How To Become a Tree of Life

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There is no question but that it is God’s intention to make us trees of life. God has anointed the Lord Jesus so He may set the captives of His Church free from the bondages of Satan, fill them with His Spirit, and make them oaks of righteousness.

As soon as this has been accomplished He can return with them and through them bring eternal life to the people of the earth who have been saved by believing in Christ and being baptized in water. This was the burden Sunday morning (8/7/2005).

This means that once we have been delivered from the chains of Satan we can become strong in righteous behaviour. In addition we can become so filled with the Spirit of God that we can bring eternal life to the people of the world who will accept what we have to give.

The third chapter of the Book of Nehemiah tells us that the sheep gate shall be restored before the fish gate. This shows us that God intends to build up His Church so that His Church then can become fishers of men.

It appear that today there is great emphasis on "getting people saved." This may be of God. I don’t know. I do know that the people who already have received Christ are not, in many instances, being brought to maturity by their teachers. This means that we have millions of spiritual infants. A spiritual infant may be able to persuade other people to come to his church. But he cannot birth people into the Kingdom of God, because he himself is an infant. Infants do not give birth to infants!

The sheep gate will be restored before significant progress is made with the fish gate.

But how does Christ make us trees of life so other people may gain Divine Life?

God does this by sending all sorts of afflictions on us. The purpose is to weaken our adamic nature so the supernatural life of Christ may take its place. We are knocked down constantly, but the resurrection power of Christ keeps lifting us up if we continue to look to Him.

The Lord always sends more power than we need to raise us. The surplus power goes to other people so they may live in eternal life. We keep dying and they keep living. We can bring life to other people only as we remain crucified with Christ.

Also we must, through the Spirit, keep ourselves pure. God will not have fellowship with wickedness, with a believer who continues to live in sin.

At night I became greatly exercised about the love of money and the bondage of pornography. Both of these devils are devouring American Christians.

If we wish to see the Lord and be like Him when He appears, we have to purify ourselves (I John 3:3). The believers of today have been taught they can pursue money, and watch pornography, and then, when the Lord returns, they will be like Him and see Him as He is. They have been taught error, an error that has the potential to destroy part or even all of their inheritance in Christ.

We need to understand that our culture is destructive of the Christian discipleship. It appears that there are few cross-carrying disciples in the churches of today.