FLowers IN God's Kingdom

There IS a Beautiful Old song that I enjoy entitled: “Where The Roses Never Fade”… For some reason I awoke this morning with that song on my mind….. As I lay there thinking of the words it brings out, I realized that we grow here on this earth as do the flowers too… AS the ~Parable~ of the seeds that Jesus told of…. IN:
(Mark 4: 3-20)…Jesus refers to a sower, which IS Himself, that went out to sow seeds…and ~some fell by the way~, some fell on stony ground, some fell among the thorns, and some fell on ~GOOD~ ground and did yield fruit…Read IT ALL IN THE Bible and Think, Consider, Which type of Christian do we prove to be?
One that hears the word, takes IT to heart, they receive *IT* with gladness, BUT fail to do that which will keep them deeply rooted in THE Will of God.
OR one, looking back at the world one time to many, trying to be friends with the world and straddle the fence, have their cake and eat IT TOO, mixing in the customs of the world with their worship, so that the world eventually overpowers their worship, and Satan takes the WORD out of their hearts… SO that the seeds that we bear are seeds dead in the world…
Gods Kingdom IS likened unto a grain of ~mustard seed~, which, when sown in the earth, is less than ~ALL~ the seeds that be in the earth: BUT When IT IS Sown, *IT* Groweth UP, & Becometh ~Greater~ than ALL the herbs, and shooteth out great branches….. (Mark 4:30-32)
(THAT *IS* The Key Phrase Though… “When *IT* IS* Sown”… When we mix *IT* with man’s traditions, and pagan customs we contaminate the word, weakening the fertilizer that we are supplying the seed that we planted with, and it will dry up and die eventually, being engorged with a diet of the ways of the world…) *IF* IT Was that TRUE seed that we were planting as Jesus commanded we do, then the branches would be growing strong so that many birds would come to rest on and in the ~Mustard Seed~… BUT!
Some statistics that I heard the other day, sorta saddened me.. Because it said that there were something like 20,000 Baptist Movement Churches that had not had ~ONE~ Baptism in the whole past year…. When you consider one of the *Last* commands that Jesus gave His followers to do, before He returned to His Father in Heaven, to sit at HIS Right Hand as our Intercessor, WAS:
(Matthew 28:19-20)… “GO ye Therefore, AND *Teach* ~ALL~ Nations, baptizing them IN the Name OF: The Father, and of The Son, AND OF, THE Holy Ghost: *Teaching* THEM TO OBSERVE ~ALL~ Things Whatsoever *I* Have Commanded you!”…
(notice IT IS NOT Written of His Words that He said, GO and mix up the Gospel with a bunch of pagan customs, and men’s traditions, and present this before the lost and dying world to confuse them as to what exactly IS: Right and What IS Wrong…. But when He ~Taught~ He taught from What?…. (Luke 4:16-17) . (Matthew 21:42) . (John 2:22) . (Mark 12:24).. & many others…. What did Paul say we must do to keep our faith built up?
(II Timothy 3:14).. “Continue IN the things which thou hast learned” … (15).. Where were these things learned? .. (v.15).. “From a child thou hast *Learned* FROM ~THE Holy Scriptures~,” WHY?… (v.15-b) …which ~ARE ABLE~ To make thee wise unto salvation … Through *FAITH* which IS IN Christ!” … *IF* we don’t read the Written Word, we can’t *Learn OF Christ, OF The Father, and of the Holy Ghost, IT IS This learning, this humble desire to know by accepting and reading God’s Holy Written Word that we are able to ~Grow~ In God’s Will and Way…
Someone wrote, we have ~no~ need to ~Learn~ *OF* Christ, because when we are saved, Christ lives IN us, and guides us,… IT IS Exactly this sort of teaching that leads so many people astray… IT Leads the ignorant to think that whatever they do IS OF God: SO IF they go out and shoot a doctor because he is running an abortion clinic, then Christ within them did this… IF they want to have an affair outside of marriage or a homosexual encounter IT IS Okay, because God will allow this to be so, and the sin IS hidden in Christ blood…. SAD, Sad, sad…
& AND& those ~New IN Christ~ must learn, have need to be taught…..AS Jesus Said:
(John 6:45)…*IT IS Written*, ~By The prophets~ “AND they shall ~ALL~ *Be Taught* OF God” … (This does not say by God, although HE Can certainly teach us many lessons, BUT IT Reads ~~OF, as in About~~ God)… “Every man therefore that ~Hath~ *Heard*, and ~Hath~ *Learned* OF THE FATHER, cometh unto Me” … (How many people do we meet that will only proclaim the Son, and in doing this deny the Father???…) Beware the antichrist! ..read: (I John 2:22)… (Hebrews 13:9)
The Fathers draws us unto the Son, (John 6:44) & we cannot go to the Father except ~BY~ The Son, Jesus Christ, (John 14:6) .. BUT TO Grow in Knowledge ~OF~ THE TWO OF THE Three That ARE ONE… God Gave us a BOOK OF ALL Instruction…. AND HE Gave us Instruction TO Read *IT’S* Pages….
(II Timothy 2:16)… “*ALL* Scripture *IS* Given ~BY~ Inspiration OF God, and *IS* ~Profitable~ FOR Doctrine, FOR Reproof, FOR Correction, FOR: ~~INSTRUCTION *IN* RIGHTEOUSNESS~~” … WHY? .. (v.17).. “That ~The man~ of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished, unto ~ALL~ *Good Works*…..
*IF* when we make that conscious commitment to serve the LORD, we are drawn by The Father, to the Son, step forth and declare Christ as our Savior, and are Baptized, and are misled from the moment and even before so that when we come up out of the water, we have lost the battle against the unseen evils of Satan, the lures of rebellion and rejection, versus urging of the Spirit to read and learn OF The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, because we are led to: ~Think~ that we know something when ~WE~ know nothing….we walk on believing as we have been taught, rushing head long into a falsely promoted faith, we are walking right into the claws of Satan. Just as Eve was snookered into a belief that she would not surely die for *Disobeying* THE Word of God…… Rejecting the urging of the Holy Spirit to abide in God’s Will and Way…
Jesus said, “take my yoke upon ye, AND ~Learn~ OF ME”, (Matthew 11:29)… BUT IF we see no reason to READ His Written Word, then I reckon we may not know, even that…
AS in (Genesis 1: 11-12).. Where God created all things that be, and He brought forth the ~tree~ yielding fruit, whose ~seed~ was *IN* itself, after his kind….. By design God made ~ALL~ things, ~FOR~ a purpose.. A position, A place….. IT IS When we as ~modern day~ way-breakers, set out to change that design, that place, that we find ourselves in trouble, and yelling at everyone else but ourselves the guilty one, for falling prey in our own arrogant ignorance to our plight in Satan‘s trappings…
God gives us that choice, Still today, TO obey HIS Word, the urging of the Spirit, to learn, OR to reject that desire, become entangled in the world OR just say *NO* to It’s ways governed by the dragon….
SOOOoooo… *IF* we AS Christians followed THE Commands THAT Jesus gave us, did The Will of His Father and ours, there would be no need to bring before the courts of this world a big messy law suit because: The government IS Taking: In God we trust, off of, ~Caesars Bills~, OR, prayer out of It’s schools, because of mixed ~Religions~ that attend it, OR marching around in protest, signing petitions, because the Government of THIS Country, that the Christians lift up over, and above, their Maker, in praise, honor, and loyalty, IS going to take away the: National Day of Prayer, that IT set before them anyway to make them dance a little harder before the gods of this world instead OF: THE ONE TRUE God, that they claim as their Maker…
Someone recently wrote: we are all slaves, to the masters that we serve… So True… and the Christians, who call themselves after God’s Only Begotten Son, have willingly and hungrily attached themselves to a lost and dying world, with and by the abominations, cunningly placed before their greedy eyes by, Satan the Devil, the god of this world, (II Corinthians 4:4), allowing themselves to become enslaved TO: It’s customs, It’s games, It’s merchandise of trade, and yet all the while, lying to themselves that this IS God’s Country, ONE Nation, Indivisible, (Meaning not separable into parts, BUT this country has always been separated into parts, and more so today, Indians on reservations, Muslims have their own little countries and fly their own flag in it Right in the middle of this nation) WITH Liberty (freedom of what, right to choose to be poor while the rich get richer off of the poor) and Justice, (fairness of what?) for ~ALL~. Proudly saluting the flag in an act of prideful worship, singing IT’S praise before the alters of God… while the very ones that Jesus Said, go forth and ~Teach~ are laying in the ghetto’s, on the streets, starving, abandoned hopeless. WHY?
Because ~The Church~ IS busy taking pleasure trips, throwing ice cream parties, coloring, hiding, and hunting eggs of the flesh, buying presents, wrapped in elaborate paper, and throwing parties in Christ Name, having a good time in the world, ~INSTEAD OF~ standing firmly planted in ~THE GOOD SOIL~ OF God’s Written Word the Bible and planting the seeds of ~Eternal Life~ in their walk through this life….
OH, they give, ~Easter Egg Boxes~ & ~Santa Clause Boxes~ to the poor and the lost twice a year, filled with lures of the world, and place a Bible verse in it and this is a ~Major Witness~, or they pass around a message of: Don’t be ashamed of Jesus, OR, A petition to be signed to keep prayer in school, IS This a pitiful show of faith? (Mark 12:38) .. Of those that make a big show of protesting for what? To be seen of others? For this Isn’t preaching and teaching the Gospel of God’s Kingdom or of HIS Son Jesus Christ… IF we as Christians would do this we would realize that we like Paul, and Peter, are not bound by chains of any sort, but are ~Free~ in Christ… we can pray any where, any time, any day, we don’t *NEED* to be chained to a day proclaimed by the worldly government to pray, do we?… We certainly do not need permission to pray in school if we walk about as a Christian should, with a pray in our heart, in our thoughts, on our mind, which keeps us walking, Closer, to the LORD… AND! We certainly should realize that the filth that the money of Caesar is used on should not be associated with our walk in the LORD..
BUT, come assembly time, IT’S ALL About the world and what we have done in it…
Who excelled in sports… Who is the beauty winner, what party is being held next, what movie of the occult IS playing that as soon as they get out of service they are rushing to enjoy… God’s children? OR? OH, we pray for rain for our crops, safe travel, or pray that the rain stop, or a fleshly healing, but do you ever hear a prayer offered up for A ~Spiritual~ healing for anyone? Think about IT! What flower sprung from the seed of your life here? Did IT Bloom with God’s LOVE, showing forth the beauty of HIS Mercy, giving a glimpse of HIS Kingdom to a lost and dying world? OR does IT look like the rest of the weeds, the tares that are growing amongst the wheat… (Matthew 13: 26-30)
*IF* the Church, and the people that claim to be True followers of Christ that fill IT, walked, talked, acted in a manner befitting the NAME, there may be more wheat entering into the Church of God, instead of tares taking over and choking out the good seed….before they have a chance to grow…
*IF*, we walk in the Lord, as we should,
AND *IF* we speak of His Word* as we must,
The example’s that we set, we will never regret,
For, the flower of God’s Love Will break even the hardest Crust.
Blooming forth in Truth and Declaration,
OF: God’s Holy Message, HE sends from Above,
Producing seeds that will sprout, never wither in doubt,
For they Will be fed, Only By God’s Undying LOVE…..