Masterpiece 65
The Original Seed
and the season
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
This morning we will return back to our study of the
Message of Brother Branham’s called, “The Masterpiece”. This will be number 65
in our series. Let’s pick up at paragraph 110 and read through 113.
THE
MASTERPIECE 64-0705 110
Now, He's doing the same thing in His never-changing method. We find out in
Malachi 3, He said, "I'm God, and I change not." He cannot change His
method. 111. Now, as He started in Abraham... After the fall of the first
masterpiece,(He’s talking about the first Adam here who was the
first man that God Created in his image) After the fall of the first masterpiece, He started in
Abraham, on a foundation, to build another masterpiece. He started on the day
of Pentecost to build another Masterpiece, the original seed Word, started in
the first Church. What was it? The seed
Word, the Word manifested, the promise that had
been given. Joel said, "It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,
I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy.
Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions," what
He would do in the last days: two, last two thousand years. 112 Notice. And it started out as the original.
What started out as the original? The End-Time Masterpiece
did. And how did the original come? By the Spoken Word.
Then how will this End-Time Masterpiece come? By the Spoken
Word. The Shout of God. The
Message. The Doctrine, which is the Word for the hour.
In
the beginning was the Word.
John 1:1 And in Genesis 1 we read, “And God said, let
every Seed bring forth after it’s kind.” The
spoken Word is the Original Seed. And then God said, “Let us make man after our Image”. For
every seed must come forth after it’s kind, that is
the law of reproduction. That is the Law of Life.
Now in getting back to
paragraph 112 we hear brother Branham say, As Jesus said, "The Word of God is a Seed that a sower sowed." And He was the Sower. The Seed was the Word. And notice. Any seed that abides alone never does
nothing. It's got to fall into the ground to bring forth its production
again.
In
pp. 225 of God’s Only
Provided Place of worship 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.
I
remember years ago teaching my children on predestination, and I likened it to
a seed. If you plant watermelon seed, you should expect to get watermelon. Nothing more, nothing less.
I would like to add to that that something Br.
Vayle’s said to me concerning the Bride of Christ. He said, "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 thoughts 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.
Now, in Mark 4: 14 we
read, The Sewer seweth the
Word. And in Luke
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. ( that word is katalambano
which means, 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. In reading the Scriptures from Genesis 1: 1-11, we notice, that first came forth Light
by the spoken word, then next came forth water by the spoken word, and then
came 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.
Now the seed life can not come forth until that seed
has been sown and then that light comes upon it. And the scripture tells us the
seed must be sewn and the form it eventually takes is not what was sewn, but
the life in that seed will bring forth after the nature of the original life
that is in the seed.
1 Corinthians 15: 37 - 44
But some 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.
In Matthew 13: 36 - 43
we hear Jesus tell us about the sewing of the seed,
and that there is a season in which it is to be sewn. 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 in order to reap.
#2)
is that 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 That I will give
[you] the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter
rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil.
Joel 2: 23 - 27 Be glad then, ye
children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and
the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the
years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller,
and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat
in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of
Hosea 6: 1 – 3 ¶ Come,
and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath
smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will
he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his
sight. 3 Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know
the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us
as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
James 5: 7 - 9 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of
the Lord. Behold, the
husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience
for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your
hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9 Grudge not one
against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Notice he speaks of the season. The early and latter rain
is at the time of the Judge.
377-2 A RESUME OF THE AGES – CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.10 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.
Now, remember if the rain is the doctrine, then the
first rain is the teaching of the doctrine and the last rain is the harvest of
that teaching of the doctrine. So the doctrine must be sewn first, that first
rain gets the seeds planted, then comes along a second
rain that gets the seeds ready for the harvest. And God called the rain His
Doctrine.
46-1 SPOKEN WORD ORIGINAL SEED 62-0318M 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.
64-3 SPOKEN WORD ORIGINAL SEED 62-0318E Someone asked me to repeat that Hebrew word again.
In Joel the 2nd chapter (Joel
54 JEHOVAH JIREH PT 1 62-0705 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
E-63 END TIME SIGN SEED 62-0319 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.
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.
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;)
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.
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.
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;
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 comes 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.
#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.
In Psalm 1 : 1–6 we read ¶ 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. 2 But his delight [is] in the
law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 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. 4 ¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are]
like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly
shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way
of the ungodly shall perish. notice 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.
Now,
let’s look at the Presence of God 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: