5-17-2015 weekly message

Meditation of the week: psalms 126:1-6

Main scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Subject: The wisdom to preach the word of God

        King Solomon received the wisdom of God; he testified of the wisdom of sowing and reaping. His word is regarding sowing the seed and reaping in the nature. The wisdom is necessary for man to sow the seed as well as to reap in the nature. Whosoever received the word of God that is seed of life is the one that sow the seed of the word of God. Apostle Paul commanded Timothy, a pastor to sow the seed before he departed the world:

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”(2Tim. 4:1-4)

         Jesus taught his disciples of the parable of the sower as the mystery of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus explained about the seed differently in the gospel of Matthew from Luke.

          In the gospel of Luke, Jesus explained about the parable of the sower:

“And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”(Luke 8:10-15)

           Yeah! Whosoever hear the word of the gospel of God has to receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith in an honest and good heart. After Philip preached the gospel of Christ unto the eunuch, he wanted to be baptized with water. Then Philip spoke unto him, “If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.”

The eunuch confessed his faith unto Philip in all his heart saying, .“I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” Afterward they went down to the water, and Philip baptized him. The eunuch went on his way rejoicing. (Act 8:37-39)

          Apostle Peter testified of the regeneration (born again of the Holy Ghost) of man:

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”(1Pet. 1:23-25)

           Yeah! The word of God that gives regeneration unto man is the gospel of Christ that was preached unto the saints in the church of Corinthians (1Cor. 15:1-3). Whosoever believes the gospel of Christ not in vain can be saved. The parable of the sower is of reaping hundred fold, sixty fold and thirty fold through believing the word of the gospel.

             But the seed is the word of kingdom in the gospel of Matthew as Jesus said:

“ Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”(Matt. 13:18-23)

           Yeah! The gospel of Matthew is of Jesus who came as the king of the Jew. Therefore the word of Jesus is the word of kingdom. In other word, it is regarding the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ to be coming unto the Jew. At that time, only the Caesar of Roman Empire was recognized as the king; even the Jew served him as their king, not Jesus. They cried out unto the Pilate saying, “We have no king but Caesar.”

            But the gospel of the kingdom that John the Baptist and Jesus was “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The message of the gospel of the kingdom was asking the Jew to repent their sin that they had served the king of Rome, and to receive Jesus as their king. At that time, if they received the message of the gospel of the kingdom, they must have been condemned unto death because of treason against Caesar. Some of them received the word of the kingdom with joy, but they had to be falling away not enduring tribulation and persecution arising because of no root of the word within them.

        Nowadays, we are supposed to preach the gospel of grace to give the believers the power to be the children of God through believing on the death of Christ, and his burial and resurrection to receive the eternal life (John 1:12,13). The children of God is the ones that have the hope of reigning with the Lord Jesus Christ as the joint-heirs in His Millennium kingdom, when he come back to the earth to judge the world.

Therefore, we have to teach unto them the word of the kingdom of Jesus as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

          But, even nowadays, we have to know that Rome is still reigning in this world as the time of Jesus. The chief of the Roman church has been reigning the earth deceiving the world with the false

doctrine making himself as the Holy Father. Roman church is a political entity not Christian at all; they are ruling not only all the nations on the earth, but the most of the Christian churches. Pope declared publicly saying, Jesus, the Only Begotten Son of God will not come back the earth. Apostle John testified of the Roman church as the great whore in the midst of the Great Tribulation saying,

“And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”(Rev. 17:18)

         Whosoever is born again through salvation has to understand the word of the kingdom clearly without any doubt, and is to be blessed to reap hundred fold, sixty fold and thirty fold as the seed sown in the good soil through preaching the word of the kingdom.

          Prophet Daniel prophesied of them that are to receive such kind of blessing saying,

“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever”(Dan. 12:3)

Of course, first of all, he prophesied of them that preach the gospel of grace unto salvation; in addition, he prophesied of them that preach the word of the kingdom enduring tribulation and persecution in this generation under the ruling of Roman Church so that born again Christians so that born again Christians under tribulation in this end time may be able to rejoice in the midst of affliction, and to live in the hope of the word of righteousness.

        Therefore, we are supposed to preach the gospel of grace unto them that are not saved; and teach the word of the kingdom unto the born again Christians so that they may be able to see the kingdom to come. It is one way or another to discern the spirit of born again Christians examining them whether they can see the kingdom of God or not. Therefore, we have to be wise as serpents whenever we preach the word of the kingdom. On the other hand, we have to understand the kingdom of God clearly without any doubt before we sow the seed of the word of the kingdom. Amen! Hallelujah!