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The DNA of the Church and how the Church can fulfil her calling

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Hebrew 11:1 Now faith is [the] assurance [or, substance]of [things] being hoped for [or, being confidently expected], [the]confident assurance [or, proof]of things not seen.

In reference to faith, Jesus likened faith unto a mustard seed. I used to think it is dealing with the size of the mustard seed and thus with the size of our faith.

Luke 17:5-6 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Add to us [or, Increase our] faith!" But the Lord said, "If you* have faith like a grain of mustard [or, mustard seed], you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would [have] obeyed you.

But when I took a mustard seed into my hands, the size came to mind but what struck me the most, is not the size but the potential that is within that small seed. That seed as any other seed have something on the inside, which said that in the right condition it will produce a tree, or a flower, or whatever potential is laid within. The DNA of that seed is kept within, and it is the DNA that says that that seed have the potential to become what it is supposed to be, and you and I cannot alter that. If we plant a seed of a specific fruit, for example a pomegranate, that seed will produce a pomegranate tree that will bear pomegranates as fruit, it will not, nor can it, produce any other tree and bear any other fruit.

Jesus came in order to remove the corruptible seed within man and replace it with the incorruptible seed and therefore He made a statement about and over us, He said that we will be able to do what He did and even more because He goes to the Father. When Jesus spoke these words He did not look at the potential of men but He looked at the incorruptible seed, the coming of the Holy Spirit (the DNA), within the recreated man in Christ Jesus. (In His likeness) When the Pharisees said that Jesus performs the miracle through Beelzebub, as a power within, and He replied that if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit you will not be forgiven. In saying that, He acknowledged that the miracles performed where due to the potential within, the Holy Spirit.

As we have been recreated in Christ Jesus, we also received the same Holy Spirit, the incorruptible seed of God’s promise, waiting within us to be released to work the work of God through us. All we need is to be placed in the right condition like a seed so to germinate and bear fruit. The question then is no more about potential, but it is more a question of what is the right condition for germination.

When the disciples asked Jesus about the sin of a blind man, Jesus replied and said that the reason for his blindness is not due to sin but to bring glory unto God. In like manner Jesus saw the potential to glorify God through Lazarus death. Peter and John found themselves at a well prepared garden (The Beautiful gate), the soil perfectly prepared to bring glory unto God. When they passed the man crippled from birth, the Holy Spirit must have prompted them, saying this is it, sow the seed that God implanted within you and let it bear fruit to the glory of God.

The Church is not a structure it is the body of our Lord Jesus Christ and as such the very work that Jesus proclaimed He was anointed for, the church was anointed on the day of Pentecost to continue the work of our Lord as in Isaiah 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”

Based on the mentioned and the fact that Jesus said that we cannot bear fruit unless we abide in Him, like the mustard seed, our potential as church is not within ourself but from within as we meet the right conditions :

To preach the Gospel to the poor.

To heal the broken-hearted.

To proclaim spiritual freedom to those who are captive in darkness.

To cause those blinded by sin to see God’s Truth.

To free those oppressed by the Devil.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

The mentioned is the fruit of our Lords ministry, just as He proclaimed to the disciples of John the baptiser. The church are called to bear fruit as we abide in the Lord and His ministry.

I once looked at the Hebrew word for abide, and what struck me the most was not the word in itself, but a sentence used to describe the word. “a shepherd smell of the sheep”. If we abide in Christ we should be in such close relationship with Him that as the shepherd smell of sheep, the action of His church should cast no doubt of to whom the church represent.



   
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