One Small Seed Newsletter – Edition #281, September 2024
Greetings,
This month we are starting the thirty first year of our ministry of One Small Seed. I believe God called me to this commitment long before I started sending out One Small Seed lessons. Poetry was my favorite subject in the English class in High School, so I started reading more of it. Even when I was in the Army I worked at writing poetry, but there were some things related to what I wrote that seemed wrong. After I got out of the Army I started collecting books of all subjects and some were up to date, but some were castoffs of college subjects. Once in awhile I would go through the books and sometimes it would have a subject I was interested in. One time I was going through an English lesson book and found a page that talked about different ways to write poetry. This book was from the very early 1900s and I read and studied that book for several days. From that I began to write poems in the style I use now.
Since God is a Spirit and seeks such to worship Him, I decided to put him first in my life. I am guided by God and his advice to me, which is the same as every soul. I have a holy fear of God and His power. I have faith in God, because I have seen His mighty works. I have awe and respect for his wisdom which, if we are loyal to His commands, He will share with us through His grace and truth. Because of who He is, I have more confidence in His teaching than I do with man’s laws. This doesn’t mean that I break man’s laws, but sometimes man’s laws tend to lean toward a bias, prejudice, or favoritism. But, the Truth says that God’s laws hold a higher degree of authority and if we would live by His rules, He would bless us to a higher degree.
“The commands of God are perfect, converting the soul: the testament of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandments of the Lord are pure, enlightening the eyes. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether” Psalms 19:7-9. Under the law of Moses there were hundreds of laws, but Jesus (the Word of Truth) said in Matthew 5:17, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. When He fulfilled the Law of Moses He was able to fulfill the question that the lawyer ask… Matthew 22:36-40”. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus responded with, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. To me this means if I obey these two laws, I don’t need to bow to Moses but I should bow to the two laws that Christ was fulfilling.
This was the day of Jubilee, the eighth day, the Day of Pentecost and the first day of the presence of Grace and Truth in the Holy Spirit of God. This was the first day of the marriage of God’s Word with His Bride, which was the ones in the upper room who were baptized by the Holy Spirit and every soul that chose to follow Him from then, to now and forever. This was the day that all the parables were solved, the rituals were fulfilled, the commandments were fulfilled and the promises of God had come to fruition. This was the day that Jesus promised His disciples in John 14:16-20 KJV “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. Yet a little while. And the world seeth me no more, but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also. At that day (Pentecost) ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you”.
Because I have chosen God to my Savior, my guide, my healer, my comforter and my wise teacher, I don’t need the world to tell me when to get in out of the cold and how to vote on election day. I follow His two commands that Jesus gave to us in Matthew 22: “Love God with all your heart, your soul, and your mind”. This means that we search out His will in the whole Bible and cling to the things that are holy and righteous. While doing that, seek out the things that He calls an abomination to Him and because we love Him we will refrain from those things.
Remember: (Psalms 19:7-9) “The commands of God are perfect!” Since the commands are perfect, pure, sure, true, and righteous, they should be broadcast all over the world. As Christians we are to have a positive approach to every subject, with joy in our heart, the sword (Word) in our hand (capabilities and calling) and the will of God (Truth) in our mind. It is very obnoxious to a true believer who has put on the whole armor, on how to respond to the enemies of God and how to allow God’s grace, truth, and wisdom to work through us to destroy His enemies. Destroying God’s enemies is a positive to a society, but to embrace the work of God’s enemies is committing suicide. Some of His enemies are: hate, rebellion, disobedience, ego, carnality, poor judgment, and bad government. Jesus said that “He that is not for me is against me”. He also said, “if you love me then keep my commandments”.
Let God’s truth be your guide because worldly wisdom is foolishness to God. That doesn’t mean that man’s wisdom isn’t important in some cases, but God’s wisdom is important every moment. God Bless.
Your friend in Christ,
Rodney Roberts