Get ready for a transformation in this new book from Destiny Press by Wisdom Emamuzo Peter with the above title. Here is a brief sample of Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO
THE ORGANISM OF THE VINE
…for the tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew 12: 33
As we intensity our study on the pursuit of fruitfulness, it will be of great benefit to have a foundational understanding of the organism of the Vine which we are grafted into.
Good understanding, Solomon said, brings favour (Proverbs 13: 15). So, also good understanding on this particular chapter will establish our role and audacity to bear His fruits. Also, I must say, that I am not intended to list the fruits of Christ but to educate us on bearing aspect of the fruits. In other words, I will not concentrate for instance, love or peace as part of the one fruit of the Spirit of God. However, a broad definition is given so as to help us know the fruits of Christ.
All I am doing here is to elite and reposition us for fruit bearing as our ultimate purpose of God. This is a teaching that is not thorough taught from our altars. But bless God for this time.
The Vine is an Organism
Organism is a living thing, no matter its size and state of existence. This means, that we are talking about a living entity. Jesus, the True Vine, is not dead but a living being. He only died but graciously arose on the third day to reposition us to our real place in God. He is presently seated at the right hand of God Almighty. This is to erase some thought of some good persons that believed Jesus died and He remained dead. No, Jesus lives for evermore.
Again, an organism is a system consisting of parts that are dependent of each other. By this definition, it is important to know that a Tree consist of the root, trunk, branch, sap, and fruits that are dependent of each other to exist as a singular tree. This is the underlying study of this chapter.
Understanding the Vine’s Organism
The Trunk – Jesus, the Vine
The trunk is the main thick part of the tree that the branches grow from. It is the main body of the tree and it shoots from the root. Our trunk is Jesus Christ the Vine from whom all branches, all redeemed children of God grows.
Jesus said these about Himself as the Trunk or Vine.
I am the true vine…he branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine…I am the vine…
John 15: 1, 4 – 5
Jesus is the True Vine from which the branches grow.
The Root
Without the root, there is no trunk, and without the trunk there is no branch. So the root is the major part of the tree. A root is the part of plant that grows underneath the ground surface (most especially) in establishing the firmness of the plant and to absorb water and soil nutrient that for the growth and development of the plant. The root therefore is the life source of the entire plant.
While Jesus is the Trunk (vine), God the Father is the root form whom Jesus has His firmness and got life from. God the Father is the very Source of Jesus Christ, hence Jesus is called His Son.
These are some Scriptures of attestation of the Father as the Root or Jesus’ Source and firmness.
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father, making himself equal to God.
Then answered Jesus and said, unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.
John 5: 17 – 19, 26
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
…for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
I am come in my Father’s name…
John 5: 30, 38 – 39
Monday, July 13, 2009
Matters Of The Kingdom
Ever since we started the Matters of the Kingdom programme here in Kingdom Family Center, God have opened our eyes to the deep things hidden in the treasury of God's heart concerning His Kingdom and the Citizens.
I want to share very briefly with you one of those teachings. However, we still look into it in more detail next time.
So God created man in his own image, in his image created he him, male and female created he them - Genesis 1: 27
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life, and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2: 7
The fisrt man God created was created in the very image of God. And again, the first man was filled with the Breath of Life. This means that, man was essentially created and made to be indwelt and surrounded by God.
Adam and Eve, the first man, lived and exercised dominion in the very image of God. The mandate God gave man in Genesis 1: 26 which is to have dominion was only made possible as long as man was wrapped up in the image of God and also was indwelt by the breath of life. This means that taking dominion over the earth is essentially made possible right in the confirment of the image of God. This is why immediately man fell from grace, he could not take dominion over the earth again. What he first controlled began to control him.
I want us to understand the image of God in this start point. In the Old Testament, we are told that man is created in the image of God. This is good for our understanding.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things have become new - 2 Corinthians 5: 17
For we are the workmanship of God created in Christ... Ephesians 2: 10
Why the Old Testament tells us that the first man was created in the image of God, the New Testament tells us that the redeemed child of God or man is created in Christ.
In Hebrews 1: 3, we are told that Christ is the brightness of the glory of God and also He is the express image of God's person.
This means that Christ is the physical expression of the very image of God. This goes to establish the truth that the very image in which the first man - Adam was created in is revealed physically in the person of Christ.
So, we could bold say from these scriptures that Christ is the Image of God. This implies that, the first man was actually created in Christ - the image of God.
This become necessary why we should preach Christ to the world become in the first place man was created in Him and to function in Him.
Continue from here.
Please ponder on this study as we undertake he Matters of the Kingdom
I want to share very briefly with you one of those teachings. However, we still look into it in more detail next time.
So God created man in his own image, in his image created he him, male and female created he them - Genesis 1: 27
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life, and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2: 7
The fisrt man God created was created in the very image of God. And again, the first man was filled with the Breath of Life. This means that, man was essentially created and made to be indwelt and surrounded by God.
Adam and Eve, the first man, lived and exercised dominion in the very image of God. The mandate God gave man in Genesis 1: 26 which is to have dominion was only made possible as long as man was wrapped up in the image of God and also was indwelt by the breath of life. This means that taking dominion over the earth is essentially made possible right in the confirment of the image of God. This is why immediately man fell from grace, he could not take dominion over the earth again. What he first controlled began to control him.
I want us to understand the image of God in this start point. In the Old Testament, we are told that man is created in the image of God. This is good for our understanding.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things have become new - 2 Corinthians 5: 17
For we are the workmanship of God created in Christ... Ephesians 2: 10
Why the Old Testament tells us that the first man was created in the image of God, the New Testament tells us that the redeemed child of God or man is created in Christ.
In Hebrews 1: 3, we are told that Christ is the brightness of the glory of God and also He is the express image of God's person.
This means that Christ is the physical expression of the very image of God. This goes to establish the truth that the very image in which the first man - Adam was created in is revealed physically in the person of Christ.
So, we could bold say from these scriptures that Christ is the Image of God. This implies that, the first man was actually created in Christ - the image of God.
This become necessary why we should preach Christ to the world become in the first place man was created in Him and to function in Him.
Continue from here.
Please ponder on this study as we undertake he Matters of the Kingdom
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