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Impartation and Increase - part 1 of 3 (Amplified Bible) Inherent within the impartation of a seed lies the potential for increase. That increase may be of fleshly seed (sons and daughter), of soulish seed (carnality), or of spiritual seed (either demonic or godly). As each seed produces fruit after its own kind, the fruit (character) manifested by our lives reveals the type of seed we have allowed to take root and grow. With the impartation of God’s breath, man became a living soul, one whose spirit was alive, attentive to, and desirous of communicating with the One who gave him life. By partaking of deceitful words (seeds) from the serpent’s mouth, man aborted the spiritual increase desired and destined for him by his Creator. Mankind’s initial partaking of disobedience imparted into him the potential for increased independence from God, and the possibility of living in and perpetuating an eternally corrupted state. Eating from the tree of life after partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would have empowered man with knowledge beyond his soulish capacity to control. Therefore, the Lord had no recourse but to banish him from the tree of life lest his corrupted nature endure eternally. Unaccompanied by any visible demonstration, man’s only warning was God’s spoken Word. Although outwardly undetectable, the price of partaking of and imparting into himself the seed-bearing forbidden fruit resulted in death to man’s spirit and chaos in his soul, as well as destruction and death for his physical body. Not until the promised Holy Seed of God was imparted to a virgin, was born as a man, lived a life of complete obedience to the Father, loved not His own life unto the death, and was raised from the dead would man’s spirit be given the opportunity for rebirth, his soul for redemption, and his body for resurrection. Like John the Baptist, we too, are forerunners, he of Christ’s first appearance, and we of Christ’s reappearance with and within His blood-bought and Holy Spirit sanctified Church. Of himself, John declared, “He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so]” {John 3:30}. As participants of the last days, we are experiencing at great acceleration the process required of those who have not only received the imparted seed of the Last Adam, but have submitted themselves to the fires of purification and purging necessary for that impartation to produce not just a measure, but the fullness of the life of Christ. Indeed, the “I” of self must not only decrease, usually by repeated spiritual surgeries diagnosed by the Holy Spirit and involving a line upon line removal of that which is offensive to the Father, but by a complete stripping away of all that has not originated in Him or been maintained by Him. Of the greatness of God’s plan for His many-membered body, Paul wrote: “[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!” {Eph 3:19} Only as Christ becomes our all in all can we produce the desired fruit of the Father’s imparted seed. -Ruth French July Newsletter 2004 | Not Yet | The Passion Within part 1 of 2 Pastor's Journal July 2003 | Vision for Revival | Impartation and Increase part 1 of 2 |
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