THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 352

God visited us and when He did, He raised up a horn of salvation.

Yes, JESUS was the only begotten child of God. As it is written, He being the SEED of the Holy Spirit. And likewise in the veins of JESUS did flow the very life of the humanity of God. Therefore, the blood in JESUS' veins was not like our blood. Why? Because in our blood flows the sinful nature of the devil acquired from our forefather Adam who was disobedient to the words of his Creator. In short, we all have a prone to sin nature, which no man of himself can tame. Remember when JESUS said to Judas who betrayed Him that sin lies at the door? Well, as the scriptures reveal, Judas walked out into a night of sin, sold his soul for money which was then followed by his own hanging death. But I digress!

JESUS was not the natural SEED of Abraham. JESUS was and is the promised SEED of the Holy Spirit. In this SEED alone all the nations of the earth who confess and profess a believing faith in Jesus, the same Jesus who is the promised Seed shall henceforth be blessed of Him [JESUS]. In other words, these believing nations shall be blessed and prosper. This is true even for nations that are viewed as have not nations. God will reverse the cycle so that these have not nations become blessed and prosperous. For it is in the turning and the expecting that believing faith can move forward. Yes, JESUS the SEED of promise will usher in the prosperity blessings!

Note that Abraham's offspring are not the promised SEED of blessing. JESUS bore the visible features of Abraham's natural offspring. And yes, JESUS came forth from Mary in whose womb the promised SEED of the Holy Spirit was clothed in sin prone flesh. Mary became a willing surrogate as pertaining to the flesh but He who was inside that veil of flesh was none other than the SEED LIFE of the Holy Spirit! Mary believed in the promised SEED of the Holy Spirit! She herself rejoiced to be the handmaid of the Lord, exclaiming that the Lord her God has become Her Saviour. This is the point we similarly need to recognize. That God our Creator was willing to take on the form of man so that we might have salvation.

This is not to suggest that Abraham believed God any less. Certainly that belief was accredited to him as if he were righteous. But of course he was not, for he also lived in a prone to sin natural body. Rather, it was the application of faith that brought upon him unforeseen blessings. God told Abraham that in his SEED would all the nations of the earth be blessed. We are not speaking here of Abraham‘s natural seed. In fact, most of Abraham’s natural seed even today do not believe in the promised SEED of the pure, holy, un-defiled SEED of the Holy Spirit, which SEED is JESUS the CHRIST.

Still, from this message we need to understand that God is not the God of the Jews only. No sir. Peter also had that seated mindset in the early days but as the scriptures reveal, this mindset was soon removed and replaced with the pure thought that God is also the God of the Gentiles. And that God has poured out upon the Gentiles the very same gift of His Holy Spirit. In Acts chapters 2 and 10 we read that there was no difference between them - the Jewish and the Gentiles. Yes, God is building a nation. But within this nation, the only inhabitants in the Kingdom of God are those who have been born again (John 3). How does one enter? The door into God’s kingdom is through faith in the SEED of promise JESUS the Christ, and acknowledging that God Himself laid down His life as a Son for each and every one of us. He alone offers eternal life as a free gift.