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......
