Hybrid Christianity

The Seed is the word of God!
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.


In the previous sermon, we went to the end of the crop season and looked at the fruit that had grown from whatever kind of seed had been planted in America these past few years.
Matthew 7:20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

America used to be a blessed nation and so did the people!
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD:
and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

America use to be a happy country with happy people!
Psalm 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case:
yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

but not today...

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.



The fruit in America is the result of :
a bad seed
a bad farming
a bad farmer
or combinations of the above

We know that there can be problems with farming in how the seed is watered, etc. - and also with the farmer, but for now, let's look at the seed in the barn, amen?  That is what this series is all about, amen?

If we don't plant a seed, there is no crop.  No seed - no fruit!  No seed - no growth!
If we do plant a seed, it depends on the quality of the seed as to the quality of the crop.
- in other words -
If the word of God is a seed, then if we don't plant the seed, we don't get any crop!
If the word of God is a seed, then the quality of the crop depends on the quality of the seed, amen?
We can get two kinds of crop:  good or bad - true or false - a real or an imitation!
(We can't have both - Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; Matthew 12:30; Luke 11:23)

Obviously, the quality of the seed does affect a persons spiritual birth, amen?  I Peter 1:23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

We receive either Jesus Christ or another Jesus!
We receive either the Holy Spirit or another spirit!
We hear either the true Gospel or another gospel!
II Corinthians 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Gal:1:6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Now, are those verses referring to a persons actual salvation or just the growth AFTER his salvation?  We will have to answer this question as this series continues - this is the question, amen?

Can corruptible seed bring forth incorruptible crops?


Next, let's look at the words corruptible and incorruptible.

CORRUPT
Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.
2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad.
3. To waste, spoil or consume.
4. To defile or pollute.
5. To entice from good and allure to evil.
6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void.
7. To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.
8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
9. To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.
10. to taint with wickedness.
11. Make something not genuine; infect with errors or mistakes.

INCORRUPT'ED
Not corrupt; not marred, impaired or spoiled; not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted;

INCORRUPTIBIL'ITY
The quality of being incapable of decay or corruption.

INCORRUPT'IBLE
1.  That cannot corrupt or decay; not admitting of corruption.
2.  That cannot be bribed; inflexibly just and upright.


Rom:1:23: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
God Himself has been changed in the 'eyes' of people today, but God is still an uncorruptible God!
Look at what God did to those folks later on in that chapter.  whew!

1Cor:9:25: And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Our goals are not for earthly rewards, but heavenly ones - incorruptible crowns!  Our affection is to be set on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:2,3
1Pt:1:4: To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

1Cor:15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
We may be made of fleshly corruption now, but some day - physically we will be made incorruptible!  Colossians 3:4  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
I John 3:2,3  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
1Cor:15:53,54 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
I Peter 1:18-25
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;
that your faith and hope might be in God.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another
with a pure heart fervently:
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.

Is the King James 1611 Bible 'that word'?


I Corinthians 3:6-9
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed,
even as the Lord gave to every man?
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;
but God that giveth the increase.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one:
and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
For we are labourers together with God:
ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

God giveth the increase because it is HIS SEED He will increase!
We are just the farmers - and boy, what lessons can we learn from farmers!!!!


Let's look a bit at the incorruptible seed verses the corruptible seed!
INCORRUPTIBLE SEED is...
CORRUPTIBLE SEED is...
From God
From man
God Inspired
Devil Inspired
Innerant
Errant - wandering, roving, rambling, deviating from certain course
Infallible - not 'capable' of erring
Fallible - very capable of erring
Pure
Impure
Royal
Earthly, Devilish, Sensual
Powerful
Weak
Alive
Dead
True
False
Sharper than a two-edged sword
Duller than a plastic butter knife
Faithful - looking out for you
Unfaithful - not looking out for you
A Discerner
A bunch of world's psychology
Everlasting
Temporary
More Sure Word
Confusion, questions & theories
Upright
Worthless & corrupt
Nothing froward / nothing perverse
Froward - unyielding, disopbdient, stubborn Perverse
Plain - easy to understand
Difficult - hard to 'get' - need scholarly help
Sweet to eat
Taste awful - bitter - poison
INCORRUPTIBLE SEED ...
CORRUPTIBLE SEED ...
Will give light - lead your path
Will give a false light - black light or no light Will lead your path into darkness
Will give protection
Will leave you open & vulnerable
The strongman will be bound.
Will cast out evil spirits & devils
Will attract evil spirits and devils
Will provide saving faith
Will provide a false faith in 'self'
Will cleanse
Will make and keep you dirty
Will keep you from sin
Will cause you to sin
Will inwardly stir up the people
Will otherwise 'satisfy' the people
Will work effectually in you to help you see
Will work effectually in you to blind you
Will bear fruit
Will bear no fruit or a rotten fruit
Will provide comfort
Will provide stress and no comfort
Will prevail for you to win
Will prevail for you to lose
Will grow a healthy crop
Will grow no crop &/or a poisoned crop

to be continued...



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