July 11, 08: Light4theDay - "The Divine Seed of Scripture" (Viet) 
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("How To Receive Christ")

-- 1 Peter 1:23 = For you have been born again, not of perishable Seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God.
-- Matthew 4:4 = Jesus answered, "It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God.’" (Deut.8:3).
Let us try and understand what this teaches us. The Word of God is more than once called Seed, it is the Seed of the divine life. We know what Seed is. It is that wonderful organism in which the life, the invisible essence of a plant or tree, is so concentrated and embodied that it can be taken away and made available to impart the life of the tree elsewhere. This use may be twofold. As fruit we eat it, for instance, in the corn that gives us bread; and the life of the plant becomes our nourishment and our life. Or we sow it, and the life of the plant reproduces and multiplies itself. In both aspects the Word of God is Seed.
+ True life is found only in God. But that life cannot be imparted to us unless set before us in some shape in which we know and apprehend it. It is in the Word of God that the invisible divine life takes shape, and brings itself within our reach, and becomes communicable. The life, the thoughts, the sentiments, the power of God are embodied in His Words. And it is only through His Word that the life of God can really enter into us. His Word is the Seed of the heavenly life.
+ As the bread of life we eat it, we feed upon it. In eating our daily bread, the body takes in the nourishment which visible nature, the sun and the earth, prepared for us in the Seed-corn. We assimilate it, and it becomes our very own, part of ourselves, it is our life. In feeding upon the Word of God, the powers of the heavenly life enter into us, and become our very own; we assimilate them, they become a part of ourselves, the life of our life.
+ Or we use the Seed to plant. The Words of God are sown in our heart. They have a divine power of reproduction and multiplication. The very life that is in them, the divine thought, or disposition, or power that each of them contains, takes roots in the believing heart and grows up; and the very thing of which the Word was the expression, is produced within us. The Words of God are the Seeds of the fullness of the divine life. When the Lord Jesus was made man, He became entirely dependent upon the Word of God, He submitted Himself wholly to it. The Word of the Father was to the Son the life of His soul. What He said in the wilderness was spoken from His inmost personal experience: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4; Deut.8:3)
+ Child of God! would you become a man of God, strong in faith, full of blessing, rich in fruit to the glory of God, be full of the Word of God. Like Christ, make the Word your bread. Let it dwell richly in you. Have your heart full of it. Feed on it. Believe it. Obey it. It is only by believing and obeying that the Word can enter into our inward parts, into our very being.
+ Take it day by day as the Word that proceedeth, not has proceeded, but proceedeth, is proceeding out of the mouth of God, as the Word of the living God, who in it holds living fellowship with His children, and speaks to them in living power. Take your thoughts of God’s will, and God’s work, and God’s purpose with you, and to the world. The Word taught you by the Father's Holy Spirit, and like Christ, you will be able to fulfil all that is written in the Scripture concerning you. ( -- Heritage of Great Evangelical Teaching )
-- 1 Peter 1:23 "For you have been born again, not of perishable Seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God."
+ Peter gave another reason to love others: Believers have a common ground in Christ. We have all been born again; we are sinners saved by grace. Our New Life did not come from our earthly parents; that life will one day end in death. Our New Life will last forever because it was given to us by the eternal, living Word of God. God's Word lives and endures forever, because God who gave it lives and endures from eternity past to eternity future. The powerful, living Word of God Himself, recorded in Scripture, brings New Life to believers; the eternal Word of God Himself assures the permanence of that New Life. It is only through Hearing and/or Reading these Words that people can find eternal Life, for the Scriptures tell the Gospel Message and make the way of salvation clear to those who seek it. -- L.A.B.
-- 2 Corinthians 9:15 = Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
-- 2 Timothy 3:15-17 = 15 And how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
-- Colossians 3:16-17 = 16 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
-- Matthew 13:23 = But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the Word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
-- John 15:7-8 = 7 If you remain in Me and My Words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples.
-- John 6:33-35,48,51 = + 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 34 They said to Him, "Sir, give us this bread always." 35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty. + 48 I am the bread of life. + 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
-- John 7:37-39 = 37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." 39 By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
-- 1 Corinthians 3:6-11 = 6 I planted the Seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. +++ 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the One already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
-- Mark 4:26-32 = 26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters Seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the Seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain -- first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come." 30 Again He said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard Seed, which is the smallest Seed you plant in the ground. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade."
-- Jeremiah 15:16 = Your Words were found, and I ate them,
And Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name, O LORD God Almighty.
-- Psalm 119:11-15; 105 = 11 Your Word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You! 12 Blessed are You, O LORD! Teach me Your Statutes! 13 With my lips I have declared All the Judgments of Your Mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your Testimonies, As much as in all riches. 15 I will Meditate on Your Precepts, And contemplate Your Ways. 16 I will delight myself in Your Statutes; I will not forget Your Word.
++ 105 Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light for my path.
-- Isaiah 55:8-11 = 8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields Seed for the sower and bread for the eater, ++ 11 so is MY Word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.