During His "Parable of the Sower," Jesus didn't say that the "Seed failed," but that "it didn't bear fruit in all that heard it." The Word is called the "incorruptible, immortal, Ever Living, Ever Lasting Seed," in 1Peter 1:18 (Amplified), saying, "You must know (recognize), that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless, fruitless way of living inherited by tradition from your forefathers, not with corruptible things as silver and gold. But you were purchased with the Precious Blood of Christ (the Messiah)."
The Truth is that the Law of Truth, is forever settled in Heaven. The Seed (God's Word) is incorruptible and it will produce sons and daughters every time it's sown in someone's heart. The fruit it bears in this life, is determined by the Truth they accept and hear. Jesus admonished in Mark 4:24 (Amplified), "Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you (fruit), and more besides will be given to you who hear."
God's Word is a Seed, according to John 12:24 (Amplified), where Jesus says, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you; Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just one grain; it never becomes more but lies by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest." Jesus Christ is the Seed and Truth and He has brought forth a harvest of many billions of children for God. Truth never fails to produces what it says. We've sown seed that isn't Truth, which is enmity against God, by our own carnal thinking. Only Truth will prevail in the Kingdom and only Truth will prevail in our lives here on earth.
When we pray Truth, then that prayer will always bring forth results. When we pray in any other way, then we can't expect God to honor it, because it's not Truth. We must find out what God says and then pray according to that. John 4:24 (Amplified) tells us, "God is a Spirit (a Spirit Being) and those who worship Him, must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)." Worship is more than singing a hymn. Worship is a way of Life and Truth.
Denying what God's Word says about us, is tradition and not Truth. We're to follow God's Word as it's spoken to us in Truth and by the Spirit of Truth. We've learned many things throughout the years, that aren't Truth, but are man's carnal ideas about what Truth is. None would say that, "God lied to me," but we continually make excuses for why His Word doesn't work. It's pride that won't allow us to believe we're wrong and that God doesn't lie and in that pride, we device excuses for why God's Word doesn't work in our lives.
God has provided everything we'll ever need while on earth and for eternity, in our salvation. Get a Concordance to look up the True meaning of "salvation" and then walk and be led in the Law of Truth. We can choose to walk in Truth, despite what others think and/or do.
Today, we mostly preach about being born-again, when proclaiming the Gospel. This is certainly Good News (the best news ever), but it's not the full meaning of salvation. God provided healing, peace, son ship, the Holy Spirit, Wisdom, understanding, prayer and the ability to pray, and the Truth of answered prayer, in His provision of salvation. We're now heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Himself, having a place at God's table. We have the Power of His Name, the ability of speaking in tongues and fellowship with Him, the Indwelling of God's Love and a place at His right hand in His Throne Room of Grace. All of God's Promises are now Yes and Amen to His Praise for us, both here and when we go to Heaven.
Salvation is God meeting our every need, for both here and hereafter, by His abundance. The Law of Truth holds the universe in place and keeps the earth turning. God's Word is Truth and His Word is Jesus, they're both One and the Same. Knowing Jesus is knowing Truth and knowing Truth is knowing the Father. John 8:19 (Amplified) says, "Then they said to [Jesus], Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me you would know My Father also."
Most of us have this scripture memorized, but continue to accuse the Father of allowing, applying, and sending sickness, calamity and trouble on us, in order to discipline us. We've never accuse Jesus of doing such a thing. Jesus said though, "If you know Me, then you would also know the Father." Could it be that we don't know Him? We might know about Him from multiply sources, but have we truly tried knowing Him for ourselves? Salvation is a personal thing with God and should be personal with us. It's not that "He so Loved the world," but "We so Loved Him." When loving someone, you wish to spend time with that person, in order to know their every need and heartbeat.
Philippians 3:10-11 (Amplified) tells us how Paul received Revelation knowledge directly from Jesus and was translated into God's Own Presence. Paul's determined prayer and quest was, "For my determined purpose is, That I may know Him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly, and that I may in that same way come to know the Power out flowing from Him Resurrection which it exerts over believers, and that I may so share in His sufferings as to be continually transformed in Spirit into His Likeness, even to his death, in the hope that if possible I may attain to the Spiritual and moral resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead even while in the body."
Jesus said this, saying, "Those who worship the Father must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." The only way to worship Him in truth, is to intimately know Him for ourselves. We come to know Him from understanding and experiencing in Spirit and Truth. Paul compares this relationship to that of a husband and wife relationship in Ephesians. Marriage is an intimate relationship that two people in love, share. The two become one, in marriage. Your neighbor can't tell you about your spouse, only you know the deepest desires of your spouses' heart. Not even family members can know your spouse, the way you do.
This intimate relationship with the Father, comes by seeking Him and the Secret Councils of His heart. Religion can tell you what others think they know about the Father, but you can know Him on a One-to-one basis. You'll never doubt or question God's will of Grace and Truth for you life, once you know the Law of Truth for yourself.
Do you know Him like that? If you don't, then spend time in His Presence, seeking His heart and not just His hands. Seek the Giver more than the giving. Seek the Healer, more than the healing. Learn to know Him and make Him the Love of your life, because that's what He truly is. Jesus speaks to the Church in Revelations 2:4 (Amplified) which tells us, "But I have this one charge to make against you; that you have left (abandoned) the Love that you had at first, you have deserted Me, your First Love."
We must never replace Who we know, for what we know. Jesus is the Law of Truth and we must draw from Him for ourselves and not rely on others to do so for us. We'll never fully experience God's Grace and Truth, until we experience it for ourselves. The unclaimed riches of God's Grace await you. Seek them out. Your faith has never yet seen God's full Grace and His Love for you.
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