THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART ONE

Other sheep have I which are not of this fold, them also I must bring into the fold. God does not look at the outward appearance of individuals. However, He is fully aware of the thoughts and intents of the heart. All is naked and open before His eyes. Why even the very hairs of your head are numbered.

Certainly, God existed first and foremost and nothing had existed without Him. He is in total control of all things. The universe is His whether the components of the universe are visible or invisible. He alone spoke this world into its form and equipped mankind with the capability to enjoy its richness from one generation to another. In this context, the farmer may plant the seed and reap the harvest but without the seed, neither could have occurred. In the same manner does our offspring have seed within themselves. The question is why is it that, even to this day, the Lord God of Glory is so mindful of man?

Indeed, God has set man over the works of His own hands, desiring that man be fruitful and multiply. As such, God continues to replenish His creation, of which God Himself, upon completion of His handiwork, saw His creation to be good. In fact, He loved this creation called man for the creation was "God Himself invisible in created form." The Heavens declaring His Glory and the earth showing forth His handiwork.

Unfortunately, something went askew. Thankfully, not according to God's plan. For He had purposed by the counsel of His own will that His earthly creation was only to be a stepping stone into an unbelievable eternal glory. In fact, the revelation is in the next unveiling of God's purpose. This because we, as the offspring of Adam's fallen race became recipients of penalties administered to mankind by the Lord. We had become slaves to sin imprisoned by its desires, even though we try dressing it up and whitewashing our projection of ourselves to others. We do so even when we remain fully aware that we are really wolves in sheep's clothing. The Lord describes man as a being whose heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.

Still, God had a vision. At the time of administering the curse, God reached out in Love promising that the seed of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. This seed was not of Adam's fallen race but rather a "new seed", a precious Seed, a Holy Spirit Seed, a Seed in which all the nations of earth could be blessed. The Precious Seed of Promise passed from Eve into Seth as recorded in scriptures and travelled down through the ages until the seed arrived in Sarah, who was barren. God had promised to Abram that in His seed would all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Remember that God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are higher than ours, and with God nothing is impossible. Even though Abram was now 100 years of age and his natural capabilities as a man had passed, the Lord had a miracle in mind. As promised, the Adam seed was to be no more! So what did the Lord do? He resurrected Abram's capabilities and at the same time placed into Abram a precious promised Seed. Now we see His purpose unveiling. God opened Sarah's womb allowing the two promised precious Seeds to pass into Isaac, fulfilling the scripture, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

As a consequence, another genealogy commences. This genealogy begins with Abraham and not with Eve. These two genealogies travel as before until the fullness of time comes in the culmination of the predetermined foreordained destination of these two precious promised Seeds destined mission was to terminate their journey in a young virgin girl named Mary. An angel informed Mary that she was now with child. The angel stated that which is conceived in Mary is of the Holy Spirit and that she would bring forth a Son.

His Name was to be called JESUS. He would save His people FROM their sin. God Himself to be veiled in the flesh, appearing in fashion outwardly as Adam's offspring and inwardly as the Precious Promised Seed of God's Holy Spirit! In JESUS' veins flowed the blood of God's holy spirit. PEACE in JESUS NAME!