Teachings – A Grain of Mustard Seed… Grew and Waxed a Great Tree

A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED… GREW, AND WAXED A GREAT TREE

UNFOLDING THIRTY-NINE

WHERE WE ARE

Adam disobeyed God in the garden. This separation had to be for Jehovah is Holy and Righteous – men are sinners, impure. Do you expect to mix your strychnine of sin with Jehovah’s pure water and then drink it believing the life-giving quality of the fluid is retained? No.  Of course not, unless you are a fool.

Still, out of God’s tender mercy, He set some seed apart – as countless as the sands of the sea. Jehovah predestined His seed for transplant to His heavenly garden, where His Son, Jesus, is husbandman and Bridegroom. All the other seed – scattered across the globe – also fell where God ordained. That seed too took root and grew, but as the grass withers and the flower fades, so too they shall wither and fade. Indeed, that is the end for the plants which God hath not planted.

However, today there is hope among the living. The seed of righteous and evil men are presently commingled within their communities. They share the color, culture, creed and country of their planting but not necessarily Christ – not right now, but who knows? It may be for you, O Sinner, why Jehovah has kept His beloved there with you as your family member, neighbor, co-worker, or passing stranger.   

SCRIPTURE

Luke 13:19

“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.”

A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED… GREW, AND WAXED A GREAT TREE
UNFOLDING THIRTY-NINE

Pastor opens –

“The parable may be understood to relate to our Lord Himself, who is the living Seed. You know also how His church is the tree that springs from Him, and how greatly it grows and spreads its branches until it covers the earth.”

A single, solitary grain was taken and planted in Jehovah’s garden. Thus, God Himself planted the Messiah, Christ in His garden. He would become that living seed. Yes, but let us move forward to you and me:

“Some Christian people have no garden – no personal sphere of service.”

Do you work a garden?

“Having a garden, and having this seed, the man sowed it: and simple as this is, it is the hinge of the instruction.”

Moreover, 

“Truth is not to be kept to ourselves: it is to be published and advocated.”

Regarding this advocacy:

“Make them know, not what you can say about the truth, but what the truth itself says.”

Sow, baby, sow the Word… that righteous seed.

THOUGHT GOING FORWARD

Pastor directed this discourse primarily at its conclusion to the Sunday school teacher, saying –

“Dear Sunday-school teacher, do not become weary of your humble work, for none can measure its importance.”

However, the question is for all of us… those who profess a belief in Jesus Christ… those who know what Jesus did for us to become that living seed? It’s mindful to remember that Adam was the original seed, and his task was to maintain the garden that Jehovah gave him. When Adam sinned, he was cast out of Eden. Jehovah cursed the ground. We must work. Again, the question: Do you have a garden? Do you know the living seed to plant? Have you sowed it? 

IN TRIBUTE TO SPURGEON’S LOVE OF SHORT RYHMES

A seed unsowed is likely unowned
by the one who speaks of possession.