaching rain going on.
The Baptist people, "A million more in '44," was their goal, members
of the church. Billy Graham's great revivals, our great evangelist, look what
he done. Look at Oral Roberts and the Pentecostals. There's been a teaching
rain gone forth. There's been a national teaching rain, communism sowed amongst
the people, every nation. There's been a Roman revival. Do you know what
happens? If they give the western part, or the eastern part of Berlin back,
that puts communism just, or I mean the Roman empire, just exactly in the old
circle it was in the time of Jesus. Certainly it does, perfectly. There's a
revival going on. What is it? A sowing. You don't hear very much of Billy
Graham no more, do you? What about Oral? What about the rest of them? You know
the great revival fire's not burning. What is it? It's the end time seed sign.
The words has been sown. What is it? Denomination will reap denomination. That
makes them confederate themselves together. But the Word of God has been sowed
also. And when the Spirit of God begins to fall, the Word of God will live in
the people. And that false bride that's committed adultery out there, and
brought herself into creeds, and sold out her birthrights will reap what? A
confederation of church, that's to be bound and burned like the thorns and
thistles. But where the Word of God's been sowed into the people's heart, it
will reap a Bride for Christ as certain as I'm standing here: End time signs. What's the matter, Church of God? What's the matter with us? What's
the matter with you Baptists, you Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, Jesus Only,
all the rest of you? What's the matter with us? Can't you see? The seed...
Don't you... Be careful what kind of a seed you're taking in your womb of your
heart. Don't you take creeds; take the Word.
They've
been talking so much about latter rain. Not discarding you latter rain
brethren, but that's not latter rain. If the latter rain would've been here,
the power of God would've struck that thing, and she'd have swept the world.
The latter rain's fixing to come. What's the matter? The church is
manufacturing herself something just like Eve tried to do. She tried to have
more light to manufacture something.
We've
done the same thing, trying to make something in ourselves. Keep your hand off
of it. Let God do it. Take His Word and believe It. Hold It in your heart. And
when the rain begins to fall life will take hold, and the Word will manifest
itself.
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Romans
8: 1 But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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Ephesians
2: 1, 5 And you [hath he quickened], who were dead
in trespasses and sins; 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
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1
Corinthians 15: 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
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John
5: 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. JOHN 6 : 6 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit,
and [they] are life.
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1
Timothy 6: 13 I give thee
charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and [before] Christ
Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
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Collosians
2: 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses;
#3) When
this Seed manifests who it is, this manifestation of the Seed
vindicates
that this Seed was indeed for this Season.
Psalm 1: 1
- 6 Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in
his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by
the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly [are] not
so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly
shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.
Noah, Moses, Paul,
Wm. Branham all are exoduses
Matthew
13: 10 - 17 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou
unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto
you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he
hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and
hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not
understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's
heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they
have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with
[their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them. But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see:
and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and
righteous [men] have desired to see [those things] which ye see, and have not
seen [them]; and to hear [those things] which ye hear, and have not heard
[them].
#4) This
manifestation of the Seed life by being quickened by the Word
for the
season, is the evidence that the Seed is God's Seed.
Ephesians
1: 3 - 17 this speaks of the predestinated
plan of God and His purpose behind it. Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
[places] in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory
of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have
redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good
pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: In whom also we
have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of
him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be
to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also
[trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:
in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Wherefore I also, after I
heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not
to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of him:
1 John 3:
1 - 3 Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure.
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2
Corinthians 3: 18 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that
hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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Collosians
3: 4 When
Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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John 4: 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we
may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this
world.
#5) All
other Seeds will not be quickened to Life but will reject the
Word for
the season. Not the Word but the True understanding of it.
Contrasts Matthew
24: 42 - 51 & Jerimiah 5: 23 - 31 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch
the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye
think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom
his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Blessed [is] that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and
if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And
shall begin to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the
drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for
[him], and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and
appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
Jerimiah
5: 23 - 31 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are
revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he
reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have
turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from
you. For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so
[are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen
rich. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and
the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these [things]?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A
wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy
falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have
it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
John 3: 19
- 21 And
this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should
be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Psalm 1 :
1 - 6 the two vines...notice the
characteristics of non God Seed. They fall away.
1 Timothy
4: 1 - 2, Now
the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking
lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
2
Thessalonians 1: 7 - 10, And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be
glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because
our testimony among you was believed ) in that day.
Presence vs
non-presence, 2: 3, 10 - 13 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon
shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter
as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any
means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all
might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: