The sign, the seed and the soil
Is 7:14
Most thought the sign is that a virgin gave birth – but the sign “Immanuel” was the sign.
The sign wasn't fulfilled with His birth – HE WAS the sign. The sign wasn't fulfilled merely by His birth. A sign is fulfilled when that to which it point's to is seen.
Luke 2:11-12
Luke 11:9&20
Jonah point's to the 3 days of Christ's death, so the Jonah sign was fulfilled in the crucifixion.
Is 8:18 → Heb 2:13 We see that Jesus spoke the words in Is.
Jesus and His sons are the sign's
Jesus is the sign that His body would be a corporate man be represented by the many membered bride and body of Christ.
Creation waits because the sign was already there, Jesus...
Creation waits for the new creation – reborn sinners who grow
People don't want to hear about Jesus any more, they've heard about Him for 2000 years, they want to SEE His body made manifest
What does Jesus say to the gentiles that wanted to SEE Him; John 12:21
If Jesus stayed on earth, how will He appear to everyone, in a one on one way – He is the prototype, if He should die there can be many sons revealing Him to others – but the Son of Man must first be glorified
Ja 5:7
God waits for the precious fruit that will come from the wheat kernel who died and bore fruit.
Don't be so eager for the second coming because God awaits the fruits of the wheat to be revealed.
Jesus was the sign that pointed to the awesomeness of the new creation.
Jesus was the amazing sign that pointed to the generations that would rule and reign with Him and take hold of their inheritance and promises.
It's a mystery we struggle to comprehend, but we must be patient, too many want to escape the great tribulation.
Many get reborn because of fear of the end times “Turn or Burn”. People must come to Christ because they're afraid of judgement, but because they love Him and want to be filled with His Spirit.
The wonder fruit will be an exact representative of Jesus
Jesus was a divine seed planted in humanity – to bear a remarkable harvest.
John 1:14
Outside of Jesus there is no abundant life.
Everything after Adam, had the curse of activated death in it.
The moment a seed begins to germinate it begins to die.
The moment a child is born, the death process begins.
But when Christ's Spirit lives in us eternal life is activated.
Adam was a living soul, but had no Spirit.
Jesus alone has eternal, godly life – through His death and resurrection
Without the resurrection there's no hope.
We can accept the crucifixion and death of Jesus, but many doubt if he truly rose from the grave, and if He truly gives us His Spirit to have eternal life.
Many who come to church, only want the hope, each Sunday, they need more hope, they don't want instructions but smooth talk to make them feal better – but eternal life is a process of growing to maturity.
Those that persevere the crucifixion will rule with Christ.
Doesn't matter what they overcome, disease, illness – but when one receives Christ's Spirit in you and in the process you begin to grow to a point to where the earthly death can't come near you any longer.
He wants to prepare Himself for the coming events, thats what Jesus wanted to do.
Jesus was a sign, but He wants to reproduce Himself, but in order to do that He needs soil to receive His seed
John 1: 11-12
Rev 19:13
His name is “the word of God” - He who believes the Word of God, to Him who receives the new wine, they will have the oil to take them through the 4 pillars of the temple, to the most Holy place.
Acts 2:42
Angels couldn't receive or reproduce this life, they are spirits, and this life had to be planted on earth in the Adamic soil. Adam is made from soil – of the earth
2 Corinthians 4:7
Ro 8:29
Man is a special creation because it can be altered to the image of Christ
Col 1:5
Heb 1
Jesus is the image of invisible God, but we won't be changed to the likeness of God, but of Christ.
Jesus came to show the image of God on earth – to show the invisible God.
The Father is invisible and beyond time and all knowing – and this is the image that Christ represented to man.
Man couldn't understand the substance and nature of God in his omnipresent and invisible form, so God showed His Spirit physicaly to show His nature in Christ. Jesus became God's image and expressed God in a physical and visible body in a language that humans could understand. That was the primary purpose.
The Father is saying ; Son You gave me Your body as a vehicle of expression that I might reveal myself and unveil my glory to the world , now You have laid the life down and given that body over to death, that out of death I might bring forth a body for You, through which You can express Yourself, and which will bear Your image in the earth.”
Now we can lay our lives down so that we can see what He looks like.
Heb 10:5
1 cor 12: 20
Many membered body, for the expression of the Christ like in humanity
Mt 13:44
Like a diamond prospector. He is after that treasure. It's not about a person finding salvation thats been bought for you. No one can buy salvation, it is a gracious gift of mercy only. His kingdom is you and I, and the treasure in us is His Sprit. But it's covered in human flesh. Jesus found that treasure and for the joy set before Him He endured the cross Heb 12:2
He paid the full price not only for the hidden treasure but the ground / earthen vessel,
He obviously has a plan there with, why would someone by dead ground without a plan?
1 Corinthians 6: 20
Your body and your soul has been purchased
Phil 3;21
He wants to change your body after He has quickened your spirit. He didn't buy our body to leave it in the grave, He will take this earthly tabernacle and change it into a glorious and eternal temple, thats what He wants to do with that earthen vessel/ soil He bought – it's not ours, it's His, He bought it.
1 Corinthians 15:1
To see the what price He paid ;
2 Corinthians 8:9
He gave EVERYTHING, for us, He sold EVERYTHING He had, so that the treasure in that field, but be revealed, uncovered, manifested, quickened,
Why did Jesus do all this, in order to plant that divine life in earth of humanity, so that we might grow up into His likeness and bear His image and share that eternal glory that He has with the Father, that we might be rich with Him, co – inheritors;
Adam is made of dust, from the soil of the earth;
John 12:24
1 Corinthians 15:45
No life in his soul, of the earth, no way to reproduce, but the last Adam was a life giving Spirit, whose life stayed in its seed, until it was buried in the earth. Jesus as the seed, is the only one with eternal life, he alone can give us life that cannot be affected by death or illness
Ephesians 1:13-14
Who is the purchased possession – that piece of soil.
But the guarantee of our inheritance on the horizon, is the Spirit, but we must grow to the inheritance, it's not just to stay with the Spirit, we can't just settle for the guarantee, we must grow to maturity in Christ so that our inheritance can be entrusted to us 1 Pet 3,4
If someone parents have died, and they become 21, the receive the testament is given to them. If the inheritance is given to them they won't still sit with and hang on to the guarantee
Many believers, are sitting at the position of being sealed by the Spirit for Jesus with His Spirit, but thats just the guarantee, He wants us to grow as King's kids to become rulers and have a more than excellent infrastructure in our mindsets. Rom 12:2
The principles with which we functioned must be replaced with others, so that there may be a new principality.
The principality won't be replaced if the principles upon which it depends isn't changed. We can do what we like, without changing the principles upon which our lifestyles are built upon.
We mustn't just be satisfied only with having the guarantee, we must grow spiritual to a new wine skin by crucifying the human flesh and ego that keeps us from victory. It's not the pastors mistakes in his messages that keeps you from growing, but your own flesh.
We want to release our inheritance with the same mindset attitude and infrastructure, if we get offended with the truth God reveals to us, then there's an attitude resisting that growth.
If a Christian can't believe that we can rule with Him in heavenly places and only believes in the fairy tales of Christian history, then they're sitting in Nineveh for the sign of Jonah.
Part of our inheritance is ruler ship, thats part of the family business, one has the benefits of being part of the common wealth of God's kingdom, He showed us through Joseph, that what the world has to offer in governments a material wealth is nothing compared to the potential we have.
The first thing thats going to make a difference in reaching out to people is if they see Christ manifest in you.
We can't get stuck on the sign/seed, but must grasp the purpose for which it was used.
We need spiritual guidance through a spiritual father, so that we grow up correctly.
A functional family lives according the principles that Jesus has given us.
Believers that are church hopping for a spiritual family mustn't just look at the pastor, but must look to see if that church is a new wine skin.
Jesus, was a sign and prototype of what He wanted to do in His corporate body.
He gave the example with the father of 12 sons and we must continue.
He was the fulfillment of the sign, as the sons who stand up today with the Holy Spirit, and grow to maturity, where they can be as Jesus showed us in His prototype – therefore we move the the most Holy place, past all the superficial barriers.
Like with John – he wasn't shown heaven only, but was shown a believer who has grown to maturity
Rev 19:10
This man had changed so much to the likeness of Christ, that John thought it was Jesus.
Like the gentiles (Greek) that wanted to see Christ – but that time was not yet come.
We are the son, for which the whole of creation waits -
We must grow spiritually into the holy of holies where we can have a face to face encounter with the living God, and have our identities changed to a prince of God, a son of God like Jacob.
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