Good Seeds or Bad Seeds?
Part 2
Regarding the evil harvest of tares Yahshua (Jesus) said, “everything that causes sin and all who do evil will be thrown … into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (See Matthew 13:41-42). “Sin is lawlessness” which is breaking (one or all) of the Commandments of God (1 John 3:4). The Most High God said, “choose you this day blessings or curses” which is based on humble obedience or defiant disobedience to His written Word and holy commandments (See Deuteronomy 30:19). Those who are “born again” by faith in Yahshua (Jesus) have the gift and “deposit” of His Holy Spirit. His Spirit is “the Helper” who gives the power and grace to uphold righteousness through obedience to our Heavenly Father’s holy will expressed through the Scripture (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 1:22, John 14:26). Our Savior said, “it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness” let us follow our Savior’s example (Matthew 3:15). Yahshua (Jesus) warned and continually warns the religious against breaking His Father’s Commandments, “… whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19).
“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked” (1John 2:3-6). By abiding in Yahshua (Jesus) it means we have fellowship by keeping His Commandments which is an obligation of love not a religious option.
“We must ask the “master of the harvest” to give us spiritual vision to identify the seeds of deception and sin that are in us””
Satan’s seeds and their deserved curses can only be avoided if we prayerfully stay awake and vigilant in the Spirit becoming mighty warriors against the enemy of our souls who is always attempting to sow seeds of deception, rebellion, and selfish worldly passions into our hearts and lives. We must prayerfully seek to recognize and repent for all the seeds and fruit of the self nature that have filled our personal lives and our family’s lives with a bad harvest. Yahshua (Jesus) said, “you will recognize them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16). What kind of fruit is it? What kind of seed bore the fruit and who sowed it? Is it from the Holy One’s truth or the Evil One’s lies? We must ask the “master of the harvest” to give us spiritual vision to identify the seeds of deception and sin that are in us (Matthew 9:38).
“We must constantly be prayerfully on guard against returning to the old human nature and the bad seeds and harvest that we have mercifully been delivered from””
Yahveh (the Lord) says these are the ones He listens and responds to, “those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word” (Isaiah 66:2). It is our Father’s mercy to bring conviction of sin leading to “Godly sorrow that brings repentance that leads to salvation” (2 Corinthians 7:10). Yahshua (Jesus) said, “Those who have been forgiven much; love much. If you truly love Me because you have been forgiven much, then you will obey Me. This gift of godly sorrow leads us to the love of Yahshua, that produces obedience to Him, which bears a harvest of righteousness (See Luke 7:47, John 14:15). It is through this process of repentance that our sins are covered in the power of our Savior’s sacrificial blood, we are consecrated, and the deserved wages of sin is pardoned. Out of humble gratitude and reverential awe, we must uphold His precious blood by wholeheartedly “turning from disobedience to the wisdom of righteousness”. We must constantly be prayerfully on guard against returning to the old human nature and the bad seeds and harvest that we have mercifully been delivered from (See Luke 1:17). It is our due response for our Savior who poured out His life blood that we are busy about His business sowing seeds of righteousness by the power of His indwelling Spirit to bear a bountiful harvest for His holy kingdom and glory.
“The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire””
We are to walk in the Spirit and “make no provision for the flesh” (Romans 13:14). Peter says, “do not live the rest of your earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God” (1 Peter 4:2). John says, “The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever” (1 John 2:17). Through this consecration process, the power of Messiah’s Spirit and purifying blood will actively destroy those dark demonic seeds and its root system within our hearts and minds. “How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3) We must “work out [our] salvation with fear and trembling” because it is written, “The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire ... Bear fruit in keeping with true repentance …" (Philippians 2:12, Matthew 3:8,10). Remember and never forget this foundational truth, “You are not your own … you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Apostle Paul said, “I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus (Yahshua) has given me--the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace” (Acts 20:24). It is Yahshua (Jesus) who lives and is seen in the “born again” redeemed that have crucified their flesh and its longings, and live according to this truth, “I have been crucified with Christ [Messiah] and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
