I don’t know the day, week, mouth, or year Jesus came in the Manger,
But I do know he Quickened My Soul and will Keep it Saved Eternally!
Part 5
November 11, 2014
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We Must be Saved by the Incorruptible Blood and Flesh of the Man Christ Jesus! He Alone Must be the Incorruptible Seed Transplanted in Us by God. Our Faith and Hope Must be in the Completeness of His Redemptive Work for All our Sins. We must not trust in works or fame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ frame.
1 Peter 1:18-22 – Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; [19] But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: [20] Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, [21] Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
I Corinthians 1:30,31 – But OF HIM are YE IN Christ Jesus, who OF GOD is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: [31] That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Colossians 2:9,10 – For in him dwelleth ALL the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
We are saved by the transplanting of a living seed in us that quickens us by the new birth. That living seed is the incorruptible word of God.
I Peter 1:23 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
The Spirit of Jesus is eternally transplanted in us from above by the new birth the moment we believe the word he spoke, which is spirit and is life.
John 6:62,63,68 – What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? [63] It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. [68] Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And this is the eternal life giving word he spoke that we must believe to be saved.
John 5:39,40 – Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. [40] And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
The moment the incorruptible spiritual seed penetrates to the outer surface of man’s inner soul, the Devil does everything in his power to persuade the soul to reject it, and, eventually, if it is not received, it is removed by the powers of evil.
Luke 8:4,5 – And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: [5] A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
The incorruptible word, once received, cannot be taken out by the Devil, but if it does not receive more of the water of God’s word, it’s effects wither away, and the person falls away from serving God, failing to follow the word to produce fruit
Luke 8:6 – And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
The incorruptible seed does continue for awhile if it continues to receive the word, and may even produce green fruit that never matures to ripeness, but outside influences on it by family, friends, job, and the overall general influences of the world, choke off its desire and ability to grow to spiritual maturity
Luke 8:7 – And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Some word seed receivers let it plow and break the ground of their saved hearts. Then the water from the word of God is allowed to transform them into solid spiritual plants of God that produce mature fruit. They are the ones who grow to love the water of God’s word and keep it, retaining it because they value it.
Luke 8:8 – And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold.
If you have this incorruptible seed living in you, you do have spiritual ears to understand what Jesus said next. Which one of the following four seeds best describes the state you are in today?
John 8:8-14 – And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. [9] And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? [10] And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. [11] Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. [12] Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. [13] They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. [14] And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. [15] But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with PATIENCE.
Hebrews 10:35-39 – Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. [36] For ye have need of PATIENCE, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. [37] For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. [38] Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. [39] But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
II Peter 1:4-12 – Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. [5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; [6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; [7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. [8] For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. [9] But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
This man is well defined by the man in Luke 8:6,13 who did not take the instructions of I Peter 2:2,3. He never grew to taste the graciousness of his Savior.
Luke 8:6,13 – And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. [13] They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
I Peter 2:2,3 –As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: [3] If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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