To the Lord our God be all glory and praise; who has given us the privilege of access into His presence and grace! Today, we begin a 7-part study with the title: “A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM”
3 scriptures shall form the foundation for our meditation:
“Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me”-(Hebrews 10:5)
“He was taken from prison and from judgement: and who shall declare his generation?” – (Isaiah 53:8)
“A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation”-(Psalm 22:30)
A-INTRODUCTION
This study shall attempt to examine a golden prophecy and desire in the heavens of God, about the emergence of a people on the earth all through the Church age; patterned after Christ, to fulfill God’s purposes on the earth.
WHY THIS STUDY?
- To assist every En-Christed individual, come to the awareness of God’s purpose for the Church age, and especially for the end times; coupled with how to find relevance in it.
- To assist all who ‘perceive’ a portion in this corporate arrangement of God to relate fruitfully with one another as a spiritual body of common purpose; to the ultimate purpose of the breaking forth of this corporate SEED into God’s purpose for it.
“Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as root out of a dry ground… He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows… But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities…He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth… He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation…” -Isaiah 53:1-8.
The above scripture passage is the graphic and prophetic picture that Prophet Isaiah saw and also gave about the substitutional sufferings of Christ, that is, the suffering Christ went through, for our sake; as it is written: “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” -2 Corinthians 5:21.
Christ, who never sinned and who was pure and spotless had to become sin for our sake, in order for us (who would believe in this his sacrificial work on Calvary) to be made righteous and thereby become the righteousness of God…all in him!
In the days of Christ, it was an aberration and a curse to die young, and much more, for a man to have no replacement of him, in a child (seed) that can be reckoned as his offspring to continue his lineage. It was for this purpose, that it was a practice, and which God permitted in the old testament times, for a brother to raise seed on behalf of a dead brother who dies childless (Genesis 38:1-10; Luke 20:27-33).
Isaiah saw the picture of The Christ, as an innocent young man, who was cut off in the middle of his days, and unjustly deprived of his right to have a seed of his own to continue his days, to declare his generation. However, in the parabolic character of scripture answering to scripture, God had inspired David (A Prophet and who also lived before Isaiah) to give scriptural response to this intriguing question that Prophet Isaiah would ask. David, in the Messianic prophecy about Christ in Psalm 22, had prophesied thus: “A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord-Hebrew: ‘Adonay’ for a generation.
Beloved, the truth is that Christ never died in vain!
There is a seed company that has lived and shall be alive all through the period of the Church age, to testify that The Lord Jesus Christ did not die seedless or in vain.
In John 12:24, Jesus said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat (seed) fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit”
Our Savior Jesus Christ willingly offered to be cut off, in great hope and expectation of a seed that shall emerge from his substitution sufferings at Golgotha and Calvary. This seed was the body he came to seek for, as declared in Hebrews 10:5: “…A body has thou prepared me”
This seed is a fruit and evidence of Christ’s work on the earth. To the glory of God, this seed is on the earth TODAY! So glad beloved: I am part of this seed.
May we all justify the substitution sufferings of Christ for us, by pressing in and thereby find our relevance in this CORPORATE SEED; that is accounted in the heavens for Christ as a generation.
Amen.