De Witt Tabernacle Teaching Series
Every Seed Produces After It's Own
Kind
"God's Seed Produces God Every Time"
By C.W. Wood October-November 1999
In today’s religious world, we hear so very
much from ministers about PLANTING SEED. It seems they are obsessed with seed
planting. They admonish the people to plant seeds, but the seed they speak of
is money. They greatly desire our money seeds to be planted in their gardens.
It seems to this writer that the enemy has slipped in and turned a major doctrine
of the Bible into a trap for many of God’s people. God does certainly have a
law pertaining to seed planting and it does reach into the area of finances. We
will reap as we have sown in that area. But there is a seed planting in the
spiritual sense that the religious world seems to know nothing about.
Our subject in this sermon will have to do
with God’s spiritual seed planting. There is a law of God found in Genesis
Chapter 1, that declares that every seed must produce "After it’s
own kind." When God made that law, He had something far greater in His
mind than just blessing us financially. (Although, we certainly appreciate His
financial blessings.) Let us look at the Law of which we speak.
Gen. 1:11, "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."
Verse 12, "And the
Earth brought forth grass and herb yeilding seed AFTER HIS KIND, and God saw
that it was good."
In Verse 21, God created living
creatures that live in the waters, which brought forth "AFTER THEIR
KIND, and winged fowl AFTER HIS KIND." If you will read on through
verse 25, you will find that God stated eight times in chapter one that EVERY
SEED MUST PRODUCE AFTER ITS OWN KIND. It is as though He wanted to press that
thought into our minds so that we could not forget it. Indeed, it is
drastically important that we understand the principle set forth here. It has
to do with the UNION that God planned between
Himself and His Bride.
In Luke Chapter One, we find the
story about the birth of our Lord Jesus. Luke 1:31, the Angel said to
Mary, "And behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a
son, and thou shalt call His Name Jesus." When Mary questioned the
Angel about her conception (not having known a man), she was told, "The
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee. Therefore, also that Holy Thing that shall be born of thee shall be
called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)
We understand that God followed His own Law
in His dealings with the Virgin Mary, in that the Seed He placed in her did in
fact produce AFTER IT’S OWN KIND. The Seed of God produced GOD IN MARY. That
Holy Thing that was born of her was God IN HUMAN FLESH. Keeping in mind that in
God’s creation plan every seed produces after it’s own kind, we wish to make
this statement, "GOD’S SEED PRODUCES God EVERY TIME." God’s Seed in
Mary produced God. It was a UNION between God
and human flesh. But the
great glorious truth is that this was only the "Beginning of the Creation
of God" in
human flesh. (Rev. 3:14) The Lord Jesus would be only the first born
among many brethren. (Rom. 8:29)
We have been taught by God’s Prophet that
when the Elect of God was born into their physical bodies, there was placed in
them a Seed. Upon their entrance into the world, the Holy Ghost was there and
overshadowed them, even as He did Mary. THE SAME HOLY GHOST THAT OVERSHADOWED
MARY PLACED THE SAME KIND OF SEED IN EVERY BRIDE MEMBER. Now can we understand
why our Lord stressed His point in Genesis Chapter One EIGHT TIMES?
His Seed in His Bride would produce Himself
in her. God in human flesh. If the Holy Ghost Seed in Mary produced God, then
the Holy Ghost Seed in the Bride must produce God also. God’s Seed produces God
every time! Gal. 4:19, "My Little Children of whom I travail in
birth again, UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU." Christ (God) is to be
formed in His Bride. If this be so, then will it not take the SAME SEED that
was placed in Mary? Surely this is true because the scripture says that the
predestinated Bride are BROTHERS to Jesus.
Rom. 8:29, "For whom
He did foreknow He did also predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His
Son, that He might be the first born among MANY BRETHREN." How could
the Bride be BROTHERS to Christ except they receive the same Seed from the same
Father? God’s Seed produces God every time!
Our Prophet taught us that God’s plan from
the beginning was to produce Himself in human flesh. And, this was to be so,
not only in the GOD-MAN Jesus, but also in the Bride of Jesus. We do not
understand it, but we accept the fact that Jesus Christ was both God and Man.
You will at once say to me, "But there
is a great difference between God’s Christ (God) and His Bride." In one
great and important sense this is exactly true, but in another great and
important sense they are the same.! The great difference is that Christ was
born a REDEEMER and the Bride was born needing REDEEMED. Christ was born with
the blood of God flowing in His veins and this made Him the Redeemer. The Bride
was born with the blood of Adam in their veins and for this cause they need
redeeming.
QUOTE: ONENESS, FEB. 11, 1962, PAGES 4-5,
"Then God took from his side a rib (from Adam’s side). Did you notice that
the body part was a by-product, BUT NOT THE SPIRIT? The body part of the woman
was a by-product, after the creation had been finished, God took from the side
of Adam a rib and made a woman. BUT NOT THE SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT WAS PART OF
ADAM..... Now, don’t you see the great picture? We in the flesh ARE
DIFFERENT. We’re like a by-product, a created being, by Holy wedlock. BUT IN
THE SPIRIT, WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, NOT SOME OTHER SPIRIT, BUT THE SPIRIT OF
THE LIVING God. We are in His likeness, in His Unity, in the perfect Image of
the Living God, because we become Sons and Daughters. NOT SEPARATED, BUT THE
SAME SPIRIT, THE SAME GOD, THE SAME PERSON JOINED IN WEDLOCK TO THE ETERNAL.
See how God planned it, that we should be, not different, but HIM. Not
some other Being of some other tribe, but a real union and offspring of the
Almighty done by a Holy Union. (Done by a seed planting) Now the body comes
from mother and father, but the Spirit comes from God. God separating Himself
as Adam was separated." (End Quote)
The Blood of God in our Lord Jesus made it
possible for Him to live above all sin at all times. Therefore, he could make a
perfect sacrifice for our sins. The blood of Adam in us made it impossible for
us to live all the Law all the time. Therefore, we can only be saved by FAITH
in the One who could, and did, live all the Law. (Gal. 2:21) "........If
righteousness come by the Law then Christ is dead in vain."
We are trying to show, "Who the Bride
is in Christ Jesus." She is a part of God. She is the WORD MADE FLESH
again in this end time. She is to be, not God Himself, but AS GOD to the people
of the world to speak as the "Oracles of God" to a lost and
dying generation. (Ex. 4:16)
Speaking now of the difference between
Christ and His Bride, we look at the difference in the TIME that the Seed was
placed in Mary, and in the TIME it was placed in the Bride. Mary received the
Seed BEFORE she had known a man. Therefore, the blood in the Seed came to be in
the veins of Jesus. The Seed in the Bride was placed in them AFTER their
mothers had known their earthly fathers. This is only another way of saying
that the Lord Jesus was Virgin born and the Bride is not.
We are saying that there was NO DIFFERENCE
IN THE SEED, but the difference was in the TIME that the Holy Ghost placed the
Seed. The Bride received the Seed after physical birth, or at the time of
physical birth, while Mary received the Seed at her inception. Question? Could
not God have placed His Seed in the Bride before their mothers had known a man?
Could He not have caused the Bride to be Virgin born also? Yes! God could have
brought forth His Bride in the same way He brought forth His Christ.
But, this would have done away with his
plan of Redemption. There would have been no need for it, in that the Bride
would have also been sin free. But Brother Branham said God was determined to
show forth His attributes of which the main one was LOVE. There had been no
proper outlet for the overflowing love of God. Therefore, his plan included a
way in which it could manifest itself. Because of sexual birth, rather than a
Virgin birth, we would need to be saved from our inability to keep God’s Law.
We would receive God’s Seed into a flesh
body, but our flesh man would have in him "A Law of SIN". (Rom.
8:23) But, when the Seed was quickened in us we would also have the very
NATURE OF God in our soul. II Peter 1:4, "He gave us an
exceeding great and precious promise, that by this you might be PARTAKERS OF
THE DIVINE NATURE." From the very beginning, our Father planned to
give us back HIS OWN NATURE that had been in Adam before he fell.
He would do this by planting His own Seed
in us at our physical birth. God’s Seed amounts to God’s own Soul being placed
in us. His Seed and His Soul are one and the same.
QUOTE: FAITH IN ACTION (CHICAGO
Can we understand that when the seed of God
is quickened in us we have the Soul of God making us "Partakers of His
own Divine Nature?" The Prophet said we ought to have confidence in
that SOUL OF GOD THAT IS IN US. Not confidence in our outer-flesh man. He is a
failure, but confidence in that inner-man, where God lives. When our confidence
is in the Soul of God that is in us, we will KNOW that He will cause us to "Come
into the unity of the faith.....unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ." (Eph. 4:13)
With confidence in that Soul of God in us,
we stand and testify, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me." (Gal. 2:20) We say "For me to live is
Christ." (Gal. 2:21) We hold to God’s unchanging Law in Genesis
that declares that every seed must "produce after it’s own kind," and
that we are GOD’S KIND (on the inside of us).
Now, let’s dig deeper into what the Seed of
God has done for us. Having been placed in us at the time of our physical
birth, there has always been a part of us that could not sin. We DID SIN before
the Seed was quickened, but once it sprang into life, we were actually rendered
incapable of sin. That is to say, in our hearts we could no longer LOVE sin,
even while our flesh man was, from time to time, caught up in it. Therefore,
God looking at the heart, sees no sin.
There is a powerful word in I John 3:9,
"Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for HIS SEED remaineth
in him and he CANNOT SIN because he is born of God." With the Seed of
God quickened in them, the Bride comes into this place of mighty spiritual
power. In the eyes of God, she CANNOT SIN. She has been rid of all sin,
therefore, she can take her stand with the Apostle Paul and say, "There
is therefore NOW no CONDEMNATION." (Rom. 8:1) Is it not
condemnation that robs us of our power with God, and is it not the platform of
sin that condemnation stands on to do its deadly work? But, what if we stand on
the Word we just read in I John 3:9 and declare ourselves to be freed
from sin? Then condemnation has no foundation and has lost its hold on us.
Sin is the weapon that Satan holds over us.
It is his heavy bludgeon with which he has struck us many deadly blows. Each
blow has been deadly in that they bring condemnation. But, if "OUR
HEARTS CONDEMN US NOT, THEN HAVE WE CONFIDENCE TOWARD GOD." Oh
Friends, hear the good news of the Gospel. Those in whom the Seed of God
resides are not being charged with sin, "For His Seed remains in them
and they cannot sin." (I John 3:9)
Rom. 4:6, "Even as
David also describeth the blessedness of man, unto whom God imputeth (gives)
righteousness without works. Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord WILL
NOT IMPUTE (charge) SIN."
Rom. 8:33, "Who
shall lay anything to the charge of God’s Elect? It is God that
Justifieth." Verse 34, "Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right
Hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." The Holy Ghost asks
us a question here, "Who is he that condemneth?" Of course it
is the devil. How could our God condemn us after His sacrifice, and all His
promises that we are free? God CONVICTS, SATAN CONDEMNS. Conviction ceases upon
our repentance, Condemnation never ceases. We will always FEEL it, but we rule
it out by Faith.
How can we tell the difference between conviction
and condemnation? The truth is we cannot separate the two except by
faith. The enemy comes as an Angel of Light. His condemnation is said to have
come from God, but we repent and by Faith believe God forgave us. From that
point on we know that conviction ceased and that the ill feelings that continue
are from Satan. Therefore, we reject them, and by pure faith declare that we
are at peace with our God. Years after repentance over some wrong condemnation
continues to come from Satan, but we stand and say, "Him that cometh to
God will not be cast out." (John 6:37)
The Seed of God in us has reestablished the
fellowship we had with him before we were "Made subject to vanity"
(Rom. 8:20) by being made "Partakers of flesh and blood."
(Heb. 2:14) The union that we had with Him in Heaven, in our Theophany
body, has now been continued by the placing of His Seed, and the quickening of
the same in us.
QUOTE: ONENESS, PAGE 4,
"That’s God’s purpose. And His purpose as Father, Supreme, was to be ONE
WITH HIS FAMILY (fellowship with His family). His Earthly family, Adam and Eve.
And the only way they could be one with God was because GOD’S NATURE WAS IN
THEM. Then with each other and (with) God, they became all One.......Jesus
prayed that the Church and He would be One like He and the Father were
One..........What a union, a Oneness that would be to see God in His Church
till every member is just perfectly in harmony with each other, and (with)
God..... And it is the only grounds of fellowship that God has ever laid down
for Himself and His Church is the ONENESS of Himself in the people. That’s the
only grounds of fellowship. And the only way you can have those grounds, is by
a UNION , to be united with Him
forever........United eternally with the Eternal God, perfectly in harmony with
Him, perfectly united together....." (End quote)
This UNION
the Prophet spoke of is brought to pass by the placing of God’s SEED in us so
that we are made "Partakers of the Divine Nature" that is in
the Seed. (II Pet.1:4) and by that Seed "Christ is formed in
us." (Gal. 4:19) This brings us back to the title of our
sermon, "Every Seed Produces After It’s Own Kind" and the fact
that God’s Seed produces God every time.
Did you ever wonder what the Prophet was
speaking about in the Message, "TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT HIS
WILL?" When he said, QUOTE, PAGE 54, "And if you were
ordained from the beginning of the Earth to that Word, every Word will come
right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have one human cell, and
the next cell of a dog, and the next cell of a cat, but it’ll be human cells.
But, it’s got to have a cell (Seed) first to start with. Is that right? Say
Amen! Well if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are
ordained to make it a full Body. (End quote)
To this writer he is saying, if the Seed of
God is in us, then no other Seed cells will be tolerated. No Methodist, no
Baptist, no Church of Christ , no Catholic, no Assembly of God, no Church of God
God’s Seed produces God every time! Amen.
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