Mustard Seed versus Mulberry Tree

Consider the size and their functions.What a world of comparison. Yet,it's the size that is highlighted here.

Luke 17:5-6 (New International Version)

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.

It is our own fault to expect good from a bad tree. You will never find any good from it.You must uproot and cast it to where it belongs.Why would you want to uproot a Mulberry tree unless it's hindering something good to come. We get good fruit from a good tree. We can never find good fruit on a bad tree. We have to uproot the bad tree that's standing on the way and taking the space.

What tree needs to be removed?

When God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, after they had sinned and be cursed for their sins, did He uproot and throw out of that Garden the 'Tree of Knowledge of good and evil' before He sealed that Garden off? The answer is the Word of God does not say so.Even though dubbed as the 'Tree of Death' it still remained there,right? This tree does not bear any good fruit because if you were to eat it's fruit you will die,right? But,it was still left there in the Garden with the Tree of Life,right?

This is the choice you and I would have to make now. to uproot it or not? But, you won't want to uproot it,if you are still eating the 'fruit' from that tree,right? The 'fruit' from that 'Tree' is the 'sinful nature' embedded in us and the 'Tree' is the Devil himself, this nature is the nature of the Devil planted in us in that Garden through Adam's and Eve's choice through the Devil's deception.

Are we still eating from the sinful nature within us and are being satisfied by it daily? Are we?

So, what is this 'Tree' that needs to be uprooted? If you are going to uproot that unfruitful 'tree' you must first decide to cease eating the fruit from that 'Tree'.
If you are still eating the fruit from that 'tree', how are you going to uproot that tree from existing around you?

God has given us that power and authority to do just that ' to uproot that unfruitful tree'through Christ our Lord and Savior. He told Jeremiah the prohet of God in:

Jeremiah 1:10 (New International Version)

See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.

God told Paul the apostle:

Ephesians 6:12 (New International Version)

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Do you see what we are told to uproot on this earth?: Yes, the kingdom of Darkness

Do you see what we are told to build and plant on this earth?; Yes, the Kingdom of Righteousness of Christ our Lord.

We are not fighting with human beings but forces of evil,meaning the Demons and the Devil,the False Prophet and the Beast,the Antichrist. So what now?
To be continued......

Defeated Foe

What we see with our eyes isn't the actual thing.The actual thing is just the opposite of what we see.This is what we call deception of the Enemy.

Matthew 10:25-27 (New International Version)

It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household!

"So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

We are facing the defeated Foe who is disguising as the 'victor'.
There is so much confusion, right?

'Noisy Gongs'

"An empty vessel makes the most noise with one little stone in it".This saying is practically true. Where there is very few substance in a can it makes a lot of noise.
That's why God is a quiet Person. You'll hardly hear any noise from Him. He is known to be so silent that you won't know if He is there or not. He is full of substance and does not need to make unnecessary noise causing disturbance or annoyance to anyone around Him.He has everthing in His charge that He does not need to make any noise to cause unnecessary alarm even when He is there with all His power,glory and everlasting majesty.

1 Kings 19:11-13 (New International Version)

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

Anything without God or His divine nature makes a lot of unnecessary noise. Irritating noise at that.

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Exalt The Highest Name of Jesus Christ our LORD

We are called out from the world as a church to exalt the highest name that is the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and NOT any other name on this earth.The others are names but are NOT the highest name. There is only one Highest Name and that is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.God the Heavenly Father gave Him and us that Highest Name to exalt. What are we doing instead? Unneccesarily lifting other names than the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Why are we doing this? Simply because we have lost sight of this only Name we are to exalt.

Acts 4:12 (New International Version)

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

Philippians 2: 9-11(New International Version)

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

God is silently here

God is hidden, therefore, we can misinterpret, distort truth about Him, misrepresent Him, misunderstand His nature, being and purpose. Delusions can happen.

We are open to deceptively-painted pictures of God, unfair theories, unacceptable conclusions, exaggerated truths and manipulated understanding of God.

Though we are required to draw near to God by faith at each crucial step of our calculated personal walk with Him, to know him is to love Him. Knowledge of Him is essential to our knowledgeable walk with Him.

One who chooses to walk with Him must know Him first. In the name of biblical interpretations about Him, heresies have come and gone, leaving behind an irreparable damage to the general faith of genuine believers.

Inborn knowledge in man generally is already ‘muddied water’ that we cannot drain out to drink from. This unfortunate ‘contamination’ of the soul started in the Garden of Eden and still persists till today, so long as the sinful nature is not laid to complete rest voluntarily by us. Provisions have been made to lay it to rest permanently but it still continues to haunt all.

Will we ever see the provision God has given us in Christ our Lord and Savior to be saved from our sinful nature?