THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 407

This gospel reveals JESUS - who is the SEED of promise - and in which SEED all the nations of the earth can be blessed. This gospel became necessary when God Himself was veiled in flesh as a righteous man. For God declared that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. In this context then, there is none righteous, no not one.

But the hidden plan of God was gradually being unveiled. Right from the beginning, God had a plan for man even though at times we cannot comprehend what God has in store for us. Indeed, we often scratch our heads endeavouring to understand what is man that the Lord god would be so mindful of Him.

Yes, Lord you have made man a little lower than the angels. Still, you set man over the works of your hands and crowned man with glory and honour. When man turned aside from your Word, it was here that you imparted into EVE a SEED of promise. A SEED of yourself emanating from yourself. So that in the process of time, you would clothe your Promised SEED in sin prone flesh, thereby initiating at the fullness of time your hidden plan of redemption.

That is, you would through your love, mercy and grace purchase us who were your enemies and bring each and every one of us who believed back to innocence. And this redemption plan, purchased through the sacrifice of your own blood (the blood of your Holy Spirit).

In our ignorance of prophetic scripture, we indeed crucified JESUS. We were spurred along by religious zealots who in pretence professed to be God’s ministers, and in the end duping us into believing that such was the case!

But God’s love for His disobedient creation was much greater than our sin of beguiled disobedience. Because of God's love for us, there never can be anything that can separate us from God’s love. God has manifested His Love to us whilst inside a prone to sin body, a body in which body He willingly inherited all of our sins and demerits. But even death did not deter JESUS from His purposed mission, which was to redeem and restore the fallen sons of God.

This is why JESUS died and was buried in a tomb. As stated in the scriptures, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone." However, if the corn of wheat were to die, in dying the potential life within the SEED springs forth as a multitude of the same SEEDS.

In this example, JESUS is the SEED and we are the offspring of the SEED of JESUS. In this same SEED as afore promised of God in prophecy, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

To become one of the offspring, certain criteria must be willingly adhered too. First of all, one must recognise that JESUS put Himself on the cross for you and I who are the guilty ones. We must repent before God for our sinful deeds, giving thanks to God with a grateful heart. If one is not willing to offer themselves on these terms, then the door of redemption will remain closed!

If, on the other hand, one willing repents with a grateful heart, then their sins are remitted in full by the same JESUS has put Himself in our place. We then receive the gift of redemption. And now having received redemption, God commands that you be baptized into the likeness of JESUS death. In so doing, you will receive the promised gift of the Holy Spirit that comes forth from the SEED of Life within the kernel of wheat - JESUS!

As such, you become the offspring of JESUS. We are now the children of God in Christ! We have been born again as a new spiritual creation, dwelling within us is the same Spirit as was in the man JESUS the Christ! This Spirit is the Holy Spirit. We are ALL members of that ONE SEED and because we are the offspring of the SEED, we now hunger for the things of God, endeavouring to walk even as He walked!