SEED, TIME, and HARVEST RULES
Question #4: What are the rules concerning the process of seed, time, and harvest? Correct Answer: The rules concerning the process of seed, time, and harvest are these.
- Each tree yields fruit after his kind.
- Each seed produces a body of fruit, bearing seed after his kind.
- Seeds planted in the wrong type of ground will not grow to bring forth fruit.
Starting from Genesis, the Bible separates believers in the body of Christ from non-believers by the rules of seed, time, and harvest.
Seed, Time, and Harvest Rule #1: Each tree yields fruit after his kind.
We are spiritual seeds that came forth from the mouth of God. Seeds planted in the dust of the ground give life to a body made of dust. Seeds planted in Christ give life to a body made in the image of God.
There are two family trees on earth; one yields an earthly body of fruit, and the other yields fruit with spiritual bodies. Each tree yields fruit after his kind.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Genesis 1:11
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:12
Seed, Time, and Harvest Rule #2: Each seed produces a body of fruit, bearing seed after his kind.
Follow me here. How many apple seeds must you plant to get an orange tree harvest? It will not happen! You cannot plant apple seeds and get an orange tree harvest.
How many natural seeds must you plant to get a Spiritual tree harvest? Again, it will not happen. The earthly sperm of a man will not bring forth God’s Spiritual fruit.
To think we can sow a natural seed from flesh and blood and then reap the harvest of God’s Spirit mocks God. The Kingdom of God is not flesh and blood.
Isn’t that what Christ is saying?
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Matthew 7:18
The Word of God is a Spiritual Seed. Christ is the Spiritual Seed of God, and so are we. Each of us is a seed that contains a soul, a quickening spirit, and the breath of life.
A quickening spirit must die to receive new life. This rule defines what it means to be like Christ. We, like Christ, were made to die and be brought back to life.
The following scripture calls the person that questions this a fool. Why would we need to be born again if we are still alive from the first birth? We had to die to be born again in Christ.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. 1Corinthians 15:35-36
Our seed was planted in a body made from the ground. We died! As in, became separated from God. Like the phoenix, some of us rose from the earthly body to live again in Christ. And some of us died (became separated) and remained in the earthly body. The seed that remains in the flesh empowers the earthly body to reproduce after his kind; the seed that rose from the dead empowers the spiritual body to reproduce after his kind.
Seed, Time, and Harvest Rule #3: Seeds planted in the wrong type of ground will not grow to bring forth fruit.
Each seed must be planted and raised in the ground, which allows it to bring forth fruit. God spoke to us in Christ before the world began. He created us in Christ by His word. We were not in bodies made of flesh. Like Christ, we came forth out of the mouth of God.
God’s desire was for all of us to be fruitful and multiply in Christ on the earth. Christ is our Spiritual ground in heaven and earth. We, as seeds, must be planted in Christ to bring forth fruit to God.
The spiritual seed of God cannot be fruitful and multiply in the earthly ground of the natural body. We cannot please God while in the flesh. There is no forgiveness of sin outside of the Body of Christ. The earthly body is not in Christ.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:4–5
God is Life. We are a breath of His life. While on earth, we have a choice between two bodies we can give life to. As the following scripture states, one body is spiritual, and the other is natural.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15: 42-44
In the flesh, we die; we can do nothing. We die as in separation from God. Therefore, we are to put on the body of the spiritual man(-kind) by faith.
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4:24
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Colossians 3:10–11
We, who are in Christ, are no longer in bodies made of flesh. By faith, we took off the bodies made of the earth. We put on Spiritual bodies in Christ.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8:9
In Christ, we are in the ground that will allow us to bring forth Spiritual fruit to God.
In Christ, We Are in Two Places at Once.
Our faith puts us in another place and time where our natural bodies cannot go. We are where ever Christ is. Right now, we are seated in Christ, on the right hand of God. He is here in us, and we are there in Him. The Word of God tells us the same in the following scriptures.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:5-6
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Revelation 3:21
Check this out. We came forth out of the mouth of God in word form. In Christ, we have returned to God in Word form. You and I have not returned to God without accomplishing that which pleased Him. We have prospered in the place where He sent us. In Christ, we have overcome the world.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5:5
The others sent with us do not know it yet, but we have left them behind. We are gone! The words of Isaiah 55:11 apply to us. In Christ we have returned to God the Father, as God said we would.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11
Christ is resting on His throne, knowing what He has accomplished. We should be resting in him, knowing what we have done.
We have been faithful. We may have messed up big time, but we returned. God filled us with His Spirit the instant we returned to Him in Christ. God could not enter man like this till Christ returned in victory.
Christ returned to God, bearing fruit and seed after His kind. When God entered our kind there, the Holy Ghost came upon us here. We are a royal priesthood here because God has made us a royal priesthood there.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 1 Peter 2:9
You see deeper into the Book of Life when you realize that it is impossible to be a member of any race and be in the body of Christ. In the beginning, there were Two Men Called Adam. The two men are not fruit from the same tree.
Our race is a characteristic of our natural body. Our body must be the fruit of one tree or the other it cannot be from both. My being a Black man in Christ would make a mockery of God. The body of my outer Black man is not from the same tree as the body of my inner spirit man.
Black, White, and other people of race cannot find rest in Christ. Neither can any of us who think as they do.
Quiet the Noise!
The King James Version of the Bible has opened as the Real Book of Life. If you doubt me, challenge Us! The sooner and more challenges We receive, the higher and faster the LORD will receive His glorify.
Nothing is going on in your life where God is like, Wow, I did not see that coming.The drug habit, illness, whatever is troubling you, God knew that you would face it before you did, and He saw you overcome this thing.
God wants you to face what you are going through with Him in Christ. He expects us to receive victory after victory with Him in Christ. Anything that causes you to doubt God is nothing but noise.
The Book of Life, here and now, mentions us by name. It is to increase our faith. Maybe we are about to need stronger faith in order to stand through the coming tribulation.
