We are Jehovah’s plantation

From: June 26 – July 2, 2007 Study: # 498

TOPIC: “We are Jehovah’s plantation” Isaiah 61:3 We are Jehovah’s plantation; we were created for His glory. When He created us we were in God’s thoughts, even before the foundation of the world. There is nothing greater than love; it is the only thing that sustains us. Our struggle is until the end of this career. We are a plantation of Jehovah for His glory. When God looks at us He see’s His glory and not us. He doesn’t see us as “tiny” or as “poor things”, but as His glory. We are not wild trees but a plantation selected by Jehovah. A man can never say that the church belongs to him because we are a plantation of Jehovah for His glory. He is satisfied because we are a pleasant fragrance and we must understand that we have to constantly glorify Him. Leviticus 10:3 In the midst of the people Jehovah is glorified. For those who come closer to God He will be sanctified. So if we come closer to God He will be sanctified. When we come closer to God something happens. God seeks sanctity from us because a sacred God has a sacred nation. Aaron's sons forgot that God would be sanctified in them if they had searched him in sanctity. Sometimes, under so much grace, the days pass and we forget that we serve God. Sin and gossip causes a complete nation to stop. Aaron's sons turned into ashes before God and Aaron couldn’t do anything to stop it; he was not even allowed to cry or defend them because any word from him was to rise against the living God. When God gives an order it is dangerous, when we don’t seem to understand when things are sacred there are horrible and terrible judgments. When things are not done as God has ordered, it is to remove the Word of God. To add or to remove from the Word of God is a sin, Jehovah dislikes this. The judgments of God are strong. We don't have a right to anything, but what God has given to us because of His good will, because He loves us, and not because we have any right. Everything we have is because of the grace of our Lord Jesus. None of us is entitled to remove or add to God’s plan for our lives. Psalm 1:3 In a believer there is no slavery. So whatever we do will prosper. God’s people walk forward. We are trees well planted and not wild trees. We are a plantation where God took all his strength to dig a deep hole to plant us; we are chosen trees of His property. God took us, planted us, sowed us; we are His property, protected and cultivated by Him. We are not here for pleasure but because He chose us. We are trees which Jehovah sought, He sowed us, He gave us form and He delivered us from so much evil. We are not the scoria of this earth but a plantation for His glory. There isn’t anything that is not within the reach of the power of God. All plants that were not planted by the Father will be removed. God planted us then next to streams of water; therefore, there is no reason to live in shortage or to die. There are rivers that flow like forgiveness, and grace; there are promises for us. We are not just anything, we are trees. This plantation is what takes us to the eternity, but if we are not planted as trees we won't have eternity. In the believer's life there are provisions that never fail because our God always provides. He gives His fruit in His time. When men take delight in the Word of God they receive instructions.

The "tree" that reads the Word of God will know that instructions will be received. The ones that give fruit in their time are those who are patient in the hour of the suffering. In our trials we should have faith, the certainty of what is not expected, and the conviction of what cannot be seen. Men who have the grace of God will give fruits which will benefit those who eat it. We should know that if we are trees we give fruits and we season the House of God. There is no reason for the tree to move away from the one who planted it. Whoever wants to leave the plantation is because they have abandoned God and doesn’t want to give their fruit to anyone. When a tree is not in deep waters it starts moving away from the House of God and that is sad. If the tree is deep enough the leaves will not fall. We have to give our fruit. We are a plantation, but for some it is better to say that they are on the outside and never make a commitment to join the others. There is no sense of responsibility. We should give fruit because we are part of the plantation. A tree doesn't eat its own fruit but rather it is for those who desire it. For God to be glorified we have to be a strong tree with good roots. Those who give their fruit never allow the fruit to become rotten in their tree but rather they give to others, and the more they give the more they will prosper. There are blessings for us, but many are hidden in the cross that we have to carry, in the affliction. Our struggles prepare us to be able to obtain. Our prosperity is hidden in our lives, but if we hide or we complain we cannot prosper. Our trials and tribulations belong to the provision in Heaven. This all comes from God, for this reason we have to live in faith and with a lot of patience. Psalm 92:12 The righteous will flourish as a palm and will grow as cedar; the righteous have promises. The greenness of the branches is an honor for the root. The branches give honor to the efficient work of the root. Our root reveals what fruit we give. Our brother needs our fruit. Our fruit doesn't belong to us. We sometimes allow the big streams to snatch our fruit. Sometimes in our suffering we don't allow our tree to continue to grow because we don't want to be patient and we forget that we are trees, Jehovah’s plantation for His glory. Jesus was destroyed so that we could be a plantation that gave fruit and cure the wounds caused by sin. Then, why not give the fruit and become those leafy trees that we should have been already? Judas 12 A good tree will never open doors to rebellion but rather knows what it wants. Jeremiah 17:7, 8 We are planted by the streams of water, then, what could take us away from Jehovah? The more they rise up against us, the stronger they make us. Our character and conviction becomes more determined because those who trust Jehovah will be as a tree planted next to the waters. We should be a tree chosen with interest to be planted in the best soil and next to the streams of water. This tree doesn't fear the heat the drought because it has enough water. As a tree we have to be beautiful for life, for the others. The tree that always has leaves is the one that is going to give fruits. If we have the fountain the tank is not necessary. Our tree cannot depend on the tank because one day the tank will no longer exist. Let us go to God and not to the tank. We always have to produce that fruit. Amen.